LSCC - Future Towns ConferenceIlford Town Centre – A Case Study
Presented by
Mark Lucas Chief Planning & Regeneration
Officer,London Borough of Redbridge
2nd December 2013
Marc Myers, Chairman,
Ilford BID Ltd
Ilford Town Centre – The Place2
• First rail service arrived in Ilford in 1839 via the ‘Eastern Counties Railway’
• The Metropolitan Town Centre of Ilford is designated an Opportunity Area in the Mayor’s London Plan
• Ilford Town Centre, located in the north east of London
• 55 hectares in size
• c24,000 residents live in and around the Town Centre boundary
• Ilford is under 20mins
from London Liverpool Street via the Greater Anglia mainline.
• Redbridge ethnicity highlights, • 43% White• 42% Asian• 9% Black• 4% mixed
Ilford Town Centre – Planning AAP
Adopted in 2008 and identifies 35 opportunity sites over 19
hectares, that collectively have the potential to deliver:-
• More than 5,000 new homes, in the long term.
• Approximately 95,000 m² (gross) of new and replacement High Street retail, restaurants, café, leisure and cultural uses.
• Other active ground floor uses (i.e. secondary, retail, service/ community uses, residential/ office entrances) and new/ replacement small scale commercial and employment uses.
• A range of social, education, health and leisure facilities to serve the existing and new populations.
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Ilford Town Centre - Marketing Our award winning website
(Local Government IT Excellence Awards - Socitm 2010)
offers virtual tour and 3D animation of over 20
development opportunity siteshttp://www.investilford.co.uk
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Our ‘Ilford’ App, available from the Apple Store, offering
3D animation and due diligence for over 20
development opportunity sites
In partnership with Virtual Viewing
Ilford Town Centre – Governance
• Ilford Town Centre Programme Board• LBR front line services Chiefs• Met Police’s Head of neighbourhood policing (Redbridge)• Vision-Redbridge, Culture and Leisure • Greater Anglia Trains• Communications• Business Improvement District
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Ilford Town Centre - The BID Journey6
• An established and long running town centre partnership• A desire from the businesses of Ilford for something different• Well developed relationship with our local authority in Redbridge• A 2009 ballot with aims on service improvements• Safe, Clean and Welcoming
Ilford Town Centre – What we Do
• Protect, Promote and Progress
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Ilford Town Centre – Protect8
Security Planting Ambassadors Cleaning Investment Festive
Ilford Town Centre – Protect9
Family Markets Website Branding Loyalty Promotion
Ilford Town Centre – The BID 10
Ilford Town Centre – The BID 11
Ilford Town Centre – Meyer Bergman12
• Purchase of Exchange Shopping Centre• £72M investment into our town• Further capital investment • Bold asset plan • Supportive of Ilford BID
Ilford Town Centre – Public Sector Presence
• Council H.Q., - 1,300 staff• The Met. Police - 580 Officers• Probations Service - 112 staff• Integrated Youth Service
Contracts (IYSC) – 28 staff• Redbridge College – 16 staff/ 620
students • Redbridge Library - 100 staff• Tunnelling Academy – 150
students, totalling 3,500 students
Representing10% of the total footfall of the Exchange
Shopping Centre
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Ilford Town Centre – Licensing Initiatives
• Voluntary ban on high strength liquor
Police and the Council seeking voluntary agreements with off licences to restrict the sales of high strength beers and ciders so as to impact upon the street drinkers problem that has emerged in the town over the last 3-4 years.
• Betting & gambling – emerging policies
The Council have recently resolved to write to the Home Office and express concerns at the proliferation of betting shops and high stakes gaming machines within the town centre
• Ilford Cumulative Impact Zone (CIZ) 2010
Restricts the number of alcohol licensed premises, (Pubs, off-licences, Take-aways)
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Ilford Town Centre – Crossrail Impact
• £6m Station upgrade• £50m Ilford (CR) Depot
re-configuration• £12m Tunnelling &
Underground Construction Academy
• New Public Realm• New rolling stock• New operating
concession• Adjacent development
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Ilford Depot 11.6 Ha
Ilford Town Centre – Funding Options
• £2.3m - BID business rates uplift
• £5.1m - Urban Integration Study – Crossrail Ltd, Transport for London & London Borough of Redbridge
• £3.2m - in S.106 receipts• £2m - ‘Better Barkingside’
project funded by the Mayor’s Regeneration fund
• c£2.1m - TfL funding for Town Centres’ highways improvements
• £8m - Value of Community Infrastructure Levy notices issued since Jan 2012. (excludes Mayoral CIL)
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