Proof of Evidence INTEGRATED REGENERATION CASE VOLUME 2

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CAMBORNE POOL REDRUTH MAJOR SCHEME

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THE CORNWALL COUNCIL (CAMBORNE POOL REDRUTH) (HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENTS) COMPULSORY PURCHASE ORDER 2011

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THE CORNWALL COUNCIL (CAMBORNE POOL REDRUTH) (HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENTS) (CLASSIFIED ROAD) (SIDE ROADS) ORDER 2011

Proof of Evidence

INTEGRATED REGENERATION CASE

VOLUME 2 - TEXT

Nigel Tipple

Cornwall Council

June 2012

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This Witness Statement is presented in the following documents:

Volume 1 Summary CC/1/1

Volume 2 Text CC/1/2

Volume 3 Appendices CC/1/3

CC/1/2 Integrated Regeneration Case Contents

1 INTRODUCTION ...... 3

1.1 Qualifications and experience ...... 3

1.2 Responsibility for Integrated Regeneration of CPR ...... 3

1.3 Scope of the evidence ...... 3

2 REGENERATION CONTEXT ...... 4

2.1 Camborne-Pool-Redruth Location ...... 4

2.2 Economic Decline and Impact ...... 4

2.3 European Status of CPR area ...... 5

2.4 Housing and Employment Need ...... 5

2.5 Transport Constraints ...... 6

2.6 Structural Response to Economic Decline ...... 7

2.7 Planning Context ...... 8

2.8 CPR Regeneration Programme ...... 9

2.9 Future Delivery Constraints ...... 12

2.10 EU Funding Programme – Employment Space Provision ...... 13

3 Phased Infrastructure Delivery ...... 14

3.1 Tolvaddon Road/East Hill ...... 14

3.2 The Barncoose Link Road ...... 14

3.3 Trevenson Park South and Heartlands ...... 14

3.4 Tolvaddon Junction and Business Park Spine Road ...... 15

3.5 A30 Junctions at Avers and Treswithian ...... 15

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3.6 Dolcoath ...... 15

3.7 East West Link ...... 15

4 East West Link (Major Scheme) Stage 1 Project...... 16

4.1 Aims of CPR Major Scheme ...... 16

4.2 Delivery Phases ...... 16

5 CONCLUSIONS ...... 18

CC/1/2 Integrated Regeneration Case 1 INTRODUCTION

1.1 Qualifications and experience 1.1.1 My name is Nigel Tipple. I am the former Chief Executive of CPR Regeneration Company Ltd. I held the post of Chief Executive, CPR Regeneration Company Ltd from March 2006 – March 2012, until the Company ceased to operate following changes to Local Government Funding support and management arrangements. I am currently contracted to Cornwall Council.

1.1.2 My responsibilities whilst at CPR Regeneration Company Ltd included the leadership, development and delivery of a comprehensive regeneration programme focused upon the social, economic and physical regeneration of the Camborne Pool and Redruth areas of West Cornwall.

1.1.3 I am a Fellow of the Charted Institute of Management, Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts and an Economic Regeneration practitioner with over 22 years experience at a Senior Executive/Board level.

1.2 Responsibility for Integrated Regeneration of CPR 1.2.1 As Chief Executive of CPR Regeneration I was responsible for the delivery of an Integrated regeneration programme of which the Camborne-Pool-Redruth Stage 1 East West Link was one of seven strategic project priorities for the area agreed in 2004.

1.3 Scope of the evidence 1.3.1 My evidence will provide the context for the infrastructure investment in Camborne, Pool and Redruth area, its role in releasing economic regeneration, and the policies and strategies established within which this investment sits.

1.3.2 I describe how the Camborne-Pool-Redruth Stage 1 East West Link is a critical and integrated project supported through extensive public consultation and embedded within a comprehensive programme of Public and private sector investments. My evidence will set out the key relationship this investment has with the delivery of employment space, open market and affordable housing and importantly job creation in one of the most deprived areas in the south west.

CC/1/2 Integrated Regeneration Case 2 REGENERATION CONTEXT

2.1 Camborne-Pool-Redruth Location 2.1.1 The conurbation comprising the settlements of Camborne Pool and Redruth (referred to as CPR) is located in west Cornwall some 9 miles west of Truro and 12 miles east of Penzance and forms the largest urban settlement in Cornwall with population of circa 45,000. It sits some 4.5 miles form the north coast and near to the historic ports of Hayle and Portreath. The area is linear in formation and extends for some 5 miles along, and generally to the south of, the A3047 road and north of the mainline London to Penzance railway.

2.1.2 Originally located on the A30 trunk road, which runs along the spine of Cornwall and forms the main highway transport link to Devon, Exeter, and the M5 motorway, the area was provided with a trunk road bypass in the early 1970s. The old trunk road remained as the locally important east west route linking the communities, and was renumbered as the A3047. The area is served by the mainline London to Penzance railway with stations currently to be found at both Camborne and Redruth.

2.2 Economic Decline and Impact 2.2.1 Following many decades of industrial decline, and the collapse of traditional hard rock mining, the supporting engineering industries and previous wealth of the area declined severely. The Camborne Pool and Redruth ( CPR) area now suffers from high unemployment, low income levels, shortage in housing supply and associated social exclusion for many people.

2.2.2 Following the demise of the mining industry there followed a period of long term underinvestment in the area. This has resulted in a legacy of derelict, contaminated, and brown field urban sites associated with the areas mining and industrial heritage which are now inherently difficult and costly to develop. One of the most significant of these site is the South Crofty Mine where the production of tin, copper and other metals ceased in 1998.

2.2.3 Since 2002 Camborne Pool Redruth has been characterised by:

• Unemployment which was 2.8% ( 3.9% 2012) higher than regional and national averages (Source: Nomis)

• A high proportion of people living in deprivation with over 5,000 households (or 25% of the population) located in some of the most deprived neighbourhoods in the country (Source: Poverty & Neighbourhood Renewal Research)

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• Low wages with average salaries at £320, which is lower than regional and national averages (Source: ASHE)

• Low investment in new housing with fewer than 130 completions in 2011/12. Of these 25% were affordable homes supported through HCA grant funding

• Derelict and underused land which amounted to 282 hectares across the former district Council boundary (Source: National Land Use Database).

2.3 European Status of CPR area 2.3.1 Cornwall and specifically areas such as CPR have been designated by the EU as having Objective One ( 2000 – 2006) and then subsequently Convergence Programme (2007 – 2013) eligibility, recognising that the GDP ( Gross Domestic Product) of the County was less than 75% of the EU average.

2.3.2 Poor GDP performance is characteristic of many deprived areas across Cornwall though most evident in Urban conurbations such as CPR which has pockets of significant socio-economic decline. CPR was specifically identified within both recent European Programmes and is located within a designated Investment area ( CPR Strategic Investment Framework) under Priority 4 of the Convergence Programme, reflecting both the scale of regeneration need and the potential of the area to accommodate employment and housing growth. Appendix 1 in CC/1/3 shows the status of projects at January 2012.

2.4 Housing and Employment Need 2.4.1 The scale of regeneration and housing need across the CPR area is significant. In terms of housing need, there are currently some 24,000 families on the Councils Home Choice Register of which over 2,000 are within the CPR area. Given the scale of the housing shortfall identified above and low completion rates which have averaged only 180 units per year (total inclusive of market/rented stock) over the last 5 years, the need to drive and accelerate delivery is significant. However the scale of remediation and infrastructure investment needed to unlock many of these brown field sites results in negative or marginal values. The impact is therefore that housing and commercial development within the CPR area requires public sector “gap funding” support to bridge the viability cost/value differential if it is to proceed.

2.4.2 Employment growth and job creation is clearly a critical aspect of creating a sustainable community; housing growth alone will not sustain or create the scale of employment needed to reverse the economic decline affecting the area. In response

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to this challenge the previous Regional Spatial Strategy, CPR Area Action Plan and current emerging LDF sets out a scale of employment growth and job creation for the area including 6,00 homes and 5000 jobs. The integrated development programme identifies in excess of 100,000m2 of commercial employment space in support of this job creation target.

2.4.3 There is a huge associated cost of remediation reclamation and development of contaminated brown field sites within the former industrial areas such as CPR. This is exacerbated in CPR by depressed capital/rental values within the area and associated poor investment yield. Therefore, these low values reduce the viability of commercial, retail and housing development in the area resulting in a lack of investor confidence and return. There has consequently been little market interest or private sector investment evident to stimulate the economic regeneration of the area.

2.4.4 Public sector investment is a necessary catalyst to stimulate private sector engagement and whilst there has been limited success in recent years in attracting investment into the area, the continuation of this interest is dependent upon further investment in key infrastructure to unlock development capacity and provide developer confidence.

2.5 Transport Constraints 2.5.1 The main east/west route within the area is the A3047 with the A30 trunk road acting as a bypass to the main urban centres of Camborne, Pool and Redruth. The A30 has junctions at Scorrier, Avers, Tolvaddon and Treswithian which enable local traffic to join and leave the trunk road though these are often congested at peak periods.

2.5.2 The A3047 between Barncoose and Treswithian is a single carriageway road through an area of mixed development. A significant majority of the route is through urban residential area interspersed with educational, business, commercial, and industrial frontages. The route is the main local road serving the residential, business, commercial, and industrial areas of CPR including the Wilson Way industrial estate, Pool, Dudnance Lane, South Crofty mine, Tuckingmill, Dolcoath, and Camborne. As such it is a critical route to improve. The proposed East West link provides increased capacity to ease congestion and release development capacity.

2.5.3 Running off the A3047 a number of more minor routes serve the various residential business and commercial areas which provide the main employment centres in the area. However these roads again traverse residential areas in order to serve the business and commercial areas. These roads include Wilson Way and Dudnance

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Lane. Both are key arterial connections which support local communities and employment areas traditionally constrained by junction capacity. Generally the main through route (A3047) and its junctions suffer from congestion at peak periods and are not capable of accommodating traffic growth in the future associated with the planned regeneration projects.

2.6 Structural Response to Economic Decline 2.6.1 In response to the significant decline within the CPR area, the District and County Councils, along with local MPs and the business community collectively lobbied Government for a co-ordinated response. This resulted in the establishment by the UK Government in 2002 of the Camborne Pool Redruth Urban Regeneration Company (URC) a private/public sector joint venture company.

2.6.2 The company provided the means to encourage, co-ordinate and drive the regeneration potential of the area. This has been successful in co-ordinating and delivering investment into the area over the 10 years since its establishment resulting in £530m of private and public sector investment. However the necessary economic transformation of the area is far from complete.

2.6.3 The CPR Regeneration Company’s purpose was to work with local authorities, government agencies, and stakeholders to develop integrated proposals to bring about sustainable economic growth that would help to address and reverse the decline of the CPR area after decades of industrial and social change.

2.6.4 The UK Government also recognised the scale of the task and associated cost of remediation, reclamation and development of contaminated brown field sites within the former industrial areas such as CPR.

2.6.5 It’s response was to target support via both English Partnerships and the then emerging Regional Development Agencies in the area to begin to focus public sector investment into critical infrastructure that would allow developments to be delivered. The CPR Regeneration Company was therefore the broker through which the public sector could co-ordinate and target investment, build private sector confidence and corral resources.

2.6.6 Since its inception, CPRR has been instrumental in encouraging the various partner agencies to work together to develop master plans for several sites and to deliver projects to encourage regeneration. CPRR has consistently supported and encouraged the development of the CPR Transport Strategy for the area as well as

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the development of a number of new employment sites, including Tolvaddon Business Park, Trevenson Road Implementation Plan, Pool Innovation Centre, Dudnance Lane Implementation Plan and sites along Wilson Way. These complement and balance the scale of employment generation and housing needed within the area and as reflected in Cornwall Council’s Local Development Framework (LDF).

2.7 Planning Context 2.7.1 The Camborne, Pool, Illogan, & Redruth (CPIR) Framework is the Councils strategy which seeks to set the direction and scale of future growth for the CPIR area identified within the LDF. In identifying areas that are suitable for development to deliver such growth and regeneration, the Framework aims to deliver previously developed sites as a priority before needing to utilise other Greenfield land.

2.7.2 The Framework is informed by a number of assessments, including a transport assessment. This confirms the continued need for transport infrastructure improvements as fundamental to the regeneration of the area supporting employment and housing and thereby contributes towards delivering the growth targets set out within the Core Strategy, including the development of previously developed sites. Such infrastructure improvements include increasing capacity around the A30 junctions, developing an East – West link between Camborne and Redruth ( the CPO Scheme) and a number of sustainable transport improvements including bus, cycle and pedestrian facilities.

2.7.3 In progressing the CPIR Framework, the Council is continuing to liaise with a number of land owners and developers with the aim of planning for the delivery of sites previously developed through master planning, but which are reliant on major transport infrastructure improvements before they can be delivered.

2.7.4 The delivery of those sites and other regeneration proposals will contribute towards addressing the legacy of issues surrounding jobs, skill levels, wage levels and homes that CPR has been dealing with for many years. The emerging LDF preferred option sets out the need and opportunity to provide more than 6000 new homes and over 5000 new jobs in the area by 2030. However the existing strategic and local road network in the area has insufficient capacity to accommodate the projected increase in capacity needed to meet this growth. These problems are particularly acute in the following key areas within CPR:

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• East Hill junction - traffic modelling as part of the Best and Final Funding Bid showed that capacity will be inadequate in 2013 casing serious delays and disruption to the existing east –west road (A3047), to the emerging development areas northwards on Dudnance Lane and south wards from Tolvaddon. • The junction of Penhallick railway bridge with Dudnance Lane and Station Road – will have insufficient capacity as regeneration and development proceeds - the section of road from Carn Brea Leisure Centre travels behind the retail park to join Dudnance Lane at Forth Kegyn and then continues past the South Crofty site to East Hill junction. 2.7.5 But, in addition:

• The threat of Article 251 directions (formerly Article 14) by the Highways Agency (HA) when considering planning applications in the CPR area and the consequent loss of investor confidence2 remains an issue • As does the use of Grampian Conditions resulting from the HA concerns, which prohibit occupation of development prior to the delivery of the East West Link (CPO Scheme) project

2.7.6 The cumulative impact of these factors is that large areas of ‘brown field’ land within the CPR area remain undeveloped and undevelopable because of highway capacity constraints. The resulting inertia continues to frustrate the Council and its partners’ objectives of securing regeneration and growth in one of the County’s most deprived areas. The CPO Scheme is a significant element which will allow that barrier to regeneration and investment to be lifted.

2.8 CPR Regeneration Programme 2.8.1 A number of sites throughout the CPR area have been identified as suitable for development for employment and housing uses. These have been the subject of extensive consultation and master planning resulting in a series of integrated development frameworks covering the Trevenson Road, Dudnance Lane, Pool Retail

1 Where HA feels that a new development could compromise the safety and free passage of traffic on the A30 it is required to exercise statutory authority provided by Article 25 (formerly Article 14) General Development Procedure Order ( GDPO) to issue ‘holding directions’ on the local planning authority. The effect of such ‘holding directions’ is to prevent a planning consent being granted until measures are taken to remove the ‘threat’ to traffic flow and safety on the Strategic Road Network

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and Tolvaddon Busines Park locations, which together form the Pool Business District (see Appendix 2 in CC/1/3).

2.8.2 In response to the recognised need for quality employment and housing provision within the area; the ambitious but necessary growth targets set for the area through the Regional Spatial Strategy and subsequent LDF targets led to the Company working with County/District Councils, the Regional Development Agency and English Partnerships ( now HCA) developing a Regeneration Programme aimed at delivering 6000 new homes, 6,000 gross jobs and in excess 100,000m2 of employment space over a 10 year period.

2.8.3 CPR Regeneration Board and Executive reviewed the programme in 2006 focusing upon 7 transformational investment proposals. This programme was adopted by all the partners in 2006 and formed the basis of the Regeneration Programme delivered through to March 2012 when the responsibility for implementation transferred to Cornwall Development Company. The Programme focused support towards people, place and enterprise in an integrated and co-ordinated approach bringing together the private and public sectors in sharing risk, identifying opportunity and securing investment. Specifically the 7 transformational projects identified in the programme include the following:

2.8.4 Pool Innovation Centre (formerly Omega project)

• Opened in 2011 at a cost of £11m - now 85% let

• Supporting over 30 Businesses with a combined turn over of in excess of £20m/annum

2.8.5 SPIRYS (now Pool Retail/leisure Strategy)

• This mixed use leisure/Retail proposal is now embedded with the Pool Retail strategy approved by Cornwall Council in 2010. Development of this project is dependant upon increased infrastructure capacity within Pool which will be facilitated by the delivery of the CPO Scheme.

2.8.6 CPR Major Scheme Bid

• Early phase delivery already complete and funded

o East Hill Junction

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o Barncoose Link

o Dolcoath Link

• East West link (The CPO Sceme)

2.8.7 Dolcoath (Mixed use Housing/Employment)

• Public/Private partnership delivery accommodating 379 new homes ( 40% First time buyer/ affordable rented) and 70,000 sq ft of employment space.

• Phase 1 Housing (120 units) complete

• Phase 2 Housing released 2011/12 ( originally programmed 2013/14)

2.8.8 Trevenson Road Implementation Plan (TRIP)

• Comprehensive mixed use master plan including Housing, employment space and major leisure/heritage facilities approved in 2010.

o Trevenson Gateway – Planning approved, reclamation scheme complete 2011. Development competition complete developer appointment due Autumn 2012.

o Trevenson Park North – Planning framework agreed, land assembly complete, development brief agreed. Marketing testing 2012/13

o Trevenson Park South – Planning framework agreed, new infrastructure connection to A3047 implemented, accommodates Heartlands and Pool Retail projects. Full phase delivery facilitated by the CPO Scheme.

• Heartlands ( £30m) Mixed use leisure/housing/employment space project incorporating a Mining World Heritage Gateway Site and education facility opened in April 2012

• HCA/Linden Homes Phase 1 Housing/mixed use scheme contracted. Development due on site 2012/13

• HCA/Linden Homes Phase 2 scheme in negotiation currently

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2.8.9 Urban Centre Public Realm Improvements

• A £5m public realm, streetscape and car park improvement programme completed in 2009 which has seen further investment of circa £1m via the Townscape Heritage Initiative and Heritage Economic Regeneration Scheme investments in both Town centres.

2.8.10 Employment and Training Initiatives

• Investing over £2m of public sector resources into this initiative has resulted in significant outcomes; a comprehensive employment and skills training programme supported by European Social Fund, Job Centre plus and Skills Funding Agency has seen over 1000 people supported back into employment, training or further education. In addition the programme has assisted over 150 businesses across the CPR area with a range of interventions including business planning, market identification/analysis and collaboration initiatives including exploitation of e-commerce.

2.8.11 Attached at Appendix 3 CC/1/3 is the 2004 CPR Area Action Plan which set out the project proposals which led to the delivery programme detailed above.

2.9 Future Delivery Constraints 2.9.1 The transformational programme has been rolled out over the past 6 years delivering significant growth but within the capacity constraints of the existing road infrastructure.

2.9.2 Following this early programme success, the Company, working with the Council and funding partners developed a further programme of investment which sought to capitalise on the momentum and progress to date. However many of the development proposals are now constrained by the inadequate transport capacity constraints and are subject to Article 25 Directions or Grampian conditions preventing their development until the highway capacity increases. The East West link remains the key to unlocking this employment and housing programme and realising the regeneration potential of the area. The CPR Major Scheme Bid and specifically the East West programme was developed as an integrated infrastructure project with the objective of unlocking economic regeneration benefit and radically improving transport connectivity for the urban population of the area.

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2.9.3 Proposed major Employment and Housing developments currently constrained by limited infrastructure capacity are:

• Dudnance Lane - 37000m2/ 150 Houses (mixed commercial/ industrial/housing ) • Western Power - 3176m2 ( mixed commercial/ industrial ) • Tuckingmill Phase 2 - 1000m2/300 Houses ( mixed housing / office ) • Barncoose - 8200m2 ( light industry / office ) • Redruth Corridor workspace - 800m2/50 Houses (mixed use housing/commercial/workspace) • Tolgus Fields - 3000m2/650 Houses (mixed use housing/workspace)

2.9.4 I understand that these development projects will be subject to Highways Agency Article 25 Holding Directions. Whilst some initial infrastructure improvements have been made at East Hill, Barncoose and Tolvaddon, East Hill will be once again at capacity by 2013. These developments and other, similar projects, can only come forward if the CPO Scheme goes ahead.

2.10 EU Funding Programme – Employment Space Provision 2.10.1 Given that the CPR area is one of the most deprived areas in the County it is likely that regeneration projects will continue to be supported by EU investment and therefore be a focus for targeted employment growth under the current and future Structural Fund Programmes.

2.10.2 To date £26m of European Regional Development Fund ( ERDF) projects have been supported in the CPR area. In addition to this positive progress, facilitated by the early phased infrastructure programme previously identified, a further programme of investment has secured Convergence Programme endorsement (CPR SIF 2012/13) The programme totals £24m of ERDF and match funding. However, the offer of ERDF funding requires all projects to be in contract by December 2013 with delivery required by December 2015 if they are to be funded. These projects are identified in Appendix 1 in CC1/3.

2.10.3 The ability to implement these projects and secure the additional £24m of funding is being frustrated by the inadequate infrastructure capacity.. The lack of infrastructure capacity is thus not only delaying the delivery of projects, but it also puts at risk significant allocated EU/Public sector match funding, which, if not committed by 2013, will be lost to the CPR area. It will be reallocated (prior to 2013) across Cornwall or potentially be subject to EU claw back provisions. However if the CPO is confirmed and the Scheme built, the Council is confident that this funding will remain available for employment projects within CPR.

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3.1 Tolvaddon Road/East Hill 3.1.1 Recent improvements made to Tolvaddon Road (Link to the A30) and to East Hill junction have enabled the Council to deal with immediate traffic management issues and facilitate some development. However the Council’s traffic model demonstrates that further major improvement will be required to accommodate growth post 2015. Indeed it is expected that, by 2013 East Hill junction will again be at capacity without the comprehensive delivery of the East West link infrastructure.

3.1.2 To date investment in the East Hill junction alone has enabled the following development proposals to be worked up with ERDF support.

• Heartlands Commercial - speculative workspace • Tuckingmill Phase 1 (Northlights) – speculative workspace • Western Unite Mines – workspace enabling company expansion • TRIP South - speculative workspace

3.1.3 Other phases of the CPR Transport Strategy have also come forward early through co-ordinated public/private sector intervention. These include investment at Barncoose, Trevenson Park, Tolvaddon and Dolcoath. Further design and funding packages have been established for both Avers and Treswithian junctions on the A30. These are summarised below:

3.2 The Barncoose Link Road 3.2.1 Completed in 2008 using a combination of funds from ERDF (Objective One), LTP ( Local Transport plan), EP ( English Partnerships) and private sector contributions. This link has already enabled delivery of 4000m2 of employment space along with a further 11,500 m2 securing planning consent which together will account for 440 FTE jobs.

3.3 Trevenson Park South and Heartlands 3.3.1 Through an agreement between Cornwall Council and the Home and Communities Agency, a new link from Dudnance Lane to Trevenson Road was constructed in 2011/12 and has opened up the Trevenson Park South site for new housing and business development. It also serves the Heartlands Project which opened in April 2012 and includes live/work units, a mining heritage centre, housing, and an informal parkland. The Trevenson Park South highway infrastructure has been funded largely through EU grant and cost in the region of £4.7m whilst the Heartland Project has

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been developed at a cost of £31m through use of Lottery Funding. These two projects have brought back into use some 7 Ha of derelict mining land.

3.4 Tolvaddon Junction and Business Park Spine Road 3.4.1 Working with the Highways Agency, the South West Regional Development Agency (SWRDA), and latterly the Homes and Communities Agency, Cornwall Council has carried out improvements to the A30 Tolvaddon slip roads including signalisation of the key side road junctions. A new mini roundabout has been installed at the entrance to the Tolvaddon Business Park and a new spine road has been constructed to extend the Business Park. This has provided access to some 7 Ha of development land which can now be marketed. Costing £3.8 m these works have been funded by EU grant and contributions from SWRDA.

3.5 A30 Junctions at Avers and Treswithian 3.5.1 Preparation work on Improvements to two A30 junctions, at Avers, Redruth and at Treswithian, Camborne, are well advanced and contracts are out to tender. Costing in the order of £1m, these improvements will provide the necessary capacity to ensure that these junctions can cope with the predicted demand from the future CPR regeneration proposals.

3.6 Dolcoath 3.6.1 The Dolcoath spur road is coming forward as part of a major mixed use development which has been wholly funded through the private sector led ( Linden Homes) Boslowen development which provides 380 new homes and 7,000 m2 of employment space.

3.6.2 These improvements unlock some capacity associated with delivery of the early phase 1 development programme. However despite these improvements the available capacity will once again have been exceeded by 2013 at East Hill. Without the implementation of the East West link proposals further potential Regeneration benefits, substantial ERDF investment and associated socio-economic community benefit will be lost to the area.

3.7 East West Link 3.7.1 The East West link as proposed will relieve traffic congestion on the existing A3047, provide an improved environment for residents along its length and enable economic growth. The overall capacity improvements necessary to release development can only be achieved when the East West phases are implemented.

CC/1/2 Integrated Regeneration Case 4 East West Link (Major Scheme) Stage 1 Project

4.1 Aims of CPR Major Scheme 4.1.1 Aims of the project - the overall aim of this project is to facilitate the regeneration of CPR.

o The improvements in infrastructure would enable planned sustainable growth in the Camborne, Pool, Redruth corridor to take place - by unlocking a series of strategic development sites these in turn will enable the area to realise its full economic potential

o The creation of a new East-West route would reduce traffic congestion on the A3047 and relieve its junctions

4.2 Delivery Phases 4.2.1 The key infrastructure delivery phases are as follows (see Appendix 4 in CC/1/3):

o a new road from Dolcoath to Dudnance Lane across the Red River valley and the old South Crofty mine site, including a new junction on Dudnance Lane

o a new road from Station Road to Wilson Way, around the Carn Brea sports ground, removing industrial traffic from Pool village centre, with new side road junctions

o minor improvements to the remaining unimproved sections (e.g. new footway/cycle ways, closure of private access to improve safety and new lighting)

4.2.2 The A3047 public transport corridor improvements and environmental benefits that were previously included in the major scheme have been identified for delivery as part of the CPR Sustainable Transport Package for which a separate application for ERDF support is progressing.

4.2.3 Elements not included in the major scheme bid, but that are anticipated to be delivered on a phased basis as funds become available are:

• dualling of the Dudnance Lane north/south link • a new roundabout for Forth Kegyn and the Tesco/Pool Market sites junction

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• Improvements to Wilson Way including rationalising accesses and providing centre and right turn lanes to premises.

4.2.4 The most likely source of funding for these further phases of Infrastructure Investment is the Private Sector through Section 106/Community Infrastructure Levy ( CIL) payments enhanced with LTP 3 monies.

4.2.5 One of the main aims of E-W Link road is to release land for the construction of workspace and thus the creation of jobs - land which otherwise could not secure planning consent. The following table quantifies the workspace and housing development which will be enabled as a result of this specific infrastructure investment.

Outcomes 2011-2030

B1 a – offices } 9300m2

B1 b - high tech- R&D Premises}

B1c - light industry } 40700m2 B2 – general industry }

B8 – storage }

Housing ( gross) 3770 units

Total 56300m2

2011 -2015 2015 – 2030

Gross jobs 525 1111

Hectares of brown field land 20

Table 2: CPR Forecast Housing and workspace development

CC/1/2 Integrated Regeneration Case 5 CONCLUSIONS

5.1 There can be no doubt that the communities of Camborne, Pool, and Redruth (CPR) have suffered a catastrophic decline since the collapse of the hard rock mining industry and the various businesses that it supported. The industrial collapse has left its scars not just on the landscape but also on the standards of living of the population, employment prospects, deprivation, and housing needs.

5.2 Since the publication of the CPR Action plan in 2004, the public sector agencies led by the Urban Regeneration Company have implemented an integrated programme of regeneration activity focused upon the themes of People, Place and Enterprise. This programme has seen significant success over the last 8 years, however, the delivery of key infrastructure is now critical to maintain this positive change.

5.3 Development momentum is now beginning to stall as a result of the delays in the delivery of comprehensive infrastructure improvements. The early phased delivery though positive, has only given us a limited capacity improvements on the network and specifically East Hill Junction, which will once again be at capacity by 2013 and the network overall will be at capacity by 2015. Though this early investment in infrastructure has been crucial to the delivery of the £26m ERDF programme, a second round of circa £24m of ERDF investment has been endorsed but is now at risk due to delays in the comprehensive delivery of the East West Link.

5.4 Should the East West link not come forward now, then support for this £24 ERDF investment is very likely to be withdrawn from the CPR area, be redistributed to other areas of Cornwall ( time allowing) or potentially be subject to Claw back provisions; returned to the EU for distribution amongst other member states.

5.5 The community of 45,000 people and circa 2,500 businesses located within the CPR area have suffered decades of decline. They are, after 10 years of focused effort, on the cusp of seeing sustainable improvements in both housing and employment space delivered within their community. The East West link is a critical project to securing this transformation and will release land for development, improve transport connectivity, support measures to secure modal shift and importantly provide the capacity needed for the private sector to have confidence in investing in the area.