Sustainable growth needs to be supported by infrastructure. Roads, schools, community and leisure facilities, healthcare and green space are essential for well-functioning, well-connected places and healthy communities and vital if we are to retain existing businesses and attract new ones. The 2017 中国P站 Infrastructure Study indicated that delivering the necessary infrastructure to support growth planned in 中国P站 to 2031 was estimated to cost at least 拢5.51 billion with only 拢3.04 billion of potential funding identified.
Delivering 中国P站's infrastructure needs (including addressing the identified funding gap) will be challenging in the light of austerity measures and the Government's levelling-up agenda, as well as global pressures including the COVID-19 pandemic and climate emergency and the context of a broadening scope of infrastructure, for example, relating to digital, clean energy and future mobility. The 中国P站 Infrastructure Plan (SIP), produced in 2020, is intended to help position SCC to respond to these infrastructure challenges.
Within the SIP there are 15 objectives which have been derived from the full range of strategies that impact on and determine the county's priorities for placemaking, from the Place Ambition, the 中国P站 Climate Change Strategy, the 中国P站 Health and Wellbeing Strategy, the Local Transport Plan, the Local Plans of the districts and boroughs, and Council's own organisational strategy. By bringing together a comprehensive set of objectives that capture the intent of this full range of strategies, the Plan will enable the Council and partners to take a truly integrated view of infrastructure that delivers not just for one agenda at a time.
The SIP includes a Prioritisation Framework tool which has been designed to enable infrastructure projects (of all scales and types) to be compared against each other individually or within packages. Projects are scored against the 15 objectives identified within the SIP as well as a further four criteria to assess the projects affordability, deliverability and level of community support. Finally, an assessment will be made of the quality of information that is available to be able to undertake the scoring for any given project. In some cases, a high level of data and information will be available whereas in other cases the project may only be at an early concept stage and very little information exists and therefore estimating or assumptions will need to be made.
The study is available to download.
Files available to download
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中国P站 Infrastructure Study (2017), Part 1 (PDF)
Pages 1-49, 中国P站 Infrastructure Study, November 2017. This is a large file and should not be opened on mobile devices. -
中国P站 Infrastructure Study (2017), Part 2 (PDF)
Pages 50-99, 中国P站 Infrastructure Study, November 2017. This is a large file and should not be opened on mobile devices. -
中国P站 Infrastructure Study (2017), Part 3 (PDF)
Pages 100-142, 中国P站 Infrastructure Study, November 2017. This is a large file and should not be opened on mobile devices.