ST HELENS BOROUGH LOCAL PLAN 2020 - 2035 INFRASTRUCTURE DELIVERY PLAN DECEMBER 2018 A BALANCED PLAN FOR A BETTER FUTURE ST.HELENS BOROUGH LOCAL PLAN 2020-2035 INFRASTRUCTURE DELIVERY PLAN DECEMBER 2018 ST.HELENS COUNCIL ST.HELENS BOROUGH LOCAL PLAN INFRASTRUCTURE DELIVERY PLAN 2020-2035 CONTENTS: CHAPTER PAGE Abbreviation List 4 1. Introduction Introduction 5 What is Infrastructure 5-9 2. Policy Context National Policy 10-11 The Local Plan 11 3. Physical Infrastructure Transport 12-22 Utilities 23-31 Flood Risk Management 31-32 4. Social and Community Infrastructure Education 33-38 Health and Social Care Facilities 39-46 Emergency Services 47-48 49-51 Community and Leisure Services 5. Environmental Infrastructure Green Infrastructure 52-55 6. Infrastructure Funding 56-57 7. Infrastructure Delivery Schedule 58-62 8. Appendices Appendix A: Glossary 63-67 Appendix B: Playing Pitch Strategy Assessment Summary 68-75 Appendix C: Key Ward Diagrams 76-92 List of Figures Figure 1: Transport Routes in St. Helens 12 Figure 2: Bus Services in St. Helens 20 Figure 3: Primary and Secondary Schools in St. Helens 35 39 Figure 4: Healthcare facilities in St. Helens 45 Figure 5: Ageing Population Projections List of Tables Table 1: Types of Infrastructure and Delivery Agency 7-9 Table 2: Proposed development and surface water drainage 25-29 Table 3: Current and future capacity at GP Practices 41-43 51 Table 4: Leisure Centre facilities 3 3 ST.HELENS COUNCIL ST.HELENS COUNCIL ST.HELENS BOROUGH LOCAL PLAN 2020-2035 INFRASTRUCTURE DELIVERY PLAN DECEMBER 2018 ST.HELENS BOROUGH LOCAL PLAN 2020-2035 INFRASTRUCTURE DELIVERY PLAN DECEMBER 2018 ST.HELENS BOROUGH LOCAL PLAN ST.HELENS BOROUGH LOCAL PLAN INFRASTRUCTURE DELIVERY PLAN 2020-2035 INFRASTRUCTURE DELIVERY PLAN 2020-2035 ABBREVIATIONS LIST 1. INTRODUCTION AMP Asset Management Programme BCIS Building Cost Information Service 1.1 The Infrastructure Delivery Plan (IDP) is a supporting document to the CA Combined Authority St.Helens Borough Local Plan and covers the Plan period 2020 to 2035. The CCG Clinical Commissioning Group IDP sets out what level of new or improved infrastructure will be required to CIL Community Infrastructure Levy CSP Community Safety Partnership deliver the growth proposed in the St.Helens Borough Local Plan. It is an DfE Department for Education essential element in ensuring that the Local Plan is robust and deliverable. DfT Department for Transport DIAP Digital Infrastructure Action Plan 1.2 The IDP aims to identify the costs, delivery agents and means of funding for the FTTP Fibre to the Premises infrastructure required to support growth proposed in the Local Plan. It is not FWMA The Flood & Water Management Act (2010) appropriate for this document to include every scheme or project planned by GDNs Gas Distribution System every infrastructure provider or service operator in the Borough, nor should this HBF Home Builders Federation document be read as a shopping list for developer contributions. Instead it HE Highways England should be read as a tool to help ensure that the infrastructure requirements for ICT Information and Communications Technology growth proposed in the Local Plan are understood and clearly identified. IDP Infrastructure Delivery Plan LCR Liverpool City Region 1.3 The IDP focuses on infrastructure the Local Plan can help facilitate, improve or LCRCA Liverpool City Region Combined Authority upgrade. This will help ensure that new development and infrastructure are LEAP Local Equipped Area for Play planned for and delivered in a timely and co-ordinated manner. It is important to LEP Local Enterprise Partnership note that infrastructure planning is an iterative process and the precise nature of LFFN Local Full Fibre Networks infrastructure needed to support future development is influenced by a range of LGS Local Geology Sites factors and arrangements that change over time. LLFA Lead Local Flood Authority LLFRMS Lead Local Flood Risk Assessment 1.4 Due to the increasing reliance on infrastructure and service provision the LNR Local Nature Reserves infrastructure outlined within this document will be delivered by a number of LPPO Local Plan Preferred Options LPSD Local Plan Submission Document departments within St.Helens Council as well as external partners. Some types LTP3 Merseyside Local Transport Plan of infrastructure, including places of worship and shopping and leisure facilities LWS Local Wildlife Sites such as cinemas are provided solely by private and community sector MOVA Microprocessor Optimised Vehicle Actuation organisations and are not covered in this document. The provision of these will NPPF National Planning Policy Framework be driven by market demand. NTS National Transmission System OSSRA Open Space, Sport and Recreation Assessment (2016) 1.5 The preparation of this IDP has been informed by detailed consultation with a ONS Office for National Statistics range of stakeholders and key service providers and draws together the latest PPG Planning Practice Guidance evidence and information available to the Council. The IDP is intended to be a SCOOT Split Cycle Offset Optimisation Technique living document that is monitored through the annual Authority Monitoring SFRA Strategic Flood Risk Assessment Report (AMR) process and updated as appropriate. SHC St.Helens Council SHELMA Strategic Housing & Employment Land Mark Assessment What is Infrastructure? SHLAA Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment SHMA Strategic Housing Market Assessment 1.6 ‘Infrastructure’ is the umbrella term given to a range of services and facilities SRFI Strategic Rail Freight Interchange required to support daily activities. Infrastructure can take many forms and can SSSI Sites of Specific Scientific Interest be defined in physical, social and environmental terms and is therefore at the STEP Sustainable Transport Enhancement Package STIA Sustainable Transport Impact Assessment heart of town planning. This required infrastructure is funded through different SuDS Sustainable Drainage Systems mechanisms. It includes, but is not restricted to the following: SW Surface Water TIA Transport Impact Assessment UU United Utilities WTE Whole Time Equivalent 4 5 4 5 ST.HELENS COUNCIL ST.HELENS BOROUGH LOCAL PLAN INFRASTRUCTURE DELIVERY PLAN 2020-2035 ST.HELENS BOROUGH LOCAL PLAN 2020-2035 INFRASTRUCTURE DELIVERY PLAN DECEMBER 2018 ST.HELENS COUNCIL ST.HELENS BOROUGH LOCAL PLAN 2020-2035 INFRASTRUCTURE DELIVERY PLAN DECEMBER 2018 ST.HELENS BOROUGH LOCAL PLAN INFRASTRUCTURE DELIVERY PLAN 2020-2035 1.7 While the term infrastructure is very broadly defined, this does not mean that Community Services: libraries, community centres, youth services, social this IDP seeks to cover in detail all of the above items. That would make the services, older peoples support, special needs and disability, courts, prisons, process unmanageable. This IDP aims to give a broad overview of what specific hostels, places of worship, cemeteries and crematoria; infrastructure is planned and envisaged and the agencies and stakeholders likely to be involved in its delivery. It also looks in more detail at costs and likely Culture and Leisure: museums and galleries, performance venues (theatres funding mechanisms for some items of infrastructure, in particular those that are and cinemas), sports and fitness centres, swimming pools; critical to delivering the Local Plan. Education: nursery and pre-school facilities, primary and secondary, further, 1.8 During the IDP preparation process the Council has used information provided higher and adult education; by infrastructure and service providers to help identify existing capacity and deficits, to establish any programmes of future work and to assess specific Emergency Services: police, fire service and ambulance; impacts of proposed growth. Energy: power generation, distribution and provision, decentralised and 1.9 For each infrastructure sector and service area the infrastructure assessment renewable or low carbon energy; has sought to answer the following questions: Green Infrastructure Network: open space, parks, children’s play areas, • What is the capacity of existing infrastructure? sports pitches and courts, country parks and accessible natural green space, • What are the infrastructure requirements arising over the Local Local Wildlife Sites (LWS), forests and woodlands, allotments; Plan period? • When would new or improved infrastructure be required? Gypsy, Travellers and Travelling Showpeople Sites and Facilities; • What are the likely costs of new infrastructure? • Are there any issues or risks to delivery? Health: hospitals, health centres, GP surgeries, dental practices, opticians, hospices and pharmacies, public health and prevention; 1.10 The results of the infrastructure assessment have been incorporated into the Infrastructure Delivery Schedule presented in Section 7. Information and Communication Technology: telecommunications, internet and broadband, public phones, cable television. 1.11 The IDP focuses on the following key areas of infrastructure provision that will help support the growth of St.Helens and the delivery of the Local Plan: Mineral Workings; Table 1: Types of Infrastructure and Delivery Agency Post Offices: main post offices, sub-post offices, sorting offices, post boxes; Public Realm: footways, street furniture, planting, historic environment Infrastructure Type Delivery Agencies protection; Physical Infrastructure Retail: town centre, neighbourhood shops, markets, out of town retail