INTERIM DRAFT INFRASTRUCTURE DELIVERY PLAN January 2020 2 Contents 1. Introduction ........................................................................................................ 3 2. Policy Background ............................................................................................. 5 3. Methodology .................................................................................................... 10 4. Infrastructure Themes and Existing Situation .................................................. 12 Education .................................................................................................. 14 Emergency services .................................................................................. 23 Flooding and flood defences ..................................................................... 31 Health care ................................................................................................ 40 Community facilities ................................................................................... 47 Leisure facilities ......................................................................................... 52 Allotments and cemeteries ........................................................................ 62 Libraries ..................................................................................................... 64 Extra care .................................................................................................. 67 Highways and transport ............................................................................. 70 Utilities ....................................................................................................... 85 Green infrastructure and countryside ...................................................... 106 5. Baseline Conclusions and Influencing Factors .............................................. 114 6. Proposed Local Plan Strategy ....................................................................... 120 7. Infrastructure Requirements of Allocated Sites .............................................. 124 0 Page intentionally left blank 0 INTERIM This version of the Infrastructure Delivery Plan (IDP) is being consulted upon in support of the Draft Local Plan 2036 Supplement. A further refinement, identifying the specific infrastructure requirements of each of the proposed allocations, will be produced during the spring/summer 2020 and submitted as part of the evidence base to the Publication version of the plan. 1 Page intentionally left blank 2 1. Introduction Purpose 1.1 Understanding the infrastructure needs of the Borough and ensuring its timely provision to support new development, is vital to ensure that undue pressure is not placed on existing infrastructure, facilities and services or residents and their local communities. 1.2 This Infrastructure Delivery Plan (IDP) provides an assessment of current infrastructure across the Borough as a whole (excluding the new garden village at Welborne as shown in Figure 1). Assessing the existing situation and understanding what commitments, investments and improvement plans are in the pipeline of infrastructure providers, has aided the council when it considers which sites to include in its the revised Development Strategy for the Local Plan. Existing capacity issues or ‘show-stopping’ constraints has influenced the choice of site allocations within the Plan. Figure 1: Areas covered by the Infrastructure Delivery Plan 1.3 The IDP is one of several evidence documents that help the council to determine the way forward for delivering a sustainability-led Local Plan and is being prepared in support of the Regulation 18 consultation on the Draft Local Plan Supplement. It will be regularly reviewed to reflect any changes in circumstances regarding the requirement for infrastructure, as well as consultation responses from infrastructure providers. It forms an integral part of the evidence base supporting the Draft Local Plan 2036 and meets part of the requirement for delivery strategies to accompany the production of 3 local plans as set out in the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) and Planning Practice Guidance. More about the policy context is set out in the following section. 1.4 The IDP sets out the types of infrastructure - facilities, installations and services (covered in Chapter 2) needed to ensure that the development strategy being planned, can be delivered and support the new and expanding communities. The infrastructure requirements identified herein, will form part of the final allocation policy for each site and will play a key role in ensuring that developer contributions can be sought at the planning application stage. The IDP is also an important part of the review of the Community Infrastructure Levy Charging Schedule that the council is undertaking alongside the review of the Local Plan. The information gathered on infrastructure costs associated with development sites will feed into the development site viability work that forms the basis for that review. 1.5 Planning for infrastructure is important to ensure that new development does not have an adverse impact on a local area and ensures that new development is sustainable. The IDP will enable the council to show that the Local Plan has been prepared positively, has been shaped by early engagement and ultimately can be considered sound. Chapter 2 sets out the policy background against which this IDP has been prepared, and Chapter 3 sets out the methodology for how the issues have been identified and the sources of information used. Chapter 4 sets out the ‘baseline’ thematically, using a template format, detailing the various types of infrastructure, who provides it, what the existing position is and highlights any known planned provision. Chapter 5 provides some analysis and conclusions based on the ‘baseline’ position. Chapter 6 sets out the proposed Local Plan Strategy including proposed allocations. Finally, Chapter 7 sets out the detailed infrastructure requirements identified by infrastructure providers in response to the proposed delivery strategy for housing and employment growth, and sets out what the projects are, who will implement them and when, and what they will cost. Chapters 1 to 6 are the subject of consultation as part of the Draft Plan Regulation 18 stage, and Chapter 7 will be added as part of the Publication Plan Regulation 19 consultation stage. 1.6 Ongoing engagement with infrastructure and service providers is key to ensure that the requirements of the development strategy are fed through the Local Plan and represented in housing and employment allocation policies. The council will therefore continue to liaise with infrastructure and services providers moving forward throughout the Local Plan process. The council will also work with providers to review the perceived priority of required infrastructure, identifying that which is considered critical is prioritised over other requirements that are important and desirable. 1.7 As the IDP has been prepared to inform and support the Local Plan 2036 it will be consulted on and updated as part of the ongoing Local Plan preparation process. It is also intended to be a live document that can be updated through active monitoring to inform decisions. It may therefore be updated to draw upon the annual monitoring and review process to provide more accurate costs, priorities and needs, and take account of the infrastructure that has been provided as the implementation of the Local Plan takes place. 4 2. Policy Background National Context 2.1 The National Planning Policy Framework (2019), sets out the planning policy framework for local planning authorities to follow both when making plans and when determining planning applications. Paragraph 8 refers to the three dimensions to sustainable development: economic; social; and environmental. The economic role for planning includes, ‘…and by identifying and coordinating the provision of infrastructure’. 2.2 Paragraph 16 recognises the importance of timely liaison with the infrastructure and service providers during the plan making process. It states that: ‘Plans should: c) be shaped by early, proportionate and effective engagement between plan makers and … infrastructure providers and operators …’ Paragraph 25 also refers to engagement with infrastructure and service? providers. 2.3 Whilst Infrastructure Delivery Plans are not explicitly required in either the NPPF or its accompanying Guidance documents, paragraph 20 states that: ‘Strategic policies should set out an overall strategy for the pattern, scale and quality of development, and make sufficient provision for: b) infrastructure for transport, telecommunications, security, waste management, water supply, wastewater, flood risk and coastal change management, and the provision of minerals and energy (including heat); c) community facilities (such as health, education and cultural infrastructure; and d) …green infrastructure….” IDPs are therefore considered a useful and influential tool for infrastructure planning alongside the Local Plan. 2.4 Paragraph 34 of the NPPF sets out the link to developer contributions. It states that: “Plans should set out the contributions expected from development. This should include setting out the levels and types of affordable housing provision required, along with other infrastructure (such as that needed for education, health, transport, flood and water management, green and digital infrastructure). Such policies should