Cotswold District Council Infrastructure Delivery Plan Refresh (September 2014) 4-05 Issue | 26 September 2014 Cotswold_IDP_Interim_Issue_2013-05-21.docx Issue 21 May 2013 This report takes into account the particular instructions and requirements of our client. It is not intended for and should not be relied upon by any third party and no responsibility is undertaken to any third party. Job number 226824 63 St Thomas Street Bristol BS1 6JZ UK 1 Cotswold District Council Infrastructure Delivery Plan Refresh (September 2014) Contents Page Executive Summary 1 IDP Development Scenarios 2 Report Structure 3 Infrastructure Requirements 4 Cross Boundary Infrastructure 4 Sector Analysis 5 Implementation 13 Categorisation 14 Prioritisation for Delivery 16 Funding . 17 Management and Co-ordination 17 Recommendations and Next Steps 17 1 Introduction 19 1.1 Purpose of the Infrastructure Delivery Plan (IDP) 19 1.2 Structure of the IDP 20 2 Methodology 21 2.1 National Policy and Guidance 21 2.2 Summary of IDP Project Stages & Outputs 23 2.3 Stage 1 – Development Vision, Scenarios & IDP Governance23 2.4 Stage 2 – County-wide evidence gathering and assessment of infrastructure needs 25 2.5 Stage 3 – Delivery Plan preparation 27 2.6 IDP Refresh 28 3 Local context for the IDP 29 3.1 Council‟s Vision & Objectives 29 3.2 Local Plan 30 3.3 Housing development allocations 32 3.4 Employment development allocations 36 3.5 Defining Infrastructure Assessment Geographies for the IDP process 36 4 Infrastructure assessment by sector 37 4.1 Community and culture 37 4.2 Education 52 4.3 Emergency Services 64 4.4 Healthcare 75 4-05 | Issue | 26 September 2014 L:\LOCAL PLAN 2013\EVIDENCE BASE\IDP FROM JAN 2014\REG 19 IDP MAY 16\COTSWOLD_IDP_REFRESH_SEPT2014.DOCX Cotswold District Council Infrastructure Delivery Plan Refresh (September 2014) 4.5 Energy 90 4.6 Flood management, water supply and wastewater 103 4.7 Information and Communications Technology (ICT) 126 4.8 Open Space, Sport and Recreation 128 4.9 Transport 149 4.10 Waste 173 5 Infrastructure by settlement 177 5.1 Cirencester 177 5.2 Andoversford 181 5.3 Blockley 182 5.4 Bourton-on-the-Water 183 5.5 Chipping Campden 184 5.6 Down Ampney 185 5.7 Fairford 185 5.8 Kemble 186 5.9 Lechlade 186 5.10 Mickleton 187 5.11 Moreton-in-Marsh 188 5.12 Northleach 189 5.13 Siddington 190 5.14 South Cerney 190 5.15 Stow-on-the-Wold 191 5.16 Tetbury 192 5.17 Upper Rissington 193 5.18 Willersey 193 6 Infrastructure Delivery 195 6.1 Context 195 6.2 Implementation 195 6.3 Prioritising Infrastructure 196 6.4 Costs 197 7 Infrastructure funding: development viability and contributions 200 7.1 Section 106 Planning Obligation and CIL 201 7.2 Development Viability 203 7.3 Review of S106 Contributions 204 7.4 Review of reference CIL rates 205 7.5 Total estimated infrastructure costs 211 7.6 Recommendations on use of developer contributions 214 8 Infrastructure funding: alternative finance mechanisms 218 8.1 New Homes Bonus 218 8.2 Gloucestershire Infrastructure Investment Fund 218 4-05 | Issue | 26 September 2014 L:\LOCAL PLAN 2013\EVIDENCE BASE\IDP FROM JAN 2014\REG 19 IDP MAY 16\COTSWOLD_IDP_REFRESH_SEPT2014.DOCX Cotswold District Council Infrastructure Delivery Plan Refresh (September 2014) 8.3 Further financing mechanisms 219 9 Co-ordination & Management 222 9.1 Infrastructure planning as a „live‟ process 222 9.2 Governance for infrastructure planning 222 9.3 Engaging with Infrastructure Delivery Providers 223 10 Conclusions and Recommendations 224 10.1 Infrastructure Planning 224 10.2 Cotswold Core Infrastructure 224 10.3 Place-making infrastructure 226 10.4 Flood risk and drainage 226 10.5 Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIP) 226 10.6 Funding & Implementation Strategy 227 10.7 Summary 227 Appendices Appendix A Map of Cotswold Local Plan Consultation Paper Preferred Development Strategy potential housing allocations Appendix B Flood Risk Management Responsibilities in Gloucestershire 4-05 | Issue | 26 September 2014 L:\LOCAL PLAN 2013\EVIDENCE BASE\IDP FROM JAN 2014\REG 19 IDP MAY 16\COTSWOLD_IDP_REFRESH_SEPT2014.DOCX Cotswold District Council Infrastructure Delivery Plan Refresh (September 2014) Executive Summary Ove Arup and Partners was commissioned by a partnership of the District Councils in Gloucestershire to produce Infrastructure Delivery Plans (IDPs) to support Core Strategy/Local Plan preparation. This IDP has been produced for Cotswold District Council in order to evaluate the transport, utilities, community and green infrastructure and services that will be required to support the levels of housing and employment growth proposed in the Cotswold DC Local Plan. An Interim version of the IDP was published in May 2013. This version of the IDP presents a Refresh to this Interim version in order to consider revised figures in relation to commitments as well as residential developments delivered between 1st April 2011 and 31st March 2014. The refresh also seeks to consider a revised Scenario 2 (contingency) which presents a higher number of dwellings to that proposed in previous correspondence. The IDP has been prepared in part on the basis of the information received from various service providers as part of the consultation process undertaken during August 2014. The report has been prepared with the following caveats: The cost and specification information received for individual infrastructure schemes has not been audited or tested for accuracy. It has not always been possible to ascertain whether some of the infrastructure projects identified have confirmed or guaranteed funding to deliver them; The IDP is a high level assessment of infrastructure need which is based on the information received and benchmark indices. This provides an assessment which is based partly on theoretical costings and estimates and which should be further defined as information becomes available; Where we have not received an accurate or satisfactory level of actual project information from infrastructure providers, costs and project specifications have been benchmarked and estimated using industry standards and comparable project information from other parts of the UK and/or previous infrastructure projects designed and implemented by Arup; We accept that there may be cases where the cost of delivering infrastructure items (for example, some social and community infrastructure) could be reduced by collocating different services together. No allowance has been made at this stage of the potential to collocate and therefore reduce the cost of delivering individual services in multifunctional buildings. This would require further discussions with service providers; Infrastructure delivery planning is a live process and it is expected that the figures in this report will change over time. Further work, including infrastructure modelling and on-going consultation with service providers and developers, will be required to refine an understanding of infrastructure requirements, funding and delivery mechanisms. A detailed project tracker which accompanies this report will need to be maintained and updated over years to come to provide the most up to date and accurate picture of the overall funding and delivery picture for infrastructure across the District as a whole; 4-05 | Issue | 26 September 2014 Page 1 Cotswold District Council Infrastructure Delivery Plan Refresh (September 2014) This IDP has been prepared on the basis of a maximum development scenario of 8,614 new homes being built (August 2014). The project tracker attached to this IDP identifies the projects which have emerged during the preparation of the document. There are likely to be other projects that may come on stream which have not been identified and for this reason, the project tracker forms a live document which will continue to be updated over the plan period up to 2031. The cost tracker has been produced alongside this IDP in order that forecast infrastructure costs can been detailed by settlement. It is hoped that this will assist Cotswold DC in negotiation with developers and should overall figures change in the future, associated costs will update automatically upon development scenario information being updated. The next stage of infrastructure planning will involve Cotswold District continuing to work collaboratively with key service providers in order to make decisions around prioritisation of projects. Further work on the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) will aid this prioritisation process and the IDP tracker will form an important tool in identifying, developing and prioritising projects. IDP Development Scenarios The IDP has been through one revision with a Stage 1 Interim Version IDP published in May 2013 and this Refresh IDP being undertaken in August/September 2014. This document provides an Executive Summary in support of this Refresh IDP and the process of preparation is summarised in the table below. IDP Preparation Stages IDP milestones IDP stage Date - Preparation of Stage 1 Interim Version IDP in March - May 2013 consultation with stakeholders Interim IDP Stage 1 Interim Version IDP published as evidence May 2013 base - Refresh of IDP undertaken in consultation with July – Sept 2014 stakeholders Refresh IDP Refresh IDP for Local Plan Consultation September 2014 Housing Growth The Cotswold Local Plan covers a period up to 2031. Over this period the Local Plan Preferred Development Strategy (May 2013) proposed total housing provision of 6,900 new dwellings, including a Strategic Site at Chesterton. In relation to employment