East Midlands Regional Spatial Strategy 2005/06

East Midlands Regional Spatial Strategy Annual Monitoring Report 2005/06
in the monitoring of this policy. Strategic
Environmental Assessment, which meets the
requirements of the EU Directive, was introduced
during 2004 and provides the opportunity to ensure
that the impacts of plans and programmes on the
historic environment are made explicit.
5.44 The annual Heritage Counts reports on the
state of the historic environment, which are
published every November and include a regional as
well as a national report and data, are available on
www.heritagecounts.org.uk or via the HELM portal
www.helm.org.uk .
5.45 The effect of development on the historic
environment may result in loss or change in historic
townscape and landscape character, e.g. as a result of
town centre redevelopment. Some changes may
enhance historic character or the setting of historic
assets.There are tools, based upon characterisation,
which can ensure that the historic environment is
fully taken into account in areas of change, e.g. as
part of masterplanning. Boston has undertaken a
baseline urban character study of its town centre to
guide change and Lincoln City undertook an ‘Inquiry
by Design’ in October 2005, to shape the
development of a masterplan for its historic centre.
5.46 Conservation-led regeneration can ensure that
local character and sense of place is maintained and
enhanced. Heritage area-based grant funding on a
partnership basis continued during the year. Heritage
Economic Regeneration Schemes (HERS) were
launched in 1999 by English Heritage. In 2005/6 over
40 schemes were running across the Region. In
addition, the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) was
supporting a number of Townscape Heritage
Initiative schemes, such as at Belper in the Derwent
Valley Mills World Heritage Site.
5.47 Good schemes that retain the historic character
of buildings and find new uses for them continue to
come forward.The continued use as a museum of
Newarke Houses in Leicester, a Grade II* listed
building in the heart of the Old Town, was facilitated
by funding from the HLF.The scheme included the
provision of a lift.Willoughby House in Nottingham, a
Grade II* listed Georgian town house, had functioned
as offices for almost 100 years but was in need of a
new single use. Its conversion to a flagship store for
Paul Smith required a flexible approach to shop
fittings by the architect and designers, which placed
an emphasis on retaining the historic character of the
building as an integral part of the shopping
experience.
Policy 32: Regional Priorities for Sports and
Recreational Facilities
Local Authorities should work with County based
Sport Partnerships, the East Midlands Regional
Sports Board, Sport England and other relevant
bodies to ensure that there is adequate provision
of sports and recreational facilities
Target:
• Targets set in the Regional Sports Strategy
Indicator:
• Number of new sports and recreational facilities
provided per population served
Results:
• No data was available for 2005/06 as was the case in
2004/05
Data Analysis
5.48 As in the previous monitoring report no
progress in collecting data for this policy has been
made due to difficulties such as definitions of sports
and recreation facilities and difficulty when
considering the size of facilities e.g. one large facility
may be better than several smaller ones.
Policy Commentary
5.49 The East Midlands now has five established
County Sports partnerships to co-ordinate a strategic
approach to the development of sport and facility
development at county level. Monitoring of sport by
Sport England now covers three areas; participation -
the numbers of people taking part in sport;
frequency - how often do people take part in activity
and access and use of quality facilities.These have
been developed into Comprehensive Performance
Assessment Indicators (CPA). These surveys were due
to establish baseline positions in 2005 and then
repeated at regular, although different, intervals after
that.
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