APPENDIX E: Annual Place Plan Review 2013‐2014 – Summary of Wider Investment Needs Albrighton Potential Funding Infrastructure Level of Delivery Timing of Potential Cost / Wider Developer Notes Requirement Priority Partner(s) Delivery Funds Secured Sources Contributions ALBRIGHTON TOWN AND PARISH HOUSING AND COHESIVE, SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES Shropshire Council, Homes and Includes provision to support sustainable Communities independent living for vulnerable people Agency, including: sustainable living at home Registered Homes and Providers, access to work Communities education and training and community Specialist Care Varies from Agency, inclusion Housing for Key Providers, Ongoing scheme to vulnerable people Shropshire Integrated preventative service provision with Voluntary scheme Council a pathway approach to access and retain Sector, capital accommodation. Target groups include: older programme people, young people, people with learning local disabilities, mental health needs, people at communities, risk of homelessness or domestic violence, schools and gypsies and travellers, offenders, substance colleges, misusers etc. West Mercia Police Shropshire Includes: Council, Energy efficiency to reduce carbon Improving and Registered Private emissions and tackle fuel poverty; Scheme adapting existing KEY Providers, 2011-2015 sector Upgrading social housing to meet the housing- includes dependent* Decent Homes standard; and Home owners, funding regeneration Adaptations to meet changing needs, Keep including disabled facilities grants. Shropshire The Council’s Extended Schools Team has Potential Funding Infrastructure Level of Delivery Timing of Potential Cost / Wider Developer Notes Requirement Priority Partner(s) Delivery Funds Secured Sources Contributions Warm, identified that Sustainability/Climate Change Developers, work at schools / Idsall Eco-Leaders project (part of Leadership programme) offers Shropshire opportunities to inform and encourage Home parents to understand what they can do to Improvement improve energy efficiency of homes and how Agency, this can benefit them – also though and Schools, Sure children’s centre drop-ins and activities (Jobs Start Children’s Training and Money / Environmentally Centres Sustainable Sure start Children’s Centres) *Funding secured for social housing - Tenant wide: £2.5 million available for social housing (per year). Also a further £3.1million over four years starting April 2011 from the HCA for decent homes. The £225,000 is to be used across Shropshire Council tenant’s homes for completing adaptations to tenant’s properties. For example the money will be spent on Level Access Showers, Hand rails and stair lifts etc. Aids and adaptations Shropshire Scheme Shropshire The aim of completing adaptations is to for social housing KEY Ongoing Council dependent* Council improve the quality of life of our tenants and tenants to give them the opportunity to stay in their homes. *Funding secured for aids and adaptations - Tenant Wide: £225,000 (per year) for Social Housing . Shropshire Council, Funding to be put in place- scheme costs vary Registered and are generally a package of funding. Bringing empty Empty Providers, Seeking Homes and Communities Agency homes back into use- Scheme Homes: KEY Property 2011-2015 Section 106 funding for 12 units countywide over four includes affordable dependent New Homes Owners, years at £25,000 per unit = £300,000. housing provision Bonus local Limited local authority funding available communities, during 2011-2012. voluntary sector Potential Funding Infrastructure Level of Delivery Timing of Potential Cost / Wider Developer Notes Requirement Priority Partner(s) Delivery Funds Secured Sources Contributions agencies, schools and colleges Shropshire Council, Locations to be determined. To include Registered Market Town and Rural Area provision. Providers, Funding proposals being developed. Scheme Developer Extra Care Housing provision targeted Extra Care Housing KEY Care Providers, 2012-2015 dependent led. towards older people, especially frail older Voluntary people, with planned provision for respite Sector, facilities and housing for people with Local disabilities. Communities Shropshire Council, c£7million (for Conversion of existing one bedroom Shropshire Shropshire Regeneration of KEY 2011-2014 complete accommodation at Sheldon Court to two Housing Group, Council Sheldon Court regeneration) bedroom accommodation is supported by Severnside Albrighton Parish Council. Housing A review of garage sites in this area is due to take place to ensure the Council can Review of garage maximise the potential of the sites. This could Shropshire Shropshire sites the Council’s KEY potentially include the demolition of the Landlord Services Council Council garages and rebuilding with new social department controls housing. Albrighton Parish Council supports the retention of garaging/parking at Ashgrove. The Council’s Landlord Services department have identified current key areas of Shropshire deprivation, anti-social behaviour and Council tenants and Council, Shropshire worklessness within this area and are community KEY Ongoing c£9,000 Citizens Advice Council proactively looking at tenants at sign up. The involvement Bureau Council is working closely with tenants within these areas to help with financial inclusion, budget monitoring and to reduce anti-social Potential Funding Infrastructure Level of Delivery Timing of Potential Cost / Wider Developer Notes Requirement Priority Partner(s) Delivery Funds Secured Sources Contributions behaviour. ECONOMIC INVESTMENT AND OPPORTUNITY There is a need for more employment opportunities, including opportunities for returning servicemen and women. The Parish Council identifies: The area of light industry on Cross Road is capable of expanding and would contribute to a sustainable balance of employment The Cosford base has potential to be incorporated in the High Technology Corridor which Albrighton lies within. Shropshire Potential to reuse some of the current Council, specialist buildings on the site for New Employment Developer KEY Albrighton engineering/technology based employment Opportunities led Parish Council, and capitalise on close proximity to MoD Wolverhampton University Priorslee campus in Telford. Expand employment uses at Shifnal service station Shropshire Council’s Extended Schools Team has identified opportunities for employment in the childcare sector. Additional need has been recognised, including in relation to service families. Potential of child minding as small business opportunity. Shropshire Funding Shropshire Market Towns Council, Secured: £0.5 Council MTRP supported the Albrighton Traders Revitalisation local million, allocated capital Association with the provision of signs and Programme- Market PRIORITY businesses, 2010-2015 across 11 programme, interpretation boards to promote facilities Towns Capital designated within the town. residents, Match Initiative Fund market towns funding from Also Interpretation Boards at Cosford and investors and key other David Austin Roses Potential Funding Infrastructure Level of Delivery Timing of Potential Cost / Wider Developer Notes Requirement Priority Partner(s) Delivery Funds Secured Sources Contributions settlements. sources. Shropshire Shop Front Council, Neighbourhood Secure funding for basic shop front repairs Redecoration KEY Ongoing and redecoration to improve the appearance Albrighton Fund Scheme of the streetscene. Parish Council SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURE A children’s centre is defined by law as a place or group of places: Managed by, or on behalf of, an English local authority, with a view to securing that early childhood services are made available in an integrated manner through which early childhood services are made available – either by provision of services on site, or by the provision of advice and assistance in gaining access to services elsewhere At which (some) activities for young children Dependent Dependent upon Private Neighbourhood are provided on site. Shropshire upon extent and Review of Children’s PRIORITY sector Fund, Children’s Centre services are delivered Centre services Council developers’ location of throughout Shropshire. Residential financed CIL (Local) timescales development development creates the following impact on children’s centres: A higher volume of parents and carers accessing provision in what tend to be relatively small spaces, resulting in the potential of further investment required to increase space. Where the children’s centre services are delivered in part of an existing school building, increasing demand for school places can result in conversion of this space back into a Primary School. Potential Funding Infrastructure Level of Delivery Timing of Potential Cost / Wider Developer Notes Requirement Priority Partner(s) Delivery Funds Secured Sources Contributions Facilities must therefore be reviewed and sufficient provision made available to support expected development. Within Albrighton there is a Children’s Centre in a refurbished wing of Albrighton Primary School. Albrighton Market £200,000 Village Hall Towns, The Parish Council has identified a need for Refurbishment of the Funding Neighbourhood the refurbishment and redesigning of KEY Trust, Albrighton Village Hall Secured: Fund Albrighton Red House main hall and frontage Albrighton Village Hall £45,000 to allow better flexibility for users Parish Council Trust. The Parish Council identifies the sports Shropshire facilities