Proof of Evidence INTEGRATED REGENERATION CASE VOLUME 2
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CC/1/2 CAMBORNE POOL REDRUTH MAJOR SCHEME PUBLIC INQUIRY THE CORNWALL COUNCIL (CAMBORNE POOL REDRUTH) (HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENTS) COMPULSORY PURCHASE ORDER 2011 and THE CORNWALL COUNCIL (CAMBORNE POOL REDRUTH) (HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENTS) (CLASSIFIED ROAD) (SIDE ROADS) ORDER 2011 Proof of Evidence INTEGRATED REGENERATION CASE VOLUME 2 - TEXT by Nigel Tipple Cornwall Council June 2012 CC/1/2 Integrated Regeneration Case 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 1 CC/1/2 Integrated Regeneration Case 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 2 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. 3 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) 4 CC/1/2 Integrated Regeneration Case • 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