‘EMPLOYMENT LAND IN CANTERBURY DISTRICT’
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‘EMPLOYMENT LAND IN CANTERBURY DISTRICT’
Adrian Verrall (Planning Policy Manager)
Nick Churchill (Economic Development Officer)
(C4B Associate’s Conference Presentation)
2 June 2009
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Content of Presentation Employment Land
Development Progress
The LDF
Opportunities from the Digital Infrastructure
Opportunities in the Environment Industries
Impact on Land and Property
How C4B can contribute
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Employment Land
• Is there anything special about employment land?
• Where are the local employment sites? What is available?
• Little Barton Farm
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Progress (1)• Number of sites progressing
through planning process - Lakesview Business Park, (industrial
and offices) - Altira Business Park, Herne Bay
(industrial and offices) - Business Innovation Centre, Canterbury - Estuary View, Whitstable (offices)
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Progress (2)- Eddington Nursery / Links site, Herne
Bay (offices and industrial)
- Former BT site, Canterbury (offices)
- Highland Court, Bekesbourne (industrial, warehousing)
- Former Wyevale site (offices)
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Role of Council• Positively influence local economy through
planning decisions• Control inappropriate development • Continue to defend existing sites • Where appropriate use its own sites to
promote development/stimulate market • Encourage and facilitate delivery of private
sector development sites• Futures work – ‘knowledge’/’green’ economy
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Local Development Framework (LDF) – what is it?
• New LDF replaces the old Local Plan
• Core Strategy sets the overall planning strategy, including employment land
• Council currently preparing Core Strategy for LDF
• Employment land a critical element of the Core Strategy
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The LDF & Employment Land
• Employment land also a key priority for C4B • Employment Land Study – market view• Info on demand and supply of property / sites• Future job projections• Search for new employment sites • Transport Study• Consider demand/need of non-employment
“industrial/office” uses (e.g. leisure, automotive sector needs)
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LDF – Moving on from the Recession
• Where do we create new jobs in an upturn?
• Need to identify and plan for opportunities in emerging markets/sectors
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Opportunities from new digital infrastructure?
• Next Generation Broadband
• Intelligent Transport Systems
• Smart Power Grids
But needs £15 billion investment !
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Next Generation Broadband• Seamless
transmission of data including two-way voice and video
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Intelligent Transport Systems
• Technology to improve traffic flows (e.g. adaptive traffic signals, real time traffic information
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Smart Power Grids
• Revolutionise national power grid
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Environmental Industries (1)
• Env industries - One of Govt’s / SEEDA’s key sectors for growth
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Environmental Industries (2)• What are they?- water and wastewater
treatment- environmental consultancy
services- environmental monitoring
and instrumentation- air pollution control- renewable energy, and- marine pollution control
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Environmental Industries (3)
• 2009 Budget – commits investment in new technologies low carbon energy and advanced green manufacturing
• £405m for the development and deployment of low carbon technologies
• £60m new funding for carbon capture and storage technology, plus £30m
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Environmental Industries (4)
• Industries strong in Scandinavia
• USA / South Korea, putting them at the heart of a future global low carbon economy
• In UK may go to Oxford & Cambridge
• What about Canterbury?
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The Economic Opportunities
• All have short / long term economic benefits• Could create 1 million jobs in 10 years• Future productivity growth, competitiveness • New micro-business opportunities for people
with professional skills• New business models for existing sectors
such as retail• Structure of local economy could change
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Impact on Land and Property
• More complex requirements – but what will buildings of future look like? (low carbon!)
• Maximise use of innovation park• Use residential and redundant buildings
where unoccupied• More flexibility needed - homeworking• Think about new approaches to town
centre development
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How C4B Associates can contribute to LDF process
• C4B input - engage in process
• Council will send out needs survey
- Respond to requests for information
- Property/site needs over next 5 years
- Potential new development locations
• Convey needs of non “industrial/ office” uses
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