Planning for Economic Growth in the Southampton City Region! the Crucial Role of Infrastructure "

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1 Planning for Economic Growth in the Southampton City Region! the Crucial Role of Infrastructure " Thursday 14 th June 2012! 11:00am 1:30pm" Hampshire Chamber of Commerce, Southampton

2 Planning for Southampton s Future Key Challenges Paul Nichols Southampton City Council, Economic Development Directorate Senior Manager, Planning Transport and Sustainability

3 ! Successful & growing regional centre! Successful port! Strong transport networks! Two universities! Retail destination! Visitor destination! Heritage & culture! Centre of excellence for health! Green city! National leader in sustainable energy City of today

4 ! Economic recession! Ageing population! Worklessness, poverty, ill health! Educational attainment! Skills gaps reported by business! Port competitors! Changing retail and leisure patterns! Climate change City of today - challenges

5 Building confidence through successful partnerships Solent LEP Transport for South Hampshire Partnership for Urban South Hampshire Southampton Connect (Local Strategic Partnership) Environment Agency - major flood risk programme Homes and Communities Agency Chamber/Business Solent ABP Partnership

6 Building confidence - plans and delivery Planning for economic recovery open for business Core Strategy in place clear development agenda Infrastructure Delivery Plan in place City Centre Action Plan and Masterplan Established Estates Regeneration programme New transport strategy ( smarter choices ) Focus on city centre public realm Major improvements to port access Addressing climate change

7 The City Plan A growing regional centre within a prosperous south Hampshire Strong & distinctive neighbourhoods a good place to live An environmentally friendly city Core requirements High quality environment (both natural and built) and particularly the public realm An efficient, effective, affordable transport system (together with smarter travel)

8 Growth to support PUSH agenda and meet local needs! 130,000 sq m of new city centre shopping (West Quay mall is 74,600)! 120,000 sq m new office space - Six new Carnival HQs! 20-30,000 sq m of food and drink uses with a drive for quality! Over 16,000 new homes (5,500 in city centre)! Industrial and warehouse uses (97,000 sq m)! Estimated to generate 15 20,000 jobs

9 Not just more of the same More family homes Protecting our quality mature suburbs Expanding our network of conservation areas Zero carbon new homes by 2016 Premier league regional centre Commercial critical mass Regenerating district centres Local access to jobs and training Smarter choices travel

10 Core Infrastructure Programmes Sustainable travel - bus investment, park and ride, central station investment, step change in cycling & walking New green and blue network... Extending the green grid, riverside parks and promenades Flood protection and sustainable drainage Energy expanding CHP, green industries

11 City Centre Masterplan Leading planners and urban designers prepared a masterplan Strong foundation for the city centre renaissance Clear vision for sustained growth Strategies to deal with predicted traffic growth and flood mitigation Guidance to deliver high quality points of arrival, visually stimulating buildings and public spaces A place where individuals and entrepreneurs will choose to invest Well received at launch and in consultation

12 City Centre Masterplan - Opportunities Royal Pier Watermark West Quay Major Development Quarter Cultural Quarter Guildhall Square, Sea City, SNAC Central Station North of Station Scheme QE2 Mile Holyrood and Fruit &Veg Mkt Bargate Centre redevelopment Ocean Village Queens Park/Platform Rd Port/Dibden Bay Growing the energy network

13 Signature Projects: City Centre

14 Signature Projects: City Centre

15 Signature Projects: City Centre

16 Wider Regeneration Opportunities Mayfield & Lordshill Academies, Eastpoint Centenary Quay Lordshill Masterplan Adanac and environs Lordswood Forest Park Former OS Site Estates Regeneration Bolderwood/Lloyds University masterplans Itchen waterfront/stadium CHP sites and networks Green and blue infrastructure

17 Recovery through growth Strength in sub-region Sound fundamentals City Centre renaissance Restoring suburban agenda Planning with partners Integrated infrastructure programmes Summary

18 Presentation June 2012

19 What is the marine economy? The role of the Southampton Harbour Future opportunities

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21 According to ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE MARINE INDUSTRIES WITHIN SOUTH EAST ENGLAND (MSE 2004) Represents more than 20% of the UK marine industry The SE is the most important marine region in the UK The largest sectors are Defence, Maritime Services and Leisure Marine, each contributing more than 1B towards the region s GVA. More than 60,000 direct jobs (2004) - Leisure Marine, Defence, Shipping and Maritime Services accounting for approx. 70%

22 Within the Southampton City Region, the Harbour is at the heart of the maritime economy (and by extension the City s economy?) Direct influence Indirect influence via the supply chain Southampton is the UK s Number one cruise port Second largest container port Handles almost half of all cars and commercial vehicles produced for export in Britain One of the UK s remaining major oil terminals

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24 Direct employment 8,300 including oil and defence activities taking place in the wider Port area (2010) In terms of turnover, businesses directly linked to the operation of the Port generate some 772m per year (excluding oil activities) Plus c. 3,500 indirect / induced locally the Port generates some 1.23 billion of GDP per year at the Solent level Out of about 105,000 employed (i.e. 11%) NB excludes marine leisure Southampton cruise sector generates around 2.5 million total turnover per cruise Home Port call

25 Suppliers (e.g. logistics) Port Authority Cargo Handling Ferry Operators Shipping Cruise Operators Passenger Support Services

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28 Does the port surround the City, or the City surround the port?

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32 Construction of a number of multi-deck car compounds in the Eastern and Western Docks Re-commissioning of berths 201 and 202 in the Western Docks into container use in order to accommodate the new, longer and deeper-draughted container ships In the Western Docks, displacement of trade car and roll-on/roll-off storage areas by additional container storage areas Construction of additional cargo sheds, in response to customer demand Appropriate re-routing of dock roads which may be required by any of the land use changes listed above Approaching practical limits of land use within the Eastern and Western Docks

33 Construction of further multi-deck car compounds for the storage of import and export trade cars and for the parking of vehicles belonging to cruise passengers Further expansion of the Port s container terminal, together with the intensification of container handling operations to optimise the efficiency of land use Construction of port facilities on the Dibden reclaim Construction of a fifth passenger cruise terminal, most probably in the Western Docks, to accommodate anticipated growth in the cruise market Appropriate re-routing of dock roads which may be required by any of the land use changes listed above

34 Expansion of marine leisure facilities Bulk Liquids? Marine renewables sector Coastal shipping? Local suppliers competing for bigger share of the Port s supply chain What have we not thought of yet?

35 Maritime probably contributes about 10% of employment of the Southampton City Centre region BUT the jobs are relatively high value, and relatively high productivity There is still plenty to play for in the future and yes past performance IS probably a good guide to the future! There are significant planning and infrastructure issues ahead to avoid constraining the maritime sector

36 Chris Fisher Fisher Associates c h r i f i s h e r m a r i t i m e. n e t

37 Planning for the Southampton City Region - The Crucial Role of Infrastructure Philip Rowell, Director, Adams Hendry

38 Main points to be covered 1. Key infrastructure in the Southampton sub- region and its importance. 2. How we used to plan strategically for infrastructure. 3. How we now plan strategically for infrastructure and issues arising from this.

39 Infrastructure: dicionary definiion Infrastructure 1. the basic structure of an organisation, system, etc. 2. the stock of fixed capital equipment in a country, including factories, roads, schools, etc., considered as a determinant of economic growth

40 Infrastructure in the Southampton sub- region

41 A Very Brief History of Strategic Planning for Infrastructure It took Ime for Structure Plans, later supplemented by non- statutory RPGs, to get to the point where they were properly addressing infrastructure issues. When they reached that point they were replaced by Regional Plans. For all their failings, the resuling regional plans put infrastructure into its proper context alongside a wide range of other consideraions, especially a spaial strategy and environmental constraints.

42 The Present SituaIon The present situaion (post 2011 Localism Act) is that there is soon to be no guidance or support at regional level. Strategic planning is disappearing. At the moment it is possible to use the assumpions in RSS about to be abolished, but these will rapidly become irrelevant and out- dated. This means that infrastructure providers, who typically plan years ahead have no strategic guidance to turn to. PrivaIsaIon of infrastructure means that it is increasingly difficult to plan infrastructure centrally.

43 SoluIons? Surely NSIPs were meant to deal with Infrastructure? Unfortunately not so. The list of NSIPs in the Planning Act 2008 excludes the majority of significant infrastructure proposals, which, consequently: a. are decided by individual planning authoriies, yet b. have origins and implicaions beyond the extent of the decision- making authority, and c. may individually be naionally important or components of naionally significant systems or networks. And even NSIPs require a need to be sufficiently compelling to override any local impacts.

44 SoluIons? SecIon 110 (Localism Act 2011) Duty to Cooperate in Planning Sustainable Development. Follows secion 109 (under which RSS are to be abolished) and requires local planning authoriies, county councils and other prescribed bodies to co- operate in strategic maaers when preparing DPDs. Its very presence in the Act admits the likelihood of non- cooperaion. Is there a look of desperaion about it? Is it really a subsitute for strategic planning?

45 Water in the South East Concluding thoughts A Case in Point (3) A highly developed country in which environmental capaciies and thresholds are rouinely under pressure will find it very difficult to upgrade its infrastructure and conserve its environment on the basis purely of locally derived policies, and a limited definiion of naionally important infrastructure.

46 Where Do We Go From Here? In the short term, infrastructure providers must: ensure that their proposals are the most sustainable soluion to meet a defined need, and that they comply with naional policy in so far as it is relevant. more closely liaise with individual local planning authoriies and the community. seek to encourage groupings of authoriies to provide strategic support in respect of cross boundary infrastructure issues.

47 National Spatial Planning - Infrastructure, environment and development and the case for a England Map for

48 The Draft NPPF --- RTPI s main concerns 1 The default yes 2 The presumption in favour of sustainable development 3 The definition of sustainable development 4 Effective management of the change 5 The NPPF on the face of the Localism Bill 6 A spatial aspect to the NPPF 7 Expression of an holistic rather than reactive view of planning

49 Govt response and the final document 1 The default yes -- modified 2 The presumption in favour of sustainable development -- retained - but 3 The definition of sustainable development -- modified 4 Effective management of the change month trans 5 The NPPF on the face of the Localism Bill -- debates 6 A spatial aspect to the NPPF -- No but M4E 7 Expression of an holistic rather than reactive view of planning -- improved lang

50 National Planning Framework for Scotland : 2 (2009)

51 National Planning Framework for Scotland : 2 (2009)

52 The National Infrastructure Plan

53 The National Infrastructure Plan

54 The National Infrastructure Plan ---- an alternative take

55 The National Infrastructure Plan ---- an alternative take

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