Bletchley and Fenny Stratford Town Investment Plan
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CONTENTS 1. Evidence of Need 2. Stakeholder Engagement Plan • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • B • • P • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • For more information, please visit www.hatch.com CONTENTS 1. Introduction 4 2. Existing growth and regeneration initiatives in the Town Deal area 6 3. Principles and Objectives of Engagement 10 4. Stakeholder Engagement Strategy 12 5. Monitoring, feedback and evolving the Stakeholder Engagement Plan 34 Appendix A - Membership of the Town Deal Board and Terms of Reference 36 Appendix B - MK: Bletchley & Fenny Stratford Town Deal Stakeholder Mapping 38 Appendix C - Questionnaire Survey analysis 42 Appendix D - Membership of Sub-groups 52 1 Introduction The Town Deal Board Wider Stakeholders The Stakeholder Engagement Plan and collaboration with local The Towns Fund allocation refers Looking to the future, there are The role of the Bletchley and The Bletchley and Fenny Stratford has been produced to support businesses and communities and to the town as ‘Milton Keynes’. significant opportunities for Fenny Stratford Town Deal area has a substantial number the preparation and delivery of has their buy-in. The stakeholder Milton Keynes Council considered economic growth and investment Board is to define the vision and of stakeholders reflecting the a Town Investment Plan (TIP) for engagement plan should be that the most appropriate and in the area on the horizon. The strategy; develop and agree an diverse nature of its communities the Milton Keynes Town Deal published alongside the TIP and relevant area for the purposes new East-West Rail route will evidence-based Town Investment and the different character of the focus area of Bletchley and Fenny demonstrate the approach to be of the Towns Fund would be the place Bletchley at the focal Plan; develop a clear programme neighbourhoods that make up the Stratford. Its purpose is to set taken to involving and working southern extent of Milton Keynes, point of strategic east-west and of interventions; and to co- area. out the stakeholder engagement with others over the project’s focussed around Bletchley and north-south routes and thereby link ordinate resources and influence Initial stakeholder mapping and undertaken to date and how that lifetime. Fenny Stratford. Bletchley is with major centres of economic stakeholders. has assisted in the development of considered the most strategic activity. The National Infrastructure analysis has been undertaken (as the TIP. The Plan also outlines how The MK: Bletchley and area of Milton Keynes that would Commission has identified the The composition of the Board has set out at Appendix B). This has engagement will continue and Fenny Stratford Town benefit from a Town Deal, with the Oxford-Cambridge Arc as a been determined based on the helped to inform the approach evolve following the submission Deal intention that future investment here potential hub of knowledge requirements and guidance set to engagement and will be of the TIP, in order to support would deliver the greatest benefits intensive industry and Milton out in the Towns Fund Prospectus reviewed on an ongoing basis to On 6 September 2019, the and includes representatives help build and develop the profile the delivery of interventions Government announced that in ‘levelling up’ that area as well Keynes and Bletchley and Fenny and projects in the Town Deal as having benefits for a wider Stratford in particular, lie at the from a number of partners and and understanding of all key Milton Keynes was included in organisations across Milton stakeholders. to unlock the area’s economic the places invited to develop hinterland. heart of the Arc. Building on this potential. and the legacy of code breaking Keynes who have an interest in proposals for the new generation In terms of challenges, the at Bletchley Park, Milton Keynes the Bletchley and Fenny Stratford The Stakeholder Engagement Plan of Town Deals. In November Bletchley and Fenny Stratford College is opening a new area. Chaired by John Cove, has been prepared in line with of that year, the Government area includes areas that are Institute of Digital Technology Chair of MK Dons SET the Board information set out in the ‘Towns published the Towns Fund amongst the most deprived in working with industry partners held its inaugural meeting on 3rd Fund Prospectus’ published by the Prospectus which sets out the England including parts that including Microsoft, KPMG, July 2020. Ministry for Housing, Communities framework of expectations for are in the most deprived 5%, McAfee, Evidence Talks, VWFS, and Local Government the Town Deals. The Government based on income, employment, Details of the membership of the Activate Learning and Cranfield (MHCLG) in November 2019 selected towns across England education, health, crime, housing Town Deal Board and its terms University. The Institute will be and the subsequent Towns Fund and included locations that are and environment (English Index of reference are included at an inclusive centre for technical further guidance produced in part of the Northern Powerhouse, of Multiple Deprivation 2019). Appendix A. qualifications, apprenticeships, June 2020. Under the guidance, Midlands Engine and Oxford- The investment provided by a and training to plug the growing the TIP will need to be able Cambridge Arc. Town Deal would provide a very gap between demand and supply to demonstrate that it has significant opportunity to ‘level for key technical and digital roles, been produced in partnership up’ this area with the surrounding including cyber security. Milton Keynes area. 4 SENYEK_NOTLIM 5 2 Issues & Strengths & Existing growth and regeneration Challenges Opportunities initiatives in the Town Deal area • Car-parking provision needs • Bletchley’s location and Central Bletchley to be considered against the planned connectivity Plan:MK Prospectus the backdrop the delivery of improvements create a East-West Rail. strategic opportunity for In addition to the opportunities Plan: MK is the statutory local The Central Bletchley Prospectus • Engagement with key significant growth and afforded by the new East West plan for Milton Keynes. It sets was published in December stakeholders on the draft • Breakdown the “east-west development. Rail route, Bletchley and Fenny out the Council’s approach and 2018 by Milton Keynes Council Prospectus over October divide” (areas to the west of Stratford are the focus of a policies for the Borough of Milton following engagement with and early November, 2019, the railway line are relatively • Development should include number of recent projects and Keynes for the period up to the local community. It seeks including a ‘drop-in’ event at affluent compared to the area culture including more public initiatives which are supporting 2031. It was produced following to capitalise on the significant Bletchley Library and further east of the railway line). art the area’s future socio-economic several rounds of consultation and opportunities presented by East- presentations to members of growth. These projects have been engagement, including a series West Rail and Central Bletchley’s Bletchley & Fenny Stratford • Improve the connections from • Turn Saxon Street from a prepared through a process of Topic Papers in 2014, Vision location and connectivity at Town Council and West the Station to Queensway barrier to an integrator with active frontages by involving local consultation and workshops in 2015, Strategic the centre of the Oxford to Bletchley Council; • The Brunel Centre represents engagement and the responses Development Directions in 2016 Cambridge Arc, to deliver downgrading and redesigning • Individual stakeholder a barrier to access to and to those consultation exercises and consultation on the draft and the renewal of Bletchley town it, incorporating it into an meetings, discussions and visibility of Queensway which provide valuable insight into how submission versions of the plan in centre which is economically eastern train station entrance. presentations [e.g. local is currently cut off from passing the area is changing and could 2017 and 2018. successful, socially inclusive and councils, resident associations, pedestrian traffic. • The eastern core north of change further over coming years. environmentally sustainable. Stephenson House and Policy SD16 sets out a number landowners/agents, operators • Retail investment should not including the Co-op and land of principles that will guide Whilst only applying to a specific and potential investors] held be focussed on the western north of it should be seen development in the Central part of the Town Deal area, throughout 2017-2019; Central side of the railway line as this as a unique development Bletchley Prospectus area the opportunities set out in the Bletchley Urban Design would dilute the town centre including the density of new Prospectus provide an important Framework Stakeholder opportunity that should be residential development; the need starting point for the consideration Workshop [Nov, 2017]; and, • Improve public realm holistically masterplanned to improve pedestrian connectivity of potential projects and maintenance and wayfinding • a Stakeholder Information • Future land uses – support for and legibility; an improved public interventions for the TIP. • The canopies covering the affordable housing; a hotel realm and the refurbishment/ Session [March 2019]. The Prospectus identifies narrow