South East Lincolnshire Infrastructure Delivery Plan 2016 Final Report On behalf of Lincolnshire County Council, Boston Borough Council, South Holland District Council Project Ref: 36529 | Date: November 2016 Office Address: Waterloo House, Victoria Square, Birmingham B2 5TB T: +44 (0)121 633 2900 E: [email protected] South East Lincolnshire Infrastructure Delivery Plan 2016 Final Report Document Control Sheet Project Name: South East Lincolnshire Infrastructure Delivery Plan 2016 Project Ref: 36529 Report Title: Final Report Date: November 2016 Name Position Signature Date Prepared by: Shilpa Rasaiah Associate SR 8th October 2016 Reviewed by: Chris Quinsee Partner CQ 13th October 2016 Approved by: Chris Quinsee Partner CQ 13th October 2016 For and on behalf of Peter Brett Associates LLP Revision Date Description Prepared Reviewed Approved 14th Final Minor text amends to Oct 2016 November SR SR CQ Report Final Report 2016 Peter Brett Associates LLP disclaims any responsibility to the Client and others in respect of any matters outside the scope of this report. 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Any such party relies upon the report at their own risk. © Peter Brett Associates LLP 2015 ii South East Lincolnshire Infrastructure Delivery Plan 2016 Final Report Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ......................................................................................................................... 1 1 STUDY SCOPE APPROACH AND POLICY................................................................................ 4 1.1 Introduction .................................................................................................................... 4 1.2 Research and consultations .......................................................................................... 4 1.3 Study approach ............................................................................................................. 5 1.4 National policy on infrastructure and developer funding ............................................... 5 PART 1 GROWTH PLANS ..................................................................................................................... 9 2 PLANNED GROWTH AND INFRASTRUCTURE ...................................................................... 10 2.1 Introduction .................................................................................................................. 10 2.2 Development context ................................................................................................... 10 2.3 Unconsented growth.................................................................................................... 10 2.4 Plan housing growth .................................................................................................... 11 2.5 Plan employment growth ............................................................................................... 3 2.6 Plan retail growth ........................................................................................................... 4 PART 2 INFRASTRUCTURE ASSESSMENT ........................................................................................ 6 3 APPROACH TO INFRASTRUCTURE ASSESSMENT ............................................................... 7 3.1 Introduction .................................................................................................................... 7 3.2 Planning Act definition of infrastructure ......................................................................... 8 3.3 Assessing infrastructure requirements .......................................................................... 8 3.4 When is infrastructure required? ................................................................................. 10 3.5 What are the infrastructure priorities? ......................................................................... 10 3.6 Categories of infrastructure outside the scope of this assessment ............................. 11 3.7 Caveats to this study ................................................................................................... 12 4 TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE ............................................................................................ 14 4.1 Introduction .................................................................................................................. 14 4.2 National transport networks affecting the Local Plan area .......................................... 14 4.3 The local transport network and context ..................................................................... 15 4.4 Lincolnshire Local Transport Plan and other transport strategies ............................... 16 4.5 The Spalding Transport strategy ................................................................................. 17 4.6 Spalding Western Relief Road .................................................................................... 18 4.7 The Boston Transport Strategy ................................................................................... 19 4.8 Boston Distributor Road .............................................................................................. 19 4.9 Summary of transport costs and funding .................................................................... 26 5 FLOOD MANAGEMENT INFRASTRUCTURE .......................................................................... 28 5.1 Introduction .................................................................................................................. 28 5.2 The Boston Tidal Barrier ............................................................................................. 28 5.3 The Black Sluice Pumping Station and South Forty Foot Catchment ......................... 30 6 EDUCATION INFRASTRUCTURE ............................................................................................. 33 iii South East Lincolnshire Infrastructure Delivery Plan 2016 Final Report 6.1 Introduction .................................................................................................................. 33 6.2 Infrastructure capacity ................................................................................................. 33 6.3 Infrastructure requirement and cost assumptions ....................................................... 34 6.4 Summary of education infrastructure costs and funding ............................................. 35 7 HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE ................................................................................................... 39 7.2 Consultation ................................................................................................................. 39 7.3 Infrastructure provision and capacity........................................................................... 39 7.4 Infrastructure requirements to support planned growth .............................................. 40 7.5 Summary of health infrastructure costs and funding ................................................... 42 8 SPORT LEISURE AND GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE .............................................................. 44 8.1 Introduction .................................................................................................................. 44 8.2 Summary of sport, leisure and green infrastructure costs and funding ....................... 44 9.1 Introduction .................................................................................................................. 46 PART 3 INFRASTRUCTURE COSTS ANDFUNDING ......................................................................... 56 10 INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDING .................................................................................................. 57 10.1 Introduction .................................................................................................................. 57 10.2 Non developer funding ................................................................................................ 57 10.3 The Local Plan whole plan viability assessment ......................................................... 59 10.4 Developer funding ....................................................................................................... 60 10.5 Estimate of developer contributions ............................................................................ 62 11 INFRASTRUCUTRE COSTS AND FUNDING GAP .................................................................. 64 11.1 Introduction .................................................................................................................. 64 11.2 Infrastructure cost summary ........................................................................................ 64 11.3 The infrastructure funding gap .................................................................................... 67 11.4 Focusing on priority infrastructure projects ................................................................. 68 11.5 Summary of infrastructure costs and funding by local authority ................................