improving culture, arts and sporting opportunities through planning a good practice guide

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1 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning a good practice guide

2 Improving Cuture, Arts and Sporting Opportunities through Panning. A Good Practice Guide Supported by: A fu ist of supporting organisations is given on page 2.

3 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning a good practice guide Contents Section 1 Section 2 Section 3 Section 4 Section 5 Section 6 Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Introduction 1.1 The aim of the guide 1.2 Using the guide 1.3 The Cuture and Sport Panning Tookit Cuture, arts and sport 2.1 Outcomes for cuture, arts and sport 2.2 Defining cuture, arts and sport The poicy and deveopment context 3.1 The panning poicy context 3.2 Links to other processes Deveoping the panning approach 4.1 Principes 4.2 The Nationa Panning Poicy Framework 4.3 Strategic co-operation and coaboration 4.4 The oca panning framework 4.5 Neighbourhood panning 4.6 Panning appications and changes of use 4.7 Infrastructure panning 4.8 Good design Funding and deivery 5.1 Key messages 5.2 Viabiity considerations in panning poicy and deveopment 5.3 Section 106 panning obigations 5.4 The Community Infrastructure Levy 5.5 The reationship between CIL and panning obigations Toos and guidance 6.1 Libraries, museums and archives 6.2 Arts venues and theatres 6.3 Pubic art 6.4 Open space, eisure and sport 6.5 Historic environment Signposts to further information A.1 Key organisations A.2 Sources of funding A.3 Deivery mechanisms A Nationa Panning Poicy Framework (NPPF) checkist for practitioners Gossary of key terms

4 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning Improving Cuture, Arts and Sporting Opportunities through Panning. A Good Practice Guide TCPA. Pubished June 2013 Town and Country Panning Association 17 Carton House Terrace London SW1Y 5AS t: +44 (0) Acknowedgements The TCPA is gratefu for financia support for the pubication of this guide from the South East Cutura Improvement Forum, Arts Counci Engand, The Nationa Archives, c CLOA (Chief Cutura and Leisure Officers Association), and The Theatres Trust. The TCPA aso wishes to thank the wide range of organisations and individuas that shared expertise during the deveopment of this guide and contributed to its content. In particuar, the TCPA thanks the foowing for their contributions to the text: Chares Freeman, Catriona Ridde, Jonathan Banks (ixia pubic art think tank), Kathy MacEwen (Design Counci Cabe), Rob Hot (Sport Engand), Jane Houghton (Natura Engand), Tim Brennan (Engish Heritage), Isobe Siddons (The Nationa Archives), Pau Bristow (Arts Counci Engand) and Mhora Samue (The Theatres Trust). This guide is supported by: Arts Counci Engand Arts Deveopment UK Association for Cutura Advancement through Visua Art BOP Consuting c CLOA (Chief Cutura and Leisure Officers Association) Crest Nichoson Cuture First East Sussex County Counci Engish Heritage Design Counci Cabe ixia pubic art think tank JPC Strategic Panning Consutants Kette Partnership Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation London Borough of Tower Hamets Kent County Counci Making Music Nationa Federation of Artists Studio Providers Nationa Leisure and Cuture Forum Panning Officers Society Pay Engand PUSH (Partnership for Urban South Hampshire) The Nationa Archives The Theatres Trust South East Cutura Improvement Forum Sport Engand Town and Country Panning Association Urban Roots Panning Wandsworth Borough Counci Wei Yang & Partners Winchester City Counci 2

5 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning section 1 introduction Greater London Authority We must remember that panning and buiding are about the ong term, not simpy quick-fix approaches. There are sound economic reasons for incuding cuture and sport in the mix which makes up sustainabe deveopment. M. Chang, P. Chichester, S. Eden, C. Freeman, J. Hoden and J. Wison: Baet in Bognor, handba in Hu? Panning for cuture and sport. Town & Country Panning, 2012, Vo. 81, Oct., In recent years cuture, arts and sport have been widey used to drive regeneration, buid cohesive communities and change the way that paces are perceived. Successfu projects such as the cutura regeneration of the Newcaste-Gateshead waterfront, Liverpoo s year as European City of Cuture in 2008, the 2002 Commonweath Games in Manchester and the 2012 London Oympics have iustrated some of the ways in which major cutura projects can be used to boost economic deveopment and regeneration and increase community cohesion. And it is important to note that smaer-scae initiatives in which, for exampe, a oca community might be invoved in designing and ooking after a pay area, commissioning a pubic art project, or rejuvenating a ibrary can aso pay a significant roe in changing the way an area is seen and in buiding oca confidence. However, vita as such wider community objectives are, it is important to remember that cutura and sporting activities are of vaue in their own right, and opportunities and faciities must be provided aongside housing, heath, education and other community services. 3

6 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning Guidance can never repace oca judgement and the appication of professiona expertise it can merey assist... Guidance can and shoud carify the ground rues for these processes, so there is carity about approach, where evidence can be sourced, etc. but guidance shoud support the appication of oca skis and judgement, not automate them. Guidance aso has a crucia roe in heping identify what information is required in different circumstances. Lord Tayor of Goss Moor: Externa Review of Government Panning Practice Guidance. Department for Communities and Loca Government, Dec Working creativey within the Nationa Panning Poicy Framework, and buiding on the new core panning principe supporting heath, socia and cutura webeing, a positive approach to panning can hep to promote economic prosperity, heath and webeing and buid safe, vibrant and cohesive communities. Within this broader aim, the panning system can be used by oca authorities, other organisations, communities and individuas to hep deveop a strong oca cutura and sporting offer. 1.1 The aim of the guide This guide provides an authoritative, athough not exhaustive, resource for panners and cuture and sport practitioners in Engand. It is designed to enabe them to pan effectivey for cuture, arts and sport through the panning system, and it demonstrates the art of the possibe in using the panning system as a means of achieving oca priorities. The guidance provided is non-statutory, but is supported by organisations from across the cuture, arts, sport and panning sectors, and its adoption within the panning process is encouraged by these organisations. The approaches detaied in the guide have been deveoped to support the poicies set out in the Nationa Panning Poicy Framework. 1.2 Using the guide This guide is for practitioners in oca authorities, pubic agencies, deveopers and community and stakehoder organisations who are invoved in town panning and in panning for cuture, arts and sport. It provides a gateway to access more detaied information on the process and outcomes of panning for cuture, arts and sport, and it can be used as the basis of engagement and coaboration between panners and cuture and sport practitioners. The guide wi hep oca authority panners and cuture and eisure officers to meet the nationa requirement to identify and positivey pan for improved opportunities in cutura, sport and eisure provision both within Loca Pan poicies and in making panning decisions. It wi hep practitioners in the vountary and community sectors to better engage with the panning process in order to ensure that oca needs for new or improved faciities and services are deivered through deveopment and regeneration initiatives. And it wi hep deveopers to understand the specific cuture and sport provision needs arising from deveopment, enhance their partnership-working capacity, and provide greater vaue in return for private-sector investment. Deveopers have an important partner roe in enabing deveopment, through their skis and financia investment; this is recognised in the guide. 1.3 The Cuture and Sport Panning Tookit The Cuture and Sport Panning Tookit (CSPT) is an onine resource to hep practitioners invoved in panning for housing growth and regeneration to deiver cutura and sporting infrastructure. This guide compements the CSPT, which contains further resources, information and case studies. The CSPT wi be reguary reviewed to ensure that the information, advice and resources it offers are kept up to date and refect current poicy. The CSPT can be accessed at org.uk/ 4

7 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning section 2 cuture, arts and sport Greater London Authority Creativity, beauty and history resonate throughout the city and for some, their most vaued cutura experiences wi not be a treasure in a famous museum, but visiting an art gaery in the East End, going to a oca venue to watch a band pay in Camden or discovering an exempar of 17th century baroque architecture. Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, writing in the foreword to Cutura Metropois: The Mayor s Cutura Strategy 2012 and Beyond. Mayor of London. Greater London Authority, Panning for the provision of opportunities to participate in cuture, arts and sport meets a key requirement of the Nationa Panning Poicy Framework (see Section 3.1 of this guide). Cuture, arts and sport are fundamenta to buiding sustainabe communities in which peope want to ive and work (see Box 1, on the next page). Participation in cutura and sporting activities enhances peope s persona enjoyment, deveopment, and fufiment and improves their physica and menta heath and webeing. And high-quaity cutura and sports faciities hep to make paces more attractive, hep to boost economic activity and prosperity, and aid the deveopment of shared identities and increased understanding between different communities. 2.1 Outcomes for cuture, arts and sport Many oca authorities work with a range of oca partners to define the priorities for the communities they serve. Such high-eve priorities are frequenty set out in the oca authority s Sustainabe Community Strategy or the Heath and 5

8 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning Box 1 Key benefits of providing for cuture, arts and sport Economic vaue Economic benefits in urban and rura communities can accrue through cuture and eisure-ed regeneration, tourism and and the visitor economy, and through the deveopment of infrastructure essentia to underpin the creative industries. Physica and psychoogica heath and webeing Art in the pubic ream is an important factor in generating coective webeing i and a sense of pace and beonging. The participatory arts offer opportunities to buid meaningfu socia engagement, and participation in sport is important to physica webeing and in tacking heath issues. Invovement in cutura and sporting activities can enabe peope who woud otherwise be excuded to enter into the ife of the community. Pace-making We designed cutura venues, theatres and sports faciities add considerabe vaue to the buit environment by attracting visitors, generating increased activity, and heping to create paces where peope (not east young peope) want to ive. ii Stronger communities Thriving cutura and sporting activities can hep in buiding and maintaining socia capita encouraging strong community bonds, active citizenship and participation. iii Senses of identity, pace, ownership and beonging are among the significant benefits that cuture, arts and sport activities bring to a community and its environment. Cutura faciities such as museums and ibraries contribute to the cutivation of attractive, vibrant, busy paces that peope can enjoy in safety. High-quaity outdoor space enriches oca cuture, and engaging young peope in sport and cuture is a way of fostering socia incusion and preventing antisocia behaviour. Support for education, skis and ifeong earning Libraries pay a roe at the heart of the community in supporting ifeong earning. Partnerships between schoos and museums and the arts can have a positive impact upon educationa attainment. i ii M. White: Arts in Heath: A New Prognosis. Mar Avaiabe from the ixia pubic art think tank website, at Start with the Park: Creating Sustainabe Urban Green Spaces in Areas of Housing Growth and Renewa. CABE Space, Jun iii L. Deaney and E. Keaney: Sport and Socia Capita in the United Kingdom: Statistica Evidence from Nationa and Internationa Survey Data. Commissioned by the Department for Cuture, Media and Sport. Institute for Pubic Poicy Research, Dec Webeing Strategy for the area. Typicay, they may focus on: enhancing opportunities for chidren and young peope; strengthening the oca economy and regenerating ocaities; enhancing the quaity of the environment and promoting sustainabiity; supporting oder peope and independent iving; promoting safer, stronger and more resiient communities; cutivating diversity; promoting community engagement, participation in civic ife and incusion; improving heath and webeing; and promoting ifeong earning. In 2010 the Loca Government Association, working with Sport Engand, Arts Counci Engand, Engish Heritage and c CLOA (the Chief Cutura and Leisure Officers Association), produced a guide to deveoping a oca outcomes framework for cuture and sport. 1 1 The Loca Government Association guide to deveoping a oca outcomes framework for cuture and sport can be accessed onine at 6

9 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning Tabe 1 Thematic exampes of a oca outcomes framework for cuture and sport Environment Chidren and young peope Economy Stronger communities Heath and webeing Overarching strategic priorities Attractive paces in which to ive and work. Reduction in poution. Ceaner and greener paces. More sustainabe use of natura resources. More chidren and young peope fit and we. More chidren and young peope in safe environments. More young peope achieving their earning potentia. More young peope invoved in oca decision-making. Sustainabe and baanced economic growth. Higher ski eves. Increased empoyment. Increased inward investment. Growth in entrepreneurship. Strong, thriving and attractive neighbourhoods. Reductions in deprivation and heath inequaities. More integrated and resiient communities. Improved quaity of ife. Improved heath, webeing and resiience throughout ife. Increased personaisation, choice and contro. Increased dignity and safety. Reduction in heath inequaities. Intermediate outcomes Increased environmenta awareness. Increased community infuence. Protected and enhanced natura and buit environments. More chidren with heathy ifestyes. More chidren given the best start in ife. Reduction in negative behaviour. More peope in education for onger. More peope with higher aspirations. Increased attractiveness of paces to ive, work and visit. Loca services deivered by a diverse range of providers. More peope invoved in oca decision-making. Improved menta webeing. Reduction in ifestye-driven i heath. Fewer peope out of work due to i heath. Fewer peope with menta heath probems. Cuture and sport service outcomes Improved cuture and sport offer; enhanced quaity of pace. Protection of heritage assets. More peope experiencing their oca heritage. More efficient deivery in cuture and sport. Improved range of activities for chidren. Increased engagement in cuture and sport among vunerabe young peope. More chidren gaining skis through cuture and sport. Growth in the creative economy. Improved quaity of pace. More peope gaining new skis through cuture and sport. More peope in paid or unpaid work in cuture and sport. More sport- and cuturereated enterprises. More peope participating in sport and cutura activities. More peope vounteering in cuture and sport. Increased diversity of the cuture and sport offer. Higher eves of satisfaction with cuture and sport services. More peope vounteering in cuture and sport. More participation among disadvantaged and vunerabe groups. More peope invoved in designing and commissioning cuture and sport provision. Adapted from exampe outcomes trianges (giving an overview of how cuture and sport contribute to oca priorities, showing different eves of outcome) from the Loca Government Association s guide to deveoping a oca outcomes framework for cuture and sport see Information aso taken from Economic Vaue of Sport in Engand Sport Engand, Aug

10 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning Source: Cuture and Sport Panning Tookit The framework is intended to hep organisations to measure and evidence the difference that the deveopment and/or improvement of cuture and sport services can make in achieving the desired outcomes on matters of high-eve priority. The approach taken in the oca outcomes framework guide inks service outcomes, infuenced by the way the oca authority works with the cuture, arts and sport sectors, to intermediate outcomes and overarching strategic outcomes (see Tabe 1 on the preceding page). 2.2 Defining cuture, arts and sport The term cuture, arts and sport as used in this guide broady corresponds to the areas overseen by the Department for Cuture, Media and Sport (DCMS). It covers activities such as the visua arts, music, the performing arts, crafts, sport, eisure, and tourism, as we as the creative industries (such as advertising, architecture, design, pubishing, teevision and radio, fim and digita media, software and IT design), and the provision of faciities and services such as theatres, museums, ibraries, and archives, in addition to the protection of the historic environment. Whie these categories are hepfu in identifying activities that fa within, in particuar, the heading of cuture, any ist is unikey to encapsuate in fu its wide and open-ended nature. Cuture: encompasses an area s shared-memory experiences and identity; incudes both minority and majority interests; both incudes the exceent and encourages wider, more incusive participation; vaues both the traditiona and the experimenta; emphasises ifeong earning and the reease of creativity; and is fundamenta to peope s psychoogica heath and webeing and their quaity of ife. It may therefore be usefu for panners to consider the foowing ways in which cuture, arts and sport contribute to community ife: Pace-shaping: The joint DCMS and Department for Communities and Loca Government pubication Word Cass Paces, issued in 2009, drew attention to the importance of pace-making. It identified a range of factors that contribute to quaity of pace and engender a sense of pace and beonging incuding we designed buidings, the pubic ream and green spaces, imaginative use of pubic art, sensitive treatment of historic buidings and sites, and provision of and access to a good mix of services and amenities in town and rura centres. Providing adequate and appropriate infrastructure: Cutura, arts and sporting faciities and services are important eements of a ocaity s community infrastructure. Boosting diversity and vibrancy: Athough important, buidings and physica infrastructure are not in themseves sufficient to ensure cutura vibrancy and participation. Loca cubs and societies and cutura, arts and sporting businesses and organisations provide the key 8

11 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning Tabe 2 Physica asset primary descriptions a typoogy of cutura, arts and sporting infrastructure assets Arts provision (visua and performing arts and creative industries) Museums, ibraries and archives Heritage Sport and eisure Pay and community provision Art gaeries and visua arts venues Museums Historic buidings and structures Swimming poos Pay areas Music venues Libraries Historic monuments Sports has Parks and open spaces Theatres and other dance and drama venues Archives Historic parks and gardens Other indoor sports Community has Muti-use arts venues Historic andscapes Paying pitch sports Paces of worship Cinemas Protected natura andscapes Other outdoor sports Common and, town and viage greens Creative studios and creative start-up spaces Archaeoogica sites Countryside and natura resource sports Pubic rights of way Arts education spaces Word Heritage Sites Pubic art Adapted from Fig. 2, Physica asset primary descriptions, in Cuture and Sport Physica Asset Mapping Tookit TBR, and the Cities Institute, for the Department for Cuture, Media and Sport, in coaboration with Arts Counci Engand, Engish Heritage, the Museums, Libraries and Archives Counci, and Sport Engand, Aug and from Assessing Needs Guide. Sport Engand, 2013 (forthcoming) mechanisms through which peope engage in cutura activity. Panners may find it usefu to consider the DCMS Cuture and Sport Evidence (CASE) programme s grouping of cutura, arts and sporting infrastructure assets into broad categories, or physica asset primary descriptions, 2 as shown in Tabe 2 (see aso Section 6 of this guide). Cutura participation and engagement is not aways dependent on dedicated cutura infrastructure provision. Many festivas and events which have significant impact on oca areas use temporary or non-dedicated venues, such as pubic open spaces. Many pubs pay an important roe in promoting ive music, and many oca cutura groups, such as book cubs or choirs, meet in private houses or community has. Simiary, faciities wi frequenty have mutipe uses. When resources are under pressure, co-ocation or muti-use is an efficient and costeffective way to provide access to cuture and sport. Schoo, coege and university faciities frequenty serve an educationa purpose and contribute to cuture and sport provision for the wider oca community; and sports faciities are often used to deiver pubic heath programmes. 2 Cuture and Sport Physica Asset Mapping Tookit TBR, and the Cities Institute, for the Department for Cuture, Media and Sport, in coaboration with Arts Counci Engand, Engish Heritage, the Museums, Libraries and Archives Counci, and Sport Engand, Aug

12 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning section 3 the poicy and deveopment context Source: Cuture and Sport Panning Tookit Panning for cuture, arts and sport takes pace not in a vacuum but within a context of egisative, poicy and strategic frameworks and toos. This section focuses on the poicy and operationa context of the current panning system, with particuar reference to key changes brought about by the Locaism Act 2011 and the Nationa Panning Poicy Framework (introduced in 2012). Detaied information and advice on practica approaches to panning for cuture, arts and sport are set out in Section 4 of this guide. 3.1 The panning poicy context The Nationa Panning Poicy Framework The Nationa Panning Poicy Framework (NPPF) requires panners to take account of and support oca strategies to improve heath, socia and cutura webeing for a (para. 17). It is the soe panning poicy guidance document and forms the materia basis for deveoping oca poicies and oca decision-making on individua panning appications. The NPPF consoidates and repaces previous government guidance such as Panning Poicy Statements and Panning Poicy Guidance Notes. Foowing the Tayor Review of Government Panning Practice Guidance, further guidance wi be deveoped by the Government, but this wi be seective and brief. 10 Sustainabe deveopment runs as a goden thread through the NPPF, and within this overarching aim panning s socia roe encompasses the requirement

13 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning Panning shoud take account of and support oca strategies to improve heath, socia and cutura webeing for a, and deiver sufficient community and cutura faciities and services to meet oca needs. One of the 12 core panning principes set out in Nationa Panning Poicy Framework. Department for Communities and Loca Government, Mar. 2012, para to support a community s cutura webeing. The NPPF draws particuar attention to the provision of physica, socia, cutura, heritage, environmenta and sporting faciities (paras 70 and 156 among others), and to coaborative working with key deivery partners on infrastructure panning (para. 162). Further advice is set out in Section 4 and Appendix B in this guide The Loca Pan Loca authorities are required to produce a Loca Pan for the deveopment and use of and over a year period. The Loca Pan shoud incude information on the aocation of sites for a particuar type of deveopment or use and guideines on the determination of appications for panning permission. Suppementary panning documents to aid panning appications and infrastructure deivery can aso be produced. Further advice on working with the Loca Pan is set out in Section 4.4 of this guide. In London, the boroughs oca deveopment documents have to be in genera conformity with the London Pan, which is aso egay part of each borough s deveopment pan Neighbourhood panning Loca communities and business districts can now deveop a statutory neighbourhood panning document under the provisions of the Locaism Act Once adopted by the oca panning authority as part of the statutory Loca Pan, it wi be used for making decisions on panning appications. Further advice on working with neighbourhood panning is set out in Section 4.5 of this guide. 3.2 Links to other processes Loca stakehoder organisations (such as Loca Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs), Loca Nature Partnerships (LNPs), Heath and Webeing Boards, and Cinica Commissioning Groups (repacing Primary Care Trusts) 3 ) and other cutura and eisure groupings (such as county sports partnerships and oca cutura partnerships) have an important roe to pay in supporting strategic panning arrangements and infuencing Loca Pan priorities. Eary engagement of such partnerships in the panmaking process is important for the foowing reasons: Co-ordination: A wide range of organisations are invoved in LEPs and LNPs, many operating at a nationa eve. Engagement wi hep to generate informed debate on strategic priorities and coud aso provide access to wider experience and/or expertise than might be found in the oca authority. Aignment: The business priorities (and growth pans) of LEPs reating to cuture and sport shoud aign with those identified in the oca pan-making process, particuary where there is a need to promote specific actions. This wi hep in generating ong-term investor confidence, but it coud aso offer potentia funding opportunities. Funding: In a word of imited pubic funding, it is vita that fu consideration is given to how any aspirations for cuture and sport promoted through Loca Pans can be deivered. Groups of oca authorities and oca pubic, private and community partners may have access to a range of funding opportunities, particuary given their commissioning roe on strategic infrastructure and access to growth funds. They can aso hep in highighting key projects which might attract private sector funding. 3 See A. Ross, with M. Chang: Reuniting Heath with Panning Heathier Homes, Heathier Communities. How Panning and Pubic Heath Practitioners Can Work together to Impement Heath and Panning Reforms in Engand. TCPA, Ju

14 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning section 4 deveoping the panning approach This section sets out key principes in panning for sport, the arts and cuture; considers the appication of the NPPF; offers advice on strategic coaborative working; and gives guidance on deveoping Loca Pan poicies and actions for improving cutura, arts and sporting opportunities and provision through the deveopment management process. Section 6 sets out advice and information for specific sectors in greater detai. The panning framework Summary of considerations Nationa Panning Poicy Framework Cutura webeing and core panning principes Considerations in the NPPF checkist provided in Appendix B of this guide Strategic co-operation and coaboration Loca panning Framework Cuture and sport infrastructure panning Neighbourhood panning Panning appications and changes of use Duty to Co-operate Lega and soundness obigations Outputs of coaboration Strategic poicies on cuture Poicies deiverabe and achievabe Invovement throughout the stages of the pan-making process Quaity, quantity and forecast demand Inform the Loca Pan and CIL charging Conform to Loca Pan poicies Secure community assets Pre-appication engagement Contribute to meeting identified need Opportunities offered by change of use Aign with other agendas and priorities, and work in coaboration with stakehoders and deivery partners in the pubic, private and community sectors Figure 1 Opportunities to infuence positive panning for cuture and sport 12

15 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning 4.1 Principes The key guiding principes for practitioners when panning for cuture, arts and sport incude: Adopt an incusive partnership approach with the pubic, private and third sectors. Be cear about intended outcomes from the outset, and be cear about how these outcomes are to be fed into the panning process, whether through a cutura strategy, an action pan, an infrastructure study, or a suppementary panning document. Base decisions on oca evidence on the quaity and quantity of existing provision, and extend opportunities to participate in, and engage with, cutura, arts and sporting activities. Aign decisions with the strategic priorities and pans of the oca authority. Ensure that panning for cuture, the arts and sporting opportunities fits into wider community services and infrastructure panning processes and timeframes. 4.2 The Nationa Panning Poicy Framework Sustainabe deveopment is defined for the UK by the 2005 Sustainabe Deveopment Strategy, 4 which sets out five guiding principes as the basis of poicymaking. These principes underpin the roe of panning in achieving sustainabe deveopment and are reevant to panning for cuture, arts and sport, in terms of providing physica infrastructure, extending access to participation in cuture and sporting activities, improving the oca environment, and engaging cutura practitioners in the panning process. The NPPF sets out 12 core panning principes that shoud underpin both pan-making and decisiontaking. It states that panning s socia roe incudes supporting cutura webeing, and it stipuates that panning shoud take account of and support oca strategies to improve heath, socia and cutura webeing for a. The checkist for practitioners in Appendix B in this guide focuses on the opportunities presented by poicies in the NPPF that can be used to hep improve provision of and access to cutura and sporting opportunities through pan-making and panning decisions on individua panning appications for new deveopment. The questions posed in the checkist form a starting point for ensuring the Loca Pan takes into account nationa poicies set out in the NPPF. When considering the questions in the checkist, first answer the foowing questions: At what stage is the Loca Pan or neighbourhood pan? Are there existing county-wide, corporate or informa joint structures or processes that can be tapped into? Who is the key contact in the forward panning, deveopment management, and cutura and eisure services teams of the oca authority? What specific roes and contributions can other stakehoder organisations in the cuture and arts sector provide to assist oca authority officers? What is the standing advice of statutory agencies such as Sport Engand, Engish Heritage and Natura Engand? 4.3 Strategic co-operation and coaboration The NPPF encourages the deveopment of new and innovative ways of coaboration and co-operation among oca and strategic partners and deivery organisations across the pubic, private and community sectors. For major cuture, arts and 4 Securing the Future. The UK Government Sustainabe Deveopment Strategy. Cm HM Government. TSO, Mar The Government is currenty deveoping a sustainabe deveopment headine indicator on socia capita 13

16 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning Case Study 1 Effective engagement with the panning process in Tower Hamets Tower Hamets Counci has recenty concuded the process of producing the major documents that make up its Loca Pan. Cutura and eisure provision is embedded in these documents at a eves from the Core Strategy to the Panning Obigations Suppementary Panning Document, as we as in the Community Infrastructure Levy proposas currenty under consutation. Cuture and eisure practitioners engaged with panning coeagues continuousy and consistenty from the very eary stages of the panmaking process in 2007, resuting in cuture, arts and sport infrastructure provision being successfuy embedded within spatia poicies. In addition to engaging at a poicy eve, cutura services officers aso put in pace a streamined and cost-effective process for responding to a panning appications for deveopment above a certain size. This has heped to reinforce poicy impementation in the day-to-day business of assessing panning appications, and panning obigations have been secured from arge numbers of deveopments. Further information is avaiabe at sports faciities of regiona significance, with wide catchment areas that cross oca administrative boundaries, arrangements for ongoing diaogue and co-ordination shoud be set up within the panning process oca authorities shoud take a eading roe as part of the deveopment of their strategic panning poicies and to meet the requirements of the Duty to Co-operate. 5 In two-tier areas, county councis can pay an important faciitating roe for the work of district-eve oca authorities in London the Greater London Authority aready pays an important roe by setting out strategic poicies in the London Pan. The NPPF sets out the provision of heath, security, community and cutura infrastructure and other oca faciities as a key strategic priority on which oca authorities shoud co-operate. Co-operation shoud be a continuous and meaningfu process, and partners shoud aspire to produce joint strategies, poicies or guidance. Under the new strategic panning arrangements it wi be important for organisations such as LEPs, LNPs, the Cinica Commissioning Groups that are repacing Primary Care Trusts, and informa oca groups to be activey engaged in ensuring that strategic priorities for sport and cutura provision are propery addressed. Here, it wi be essentia to highight the wider socia, economic and environmenta benefits of major community faciities such as sporting venues, eisure centres, museums, ibraries, theatres, gaeries and parks. 4.4 The oca panning framework The panning system is pan-ed i.e. decisions on panning appications are made in accordance with poicies and strategic priorities in the Loca Pan. Loca Pans must be supported by a proportionate evidence base and must conform with requirements set out in the NPPF. The degree to which efforts to infuence the content of a Loca Pan and embed cutura, arts and sporting opportunities in poicies wi prove successfu wi depend in part on the stage of preparation that the Loca Pan, or a neighbourhood pan, is at when such efforts are made. Engagement by and with communities and stakehoders in the cutura, arts and sport sectors eary in the panmaking process wi be of greater benefit than simpy responding to a consutation at draft pan stage, during an Examination in Pubic, or when new deveopments are brought forward and deveoper contributions are sought. Loca panning shoud aign with the oca authority s corporate strategies and other strategies for for exampe cuture, open space, and heath and webeing. A shared vision for cuture, arts and sport shoud inform the Loca Pan process and feed into, and be infuenced by, corporate priorities as set out in the Sustainabe Community Strategy. 5 Section 110 of the Locaism Act requires oca panning authorities to co-operate strategicay on pan-making issues that cross administrative borders. Strategic priorities for the Loca Pan set out in para. 156 of the NPPF incude the provision of heath, security, community and cutura infrastructure, whie Paras of the NPPF give further guidance on panning strategicay across oca boundaries, as required by the Duty to Co-operate 14

17 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning Tabe 3 Considerations for cuture, arts and sport provision during stages of preparing oca panning documents Pan-making stages Actions to support cuture, arts and sport provision Stage 1: Issues and options, and evidencecoecting initia scoping of panning issues, draft vision and strategy, pace-based poicies and deveopment aocations, commissioning and compiation of materia evidence Stage 2: Initia draft Loca Pan first draft pubished for pubic consutation after taking Stage 1 work into account Hep to suppy evidence on the oca area s cuture and sport provision needs and requirements and submit it to panners. Hep to feed evidence into the infrastructure pan process. Become invoved in the oca authority s pubic engagement activities. Become invoved in and contribute to pubic consutation. Check whether the poicies and vision refect opportunities for the provision of new and improved cuture and sport faciities. Stage 3: Pubication and forma submission of the Loca Pan to the Panning Inspectorate submission with representations from the pubic on the soundness test and ega compiance Ensure that emerging poicies conform with NPPF guidance see Appendix B in this guide. Submit representations to support or hep embed positive poicies on cuture and sport in the draft Loca Pan. Stage 4: Examination in Pubic and Inspector recommendations forma examination, taking the format of a series of topic discussions ed by the Panning Inspector Stage 5: Loca authority adoption the point at which the Loca Pan comes into force, superseding a previous documents Stage 6: Monitoring and pan review the oca authority is required to monitor progress on impementing the poicies and achieving reated targets in the Loca Pan through an Annua Monitoring Report Request representation for the cuture, arts and sport sectors. Reinforce submissions made to the pan-making process, seeking to improve and strengthen cuture and sport poicies, with robust evidence. Check that the Loca Pan sets out cear, measurabe expected outcomes from cuture, arts and sport poicies. Check Community Infrastructure Levy charge and/or panning obigations spending against cuture, arts and sport provision. Engaging in the deveopment of oca panning frameworks provides key opportunities for oca cuture and sport panning to: ensure that cutura webeing is a part of the oca vision, by working with the oca cuture, arts and sport sectors and communities to understand aspirations for cuture, arts and sport and to ensure that they can be expressed as outcomes reevant to the oca area; secure community invovement and consutation; make the case for cuture, arts and sport provision as part of the wider infrastructure panning process; secure the provision of cutura, arts and sporting amenities; obtain deveoper contributions to cutura, arts and sporting faciities; promote custering or the mutipe use of faciities; and support the growth of oca tourism and cutura and creative businesses. Tabe 3 outines key actions to be undertaken in support of cuture, arts and sport provision during the various stages of preparing a oca panning document. 15

18 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning Briefing Note Exampes of recenty competed Loca Pans with positive poicies on cuture, arts and sport The TCPA has compied a briefing note on exampes of recenty adopted and pubished Loca Pans containing positive poicies on cuture, arts and sport, iustrating the range of poicies that oca authorities have deveoped to meet oca needs. The briefing note is avaiabe from the Cuture and Sport Panning Tookit, at Gathering oca evidence The NPPF requires pan-making to be underpinned by robust evidence. Evidence-gathering shoud be informed by oca knowedge and expertise and shoud identify the roe payed and capacity provided by existing (and to be payed and provided by future) cuture, arts and sport provision. The gathering of such information, incuding a cear assessment of baseine data, shoud be embedded in infrastructure panning (see Section 4.7 of this guide) or in an assessment of oca needs and provision. Where possibe, there shoud be inks to other agendas and priorities arising from oca sustainabe deveopment objectives, incuding those reating to economic growth, education, heath and socia care, regeneration, and the natura environment. Comprehensive evidence-gathering is required, so as to inform decisions about the type and ocation of cuture, arts and sport infrastructure and/or about access to opportunities required to compement existing provision, fi gaps, and mitigate impacts and needs arising from new deveopment. Loca authorities and their partners shoud consider mapping existing assets and provision. Such mapping is an important strategic too to gauge access, catchment areas, quantity, quaity and capacity factors. It can aso underpin strategies to improve and enhance oca opportunities for cuture, arts and sport within the Loca Pan. The oca evidence base shoud provide information on existing and ikey future gaps in provision, and shoud support assessments of how cutura, arts and sporting faciities can be sustainaby buit and integrated into existing neighbourhoods. There is no one size fits a approach to undertaking assessment, but a range of toos and techniques are avaiabe for use at different stages, incuding both quaitative methods (such as focus groups) and quantitative methods (such as statistica anaysis and GIS cutura mapping). Further advice and information on evidencegathering is given in Section 4.7 of this guide Working at different panning scaes Panning for new deveopment, and for improvements to the existing environment, can take pace across different scaes, from the wide-area scae, with benefits spreading beyond oca authority boundaries, to major deveopments and smaer deveopments on sma sites. Deveopers can provide high-quaity cutura and sporting faciities within arge-scae deveopments and deveopments of strategic importance, such as sustainabe urban extensions and new stand-aone eco-deveopments or Garden Cities and Suburbs. 6 Deveopments of, for exampe, 5,000 new homes provide a major opportunity for individua sectors within cuture, arts and sport to pay to their provision strengths in a co-ordinated way. The creation of attractive, we functioning paces requires the successfu use of panning toos and approaches such as masterpanning and Area Action Pans to ensure that new deveopment: matches the aspirations of the oca vision; deivers the needs of oca and neighbourhood pans; maintains and improves existing faciities and services; provides new high-quaity, mixed-use faciities for communities; faciitates good access to and buids in opportunities for participation in cuture, arts and sport; and 6 See Creating Garden Cities and Suburbs Today: A Guide for Councis. TCPA, Mar

19 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning Case Study 2 Provision of community faciities at Kings Warren, Red Lodge, Suffok Crest Nichoson s Kings Warren deveopment in Red Lodge, Suffok comprises 1,250 homes in addition to community faciities. One of the most popuar faciities among residents is the Kings Warren sports paviion, deivered by Crest Nichoson as part of its commitment to buiding sustainabe new communities. Run by Red Lodge Parish Counci in partnership with Angia Community Centre, the compex comprises three grass footba pitches and three tennis courts which can be transformed into three five-a-side footba pitches, as we as a cricket fied. The paviion is aso avaiabe for private hire. Crest Nichoson s community package at Kings Warren incudes paygrounds, aotments and the newy buit St Christopher s Primary Schoo. Further information is avaiabe at Box 2 Neighbourhood panning documents A Neighbourhood Pan is a community-ed framework for guiding the future deveopment and growth of an area. It may contain a vision, aims, panning poicies, proposas for improving the area or providing new faciities, or the aocation of key sites for specific kinds of deveopment. Neighbourhood Pans can set out panning poicies and/or quaity standards for the provision and use of cuture, arts and sport faciities. Neighbourhood Deveopment Orders can be used by parish and town councis or designated neighbourhood forums to grant panning permission for certain kinds of deveopment within a specified area. They can appy to the whoe or just part of a neighbourhood area. In the cutura sector The Theatres Trust is a statutory consutee in Neighbourhood Deveopment Orders concerning theatres. Community Right to Buid Orders can be used by parish and town councis or a constituted body such as a community organisation to grant panning permission for deveopment schemes for exampe to approve the buiding of affordabe housing for rent or sae, shops, businesses, or community faciities and paygrounds, or the conversion of disused buidings into other cutura and eisure uses. In the cutura sector The Theatres Trust is a statutory consutee on Community Right to Buid Orders concerning theatres. Based on Quick Guide to Neighbourhood Pans. Locaity (undated). is deivered in coaboration with key cuture and sport partners, who are fuy invoved in identifying the right mix of provision. 4.5 Neighbourhood panning The new statutory eve of neighbourhood panning provides an opportunity for area-focused panning for cuture, arts and sporting to take pace ranging from protecting, retaining and enhancing existing access and uses to aocating and to provide further opportunities. Neighbourhood panning can be a powerfu too in deivering cuture, arts and sports faciities in the oca area if a the key stakehoders are invoved and communities are sufficienty resourced to undertake the preparation process (see Box 2). It can aso ever in additiona money from deveopments through the Community Infrastructure Levy (in parished areas where a neighbourhood pan is in pace the Community Infrastructure Levy charging authority must pass on 25% of CIL funds resuting from the grant of panning permission in the neighbourhood pan 17

20 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning Tabe 4 Considerations for cuture, arts and sport provision during stages of preparing a neighbourhood pan Preparation stages Considerations for cuture, arts and sport provision Stage 1: Defining the neighbourhood the quaifying body for neighbourhood panning is the parish or town counci or, in most urban areas, designated neighbourhood groups (residentia or business or a mixture) Stage 2: Preparing the pan the oca authority is required to provide support and assistance; evidence is required to support pans Stage 3: Examination in Pubic forma examination taking the format of a series of topic discussions ed by an inspector Stage 4: Loca referendum and adoption once the neighbourhood panning document is approved by referendum, the oca authority is required to adopt it as part of the Loca Pan Stage 5: Monitoring and pan review the oca authority is required to monitor and pubish detais of neighbourhood panning in its area Consider representation on neighbourhood panning bodies. Ensure that the neighbourhood pan vision and poicies incude cuture, arts and sporting provision, if needed, and that such provision is in ine with the poicies in the Loca Pan. Hep to suppy and submit evidence to panners on the neighbourhood s cuture and sport provision needs and requirements. Become invoved in and contribute to pubic consutation. Request representation for the cuture, arts and sport sectors. Check that the pan sets out cear, measurabe expected outcomes from cuture, arts and sport poicies. area). However, the priority shoud be to inform and infuence the Loca Pan s strategic poicies Cuture and sport provision in neighbourhood panning documents Tabe 4 outines key actions to be undertaken in support of cuture, arts and sport provision during the various stages of preparing a neighbourhood pan Community asset panning Neighbourhood pans can address a wide range of and uses and deveopments in the neighbourhood area there is no need for them to be merey singe-issue documents. The NPPF sets out imitations on the and use categories that they can address, but much of what is meant by cuture, arts and sport in this guide woud be considered appropriate matters for neighbourhood panning. Empowering community groups with contro over oca assets is not a new idea: there are aready exampes of community group contro over pubic sector buidings, museums and their coections, heritage assets and green and open spaces. In addition to existing mechanisms to aow asset transfer from oca authorities and pubic bodies to community organisations, the Locaism Act 2011 introduced (in Part 5, Chapter 3, Assets of 18

21 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning Case Study 3 Creativity in community-ed panning N3: Nature Network Neighbourhood N3: Nature Network Neighbourhood is a programme of six creative projects focusing on deveoping innovative responses to the pubic ream in Dorset. The programme has produced the document Creativity in Community-ed Panning in Dorset written guidance aimed at oca residents and counciors. In ine with the ocaism agenda the document aims to encourage recognition of the importance of creativity to oca pace-making and of the use of creativity in the deveopment of neighbourhood pans. Other N3 projects incude the invovement of an artist/creative faciitator on the deveopment of the neighbourhood pan for Giingham, North Dorset; the integration of creative commissioning with the redeveopment of the pubic ream, funded by Dorchester Business Improvement District and inked to a highways project in Dorchester town centre; and the design of creative interpretation/signage commissioned for sites managed by Dorset Widife Trust. Further information is avaiabe at Source: Cuture and Sport Panning Tookit Community Vaue ) the new Community Right to Bid in reation to assets of community vaue. It aows communities to nominate a buiding or other and that they beieve to be of importance to community webeing. The and and/or buidings can be in private or pubic ownership, and coud be of cutura, recreationa or sporting interest, such as ibraries, theatres, cinemas, pubs, eisure buidings or footba grounds. When a successfuy nominated asset comes up for sae, oca community organisations have up to six months to exercise the right of first offer to the owner to buy it on the open market. A isting can be a materia consideration in panning decisions, in a manner simiar to heritage istings. Links can aso be made with the Loca Pan and the infrastructure panning process, as part of the provision and needs assessment. Locaity s Asset Transfer Unit offers hep to guide community groups through the asset transfer process, proving case study exampes and other resources. 7 Miton Keynes Parks Trust 8 and the Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation 9 provide good exampes of where an asset transfer approach has heped to secure the ong-term future of community assets for oca benefit. 7 Locaity runs the community rights service, funded by the Department for Communities and Loca Government see 8 See the Miton Keynes Parks Trust website, at 9 See the Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation website, at 19

22 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning Case Study 4 Listing assets of community vaue Bexhi Cinema Residents in Bexhi-on-Sea have used the community action provisions in the Locaism Act which came into force in 2012 to save the ast remaining cinema in the area and recaim it for the community. Thanks to campaigning by Friends of Bexhi Cinema, the cinema has been added to the Register of Community Assets. The dereict 1920s cinema stands in a prominent position in Bexhi s high street and is one of the few remaining unatered cinemas of its type in the country. It is hoped that bringing the cinema back into use wi hep to sustain and spark a revitaisation of oca traditiona shops. Bexhi Community Payhouse Ltd has been set up to put the heart back into the historic seaside town. Further information is avaiabe at and Panning appications and changes of use Positive engagement in the panning appication process can hep to ensure that approved deveopments meet corporate priorities identified through the Sustainabe Community Strategy and need identified through the Loca Pan process. Panning decisions are made in accordance with the statutory Loca Pan, or in accordance with the NPPF poicies where the Loca Pan is absent or on matters in areas on which the Loca Pan is sient or reevant poicies are out of date. In meeting the poicy requirements of the Loca Pan (or the NPPF), communities can get appropriate contributions from proposed deveopment by considering the kinds of provision that are required to improve oca cutura, arts and sporting opportunities, and the appropriate mechanisms to bring such provision about through Section 106 panning obigations, panning conditions or the Community Infrastructure Levy. For practitioners, changes of use within the Use Casses Order is an important area of contact with the panning system. The Government introduced permitted deveopment rights for changes from office to residentia use for a imited period of three years in May Any potentia oss of workspaces and offices for cutura and creative industries resuting from this reaxation of panning reguations can be minimised by ensuring that Loca Pans have robust and enabing poicies to protect faciities and aocations for cuture, arts and sport provision. The Government has aso signaed its intention to take forward an initiative to create opportunities for new and start-up businesses, to hep retain the viabiity and vitaity of town centres. 10 A range of vacant buidings can be converted temporariy to a set of aternative uses for up to two years. There are opportunities to use such vacant spaces for a variety of purposes, incuding cutura and arts activities, to improve the amenity, services and entertainment offered by an area. Whie it is difficut to incude such initiatives in the forma infrastructure panning process of the Loca Pan, they coud make a meaningfu contribution to meeting oca priorities and requirements and the objectives of the NPPF. 4.7 Infrastructure panning Various types of infrastructure provision can unock deveopment and contribute to oca webeing transport, schoos, heath centres, food defences, pay areas, parks and other green spaces, for exampe, as we as cuture, arts and sport infrastructure. The NPPF makes cear (in para. 162) the importance of the infrastructure panning process and the need for evidence on infrastructure requirements in oca pan-making. The process can aso hep deveopers to understand the infrastructure needs arising from a new deveopment. Infrastructure requirements can best be determined by undertaking a provision and needs assessment, underpinned by a strong oca corporate and spatia vision. These infrastructure assessments shoud be undertaken in 10 Change of Use: Promoting Regeneration. Written Ministeria Statements for Thursday 24 January Hansard, 24 Jan. 2013, Cos16-18WS. 20

23 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning Box 3 Data sources some exampes The sources of information isted beow are in the pubic domain and are readiy avaiabe from the organisations or agencies noted: The annua Taking Part survey of cuture, eisure and sport (Department for Cuture, Media and Sport) The Cuture and Sport Evidence Programme (CASE) Loca Cuture and Heritage Profie Too (Department for Cuture, Media and Sport) The annua Heritage Counts audit of the historic environment (Engish Heritage) The annua Active Peope survey of sport and active recreation (Sport Engand) The Loca Sport Profie Too (Sport Engand) The Active Paces database of sports faciities (Sport Engand) Loca quaity of ife indicator resuts (reevant oca authority) The Monitor of Engagement with the Natura Environment (MENE) survey (Natura Engand) The Heritage at Risk Register (Engish Heritage) Census socio-economic data for districts/wards (ONS) oca surveys that might have been undertaken for the Loca Pan (reevant oca authority) Loca housing needs data (reevant oca authority i ) Data from individua cutura sectors and from nationa governing bodies of sport Other reevant sources, such as Joint Strategic Needs Assessments i See aso the Loca Housing Requirement Assessment Working Group website, at the ight of the panning objectives set out in the NPPF and in the Loca Pan. Panning, cuture and sport officers in oca authorities shoud work together with other agencies, deveopers and their deivery partners, service providers and communities to identify the most appropriate provision for the oca area in the ight of oca needs and requirements. It is aso important to consider provision in neighbouring authority areas so as to minimise dupication of provision and maximise the diversity of opportunities avaiabe to residents across a wider area. An assessment prepared as part of formuating a specific strategy or deivery or action pan, whether made by a oca authority or a deveoper, shoud incude steps to: identify the extent of oca needs; audit oca provision of cutura, arts and sporting services, activities and faciities (incuding heritage assets); and set reevant oca benchmarks for the quantity and quaity of cutura, arts and sports provision, where appropriate Identifying the extent of oca needs Evidence-gathering shoud consider: current and future popuation/househod profies and projections; current cutura and sporting behaviour and preferences among the community; community aspirations; pace characteristics and distinctiveness, incuding characterisation and historic area assessments; and future needs. Exampes of data sources that coud be of use in such evidence-gathering exercises are isted in Box 3. 21

24 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning Tabe 5 Factors to consider when deciding between new and refurbished faciities For new buid For refurbishment Buiding taiored to its purpose. Easier to design for fexibiity of use. Opportunity for iconic architecture/design. Lower running and maintenance costs. Retention of heritage buidings and townscapes/ andscapes. No disruption to existing patterns. Easier to gain community support. New uses made of existing buidings. Against new buid Against refurbishment Additionaity/dispacement issues wi a project harm the viabiity of an existing faciity? Perception of poor quaity in many modern buidings. Potentia high cost of demoishing existing buiding(s) and site remediation. Possibe ack of suitabe buiding(s). Compromises necessary to fit new uses into existing buiding(s). Difficuty (or even impossibiity) of meeting modern standards. Costs of operation and maintenance potentiay exceeding those of new buid. Source: Sustainabe Cuture: Sustainabe Communities: Cutura Framework and Tookit for Thames Gateway North Kent. Cuture South East, Ju Auditing oca provision of services, activities and faciities Making the most of existing assets and resources is important in securing good vaue for money whie improving oca services. Audits of existing provision and faciities shoud be undertaken to deveop a comprehensive baseine understanding of cutura and sporting provision within and cose to the area. The preparation of a cuture and sport baseine invoves: identifying existing cutura, sporting and recreationa assets and provision, aong with the communities and catchment areas they serve, incuding assets serving catchments beyond the oca area regionay, nationay or internationay; assessing the use made of current provision, incuding eves of utiisation and the demographic profie of users; and determining ocationa opportunities for the more effective use of existing assets and provision, incuding historic buidings. Outputs from such audits incude: a baseine picture, aong with a database of cutura, arts and sporting provision and faciities and historic assets, incuding eves of use and key attributes; map(s) showing these cutura, arts and sporting provision and faciities; map(s) of creative and cutura industry companies/jobs; potentia ocations where future demand can be met through joint provision or co-ocation with other service providers, such as heath and education; and 22

25 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning Wakefied Counci potentia ocations for more effective re-use of assets, incuding historic buidings. Some factors to consider when deciding between deveoping new or refurbishing existing faciities are outined in Tabe 5 on the previous page Setting oca benchmarks for provision Nationa benchmarks provide a usefu starting point for negotiation but shoud not necessariy be considered as the utimate standard to be appied to a oca area. The NPPF promotes the setting of oca standards in the Loca Pan standards which, taken together, shoud not undermine the viabiity of poicy impementation. Nationa benchmarks are unikey to be appicabe to parts of London, in particuar the Strategic Cutura Areas identified in Map 4.2 of the London Pan. 11 Any oca benchmarks for particuar cuture, arts and sporting opportunities shoud be set in reation to oca circumstances, such as: how current provision meets both the needs of the existing popuation and needs ikey to arise from expected popuation growth; whether current provision meets accepted guideines on provision eves; and how cutura and sporting faciities can be sustainaby buit and integrated into existing neighbourhoods. 11 The London Pan states that suppementary guidance wi provide further information on the identification of areas where there are deficiencies in arts and cutura faciities. The London Pan. Spatia Deveopment Strategy for Greater London. Mayor of London. Greater London Authority, Ju

26 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning Tabe 6 Exampes of oca benchmarks for provision Arts faciities Archive faciities Equipped chidren s pay space Informa pay space Museums Pubic ibraries Accessibe natura green space 45 square metres per 1,000 peope 6 square metres per 1,000 peope 0.2 hectares per 1,000 peope 0.6 hectares per 1,000 peope 28 square metres per 1,000 peope 30 square metres per 1,000 peope At east 2 hectares in size, no more than 300 metres (a five-minute wak) from home Arts Counci Engand, and Museums, Libraries and Archives Counci, 2009 Museums, Libraries and Archives Counci, 2008 Fieds in Trust, 2008 Fieds in Trust, 2008 Arts Counci Engand, and Museums, Libraries and Archives Counci, 2009 Museums, Libraries and Archives Counci, 2008 Natura Engand, 2010 In determining benchmarks that are appropriate to oca circumstances, it is important to carry out robust assessments of need and provision. These shoud be based on the actions undertaken to identify oca needs and to audit oca provision outined in Sections and of this guide. The benchmarks thus determined shoud ensure a high quaity of provision. The determination process shoud take into account factors such as the appropriateness of the ocation, the reationship to the existing environment, and the design and technoogica quaity of the faciity. It shoud aso consider the diversity of services to be provided to meet identified oca need and anticipated future demand. Exampes of oca benchmarks for provision are given in Tabe Good design Securing good design is a statutory duty for oca panning authorities in the pan-making and poicy deveopment process, and is one of ony three outcome-oriented duties on panning, aongside achieving sustainabe deveopment and mitigating and adapting to cimate change. Good design of the buit environment is centra to deivering sustainabe deveopment, and reevant nationa guidance is set out in paras of the NPPF. Good design is necessary for the creation of highquaity spaces and paces in which peope want to ive and work. Athough new deveopment adds ony fractionay to the existing buit fabric, it can be an important catayst for positive physica change across towns and cities. There is both quaitative and quantitative evidence for the positive impact that good design can have on both business investor confidence in particuar paces and aspects of pubic heath. However, bady designed new housing or commercia deveopments can easiy become isoated housing estates or segregated commercia fortresses, eading to a decine in oca socia and environmenta quaity. 24

27 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning section 5 funding and deivery Source: Cuture and Sport Panning Tookit This section provides advice on options for securing contributions to the deivery of cuture, arts and sport provision through the panning process. Pointers to further information on sources of funding and deivery mechanisms are given in Appendix A. 5.1 Key messages The key messages of this section can be summarised as foows: As new deveopment often creates the need for additiona infrastructure, services and faciities, contributions from deveopers may be sought to ensure that the impacts of new deveopment are mitigated and oca priorities are deivered (see Box 4 for exampes of the sorts of areas in which contributions towards cuture, arts and sport provision can be sought). Contributions through Section 106 panning obigations shoud be used when it is necessary to secure on-site measures to overcome the negative impacts on the oca environment, economy and community arising from otherwise generay acceptabe deveopment proposas. The Community Infrastructure Levy Box 4 Exampe areas of contributions towards cuture and sport provision Improved or new community faciities, such as open space, sport and recreation faciities, performing arts and theatre faciities, ibraries and archives. Pubic art. Improvements to the pubic ream (incuding the historic environment). Improvements to the natura environment, and new or improved green infrastructure. 25

28 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning shoud be used to secure contributions to enabe the oca authority to deiver identified and costed cutura and sporting infrastructure projects that support growth and benefit the oca community. Contributions do not need to be deivered in isoation or as stand-aone faciities. The coordination and pooing of resources and funding sources resuts in better outcomes from panning and deivery, and coective debate on future requirements, invoving a range of interests, is thus desirabe. In two-tier areas, county and district/borough councis shoud work in partnership to identify the impact of deveopment proposas on infrastructure, and shoud seek contributions accordingy. The county counci is responsibe for much of the strategic infrastructure, such as ibraries, roads (as the highways authority), schoos (as the education authority), and now heath and socia care. 5.2 Viabiity considerations in panning poicy and deveopment The NPPF makes cear (in para. 173) that viabiity and deiverabiity are key tests for a pan-making poicies and in taking decisions on deveopment proposas. Whie both these issues have been a centra part of existing soundness tests for Loca Pans, the NPPF appears to express them with renewed force and, in para. 174, requires oca authorities to assess the cumuative burden of a oca requirements and panning poicies not ony poicies on cuture and sport provision but other Loca Pan poicies on, for exampe, housing, transport, the natura and historic environment and economic deveopment. Cruciay the burden shoud not be at such a eve as to deny competitive returns to a wiing andowner and wiing deveoper (NPPF, para. 173). A review of the economic viabiity of Loca Pans, ed by Sir John Harman, which reported in 2012, 12 reinforced the coaborative approach set out in the NPPF, and urged oca authorities and infrastructure providers to work together eary in the process of Loca Pan preparation to discuss key issues and requirements, and especiay to determine the cumuative impacts of emerging poicies on viabiity. Cuture, arts and eisure provision is just one eement in a range of infrastructure measures for which a oca authority may seek contributions when a deveoper submits a panning appication. Para. 205 of the NPPF, on Section 106 panning obigations, states that oca panning authorities shoud take account of changes in market conditions over time and, wherever appropriate, be sufficienty fexibe. In the case of the Community Infrastructure Levy, the viabiity studies undertaken to support the charging schedue refect market conditions at the time they are carried out, which are ikey to ater (for the better or the worse) over the medium term (say, three to four years). It is therefore important for the oca authority to keep oca viabiity under review (as we as its ist of desirabe infrastructure projects) so that CIL eves can be adjusted to refect changes in the market conditions and/or the panning poicy context. Recent independent pubic examinations of oca authority draft Community Infrastructure Levy charging schedues in Cornwa, Norfok and London concuded that the proposed evies woud put certain provisions, such as affordabe housing, at risk, or woud eave certain deveopment categories in danger of being rendered unviabe. They recommended that either evies be reduced (in one 12 Viabiity Testing of Loca Pans: Advice for Panning Practitioners. Report of the Loca Housing Deivery Group chaired by Sir John Harman, Jun

29 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning case by one-third) or certain categories of deveopment be made exempt from the charge. Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation 5.3 Section 106 panning obigations The eigibiity criteria for Section 106 contributions secured through the panning system are defined by egisation and set out in the NPPF. Section 106 agreements are often referred to as panning obigations, deveoper contributions, panning contributions or panning agreements. Recent changes to egisation restrict their use to the mitigation of on-site and site-specific impacts and wi imit the pooing of contributions from a number of deveopments. Contributions may be secured by: work in-kind provided or constructed by the deveoper; a financia payment (in the case of services such as a ibrary or an educationa faciity, a contribution decided using a formua may be more appropriate); or the transfer of and for a faciity. Paras of the NPPF state that Section 106 panning obigations shoud meet the foowing three tests: They must be necessary to make the deveopment acceptabe in panning terms. They must be directy reated to the deveopment. They must be fairy and reasonaby reated in scae and kind to the deveopment. Panning obigations shoud contribute to achieving the panning aims of the oca authority s oca panning documents, and shoud aways be reevant to and proportionate to the scae and kind of the deveopment in question. Unreated or unnecessary panning obigations are not a means of securing panning permission for unacceptabe deveopment, as case aw has estabished. 13 Many oca authorities adopt panning documents to provide poicy guidance on how panning obigations are used to dea with the impacts of deveopment and promote oca sustainabe deveopment. A forma assessment of Section 106 contributions is made on a case-by-case basis, but having cear panning poicies and evidence on what is required heps to reduce uncertainty. A formuaic approach to identifying oca need or a standard charging system subject to a oca audit (see Section 4.7 of this guide) and the setting of oca standards as suggested by the NPPF can create greater certainty for deveopers and speed up the process of negotiation. For some types of service or provision a standard charge may not be possibe or appropriate, particuary where oca authorities operate a CIL charging system. 5.4 The Community Infrastructure Levy The Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) is a discretionary charge on new deveopment (charged per square metre), used by oca authorities to hep fund oca infrastructure. The intention behind CIL 13 Section 106 Obigations and the Community Infrastructure Levy. Advice Note. Panning Officers Society, Apr

30 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning Briefing Note The Community Infrastructure Levy A note giving recent exampes of CIL charging schedues and associated infrastructure pans that incude cuture and eisure provision is avaiabe from the Cuture and Sport Panning Tookit, at The exampes given in the Briefing Note cover infrastructure such as new and improved ibraries, sporting faciities and green infrastructure. is that rates are set at eves that baance coecting revenue to fund new infrastructure with ensuring that deveopment in the area is not put at serious risk of inviabiity due to the charge. A proportion of CIL revenues is passed down to parish or town councis and to other areas with a neighbourhood deveopment pan for spending on oca priorities. 14 The NPPF suggests that, where practica, CIL charging schedues and rates shoud be drawn up and tested aongside the Loca Pan. Those formuating poicies shoud be made aware of both the opportunities to deiver faciities and services, and the impications of setting charging poicies at a eve that woud impact negativey on the viabiity of the proposed deveopment. The charging schedue and charging rates shoud be directy reated to the infrastructure assessment that underpins the Loca Pan evidence base, which shoud identify the quantity and type of infrastructure required to reaise oca deveopment and growth needs and inform a Reguation 123 ist of infrastructure that wi benefit from a Community Infrastructure Levy charge. 5.5 The reationship between CIL and panning obigations In 2010, new arrangements were introduced to carify the reationship between Section 106 panning obigations and CIL, in order to avoid the doube charging of deveopers. Section 106 contributions are now restricted to on-site and sitespecific issues, whie CIL, charged to fund wider infrastructure projects that support growth and benefit the oca community, is discretionary if oca authorities wish to adopt a charging schedue. Even if oca authorities decide to not proceed with a oca CIL charge, they wi sti be bound by ega imitations on the use of Section 106 panning obigations. The primary chaenge is the imitation on the pooing of contributions, especiay when adopting the standard charging approach. Many oca authorities adopted suppementary panning documents on panning obigations prior to these changes. These documents therefore need to be revised to avoid ega chaenge. Both practitioners in cuture, arts and sport and oca authorities need to be cear about the roe of Section 106 and CIL contributions if they are to pan with confidence about the eve of deveoper contributions that they can expect and if deveopers are to be given the certainty they need about the infrastructure they wi be contributing towards Can panning obigations be used for cuture, arts and sport provision? Specific cuture and sport provision coud first be addressed in the CIL infrastructure ist, with any onsite provision addressed through panning obigations. Panning obigations are sought in mitigation of the environmenta, economic, cutura and socia impacts of a deveopment; however, oca authorities wi not seek panning obigations unreated to a deveopment proposa or grant panning permission for unacceptabe deveopment because of unreated benefits offered by an appicant. 14 For further detais, see Community Infrastructure Levy: Guidance. Department for Communities and Loca Government, Apr

31 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning section 6 toos and guidance Source: Cuture and Sport Panning Tookit This section provides information and advice from key sectora organisations and agencies. It shoud be read in conjunction with Section 4, particuary in reation to meeting needs and exporing ways of improving existing assets and making joint provision. It shoud aso be read in conjunction with detaied guidance provided by these key organisations, as highighted in this section and in Appendix A. Whie this section takes a sectora approach, in practice provision is often deivered in mixed-use settings. 29

32 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning Source: Cuture and Sport Panning Tookit 6.1 Libraries, museums and archives Museums, ibraries and archives make a major contribution to communities. Their presence fosters earning and skis, supports community cohesion and oca identity, and pays a roe in strengthening oca economies. In many towns and cities, they are important andmarks and represent crucia pieces of heritage. In rura areas, ibraries and oca museums are often not just key parts of the cutura infrastructure, but important pubic spaces and organisations, promoting economic growth and strong communities. Museums are a key part of the tourist economy infrastructure. Case Study 5 Shard End Library, Birmingham The winner of the Pubic Sector Project of the Year Award 2012 organised by Mix magazine, and shortisted for the FX Interior Design Awards, Shard End Library in Birmingham is a 1.9 miion new ibrary and community centre. It was funded by Birmingham City Counci and Barratt Homes as part of a 27 miion redeveopment of Shard End Urban Viage, which deivered 191 new homes, a new shopping centre, and 2,000 square metres of retai and eisure space. Further information is avaiabe from at 30

33 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning Library, museum and archiva spaces The buidings for ibraries, museums and archives need to be panned to encourage access by users and to protect the security of the coections. The three types of service have some common needs reating to both pubic and staff areas, as we as specific needs reating to secure storage and access to their coections. The needs for archive accommodation are set out in the British Standards Institution Pubished Document PD5454. Pubic areas Reception area staff workstations, coakrooms, toiets, baby care faciities. Open access to books and other print coections, search rooms, reference area, cataogues, microfims/pcs, hard format coections. Networked PCs with internet access and IT support, computer training area. Dedicated areas for priority audiences such as chidren or young peope or for priority services, such as quiet study or group or famiy earning. Seminar room, fexibe muti-use space (incuding exhibition space, both permanent and temporary). Workshop spaces. Staff areas Invigiated search room for archives. Staff workrooms. Conservation studio for archives and museum coections. Store rooms with controed environment and minima risks of fire and water damage, with appropriate conditions for the type of coections stored. Secure oading bay. Adapted from Pubic Libraries, Archives and New Deveopment: A Standard Charge Approach. Museums, Libraries and Archives Counci, May and Arts, Museums and New Deveopment: A Standard Charge Approach. Museums, Libraries and Archives Counci, and Arts Counci Engand, Within sports, eisure and cutura services provided by oca councis, ibraries continue to record a high eve of satisfaction and participation among the community, incuding chidren and young peope. Libraries are often integrated with cutura or community centres; they provide access to books, newspapers, digita resources and the internet. Pubic ibraries are paces that support access to information and earning using a forms of media bridging the digita and information divide in communities where peope might otherwise be excuded from these essentia resources and can hep peope move into empoyment, gain skis and remain connected to oca ife. Archives are often integrated with ibrary services and are a vauabe resource for preserving the history of the community. Under the 1964 Pubic Libraries and Museums Act, oca authorities have a duty to provide a comprehensive and efficient ibrary service. The rights and responsibiities reating to keeping archives are enshrined in a number of pieces of egisation, incuding the Pubic Records Act and the Freedom of Information Act Panning considerations In setting a strategic vision for ibraries, museums and archives, deveoping panning poicy, taking panning decisions, or deivering/designing a service or faciity, the foowing panning considerations shoud be taken into account: Listen to expert advice and stakehoders. Focus active and new provision in sustainabe ocations in or cose proximity to existing urban and rura centres to enrich the community and neighbourhood. Consider panning the provision in partnership with other services, or consider co-ocating for exampe with community activities, education, 31

34 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning Key references A Review of Research and Literature on Museums and Libraries. Arts Counci Engand, Sept Community Libraries Learning from Experience: Guiding Principes for Loca Authorities. Locaity, for Arts Counci Engand and the Loca Government Association, Jan Pubic Libraries, Archives and New Deveopment: A Standard Charge Approach. Museums, Libraries and Archives Counci, May new_deveopment-a_standard_charge_approachfinal.pdf Arts, Museums and New Deveopment: A Standard Charge Approach. Museums, Libraries and Archives Counci, and Arts Counci Engand, The Community Infrastructure Levy: Advice Note for Cuture, Arts and Panning Professionas. Arts Counci Engand, Apr Guide for the Storage and Exhibition of Archiva Materias. PD 5454:2012. British Standards Institution, Mar Avaiabe through The Nationa Archives guidance on capita deveopments, at incuding Panning a New Record Repository. The Nationa Archives, Jun retai and commercia spaces, and fexibe workspaces. Refect the changing nature of ICT (information and communications technoogy) and the internet, which, where appropriate, can support different ways of accessing ibrary, museum and archive services and coections and can open up new uses for space. However, remember onine access to museums and archives is ony part of the offer. Refect the impact on surrounding areas from traffic, noise and other hazards, and manage oca environmenta risks to coections (for exampe food). Improve the sustainabiity and energy performance of buidings and paces. Improve the accessibiity of buidings and paces. Retain fexibiity in interna space design for muti-functiona use and changing use needs over time. Aow space for the accrua of coections. Storage space can be rented out to offset cost in the meantime. Sources of further information Arts Counci Engand Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionas Museums Association The Nationa Archives 32

35 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning Source: Cuture and Sport Panning Tookit 6.2 Arts venues and theatres Paces for the arts, theatre, arts education, creative media and enterprise are often the foca point of the oca community, and the activities and services they provide serve a wide range of audience groups, as we as providing empoyment. The Taking Part survey for 2011/12 found that 63.3% of aduts in Engand said that they had engaged with the arts three or more times in the past year, and 78.2% of aduts had engaged at east once. 15 Through Arts Counci Engand funding, around 100 new theatres, gaeries and arts centres have been created, whie amost 500 have been rejuvenated and refurbished. These have been the focus of urban and rura regeneration, bringing renewed vitaity to neighbourhoods, cities and regions across Engand. 16 Many theatres and arts venues are aso deveoped and buit through the vountary sector, the education sector, and by independent or commercia owners and operators. Loca panning authorities are required to consut The Theatres Trust (the nationa advisory pubic body for theatres) before they consider or issue a decision on any panning appication or deveopment invoving and on which there is a theatre or which wi have an impact on theatres. Theatre is defined in the Theatres Trust Act 1976 as any buiding or part of a buiding constructed whoy or mainy for the pubic performance of pays. Theatres enjoy the specia protection of being sui generis within their reative 15 Taking Part 2011/12 Adut and Chid Report. Statistica Reease. Nationa Survey of Cuture, Leisure and Sport. Department for Cuture, Media and Sport, Aug Achieving Great Art for Everyone: A Strategic Framework for the Arts. Arts Counci Engand, Nov

36 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning Arts provision a typoogy The arts faciity typoogy beow refects buiding, spatia and functiona cost breakdowns within Arts Counci Engand s standard charging approach. Type 1: Gaery spaces, incuding: faciities for temporary exhibitions; gaeries with permanent coections which have temporary and permanent exhibitions; and reated storage, curatoria and education functions. Type 2: Muti-use arts venues and theatres, incuding: sma muti-purpose performing arts venues suitabe for sma-scae performances (around 250 seats) and exhibitions, workshops, taks, and fim screenings; arge muti-purpose performing arts venues suitabe for arge-scae performances and exhibitions, workshops, taks, and fim screenings; theatres of a types, incuding studio (seating 250 or peope), payhouse (seating ), yric (seating 1,000-2,000) and producing (arge, seating , or medium, seating ); and speciaist performing arts venues, such as arge concert has and opera houses. Type 3: Production, rehearsa and education space for arts, incuding: artists studios, education space and workspace; and a range of spaces which coud encompass media and recording studios, incubation spaces for visua and performing arts deveopment organisations, and faciities used by universities, community groups and schoos for arts-based activities or teaching. Source: Arts, Museums and New Deveopment: A Standard Charge Approach. Museums, Libraries and Archives Counci, and Arts Counci Engand, Use Casses Order.This means that theatres are not in any use cass, and any change of use from a theatre to any other use requires panning permission Panning considerations In setting a strategic vision for the provision of arts venues and theatres, deveoping panning poicy, taking panning decisions, or deivering/designing a faciity, the foowing panning considerations shoud be taken into account: Engage with and take into account the advice of The Theatres Trust as a statutory consutee, and ensure that other key stakehoders are engaged through the panning process. Gather evidence to identify and understand both the roe that existing provision pays within the oca panning authority area and opportunities to co-operate with neighbouring authorities. Undertake needs and impact assessments on proposas for the deveopment of arts venues and theatres, in order to understand the need for faciities and new configurations of performance and production space, resources, activity areas, education faciities, and partnerships. 34

37 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning Key references Arts, Museums and New Deveopment: A Standard Charge Approach. Museums, Libraries and Archives Counci, and Arts Counci Engand, Theatres Database, managed and updated by The Theatres Trust Investing in Creative Communities: The Provision of Affordabe Artists Studios. A Roe for Spatia Panning. Nationa Federation of Artists Studio Providers, Ju Source: Cuture and Sport Panning Tookit Consider poicies to protect existing theatres and arts venues and provide for their suitabe repacement where the need is estabished incuding measures to maintain existing theatres, art gaeries and other cutura faciities by exporing widening access and use by other activities and sectors, such as community and eisure activities, tourism and the night-time economy. Consider the use of CIL or Section 106 panning obigations to deiver the protection, promotion and deveopment of performing arts faciities. Ensure that the design of the faciities is fexibe, in order to meet the needs of diverse audiences, changing patterns of use, and the demands of different art forms. Improve the sustainabiity and energy performance of arts venues and theatres. Improve the accessibiity of arts venues and theatres. Ensure that sufficient consideration is given to providing faciities for the cutura webeing of young peope and those with specia needs. Sources of further information The Theatres Trust Arts Counci Engand Nationa Federation of Artists Studio Providers (NFASP) 35

38 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning 6.3 Pubic art Pubic art is an expression of cutura webeing and engages peope with the use and deveopment of and and buidings within cities, towns and the countryside. ixia pubic art think tank s 2012 annua survey found that the vaue of the pubic art sector in Engand during 2012 was 53 miion, of which 12 miion was secured through the panning system. 17 In previous years, research undertaken by the Department for Communities and Loca Government found that pubic art was one of the most common panning obigations agreed between deveopers and oca panning authorities. 18 In genera, the pubic art poicies, strategies and suppementary panning guidance/documents associated with Loca Deveopment Frameworks and Loca Pans state that pubic art promotes and supports: the economic deveopment of paces, by contributing to re-branding and attracting tourists; the environmenta deveopment of paces, by enhancing the design of the buit environment; and the socia deveopment of paces, by enabing peope to ceebrate and/or investigate oca identity and/or oca issues. Conversation Piece, David Patten and Larry Priest, Eectric Wharf, Coventry, David Patten 17 ixia s Pubic Art Survey ixia pubic art think tank, Feb A. Crook et a.: Vauing Panning Obigations in Engand: Fina Report. University of Sheffied and the Hacrow Group, for the Department for Communities and Loca Government, 2006; and A. Crook et a.: The Incidence, Vaue and Deivery of Panning Obigations in Engand in Fina Report. University of Sheffied, University of Cambridge, and Curtin University of Technoogy, for the Department for Communities and Loca Government, Mar

39 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning Forms of pubic art The outcome, support, materia and narrative of pubic art vary consideraby; however, one consistent quaity of successfu pubic art is that it is site-specific and reates to the oca context. It may: be incorporated within a buiding s structure or resut in the creation of new architectura spaces, new pubic spaces, andscaping (hard and soft), fencing, brickwork, gasswork, gates, gries, windows, ighting treatments, seating, pay areas/structures, carved ettering and paques; take the form of tapestries, carpets, weaving, texties, hangings, banners, use of coour, mobies, ceramics, tiing, interior ighting, signage, and fooring; be scupture, andmarks, environmenta and works, photography, prints, paintings, projections, moving images, computer-generated images, performance, events, and music commissions; introduce narrative or text, and/or be issue based, decorative, humorous, chaenging, beautifu, subte or contentious; or refer to our heritage or ceebrate the future, and highight specific areas and issues or be conceptua work can be permanent or temporary, interna or externa, integra or freestanding, monumenta or domestic, arge or sma scae, design or ornament. Source: Pubic Art and Loca Authorities. Pubic Art South West, May Panning considerations In setting a strategic vision for pubic art, deveoping panning poicy and taking panning decisions, the foowing panning considerations shoud be taken into account: To secure opportunities and funding for pubic art it is necessary for a oca panning authority to produce a ong-term poicy and strategy which identifies where, when, how and why pubic art wi be deivered as part of specific deveopment sites and as part of the deveopment of a pace as a whoe. Detais of the poicy and strategy shoud be incuded within the oca panning authority s Loca Pan, which coud incude suppementary panning documents and the ist of projects to be funded by CIL. A ong-term poicy and strategy for pubic art requires an evidence base. This coud incude: studies which identify the socia, economic and environmenta impact of pubic art projects; and detais about either historic or existing pubic art poicies, strategies and suppementary panning guidance and Freeze Frame, Nevie Gabie, The Oympic Deivery Authority Artist in Residence, Pau Grundy and Nevie Gabie 37

40 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning Sky Mirror, Nayan Kukarni with m-tec, Park Centra, Birmingham, Photogenics Key reference Pubic Art and the Panning System. Webpage. ixia pubic art think tank documents and the pubic art projects that these have generated. A oca panning authority shoud ensure that pubic art expertise is in pace to assist it with the deveopment, impementation and evauation of a pubic art poicy and strategy. Furthermore, a oca panning authority and its pubic art expertise shoud ensure that deveopers appoint pubic art expertise to oversee the invovement of artists with specific deveopment sites. The invovement of pubic art expertise within a oca panning authority coud incude the deveopment and impementation of pubic art projects reating to the ist of projects to be funded by CIL. The invovement of pubic art expertise and artists with a specific deveopment site shoud incude the deveopment and impementation of a pubic art pan prior to the submission of a panning appication. A pubic art pan shoud be submitted to the oca panning authority for approva as part of the panning appication, and shoud incude detais of: why and how artists have contributed and wi contribute to a specific deveopment site; the costs of pubic art projects; the maintenance of pubic art projects; and the timescae and trigger points for the deivery of pubic art projects.the detais of the pubic art pan shoud inform the wording of either Section 106 panning obigations or panning conditions in order to secure its impementation. Sources of further information ixia pubic art think tank Arts Counci Engand Pubic Art Onine 38

41 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning Source: Cuture and Sport Panning Tookit 6.4 Open space, eisure and sport Open space, eisure and sport covers the provision of infrastructure, uses and activities reating to physica and sporting activities, whether informa or forma, indoor or outdoor. Paras and of the NPPF set out the primary provisions reating to nationa guidance for this sector. Typoogies of spaces and faciities currenty adopted by oca panning authorities in their Loca Pans and/or other panning documents continue to be a good reference point in panning for their provision. CABE s Vaue Handbook, pubished in 2006, indicated that the benefits of open space for oca businesses incude increased footfa and time spent, and that other commercia benefits incude increased saeabiity and rentabiity of both private housing and commercia property. 19 Evidence compied by Natura Engand 20 suggests that businesses prefer to use commercia property which has views of or access to attractive green space effectivey the view from the office window. Natura Engand s Monitor of Engagement with the Natura Environment survey (MENE ) 21 shows that since the number of visits to urban parks has increased by 13% and visits to paths, cyceways and brideways by 20%%; and that 68% of visits to the natura environment were to paces within two mies of home. On sport and eisure, evidence from the Department for Cuture, Media and Sport s Cuture and Sport Evidence (CASE) programme has shown that participation of underachieving young peope (of both primary and secondary schoo age) in extracurricuar earning activities inked to sport has heped to increase their numeracy skis on average to eves 29% above those of non-participants. 22 Sport Engand s Active Peope survey has shown that during the period miion peope participated in sport at east once a week an 19 The Vaue Handbook: Getting the Most from your Buidings and Spaces. CABE, Oct Microeconomic Evidence for the Benefits of Investment in the Environment Review. Natura Engand, Mar Monitor of Engagement with the Natura Environment: The Nationa Survey on Peope and the Natura Environment. Annua Report from the Survey. Natura Engand, Ju Understanding the Drivers, Impact and Vaue of Engagement in Cuture and Sport: An Over-arching Summary of the Research. Cuture and Sport Evidence (CASE) Programme. Sport Engand, Ju

42 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning Open space, eisure and sport faciities Open space and pay The natura and semi-natura environment, incuding urban green spaces, parks, gardens, and commons. Green and water corridors, incuding river and cana banks and cyceways. Amenity green space, incuding informa recreation spaces, green spaces in and around housing, domestic gardens, and viage greens. Provision for chidren and teenagers incuding pay areas, skateboard parks, outdoor basketba hoops, and other more informa pubic open spaces. Aotments, community gardens and other growing spaces. Loca Nature Reserves and simiar widife sites. Cemeteries, churchyards and buria grounds. Sports and eisure Swimming poos. Paying pitches. Sports has. Other outdoor sports provision. Other indoor sports provision. Countryside and natura resource sports. increase of 750,000 peope compared with The increase in demand for opportunities to engage in sport wi have impications for oca provision of faciities and services. In addition to providing benefits for informa recreation, eisure and pay, green infrastructure aso has wider environmenta and economic benefits in terms of pubic heath, biodiversity, eco-tourism, and the management of fooding and other environmenta risks Panning considerations In setting a strategic vision for sports faciities, deveoping panning poicy, taking panning decisions, or deivering/designing a faciity, the foowing panning considerations shoud be taken into account: 24 Engage with and pace appropriate weight on the advice of Sport Engand when it is identified as statutory consutee, and engage with other key stakehoders through the panning process to maximise mutipe benefits. Work with other sectors and stakehoders to ensure that sport is provided as part of other deveopments for exampe in new schoos provision. Improving quaity and accessibiity to existing provision can be more beneficia than new provision; and where new provision is needed, it shoud enhance the existing network. Assess needs and opportunities by identifying and refecting the different eves of need across the district in terms of quaity, access and needs for associated faciities, and how they reate to provision. Appy evidence of need for sports provision by producing or refreshing a strategy for sport, incuding action panning, and by contributing to infrastructure deivery pans and CIL infrastructure ists. Recognise that the eve of provision and access wi vary between urban and rura areas. Take into account ongoing maintenance and management in panning provision and refect costs in infrastructure panning. In setting a strategic vision for open space, deveoping panning poicy, taking panning decisions, or deivering/designing open space for informa eisure or pay, the foowing panning considerations shoud be taken into account: Incude, as part of the oca open space or green infrastructure strategy evidence base on provision, the identification of exceptiona green open space of community vaue as Loca Green Spaces. Identify and refect the muti-functiona nature of each asset, particuary open space, and identify private open spaces. Consider the vaue of working with biodiversity, heath, transport, community safety and other coeagues to deveop joint objectives and benefits. 23 Active Peope Survey 6. Sport Engand. Dec See Assessing Needs and Opportunities: Guide for Indoor and Outdoor Sport. Sport Engand, 2013 (forthcoming) 40

43 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning Key references Assessing Needs and Opportunities: Guide for Indoor and Outdoor Sport. Sport Engand, 2013 (forthcoming) Panning Toos and Guidance. Webpages. Sport Engand Open Space Strategies: Best Practice Guidance. CABE and the Greater London Authority, May open-space-strategies Nature Nearby: Accessibe Natura Greenspace Guidance. Natura Engand, Mar Design for Pay: A Guide to Creating Successfu Pay Spaces. Pay Engand, Panning for a Heathy Environment Good Practice for Green Infrastructure and Biodiversity. TCPA and The Widife Trusts, Ju Consider the Accessibe Natura Greenspace Standard 25 and the Green Fag 26 quaity award when auditing existing provision of parks and open spaces. Engage communities in the audit of oca needs for parks and open spaces. Use data from Natura Engand s Monitor of Engagement with the Natura Environment (MENE) survey 27 to provide information about the oca use of parks and open spaces (anayses of visits in specific geographica areas can be reported). Consider how open spaces can be connected to create a more cohesive ecoogica network, and how the naturaness and biodiversity of individua parks and open spaces can be enhanced. Pan suitaby for widife in recreation areas and for access to quaity spaces by communities by Source: Cuture and Sport Panning Tookit designating or proposing oca benchmarks for accessibe natura green space. 28 Embed the green infrastructure strategy into panning poicy and then use the strategy to inform panning decisions and the design of new open spaces and green infrastructure. Sources of further information London Pay Natura Engand Pay Engand Sport Engand 25 Refer to Natura Engand for advice see 26 Raising the Standard: The Green Fag Award Guidance Manua. CABE Space, 2006 (updated 2009) See Natura Engand s Monitor of Engagement with the Natura Environment webpages, at 28 Nature Nearby: Accessibe Natura Greenspace Guidance. Natura Engand, Mar

44 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning Engish Heritage 6.5 Historic environment The historic environment in our towns and cities is the backdrop to much of our everyday ives. It represents a huge resource that can pay an important roe in future deveopment projects and the provision of new faciities. The refurbishment and re-use of historic buidings and areas makes economic, socia and environmenta sense, and can add vaue to redeveopment work and contribute to sustainabe deveopment objectives. Heritage can aso boost oca economies, attract investment, highight oca distinctiveness, promote civic pride, and add vaue to property in an area. Peope ike iving and working in as we as visiting historic paces and areas deveopment that uses the best of our heritage as a patform for the future can use this to its advantage. Engish Heritage is the Government s statutory adviser on the historic environment, and has a statutory roe in the panning process. It works in partnership with oca panning authorities, and seeks to ensure that opportunities for historic buidings and areas are appropriatey identified and that oca heritage pays a key roe in deveopment and regeneration projects Panning considerations In setting a strategic vision for the historic environment, deveoping panning poicy, taking panning decisions, or deivering/designing a faciity, key messages from Engish Heritage incude: For area-based projects, create the right partnership of promoters, with a strong shared vision, a cear set of objectives, and reaistic expectations. 42

45 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning Engish Heritage Eary consutation with the oca panning authority and Engish Heritage wi avoid unexpected issues arising ater. Invoving the community can buid support for a project, hep to avoid opposition ater, and may uncover unexpected resources. Case Study 6 Dewar s Lane Granary, Berwick Upon Tweed The Grade II isted Dewar s Lane Granary, an abandoned and dereict industria buiding in the heart of Berwick-upon-Tweed, had survived severa proposas for its demoition before regeneration funding was secured from a range of pubic sector, commercia and charitabe sources. Refurbishment was project-managed by the Berwick-upon-Tweed Preservation Trust, and the renovated buiding now houses a modern and highy successfu Youth Hoste, a café and community faciities, together with gaery space. The project has aso made a significant contribution to the quaity of the townscape, and has acted as a catayst for further improvements and investment in the town. Further information is avaiabe at 43

46 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning Key references Heritage Works: The Use of Historic Buidings in Regeneration. A Tookit of Good Practice. Engish Heritage, Feb Pace & Pacemaking. Historic Environment Loca Management (HELM) website. Engish Heritage Piars of the Community. The Transfer of Loca Authority Heritage Assets. Engish Heritage, Jan (revised Jun. 2012) Constructive Conservation: Sustainabe Growth for Historic Paces. Engish Heritage, Mar From the outset, understand the heritage asset and its abiity to accommodate change i.e. prepare a positive historic environment strategy. Think ahead and pan for the ong-term management of the asset from the outset. Seek to estabish an appropriate panning poicy framework for the project refecting both regeneration and heritage objectives. Prepare a fund-raising strategy and estabish a cear and reaistic programme of when different funding components may be secured. Work to isted buidings requires sensitivity and care, and the works proposas must be drawn up in carefu consutation with statutory authorities and advisory bodies. Undertake thorough surveys of the buiding and make reaistic assessments of its capacity to be adapted for the proposed use. Try to find occupiers and uses that suit the type and stye of the accommodation in the buiding. Identify any need to secure other non-panning consents to reaise the deveopment. Engish Heritage Sources of further information Engish Heritage Civic Voice Institute for Archaeoogists Institute of Historic Buiding Conservation Roya Institute of British Architects 44

47 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning appendix A signposts to further information A.1 Key organisations A weath of information is avaiabe from a range of institutions, agencies and organisations, incuding: Arts Counci Engand Arts Deveopment UK Asset Transfer Unit Association of Town Centre Managers c CLOA (Chief Cutura and Leisure Officers Association) Design Counci Cabe Engish Heritage Fieds in Trust Homes and Communities Agency Advisory Team for Large Appications (ATLAS) ixia pubic art think tank Loca Government Association Nationa Federation of Artists Studios Providers Natura Engand Panning Advisory Service Panning Officers Society Pay Engand Sport Engand The Nationa Archives The Theatres Trust Town and Country Panning Association UK Regeneration A.2 Sources of funding There are a range of options to be considered when seeking finance and funding, and the seection noted here is by no means exhaustive. Revenue costs, incuding the costs of maintenance and ongterm management, shoud be considered at the eariest possibe stage. Case study exampes and suggestions of further funding streams and sources, incuding grant-giving trusts, are provided on the Cuture and Sport Panning Tookit website, at The New Homes Bonus is a grant paid to oca authorities by centra government based on the number of new homes in the oca authority area. It provides oca authorities with payment for every property (newy buit, a conversion or an empty home returned to use) added to their counci tax register, after deducting recent demoitions. Under the Loca Government Finance Act 2012 oca authorities can retain a proportion of business rates from new business deveopments. Loca authorities can poo their business rates and coaborate on promoting growth in their combined area. In two-tier areas, county councis receive a proportion of the rates retained. The rate retention scheme is intended to create a more conducive atmosphere for deveopment as councis activey seek to benefit by encouraging appropriatey sited and we panned non-residentia deveopment. The Big Lottery Fund issues grants using money raised by the Nationa Lottery. Funding eves vary, and grants are provided for arts activities, schoo faciities and activities, professiona counseing support, sports, community faciities, music and dance. The Big Lottery Fund provides funding for the capita costs of projects, from arge-scae projects to smaer grants for community groups and projects that benefit heath, education and the environment. The Heritage Lottery Fund uses money from the Nationa Lottery to give grants for a wide range of oca, regiona and nationa heritage projects. The Heritage Lottery Fund heps groups and organisations of a sizes with projects that conserve the UK s diverse heritage for present and future generations to experience and enjoy; that hep more peope (and a wider range of peope) to take an active part in and make decisions about their heritage; and that hep peope to earn about their own and other peope s heritage. 45

48 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning Arts Counci Engand invests to engage peope in Engand in arts and cuture. Support is provided through a number of grant programmes for the arts, ibraries and museums. Investment incudes Grants for the arts for individuas, arts organisations and other peope who use the arts in their work. Grants are given over a set period for activities which engage peope in Engand in arts activities, and to hep artists and arts organisations in Engand carry out their work. The Grants for the arts ibraries fund wi invest 6 miion of Lottery money in projects deivered by pubic ibraries or ibrary authorities, working in partnership with cutura organisations across a range of art forms. Arts Counci Engand s Renaissance funding programme for museums (an improvement programme for regiona museums, with a focus on exceence and deivering ong-term change) features a major grants programme. Other funding schemes incude a strategic support fund, targeting deveopment areas not addressed by the programme of major grants; a museum deveopment fund; and a suite of nationa programmes to support museum standards. Arts Counci Engand aso provides a number of strategic funds in response to needs and priorities within the cutura sector. Sport Engand runs funding programmes open to a wide range of organisations incuding sports cubs, vountary or community organisations, oca authorities, schoos, coeges and universities. Engish Heritage provides grants, some specificay for oca authorities to hep protect historic sites in their care, and for organisations seeking to encourage the better understanding, management and conservation of the historic environment in its many and varied forms. A.3 Deivery mechanisms This section gives exampes of mechanisms that can be used to deiver cuture, arts and sport faciities and services, incuding arrangements for partnership working. Further information on deivery mechanisms and exampe case studies are avaiabe from the Cuture and Sport Panning Tookit website, at org.uk/. The Use Casses Order is a dereguatory device that aows changes of use of buidings between activities that have simiar impacts, without the need to appy for panning permission. The Government recenty announced pans to aow temporary (twoyear) changes of use for vacant buidings. Loca Deveopment Orders (LDOs), issued by oca authorities, effectivey aow certain deveopments to proceed without the need to appy for permission within a designated area. LDOs have recenty been adopted to aow changes of use of buidings to encourage growth in the creative industries. Many oca authorities finance improvements in cuture and sport provision through pubic-private partnerships, by negotiating ong-term contracts with private sector operators who are abe to secure oan funding to finance service improvements. There is a growing roe for socia enterprises in the deivery of cuture, arts and sports faciities. Trusts enjoy certain VAT and business rate privieges and are frequenty better paced than oca authorities to attract externa funding from ottery and grant-making trusts. Some socia enterprises invove cuture, sport and other revenue-raising activities, generating funds that can be reinvested in service deveopment and deivery. Community asset transfer is a means of faciitating community ownership and management of pubicy owned and and buidings, invoving the transfer of management and/or ownership of and and buidings from a pubic sector body to a community-based organisation (such as a oca charity, a Community Interest Company or an Industria and Provident Society, such as Letchworth 46

49 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning Garden City Heritage Foundation). Transfer options vary, but communities typicay take on the ownership or management of an asset on either a freehod, ong-ease, short-ease or a icence-tooccupy basis. Community Land Trusts are community-based organisations that provide and manage housing, workspaces, community faciities and other assets that meet the needs of the community, are owned and controed by the community, and are made avaiabe at permanenty affordabe eves. They make possibe the use of buidings and services at affordabe prices, whie the vaue of and and other equity benefits are permanenty hed by the Trust. They operate on a not-for-profit basis, raising money from new sources and unocking other resources. An exampe is the Miton Keynes Parks Trust, which owns and cares for many of Miton Keynes parks and green spaces. Deveopment Trusts are enterprises with socia objectives activey engaged in the economic, environmenta or socia regeneration of an area. It is generay expected that they wi generate revenue to fund their operations and activities. Core funding (for staff and running costs), particuary in a Trust s first few years, might come from a variety of pubic and private sector sources. Deveopment Trusts undertake a wide range of activities, incude deveoping and running sports and recreation faciities, managing community centres, and promoting oca heritage. An exampe is the Manchester Centra Library Deveopment Trust, estabished to enabe a broad range of funding opportunities to be reaised. Community deveopment finance initiatives provide seed funding for creative projects and bridging oans for capita projects that have income streams. Loca asset-backed vehices are medium- or ong-term partnerships or joint ventures between a oca authority and a private sector investment partner which use assets to raise funds for a programme of investment projects. For exampe, Sough Borough Counci is using a oca assetbacked vehice to fund the deveopment of a new ibrary and cutura centre. 47

50 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning appendix B a nationa panning poicy framework (NPPF) checkist for practitioners NPPF poicies Summaries; see the NPPF (at the paragraphs noted) for the fu poicy wording upoads/attachment_data/fie/6077/ pdf Questions for panners to consider Questions for cuture, arts and sport professionas to consider Achieving sustainabe deveopment Panning performs a number of roes, incuding identifying and co-ordinating deveopment and infrastructure requirements, providing accessibe oca services to support community heath, socia and cutura webeing, and to protect and enhance the environment. Core panning principes (para. 17) Panning shoud take account of and support oca strategies to improve socia and cutura webeing, and shoud deiver sufficient cutura faciities and services to meet oca needs. How have your oca authority s pans, poicies and strategies set out aspirations for improving oca webeing? What kinds of infrastructure provision, services and activities are needed to support and improve the webeing of communities in the oca area? What inks are there with the Joint Heath and Webeing Strategy prepared by your oca authority's pubic heath team, and with other corporate eve strategies? Ensuring the vitaity of town centres (para. 23) In drawing up Loca Pans, oca panning authorities shoud aocate a range of suitabe sites to meet the scae and type of eisure and cutura deveopment needed in town centres. The NPPF's Annex 2 ( Gossary ) sets out main town centre uses. Does your oca authority have a town centre management pan or strategy for maintaining and improving the town centre s vitaity and diversity of uses? What conversations are you having with town centre managers on steps to ensure town centre vitaity and diversity in terms of cuture and eisure activities? Supporting a prosperous rura economy (para. 28) Loca Pans and neighbourhood pans shoud promote the retention and deveopment of oca services and community faciities in viages, such as cutura buidings, sports venues and tourism faciities. In the ight of discussions with parish or town councis on oca provision and need, does the pan meet the requirements of this poicy? Are there discussions with parish or town councis about the eve of provision of and access to faciities and services that are required to meet needs arising from oca growth? 48

51 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning NPPF poicies Questions for panners to consider Questions for cuture, arts and sport professionas to consider Requiring good design (para. 58) Panning poicies and decisions shoud ensure that deveopments function we and add to an area s overa quaity over the ifetime of a deveopment, estabish a strong sense of pace, using streetscapes and buidings to create attractive and comfortabe paces to ive, work and visit; create and sustain an appropriate mix of uses; respond to oca character and history; and incorporate green and other pubic spaces. Does the Loca Pan (or one of its oca deveopment documents) ceary set out criteria for good design and the ways in which cuture and sport provision can hep to improve the quaity of pace, such as through the provision of pubic art? What conversations are you having with coeagues in the housing, urban design, and community safety teams? Can you demonstrate the contribution of good oca design in discussions with oca authorities, deveopers and other deivery partners? Promoting heathy communities (paras 69-70) Loca panning authorities shoud create a shared vision with communities of the faciities they wish to be provided, and shoud aim to invove a sections of the community in the panning process. They shoud pan positivey for the provision and use of shared space, community faciities (such as meeting paces, sports venues, cutura buidings, and paces of worship) and other oca services. Does the oca panning process activey invove oca artists, residents, professionas and cutura and sporting agencies? Is there a need to update the oca authority s Community Strategy? See aso the Pan-making using a proportionate evidence base section in this checkist Can you be more activey engaged in the oca panning process, either through responding to consutations or by attending workshops? See aso the Pan-making using a proportionate evidence base section in this checkist Open space, sport and recreation (paras 73-78) Panning poicies shoud be based on robust and up-todate assessments of the needs for open space, sports and recreation faciities and opportunities for new provision. Existing open space and sports and recreationa buidings and and, incuding paying fieds, shoud not be buit on uness an assessment has been undertaken and arrangements have been made for any necessary repacement or aternative provision. Loca green space designations shoud be made ony where the space in question is demonstraby specia to a oca community and hods a particuar oca significance for exampe, because of its historic significance or recreationa vaue (incuding as a paying fied). Does your oca authority have a robust and up-to-date assessment in pace? Does it identify priorities and projects to meet oca demand? Have you considered oca need and identified a forma and informa open space and recreation areas and so gained a fu picture of assets and provision? Can existing green and open spaces in buit-up areas be protected as a community asset? Have you contributed to the oca assessment of need and provision, and engaged communities in assessment exercises? 49

52 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning NPPF poicies Questions for panners to consider Questions for cuture, arts and sport professionas to consider Conserving and enhancing the historic environment (paras ) Loca Pans shoud set out a positive strategy for the conservation and enjoyment of the historic environment, recognising that heritage assets shoud be conserved in a manner appropriate to their significance. Does the Loca Pan or one of its oca deveopment documents ceary set out a strategy or poicies for the historic environment? How does this strategy ink with the wider cutura agenda in terms of the design and provision of services and faciities? Have you contributed to the oca strategy? Pan-making Loca Pans (para. 156) Loca Pans shoud set out the strategic priorities for the area, incuding strategic poicies to deiver community and cutura infrastructure. Does the Loca Pan identify the roe of cutura provision in achieving oca panning objectives? What is the overa impact on pan deiverabiity? How effectivey have you put across your case to the panners in the pan-making process? Pan-making using a proportionate evidence base (paras 162, ) Loca panning authorities shoud work with other authorities and providers on an up-to-date, reevant evidence base which enabes them both to take account of the needs of the oca popuation (such as for sports and recreation) and to assess the significance of heritage assets and the contribution that they make to their environment. Is the existing evidence base sti vaid, and what new studies wi be needed? Are there gaps in provision? Is there scope for setting viabe oca standards, and are they refected in Section 106 poicies? What other robust and authoritative supporting evidence on the need for and provision of assets can you suppy? How do you get invoved in the deveopment of the oca authority s Community Infrastructure Levy charging schedues and infrastructure assessments? Have you worked with other pubic, vountary and private sector organisations in the process? Ensuring viabiity and deiverabiity (paras ) Loca panning authorities shoud give carefu attention to viabiity and costs in pan-making and decision-taking, to enabe deveopment to be deiverabe. The cumuative impact of oca standards and poicies shoud not put impementation of the Loca Pan at serious risk. In taking forward Loca Pan poicies and oca standards for cuture, arts and sport, have you first considered their impact within the context of the Harman Review? In negotiating deveopment panning obigations, have you first considered their impact within the context of current guidance on viabiity, and considered other contributions through CIL? Wi further work or evidence be needed to ensure that the Loca Pan is deiverabe or that deveopment which meets the objectives of both the oca authority and deveoper can take pace? 50

53 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning NPPF poicies Questions for panners to consider Questions for cuture, arts and sport professionas to consider Panning strategicay across oca boundaries (para. 179) Loca panning authorities shoud work coaborativey with other bodies to ensure that strategic priorities across oca boundaries are propery co-ordinated and ceary refected in Loca Pans. They shoud consider producing joint panning poicies on strategic matters and informa strategies such as joint infrastructure and investment pans. What can you produce jointy as the resut of your co-operation (for exampe a jointy prepared strategy or poicy)? What mechanisms or structures are there to continue the process of co-operation? Have you worked with key bodies and partnerships on deveoping strategic priorities? What support can they offer you in deveoping panning priorities and an effective deivery strategy? Neighbourhood pans (paras ) Neighbourhood pans shoud refect the strategic poicies of the Loca Pan, and neighbourhoods shoud pan positivey to support them. Have you consuted with coeagues in the property and/or regeneration teams to identify how best to use existing assets or new cutura provision to underpin area regeneration? Is there scope to consider the costs and benefits of a cuture-ed neighbourhood pan for an area? Are cutura or eisure practitioners represented in the deveopment of neighbourhood pans? Decision-taking (paras and 203) Loca panning authorities shoud consider using Loca Deveopment Orders to reax panning contros where this woud promote socia or environmenta gains for an area, or using Artice 4 directions to remove nationa permitted deveopment rights to protect oca amenity or an area s webeing. Loca panning authorities shoud consider whether otherwise unacceptabe deveopment coud be made acceptabe through the use of conditions or panning obigations. Is there scope to reax contros or restrict certain uses or deveopments to hep improve service provision for exampe by aowing changes of use for cutura activities? Wi panning obigations pace unnecessary financia burdens on deveopment? Wi panning obigations meet the key tests of necessity and direct reationship to the scae and kind of deveopment? Can you present evidence to panning coeagues to enabe them to deveop poicies and make informed judgements on panning appications? How do you ensure that provision can be deivered without impacting on deveopment viabiity? Consider aso: Soundness Sef-Assessment Checkist. Panning Advisory Service, Jan NPPF and heath and webeing checkist. Section 4 within A. Ross, with M. Chang: Reuniting Heath with Panning Heathier Homes, Heathier Communities. How Panning and Pubic Heath Practitioners Can Work together to Impement Heath and Panning Reforms in Engand. TCPA, Ju

54 improving cuture, arts and sporting opportunities through panning appendix C gossary of key terms Further terms are defined within the Cuture and Sport Panning Tookit accessibe at Cuture and sport Encompasses a wide range of hard and soft infrastructure, faciities, services and activities associated with the arts, cuture, sport, eisure and creative industries and the historic environment. Detais on specific areas of provision are given in Section 6 of this guide. Duty to Co-operate A duty set out in the Locaism Act 2011, setting a ega requirement on oca panning authorities to co-operate with each other and with other bodies on strategic cross-boundary issues in the Loca Pan preparation process. Loca Pan Sets panning poicies in a oca authority area and comprises a number of oca deveopment documents that give cear guidance on what deveopment wi and wi not be permitted in an area, setting out strategic poicies, deveopment management poicies and site aocation detais. Previousy known as the Loca Deveopment Framework. Loca panning authority The pubic authority whose duty it is to carry out specific panning functions for a particuar area London boroughs, district/borough councis in two-tier areas, unitary councis in singe-tier areas, county councis where there is no ower-tier authority, the Broads Authority, and a Nationa Park authority. In two-tier areas, panning functions reside within the ower-tier councis. Library authorities The pubic authorities responsibe for pubic ibrary services London boroughs, county councis in two-tier areas, and unitary councis in singe-tier areas. Nationa Panning Poicy Framework The nationa poicy guidance which, in March 2012, repaced a panning poicy guidance previousy pubished in the form of Panning Poicy Statements and Panning Poicy Guidance Notes. Reguation 123 Reguation within the Community Infrastructure Levy Reguations 2010 that carifies the reationship between the Community Infrastructure Levy and Section 106 panning obigations. A Community Infrastructure Levy charging authority is expected to pubish on its website a ist of infrastructure that wi benefit from a Community Infrastructure Levy charge. Soundness Each Loca Pan document is subject to tests of soundness during the Examination in Pubic by a Panning Inspector. The NPPF sets out these tests as positivey prepared, justified, effective, and consistent with the NPPF. A Loca Pan must be found sound before it can be approved and finay adopted by the oca authority. Viabiity Defined in Viabiity Testing of Loca Pans: Advice for Panning Practitioners, the June 2012 report of the Loca Housing Deivery Group chaired by Sir John Harman, as foows: An individua deveopment can be said to be viabe if, after taking account of a costs, incuding centra and oca government poicy and reguatory costs and the cost and avaiabiity of deveopment finance, the scheme provides a competitive return to the deveoper to ensure that deveopment takes pace and generates a and vaue sufficient to persuade the and owner to se the and for the deveopment proposed. 52

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