County Enterprise Foods Development of a single integrated meals production & delivery service of Rainworth site- Planning Statement Including the Design and Access Statement

December 2015 County Enterprise Foods Rainworth Distribution Centre , Ransom Wood Business Park, Rainworth, Notts NG21 0HJ Prepared By Stuart Balmer Architect ARB County Council

Background

County Enterprise Foods (CEF) grew out of the 'meals on wheels' service provided by Nottinghamshire County Council. CEF run the entire meals at home service for Nottinghamshire County Council CEF supply meals for local authorities and businesses in South Yorkshire, Leicestershire, Blackburn, Derbyshire and Lincolnshire Convenience You can choose frozen meals to reheat at a time to suit or piping hot for immediate consumption. Whichever is chosen these can be delivered straight to your door.

Delivery options You can have your meals delivered in a variety of different ways depending on where you live. Whichever option is chosen delivery is free.

Frozen deliveries

Bulk delivery of frozen meals has several advantages: • you can choose which meal you want to eat on which day, at a time to suit you • you can order the number of meals you want to suit your storage capacity (minimum of 3 meals • you don't have to wait in for a delivery every day • The delivery day is arranged for your convenience and can be from twice a week to once a month Hot deliveries • A daily delivery for people who have difficulty using a cooker to heat their meals. • Home from Hospital food packs • We offer a 'shopping service' for people leaving hospital and ordering our meals • Meals for groups Lunch Clubs • If you have a group of people who socialise and enjoy their meals together, why not let us take the work out of the food preparation? • Whether you meet daily, weekly or irregularly we can deliver direct to your venue. We can provide chilled or frozen meals directly to your door and if you do not have the facilities to reheat the meals, we will deliver them hot.

Day Centres

• If you run a day centre but find catering in bulk difficult then County Enterprise Foods can help. We can supply frozen, chilled or hot meals direct to your centre whether you run one day a week or every day.

Care Homes

CEF supply meals to various care homes. This allows managers to: • offer a wider choice than their existing catering allows • Cater for specific diets that might normally be difficult to meet demand for. • CEF can also respond immediately to emergency situations such as staff shortages, equipment breakdown or where the whole kitchen is out of use. • As our meals are designed with older and vulnerable people in mind you can

be sure that they are ideal for a care home environment.round:

Proposals-Development of a single integrated meals production and delivery service

The meals production and delivery service will be located onto one site, with the distribution unit moving to the production site. The Rainworth Distribution Centre will become a pick and pack facility. This along with other changes will produce efficiency savings within the service

This is a valuable service to the community. CEF produces and delivers hot and frozen meals to Nottinghamshire residents in their own homes. The service comprises a production factory in Worksop and a distribution unit based in Rainworth. The service employs a total of 81 people (78.6 fte); 26 of these staff are disabled workers on the Work Choice programme.

Although the authority does not have a statutory obligation to provide a hot delivered meal service, it does have an obligation to make reasonable provision to ensure people can access a meal either in their own home or elsewhere, when they have been assessed as being eligible for support and service from the Council. The service offered by County Enterprise Foods is one way that the Council chooses to meet this responsibility. The meals service is provided to any residents who want to use the service, whether or not they are eligible for support and service from the Council.

In addition to the delivery of a frozen, chilled or hot meal, the delivery staff carry out a“safe and wellbeing check”. This is an additional benefit to Nottinghamshire residents and the Council as it helps to identify and resolve problems at an early stage. The check can result in carers and staff being alerted to a situation which they would otherwise not be aware of. The Council is proud of this checking system and understands the preventative value that it offers

CEF generates income through a) charging Nottinghamshire residents for a delivered meal; b) producing meals for external organisations and c) grant income from the Work Choice programme.

The income that the meals service generates annually has fallen short of meeting the service’s operating costs for a number of years. (due to scrutiny of all costs and unplanned income from a new external contract). Even taking this into account, the cost of the service is not economically sustainable for the County Council

The current demand for meals does not utilise the full capacity of the Worksop factory unit. There is significant potential to increase capacity and therefore generate more income, which would reduce the overall subsidy required. This proposal includes a number of initiatives which will produce efficiency savings within the service and generate new income. The range of proposals described in the document are anticipated to deliver savings from changes to the staff structure and driver contracts, from savings on utilities and building costs linked to Rainworth and from the additional income generated by the small price increase in the cost of the meals

Co-locate the production and distribution units to Worksop The Council proposes that the two sites at Rainworth and Worksop are combined useage onto one site, as this will allow the service to make significant cost- efficiencies. The Council has considered the relevant factors (eg. locations, size and age of buildings, cost of relocation) and have also thought about the implications for the workers, as it would be very difficult for the disabled staff to travel to work in the factory, if their work base moved from Worksop to Rainworth. Taking all these issues into account, it is recommended that the Rainworth production operation is moved to Worksop. Rainworth becomes the pick and pack facility

New external contracts and grant income New income from new contracts will help offset some of the budget pressures in 2015/16. In addition, the Work Choice grant from central government has been extended for 2 years

These losses will be offset by the additional contribution towards overheads anticipated Work continues to identify new markets. CEF will focus on expanding the supply-only service i.e. production of meals and delivery in bulk to another delivery agent. For example, options include the NHS, providers who have won contracts with other local authorities, and new providers of services to older people. The aim is to increase total production by 5,000 meals per week.

Earlier in October 2014, CEF was announced as the National Care Association’s Catering Team of the Year 2014, so the Council anticipates that this award will help significantly to promote the business to potential new purchasers.

The subsidy required to operate CEF will reduce. The service will be restructured and various other measures will improve the commercial viability of the service, so that it is more likely to win additional contracts for work and become more sustainable into the future.

Proposals:

The schemes are for the development of a single integrated meals production & delivery service of the works carried out at both of the County Enterprise Foods Rainworth and Worksop sites

Rainworth County Enterprise Foods, Southwell Road West ,Ransom Wood Business park, Rainworth, Notts NG21 0HJ The site is adjoining a NCC Redoaks Daycare Unit and the Former Sherwood Industries (Adult Training Centre) The works proposed include:

• To allow for future requirements- 3 nos external electrical points for the vans & improved parking with 16 additional spaces created to allow for additional vans and staff parking. Future requirements- external electrical points & improved parking-Part 2 Class D Permitted Development –see addendum below • Mark out road and parking areas with thermoplastic lining. • Increased security to the site with 2.4m height herras fencing and gates to the perimeter Impact- site isolated. To ensure security of vehicles kept overnight on site – Permission sought • The need for additional car parking spaces, change in business- Permitted Development –see addendum below

Addendum

The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) () Order 20152015 No. 596:

SCHEDULE 2 PART 2 Minor operations • Class D – electrical outlet for recharging vehicles Electrical Charging points(to both -Permitted development • Permitted development • D. The installation, alteration or replacement, within an area lawfully used for off-street parking, of an electrical outlet mounted on a wall for recharging electric vehicles . • Development not permitted • D.1 Development is not permitted by Class D if the outlet and its casing would— • (a)exceed 0.2 cubic metres; • (b)face onto and be within 2 metres of a highway; • (c)be within a site designated as a scheduled monument; or • (d)be within the curtilage of a listed building. • Conditions • D.2 Development is permitted by Class D subject to the conditions that when no longer needed as a charging point for electric vehicles— • (a)the development is removed as soon as reasonably practicable; and • (b)the wall on which the development was mounted or into which the development was set is, as soon as reasonably practicable, and so far as reasonably practicable, reinstated to its condition before that development was carried out. PART 7 Non-domestic extensions, alterations etc Class H – extensions etc of industrial and warehouse Removal of flues (to Rainworth Distribution Centre) permitted Part 7-Class H2 alterations material effect because of location. Non-material change

Permitted development H. The erection, extension or alteration of an industrial building or a warehouse.

Development not permitted

H.1 Development is not permitted by Class H if—

(a)the gross floor space of any new building erected would exceed—

(i)for a building on article 2(3) land or on a site of special scientific interest, 100 square metres;

(ii)in any other case, would exceed 200 square metres;

(b)the gross floor space of the original building would be exceeded by more than—

(i)in respect of an original building or a development on article 2(3) land, 10% or 500 square metres (whichever is lesser);

(ii)in respect of an original building or a development on a site of special scientific interest, 25% or 1,000 square metres (whichever is the lesser);

(iii)in any other case, 50% or 1,000 square metres (whichever is the lesser);

(c)the height of any part of the new building erected would exceed—

(i)if within 10 metres of a boundary of the curtilage of the premises, 5 metres;

(ii)in all other cases, the height of the highest building within the curtilage of the premises or 15 metres, whichever is lower;

(d)the height of the building as extended or altered would exceed—

(i)if within 10 metres of a boundary of the curtilage of the premises, 5 metres;

(ii)in all other cases, the height of the building being extended or altered;

(e) any part of the development would be within 5 metres of any boundary of the curtilage of the premises;

(f)the development would lead to a reduction in the space available for the parking or turning of vehicles; or (g)the development would be within the curtilage of a listed building.

Conditions H.2 Development is permitted by Class H subject to the following conditions— (a) the development is within the curtilage of an existing industrial building or warehouse ; (b) any building as erected, extended or altered is only to be used— (i) in the case of an industrial building, for the carrying out of an industrial process for the purposes of the undertaking, for research and development of products or processes, or the provision of employee facilities ancillary to the undertaking; (ii) in the case of a warehouse, for storage or distribution for the purposes of the undertaking or the provision of employee facilities ancillary to the undertaking; (c) no building as erected, extended or altered is used to provide employee facilities— (i) between 7.00pm and 6.30am, for employees other than those present at the premises of the undertaking for the purpose of their employment; or (ii) at all, if a quantity of a dangerous substance is present at the premises of the undertaking in a quantity equal to or exceeding the quantity listed in the entry for that substance in Parts 2 or 3 of Schedule 1 to the Control of Major Accident Hazards Regulations 1999( a); (d) any new building erected is, in the case of article 2(3) land, constructed using materials which have a similar external appearance to those used for the existing industrial building or warehouse; and (e) any extension or alteration is, in the case of article 2(3) land, constructed using materials which have a similar external appearance to those used for the building being extended or altered.

PART 7 Non-domestic extensions, alterations etc Additional Parking (to Rainworth Distribution Centre) and roadway permitted (to Rainworth Distribution Centre) Part 7-Class J

Class J – hard surfaces for industrial and warehouse premises

Permitted development J. Development consisting of— (a) the provision of a hard surface within the curtilage of an industrial building or warehouse to be used for the purpose of the undertaking concerned; or (b) the replacement in whole or in part of such a surface.

Development not permitted J.1 Development is not permitted by Class J if the development would be within the curtilage of a listed building. Conditions J.2 Development is permitted by Class J subject to the following conditions— (a) where there is a risk of groundwater contamination the hard surface must not be made of porous materials; and (b) in all other cases, either— (i) the hard surface is made of porous materials, or (ii) provision is made to direct run-off water from the hard surface to a permeable or • porous area or surface within the curtilage of the industrial building or warehouse.