Town Centre Partnership Models and Governance, STP Learning Event

A Local Government perspective on models of urban regeneration

Daniel McKendry

Daniel McKendry Consulting

07454007302

Talking About towns

Governance Approaches

East Renfrewshire Case Studies

Can we have some more, Sir?Dependent or fighting back?

Common Messages – Perfect Storm

Problems

● Too many shops

● Recession, Welfare Reform, disposal income

● Online and Digital – channel shift

● Out of Town and Leisure competition

● Rates, Parking, Planning, cost, choice

● No Leadership or vision – Town Teams etc

……… Time for Action !

● Options

● Nothing

● Town Centre Manager

● Traders Group – formal or informal

● Town Centre Partnership – formal or informal

● Trust

● BID

● Council Led

East RenfrewshirePopulation of 89,000Barrhead pop 20,000

Horses for courses?Scale and Leadership

• Barrhead. Master plan approach –investment led

• Neilston Renaissance. A community led Charter for Change

• Clarkston BID. By businesses for a better town centre that the whole community can be proud of.

• Giffnock BID

BARRHEAD - Why Regenerate?

• Loss of Industry

• Unemployment

• Relative Decline re ERC

• Dated town centre

• A combination of opportunities

• Delivery via Regeneration Board

ContextFramework Plan

Town Centre Masterplan &Urban Design Framework

Delivery

• Barrhead

Regeneration Board

• Business Community

• Community Council

• Community

Engagement

• Stakeholder

Involvement

Key Developments

Health Hub,

Housing,

Superstore

Business Parks,

Integrated Community Hub

Public Realm

Community & Economic Benefit

● £29m of Public Investment has so far delivered £120m Private

● Positive Benchmark Evaluation

What is Next?

• Housing led Regeneration

• Barrhead South

• New STF Funded Barrhead High School

• Community Sports Hub

• Dams to Darnley Country Park

• Glasgow Road

• M77 Corridor

• Proven strong developer interest

• Phased development over 15 years

• Deliver approx 2,700 new homes

• Mixed use developments with retail and office space

• Possible retirement village

• Contribute £2.3 billion GVA to Scottish Economy & 4,700 jobs in ERC

• Infrastructure improvements

• School Estate

• Link Road between communities of Barrhead and Newton Mearns

• Green Network

•Glasgow Road Corridor Job Creation•£920,000 – 2015/16

•Foundry Links•£1,380,000 – 2017

•Auchenback Rail Station•£11,500,000 – 2020

•Dams to Darnley Country Park•£5,612,000 – 2016/18•Visitors Centre•Services & Infrastructure

•Junction 5 to Barrhead•£21,826,000 – 2017/20

•Business Incubation & Innovation Centre•£2,762,000 - 2016

What is Community Empowerment?Supporting communities to do things for themselvesEmpowers and involves individuals and communities / localities around decisions that affect them

Why?Gives people control over their lives and the services they can influenceEmpowers and create confidence and participationEncourages confidence and builds skills and capacityBetter tailored outcomes – eg jobs, services, health, crime, equality

How?Right to buy – private or public land and buildings – including compulsionFlexibility with Rates, Right to run servicesCommunity EngagementMore transparent common goodAllotments etc

What’s so different?

• Almost everything!

• Open agenda…..at least for starters!

• No real top table.

• Participants not delegates….that’s everyone.

• Getting to know you.

• Getting to know your place.

• Learning together…..skilling up.

• Flexible roles not fixed ones.

• Matching vision, aspiration, with an ability

to articulate both……quickly!

• Getting it down on paper.

• Signing up to Charter as mandate and

manifesto.

M77 Corridor SDO - Development

M77 Corridor SDO - Development

Clarkston – compared to others

• East Renfrewshire BID• Clarkston BID• Smallest in Scotland, possibly in

the UK• As a result: high levy (private

individual contribution) and budget significantly smaller: £60,000 compared to £2,000,000 in many other BIDs i.e.Edinburgh, Inverness

• highly reliant on eagerness of businesses and people contributing to it part time and voluntarily

Quick hit project after the ballot

Past initiatives...

Partnerships

Levering in additional funding

National Stage

• Marketing and Events• 64 businesses• Now Smallest in

Scotland, possibly in the UK

Classic Vintage Car rally

Common Threads

• Encouraging communities to take charge of the their future

• Locally designed solutions

• Investing in Place and Pride

• Feeding confidence and imagination

• Making and taking Chances

• Mixing and matching

• Learning from mistakes

• Writing your own future

Time for some Artful Dodging!