Partnership funding in brown field situation

Creasey ParkCommunity Football Development Centre, Dunstable, Central Bedfordshire Council-NEW

Sporting gain

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.

Type

Multiple residential developments

Local authority

Central Bedfordshire

Secured by

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.

 

New Astropitch, Tabard Street Environs Scheme, Southwark Council-NEW

Sporting gain

Monies were invested in an Astroturf pitch which was at end of its usable life.

Type

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.

Local authority

Southwark Council

Secured by

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

 

 

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.)

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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