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5.7 As well as capital investment in services, robust arrangements must also be put in place for the revenue consequences and for effective management and maintenance of facilities. This has often been lacking in the past. 6. Achieving Sustainable Development 6.1 Development must be managed in a co-ordinated way. The number of homes to be built must be compatible with employment opportunities. Balanced communities will only evolve if they have the schools, health facilities, cultural and leisure facilities and other community services that together offer a good quality of community life. These activities generate a need for transport that should support sustainable forms of development and movement. 6.2 Clear phasing and prioritisation is needed to make the best fit between capacity and demand and to take advantage of the big opportunities as soon as possible. Development can be brought forward in overlapping phases that relate closely to the improvement of transport infrastructure and help to manage market demand: 1. In the “early” phase (2004-8), development is most likely to be realised in sites and locations that are at an advanced stage of preparation and already have relatively good access – or can anticipate the early advent of transport improvements. This will mean that they can support higher density development and maintain the momentum of the Gateway. These locations will include brownfield and town centre sites inside existing urban areas with potential for more intensive development. They will also be places that will benefit from transport improvements already under way. This phase will include development at some of the major locations that will deliver a substantial part of overall capacity, such as the Isle of Dogs, Thurrock and Kent Thamesside. Realistically, a significant proportion of development in this phase will be in the western part of the Gateway because of its relatively better accessibility and its proximity to the dynamic of the central London economy. 2. In the medium term (2006-12), attention should shift to locations that will benefit from transport improvements and master planning currently in preparation. A series of transport projects, including CTRL, are due for completion in the early stages of this phase so that areas such as Ebbsfleet and Stratford will benefit. 21
22 3. In the following phase (2010-2016), more development can be anticipated in sites that have a long lead-in time because of ownership, remediation, access or other problems. The completion of Crossrail in this phase would open up some substantial opportunities that would continue well beyond 2016. Some longer-term prospects should start to become available in this phase, including sites that will need substantial public sector preparation in order to make them attractive to private sector investment. 4. Beyond 2016 further growth must be anticipated. Work is urgently needed to assess future levels of growth and development opportunities so that the long lead-in times of infrastructure provision can be accommodated and to ensure that known sites are not under-developed. 6.3 Maps 5a, b and c give a very indicative picture of the phased pattern of strategic development that would result. It will require a disciplined approach in which planning authorities and other agencies avoid making premature decisions on sites that have longer-term potential for intensive development and thereby allow proposals to go ahead that make insufficient contribution in terms of quantity or quality. It will also mean that master planning should address future phases of development well in advance. The new development plan system provides a good foundation for such an approach: priorities can be quickly established with Area Action Plans providing a vehicle for more focused attention on priority areas.
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Page 5 and 6: 2 1. The Context 1.1 The Thames Gat
Page 7 and 8: 4 1.6 The Gateway will be much more
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Page 13 and 14: 10 KEY Crossrail Channel Tunnel Rai
Page 15 and 16: 12 3.3 The RPBs consider that the m
Page 17 and 18: 14 ◆ The continuing impact of PPG
Page 19 and 20: 16 91,000 homes could be completed
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Page 23: 20 expand to meet growth as well as
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Page 31 and 32: 28 mass of investment that attracts
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