Fw: Planning Gain (106 money): Community Improvement List
From:
Ben barker
Date:
Jul 01 14:25 UTC
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Hi,
Eric asked about 106 developments. The message below has just gone out to
Bedminster Partnership members. I've detached the attachment. It's large,
but I can send it to anyone who wants it. Only I'm off on holiday tomorrow,
so you will have to wait until I get back. Cheers, Ben.
All ideas welcome. Ben.
Hi,
I'm writing to members of the Greater Bedminster Community Partnership and a
few others at the request of the Co-ordinating Group of GBCP. We are
collecting information.
Many of you will know that as a by-product of many property developments,
developers are required to pay some compensation for stress caused in the
community (eg extra pressure on roads, schools, public spaces etc). This is
known as 106-money. It can amount to thousands of s a year.
I've attached the most recent BCC report on 106, including the three wards of
Bedminster, Southville and Windmill Hill. You will see that the current
committed total for the three wards comes to 1,541,189. These investments
have already been decided, but there will be further allocations to come from
developments that have not yet been agreed.
Until now the allocation of this money has been determined by negotiation and
bargaining within the officer corp of BCC. We hope to open this process up,
making it more transparent and accountable. We think that local people
through the neighbourhood partnership should play an active part in the
discussions that set priorities and allocates 106 monies.
We think the same about other monies too, but that's for another day.
So, what do we want you to do?
As a first step in opening up the process, we've decided to start a 'Community
Improvement List'. Initially, it will be just that, a list, possibly with
some costings, but no official standing. It's a starting point. We'll also
be asking statutory departments about their proposals in the area for the next
couple of years. Once we have started the list we will circulate it so that
people can say 'that's a good one' or 'don't like that' or 'you've forgotten so
and so'. We'll try to involve as many local people as possible.
Ok. Imagine that you had 1000, or 30,000 or 100,000, what would you spend it
on locally?
Some public seats in North Street? Refurbish the skateboard area in Dame
Emily Park? Buy more books for Marksbury Road Library? What do you think?
A couple of things are already on the table. These include proposals to make
Phillip Street (opposite the City Farm) much more comfortable for pedestrians
and cyclists rather than a rat-run and the Green Spaces and Rivers Network is
calling for some pump priming money to prepare green space plans so that
effective funding bids can be made to the lottery, landfill tax etc.
Send me your one or two favourite ideas. Talk to the people in your
organisation and find out what they think, too. If you can put a costing to
it and other details, so much the better.
Please note that we are only just starting on this process. Some parts of BCC
are very happy to debate priorities. Other sections would prefer to leave it
to the experts (ie themselves) to decide. Opening up the whole procedure may
take a year or two.
Cheers, Ben (Secretary, GBCP)
.