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“Invest in Walsall” Michael Tichford Assistant Director Regeneration & Housing Strategic Fit of Walsall’s Regeneration Agenda • Walsall Sustainable Community Strategy: A vision for 2021 • Regional and Sub-Regional Strategies including: City Region, Regional Spatial Strategy, Regional Economic Strategy, Black Country Joint Core Strategy (due 2011) • Homes & Communities Agency Single Conversation (2009 onwards) • Walsall Local Economic Assessment (due 2011) • Walsall Housing Strategy (2009) • Neighbourhood Management Models • Building Schools for the Future / Local Education Partnership Plus (2009 onwards) Walsall’s Key Regeneration Priorities Walsall Town Centre / WRC priority area • Walsall Waterfront • Walsall Gigaport • St Matthews Quarter • Darlaston Strategic Development Area (DSDA) • Birchills Canalside Communities SRF • Bentley • Pleck • SRF1 – Brownhills / Goscote / Moxley • Darlaston • Willenhall The Time and Opportunity to ‘Take Stock’ Why we are taking stock: • Changing economic landscape • Changing demographics How we might respond: • Using innovative and creative thinking to unlock new opportunities Moving Forward Walsall’s New Opportunities • Walsall College – Opened September 2009 • Waterfront South Planning Consent awarded (November 2009) and Kickstart funding approved October 2009 • SRF 1 Outline Business Case - submitted January 2010 • Morrisons Willenhall - Opening January 2010 • Manor Hospital – Due for completion March 2011 • BSF – Wave 6a (start 2009 and schools to start being occupied 2014 onwards) • Tesco Town Centre - Opening January 2011 New impetus- “Total Place” & “Place Making” • Walsall is embracing government thinking towards ‘total place’ as a mechanism for delivering its regeneration and growth agendas • The HCA’s approach to ‘place making’ and the development of the Local Investment Plan is an ideal mechanism for Walsall stakeholders to further develop their partnership working. • Walsall’s Local Investment Plan can underpin the regeneration priorities within the Borough and can consider how we might start to ‘pool resources’ into the proposed LIP priority areas Place Making Timetable • Establish via ‘single conversation’ housing & regeneration priorities for Borough 2009 • Local Investment Plan 2010 • Thematic Partnership within Walsall Partnership established within the Sustainable Communities Strategy and prioritiesed within the LIP.2010 • Local Investment Agreements 2011 Consultation - Outcomes That the Local Investment Plan should embrace the themes of People, Place and Prosperity • Investment– Partnership – appropriate partners appropriate place – Process- improve commissioning and involving partners at the right time – Knowledge and understanding about what everything people can bring – dating service – Innovate on delivery models-realise assets and raise aspiration Consultation Outcomes •Strategic Fit – – Shaping place needs to be done together – Key government agencies need to be involved and understand our priorities – We need to let private development know we are reducing their risk – Systems thinking and spatial context – brand Walsall Consultation Outcome • Priorities and Themes – City centre development is a driver with clear pathways to districts – The boundaries need to be flexible enough not to exclude and enable developments which support diversity – Secure community ownership of the boundary – Understand the cross boundary implications ie Moxley and Darlaston – Health, aspiration, skills, worklessness, continue to be the themes given greatest priority within the Sustainable Communities Strategy What next • We will be looking for the Partnership to endorse the process • We will be looking to the Partnership to support work on new development models • Looking at shared procurement process to enable these new delivery models to succeed • This is the core agenda for LSPs, what role does WP see for itself in this approach?