Infrastructure Delivery Plan (Feb 2013) - Runnymede Borough Council

a ‘Key Infrastructure Providers Workshop’ (KIPW 2010) to all relevant stakeholders
including neighbouring authorities. The KIPW 2010 convened on 29 th July 2010. The
information already stored in the database was reviewed, and Infrastructure Providers
also provided additional information on infrastructure capacity and demand issues, as
well as on any programmes of work in the pipe-line that were designed to address
those needs.
1.9 Subsequent stages in the project have involved discussions with specific infrastructure
providers such as Surrey County Council (Transport, Education, and Libraries
departments in particular), the Environment Agency and utility providers. Internal
discussions have also taken place with various Council departments who are involved
in the provision of social and green infrastructure (including the Community Services
team and the Leisure department).
1.10 The information obtained from these discussions has informed the contents of this
current version of the IDP and IS. The IS summarises the projects noted in the IDP but
additionally considers which of the infrastructure is essential and which is desirable.
Essential infrastructure in this context represents items without which the development
forecast in the Local Plan could not come forward. Desirable infrastructure represents
items which, whilst not vital to unlock growth, will support growth and benefit local
communities over the plan period.
Structure of Document
1.11 The remainder of this report is structured as follows:
• Chapter 2: Provides the context for infrastructure planning in Runnymede,
covering areas such as social, economic and environmental characteristics,
and sets out the main policy context in which the provision of infrastructure
resides. The chapter describes current and future roles of Runnymede’s Local
Strategic Partnership (LSP) and Local Economic Partnership (LEP) in
infrastructure planning and delivery, and then moves on to consider the role
of the Council’s Sustainable Community Strategy (SCS) and Corporate Plan
(CP). The chapter ends by focusing on the Council’s emerging Local Plan.
• Chapter 3: Establishes the main infrastructure designations and subdesignations
in relation to Runnymede. It defines ‘physical’, ‘social’ and
‘green’ infrastructure and identifies who is currently responsible for delivery –
the delivery agencies;
• Chapter 4: Explains the methodology adopted for preparing this IDP and IS
and the assumptions made in relation to the amount, type and distribution of
development and population projections;
• Chapter 5: Considers the amount and distribution of planned residential and
commercial development over the plan period;
• Chapters 6 to 15: Within these chapters, infrastructure designations are
systematically assessed and appraised against the demand identified in
Chapter 5. Commencing with a brief introduction, each chapter draws
together and considers the following:
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Existing conditions;
Future provision;
Local Plan implications;
Costs and funding sources;
Risk assessment; and,
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Runnymede IDP DRAFT – February 2013