Partnership funding in brown field situation
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Creasey ParkCommunity Football
Development Centre, Dunstable, Central Bedfordshire
Council-NEW
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Sporting gain
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Replacement dilapidated football facility
which will be the home of Dunstable Town Football Club, AFC
Dunstable and link Brewers Hill Middle School site with Peppercorn
Park to provide additional community pitches within the area.
This will include:
-new purpose built pavilion with community
facilities and changing rooms linked to sporting use
-1 full size football pitch with perimeter
barrier and spectator stand
-1 adult and Under 18 eleven aside pitch
-3 junior pitches
-3 mini soccer
-a full size 3rd generation
artificial turf grass pitch
-relocated BMX Track
The overall cost exceeds £3 million.
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Type
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Multiple residential developments
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Local authority
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Central Bedfordshire
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Secured by
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External funding includes a Football
Foundation grant of £700k, and £1.43 million S106 funding to be
received between 2009/10 - 2013/14. Additional funds have
been released from Luton and South Beds Growth Area Fund Round 3
(GAF3). Dunstable Town Council has also made a small
contribution.
Central Bedfordshire’s Planning Obligations
Strategy SPD supports the use of planning obligations and can be
found in section 2.2 of this report.
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New Astropitch, Tabard Street
Environs Scheme, Southwark Council-NEW
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Sporting gain
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Monies were invested in an Astroturf pitch which was at end of its
usable life.
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Type
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The Tabard
Street Environs Scheme includes a housing estate which
connects London Bridge and Tabard Street to the south.
The Scheme is a part of
the Southwark Borough and
Bankside Streetscape Improvement programme and is primarily funded
through S106 receipts paid to the council by developers in recent
years.
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Local authority
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Southwark Council
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Secured by
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The project was funded by
the two S106 agreements (£96k and £20k, Tabard Square
development, Berkeley Homes) and partner funds from the London
Marathon Trust (£60k). Implemented 2008/09
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New sport hall at Easingwold, Hambleton
District Council
| Sporting gain |
The Easingwold Gatres Centre was
formally opened in July 2009. The new sports hall caters for
badminton, five-a-side football, tennis, netball, indoor cricket,
basketball and short-mat bowls. Its construction meant that the old
leisure hall could be turned into a performing arts and
entertainment space. |
| Type |
One of the contributing sites was a
residential development of 79 dwellings at Prospect Farm,
Easingwold |
| Secured by |
A S106 agreement provided
£212,000 which the Council used with funding from other residential
schemes to part fund this £1.1m scheme. It was jointly
developed by Hambleton District Council and the Galtres Centre with
monies also coming from Sport England through the Community
Investment Fund, Waste Recycling Environmental (WREN) and donations
from a wide range of community organisations |
| Local authority |
Hambleton District Council |
Partnership with the RDA- Tuckingmill Valley
Park
| Sporting gain |
Leisure facilities have been developed which include skate
boarding, a network of cycleways and footpaths and a roller blading
bowl. Further consultations for phase 4 are planned with a
view to providing a community building and additional sports
facilities |
| Proposal |
The scheme is part of a new major redevelopment of an old
mining area in Cornwall consisting of some 17 hectares (40 acres)
and lies within the Cornwall and Isle of Sicily Sport Action
Zone. |
| Location |
Tuckingmill Valley Park
The site is located within Camborne North, a ward with a high
deprivation index within Cornwall and nationally (595th out of
8,414 wards within England.)
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| Description |
Kerrier District Council and Cornwall County Council were key
stakeholders in the development of the scheme. A major consultation
exercises within the area suggested that the project should focus
on providing facilities for a total cross section of the
community. |
| Secured by |
Funded through Regional Development Agency without developer
contributions?The Kerrier District Local Plan Revised Deposit Draft
2002 (with pre-inquiry changes 2004) supports the use of planning
obligations to secure open space provision. The local
authority has prepared a draft SPD, ‘Negotiating Community Benefits
through Planning Obligations’ (2004.) |
| Approval date |
The scheme was commenced in 1996 and phase 3, which included
the installation of leisure facilities, begun in 2003. |
| Local authority |
Kerrier District Council |
Regeneration of 1920s town park through joint
funding
| Sporting gain |
Improvements to 3 grass football pitches including a new
drainage system, 1 new grass pitch, 1 new all weather
Football/Hockey pitch, new floodlights, 13 new changing rooms, new
car park, new community café. Woodland planting and footpath links,
new artworks and entrance gates and new youth and children’s play
facilities. |
| Proposal |
Contributions from a number of developments within one of the
four sub areas. (District is divided into 4 sub areas, all
contributions are pooled within each sub area to be used on schemes
within that sub area) |
| Location |
Kingsway Park, Kirkby-in-Ashfield |
| Description |
Kingsway Park has suffered gradual decline similar to many
parks created in the 1920s. The format of the park was two thirds
formal sport, one third traditional park format.
Total cost of the project was around £1.6million with around
£100,00 from S106 contributions. The rest came from the Football
Foundation, Emda, HLF, Wren, and community funding through The
Friends of Kingsway Park. |
| Secured by |
S 106 funding from the Council/developers have helped to secure
other grant funding tied to various agreements. |
| Approval date |
Schemes commenced in July 2001. Main works completed July
2004. |
| Local authority |
Ashfield District Council, Planning Policy and Projects
Section. |
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