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Sustainable Development
Partnership work programme
discussion
Designing the social, physical and green
infrastructure – ensuring facilities and
services match our plans for economic
growth
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Key question: What can this Partnership usefully
do in relation to infrastructure planning?
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Commit resources and open doors
Provide challenge, leadership and strategic input
Bring together input and contribution of key partners
Ensure infrastructure work supports our key strategies –
regeneration, housing, transport and planning
• Ensure strategic links made between infrastructure work
and Sustainable Community Strategy priorities and
community cohesion theme
• Problem solve, if problems arise
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Public perceptions on likely impact of regeneration
• Nothing in this will benefit `people like me’
• Changes will benefit `new arrivals’ not existing residents
and businesses
• What about pressure on school places?
• What about pressure on health facilities?
• What about pressure on community groups?
• What about pressure on traffic and parking?
• What about pressure on open space?
• What about impact on air quality and noise?
• All combine to contribute to some `fear of change’
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Community Cohesion and Infrastructure
Planning
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Against background of these public concerns, need to appreciate contribution
EFFECTIVE infrastructure planning can make to community cohesion
`A key contributor to community cohesion is integration which is what must
happen to enable new residents and existing residents to adjust to each other’
[DCLG]
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`Ways of living together need to include:- shared vision and sense of belonging
- focus on what new and existing communities have in common,
alongside recognition of value of diversity
- strong and positive relationships between people from different
backgrounds’ [DCLG]
Level and quality of public services and facilities is a key determinant
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Statutory requirements for infrastructure
planning
• Local Development Framework must set out spatial vision,
strategy and objectives for next 15 years, and do so in line
with sustainable development principles and Sustainable
Community Strategy priorities
• Planning Policy Statement 12 = local authorities must
demonstrate necessary social, physical and green
infrastructure provided to support delivery of Core Strategy
vision
• Likely to be tested in Comprehensive Area Assessment
and by Planning Inspectorate
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What does infrastructure include?
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Roads and other transport facilities
Utilities and flood defences
Schools and other educational facilities
Medical facilities
Open space, sporting and recreational facilities
Affordable housing
Tangible facilities & physical provision needed to support –
railway tracks, pipes/cables, buildings, open spaces etc
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Scale of infrastructure planning needed - potential
development allocation by 2025 (Strategic Spatial
Option 1)
Housing
No. of new homes
Lewisham town centre
3,400
Catford town centre
1,950
Deptford New Cross (DNX)
2,050
DNX Mixed Use employment locations
7,400
South of the borough
750
Existing commitments elsewhere in borough
2,100
Future commitments elsewhere in borough
4,000
TOTAL
21,650
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Deptford New Cross Masterplan
Canon Wharf
Route 1 – Deptford to New Cross Gate
Lewisham Town Centre Area Action Plan
Lewisham Gateway
Loampit Vale
Cornmill Gardens
Bromley Road Masterplan
Forest Hill Masterplan
London & Quadrant – Clyde Terrace
Hither Green Masterplan
Nightingale Grove and Staplehurst Road
Current infrastructure planning work
• Working with GLA to refine population projections and
growth distribution around Lewisham
• Preparing Implementation Schedule to support LDF Core
Strategy, needed by September 2009
- Education topic paper drafted
- Further nine papers being drafted
• Establishing ongoing structures and mechanisms to
oversee delivery of required infrastructure
• Establishing a `virtual’ operational group to support work,
with involvement across wide range of agencies
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What should the Partnership do?
• Help focus on Lewisham as a place and think holistically
about infrastructure needs
• Reduce duplication and associated costs
• Adopt common assumptions about future growth (amount
+ location)
• Share more information on assets, standards and
strategies
• Identify opportunities for better integrated service delivery
and better use of assets
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What should the Partnership do?
• Monitoring progress on delivery and make strategic input
when timely
• Consider six monthly performance reports setting out
progress on delivery of Infrastructure Schedule, starting
October 2009
• Identify any necessary action including any necessary
additional support needed by partners where delivery off
target
• Report progress annually to LSP Board
• Act as link officers into their organisations to help provide
contacts and problem solve, if needed
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