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Peterborough City Council
Future Cities Demonstrator Feasibility Study Peterborough DNA 1 Final Report Peterborough City Council TSB Ref No: 23443-162343 14/11/2012 Our Ref: FCD/DNA/Final Author: Charlotte Palmer www.peterboroughfuturecity.co.uk Contents Contents Executive Summary Page 1 1. Demonstrator Proposal Page 2 1.1 Introducing Peterborough Page 2 1.2 Peterborough’s Vision & Ambition Page 3 1.3 City Systems to Deliver the Vision Page 4 1.4 Our Approach to Integration: Peterborough DNA Page 8 1.5 Measuring Success Page 9 1.6 Engaging the City Page 10 1.7 Leveraging Value Page 10 2. Page 12 Project Details 2.1 Peterborough DNA Strands Page 12 2.2 Maximising Linkages Page 19 2.3 Delivering Peterborough DNA Page 20 2.4 Peterborough DNA Dissemination Page 21 3. Peterborough DNA Impacts Page 22 4. Risks Page 24 5. Funding Page 26 6. Appendices Page 27 Appendix A – Outline Programme for Peterborough DNA Page 27 Appendix B – Summary of Project Costs Page 29 Appendix C – Risk Register Page 30 Appendix D – Living Data Supporting Information Page 32 Appendix E – Process Diagrams: Innovation Pool & Skills for Our Future Page 34 Appendix F – Detailed Project Descriptions for ‘Sustainable City Metabolism’ Strand Page 35 Appendix G – Statement of Commitment Page 36 For more information, please contact: Charlotte Palmer Climate Change Manager Peterborough City Council Stuart House - East Wing St Johns Street Peterborough PE1 5DD E: [email protected] T: +44 (0) 1733 453538 www.peterboroughfuturecity.co.uk Website access password: PeterboroughDNA 1 Executive Summary Growth, innovation, sustainability, and delivery are all in the DNA of Peterborough. Our citizens and businesses are at the heart of everything we do, bringing the city to life and providing the resources for a successful and viable future. Sustainable City Metabolism is a comprehensive programme of multi-resource demonstrator projects applied to a key Peterborough industrial park, generating business consortia for future sustainability and wider (domestic and commercial) roll-out. Context Peterborough, with its population of 183,600 (150,000 in the urban area), reflects every aspect of a modern city: the dense urbanisation, growth ambitions and multi-culturalism of larger cities, as well as the close networks, communities and interactions of smaller cities. It is also the urban centre of a much wider economic geography, larger than many metropolitan areas, with an immediate hinterland of rural villages and market towns, as well as possessing significant links to other major conurbations. Peterborough is a major partner in the local LEP and leads the Growth Cities Network for the Greater South East. This unique character means that Peterborough is the perfect location for the Future Cities Demonstrator: our proposition is scaleable, and the discrete strands and component projects can be applied to any size of city. Our track record of demonstrating national and international leadership in innovation includes: • T he Peterborough Model data visualisation and collaboration platform; • C ollective energy switch scheme currently being followed by 15 other authorities; • T he Water Innovation Network for SME collaboration with Anglian Water, being expanded across the country; • O ver 1,100 companies signed-up to transform employability skills in the city; • The RSA’s ground-breaking Citizen Power programme. Our businesses are providing solutions across the globe. Our local networks mean that we can plug into and maximise their expertise, underpinning the local and national economy through job creation, supply chain trade and export. Proposition The Peterborough DNA programme reflects the integrated nature of Peterborough’s assets. The city and its people are vitally connected and, through this proposal, its systems intrinsically linked for mutual and exponential benefit. The programme takes a holistic and comprehensive approach, with three fundamental principles: an over-arching concept and strategy (single entity programme); establishing a test-bed for SME innovations; and identification and delivery of specific solutions. ‘Peterborough DNA’ consists of five key strands of activity, with each being a multi-system in itself and linking across to the other initiatives to deliver a viable, living city: Living Data creates a complete, live data resource and platform for the complementary strands of the Peterborough DNA programme and for wider application across the city, incorporating exciting, user-friendly visualisations and enabling multi-dimensional interaction. The Peterborough Innovation Pool is a unique hub for business innovation, providing solutions across all city systems and sectors, combining in a single place challenges, solutions, businesses, research and financiers, and compiling an innovation library for future learning and product generation. kills for Our Future will develop a single, virtual pathway S for an individual’s skills development, curriculum engineering to drive the FCD aspirations and a network of ‘Change Agents’ for personal development and business growth. Transporting Intelligence will deliver a fully integrated communications and transport strategy, driving-up efficiencies and safety across the road network and drivingdown emissions and environmental impacts. Each strand has been developed through robust and extensive engagement, carefully considered in terms of programme delivery and costed as far as is possible at this stage. Wherever possible, discussions have been held with industry leaders and innovators to assess practicality and sustainability, with conversations held on a confidential and without prejudice basis so that future procurement is not compromised. Each strand proposes innovative approaches, but crucially establishes a test-bed for SME innovation, as part of this programme and into the future. This is supported by initiatives within the programme, such as the Innovation Pool, so that SMEs are provided with both opportunities and the means for bringing innovation to market. It is anticipated that £21.5m will be required to fund the delivery of the Peterborough DNA programme, with this figure built from the ‘bottom up’ rather than back-engineering projects from a £24m total sum. As such, the projects stack up in their own right and have greater legitimacy than merely being ideas to justify the award of the maximum grant. An outline programme and a cost breakdown are provided in the appendices. A risk register is included at Appendix C. The majority of costs will be delivered by sub-contract, reducing the programme risks from the perspective of the council and the TSB. We will work closely with the TSB to finalise the delivery costs for the component projects, and to identify how the balance of £2.5m could be best utilised. Options may include enhanced marketing opportunities, collaboration with other cities, including bespoke trials elsewhere, or held by TSB as a further safeguard against risk. We anticipate that the benefits from the Peterborough DNA programme will be felt and experienced by all of Peterborough’s citizens and businesses through enhanced economic activity and prosperity, life-choice and lifestyle enhancements and a lesser dependency on unsustainable consumption and production cycles. In short, Peterborough DNA is an exciting and innovating programme which will demonstrate clearly, practically and effectively how to transition to a successful and sustainable city of the future. www.peterboroughfuturecity.co.uk 2 1. Demonstrator Proposal 1.1 Introducing Peterborough Peterborough is a compact but diverse city: deliverable in scale but containing all the issues and challenges faced by both large and small conurbations. The transformational impact of £24m on a city like Peterborough will provide learning models which will be practical, deliverable, replicable and scalable. Peterborough is a cosmopolitan city with a rich heritage, home to a fast-growing multicultural population of 183,600, and a wider catchment area of more than 600,000 within a 25-mile radius. As such it is one of the largest cities in the East of England. The local authority covers both rural and urban areas: from the Fenland edge in the east, to the rolling ‘Clare country’ in the west, with the compact urban area at its centre. The urban area consists of 7,900ha and is occupied by 150,000 residents. The city has been a site of settlement for over 3,000 years, but has been shaped in more recent times by the railway, brick and engineering industries, and massive growth under the New Town commission in the 20th century. Now, with one of the most forward thinking agendas for economic development in the country, the city aims to build an even bigger, better and truly sustainable Peterborough for its existing citizens and future generations. People The city’s real strength is its cohesive and integrated multicultural population (figures below from census 2011): • Population of 183,600 • 4 1% aged 29 or under (compared to 38% nationally, 36% East of England) • Lower proportion of population aged 65+ • 1 3% non-white British (compared to 12% nationally, 7% East of England) • Second fastest city in the country for growth at 18% • B y 2035 the population will be 230,000 (an increase of 25%) Economy The city has a broad-based economy where every business sector is represented, with a diverse workforce to match: • G VA per head (2009) is relatively high at £23,394 (compared to £20,498 nationally and £18,536 East of England) • B etween October 2009-December 2011 unemployment has fallen by 0.6%, while job vacancies have increased by 60% since September 2011 • T he Peterborough workforce of 110,000 is employed in more than 5,000 companies, including both global giants and innovative SMEs www.peterboroughfuturecity.co.uk • K ey sectors include environmental goods & services, engineering & manufacturing, finance, media, food & drink, and logistics • O nly 37% of the workforce is employed in higher level jobs (8% below national average), with 27% employed in lower skilled jobs • A lthough average weekly income is around 15% lower than the national average, the house price-earnings index for Peterborough (at x8.3) is better than national and East of England figures Despite the recent recession, Peterborough’s economy has proved resilient and even flourished: • O ver 5,000 jobs have been announced in the city during the last year • M ajor local companies such as Caterpillar Perkins, BGL, Royal Sun Alliance and many others have shown growth in employees and apprentices • N ew investment is also coming to the city: Kelway IT (who support over half of the FTSE Top 100 companies) and the Yearsley Group logistics: in the city centre, high profile operators such as Primark, Patisserie Valerie, Carluccio’s, Office and Superdry among others, following the £12m regeneration of Cathedral Square Connections Peterborough’s strategic location in the country means that it is an attractive location for businesses to prosper: • L inks to London by rail in just 45 minutes and fast, direct routes to the northern cities of Leeds, York, Newcastle and Edinburgh, and east-west to Cambridge, Leicester and Birmingham • T he £43m upgrade of the railway infrastructure will enable a Thameslink service by 2016, providing direct connections between Peterborough and the financial institutions of the City of London • C lose proximity to major arterial routes (A1M, A14, and A47) with a comprehensive parkway system connecting these and wrapping around the city to give Peterborough one of the country’s fastest commute to work times • S ustainable transport is enhanced through the unique and scenic 45 mile ‘Green Wheel’ cycle network – recognised by The Times as the second best cycle route in Britain – and supported by the Local Sustainable Transport Fund Regeneration Peterborough’s ambitious billion-pound growth programme is already underway to create a new city for the 21st century: • O ver 160,000 sq ft of Grade A office space has been given approval next to the mainline railway station • 3 00 low carbon homes are under construction as the first part of the South Bank regeneration area 3 • A joint venture has been put to the market for the Fletton Quays area, to bring forward residential, leisure and cultural development • T he Peterborough Gateway industrial park of 1million sq ft is already coming out of the ground to the SW of the city • T he recent £135m investment in the city’s education system is continuing to the south of the city, while the city’s University Centre and innovative partnerships with Anglia Ruskin, Cranfield and Middlesex universities are tackling one of the country’s largest higher education cold spots Challenges Like many cities, however, Peterborough faces some testing challenges: • C urrently living beyond our resources and tackling additional pressures on this as part of the growth agenda • L ow skills attainment with its potential to undermine aspirational economic development • A low wage structure and relatively lower end economy • Areas of deprivation within the top 5% in the country • P oor health indicators affecting the potential productivity of the workforce • Social cohesion with high levels of immigration • A transport system that is under pressure from the city’s growth, and which needs to reduce its environmental impacts In recent years tremendous advancements have been made in all of these areas, and the positive growth agenda and investment interest will enhance the opportunities of tackling these in the immediate and long term. Importantly, Peterborough not only has the challenges that many cities face in providing a truly sustainable future, but the potential and assets to underpin transformational solutions. 1.2 Peterborough’s Vision & Ambition The vision for Peterborough is for a bigger and better city that grows the right way through truly sustainable development: improving the quality of life for all its people and communities and creating a city which is a healthy, safe and exciting place to live, work and visit, and is famous as the environment capital of the UK. At the heart of this vision are the Peterborough citizens and the business community that drive the city’s prosperity. The long-adopted Sustainable Community Strategy sets out both the aspirations and the responsibilities for the city. Figure 1 below summarises those goals. Building on this, Peterborough adopted its Single Delivery Plan (SDP), integrating partners from across the city’s systems to identify practical targets and delivery methods to reach those goals. We like to do things differently in Peterborough, so all those involved in the SDP, across all the city’s systems, have been empowered through the creation of an ‘Innovation Forum’, facilitated through the Royal Society for Arts and Commerce (RSA) – the first of its kind in the country. Taking this forward, the city will be adopting the One Planet Living agenda: providing clear and transparent targets, initiatives and accountability for the city as a whole. The success of the Future Cities Demonstrator programme will be vital in identifying the solutions to deliver the One Planet Living agenda, building on the strong foundations of the integrated networks already formed. Priority 1: Creating opportunities tackling inequalities • Improving health • Supporting vulnerable people • Regenerating neigbourhoods • Improving skills & education Priority 2: Creating strong & supportive communities • Empowering local communities • Making Peterborough safer • Building community Priority 3: cohesion Creating the UK’s • Building pride in Environment Capital Peterborough • Making Peterborough cleaner & greener • Conserving natural resources • Growing our environmental business sector • Increasing use of Priority 4: sustainable transport Delivering substantial & truly sustainable growth • Creating a safe, vibrant city centre & sustainable neighbourhood centres • Increasing economic prosperity Figure 1 • Building the sustainable Sustainable infrastructure of the future Community Strategy • Creating better goals places to live We have an established and successful history of growth and renewal: from the city’s doubling in population between 1967-1988 to the present day. Peterborough is already the number one city for housing stock growth (Centre for Cities 2012), is currently the second UK city for % population growth, and according to the McKinsey Report (2011) will be England’s fastest growing city by 2025. By 2026, Peterborough’s population will have increased to well over 200,000, with 25,000 homes built and 20,000 jobs created. The demand for, and benefits from, growth are clear, as are our plans for delivering it. These are ambitious, but not unprecedented: we have done it before and will do it again. We recognise that it will bring both opportunity and challenges. The opportunities that it presents, in terms of economic prosperity and equity, social aspiration and www.peterboroughfuturecity.co.uk 4 environmental security, are immense, and Peterborough’s strategic location, offering unique national and global connections, means we are well placed to realise those. However, the current economic climate is difficult, and we appreciate that innovative and creative approaches will be even more crucial in meeting those challenges. Innovation is the driver behind Peterborough’s new approach to growth and regeneration. We have developed innovative funding arrangements to enable investment and redevelopment to be delivered despite the economic downturn. Public-private collaboration has been established for new financial products, such as the city mortgage and insurance schemes, and our economic development company is consistently delivering novel ways to support business growth. The focus is on delivery, on making things happen in Peterborough. Peterborough is adamant that it wants to deliver a truly sustainable future and that growth should be a driver for that, rather than a threat. We understand the challenges that we face. The global picture is clear: over half of the world’s population live in urban areas, consuming 75% of its resources, adopting unsustainable patterns of consumption and production; the average European needs three planets to sustain itself. We also recognise that our growth ambitions could add even greater strain onto systems that are already proven to be unsustainable. By adopting our growth ambitions and the strategies as we have, Peterborough will challenge those global trends and local pressures, and create a new template for truly sustainable cities. The city’s Integrated Growth Study sets out how sustainable growth can be planned and delivered. This unique study is supported by the Water Cycle and Energy studies, and was the foundation for the ‘Peterborough Model’ – a pioneering city-wide visualisation and collaboration tool that has been showcased across the world. This strength of understanding and innovation, coupled with one of the country’s largest clusters of environmental businesses, underpins Peterborough’s ambition to become the UK Environment Capital. That ‘capital’ will be exploited to the maximum to ensure that it delivers true economic prosperity and well-being, through job creation and the integration of employment, skills and innovation. The city’s challenges are not merely resource or environment related. A relatively lower end economy and wage structure, coupled with lower skill attainment, but higher levels of NEETs and unemployment, present challenges on the social and economic front and promulgate low aspirations. Peterborough does, however, possess the strengths to transition to a successful as well as sustainable future: highly professional and technologically advanced companies; ground-breaking skills programmes; resilience to the macro-economic downturn with indigenous business growth and new inward investment. Supporting this economic resilience and growth are strong and powerful networks in the private, public and third sectors. Over 1,000 companies are signed-up to the city’s ‘Bondholder’ scheme, providing excellent business-tobusiness opportunities, and through the EnviroCluster www.peterboroughfuturecity.co.uk local companies have connections to a pan-European collaboration of innovation hubs. Both UK CEED (UK Centre for Economic and Environmental Development) and PECT (Peterborough Environment City Trust), demonstrate the mutually complementary benefits of commerce and sustainability, and are strongly supported within the city. The city council’s ESCo (Energy Service Company) is also a national leader in public-private collaboration and integration, with 15 other councils signing up to Peterborough’s collective energy switch deal, and a range of renewable energy schemes already delivered. We are proud of how far Peterborough has come and of our firm commitment to the environment and true sustainability. We know we face complex and growing challenges, and see our vision to live within the resources of one planet and creating the UK’s Environment Capital as fundamental to meeting these challenges: realising a bigger and better Peterborough. The role of business in achieving this is vital, and in Peterborough we have strong business leadership, smarter, leaner businesses and innovative new products and services. Our thriving business sectors will be the engine of our green growth. All the elements of a successful and sustainable city are in place, and we are already integrating some of our systems. The FCD funding will deliver a step change in the speed of this transformation, maximising the city’s private and third sector strengths in a time of public sector austerity. 1.3 City Systems to Deliver the Vision Given the range of challenges and opportunities already identified, it is imperative that the demonstrator programme integrates the systems which impact on those areas to maximum effect, however complex those relationships may be. The following provides an indication of the city systems which will be integrated into the overall demonstrator proposal. Business The commercial ecosystem is vital to the prosperity of the city in both the immediate and long term. The success or failure of our local companies has a direct impact on, or is directly affected by, virtually all the other city systems. The business community is closely aligned and supportive to the city’s vision and agenda across its full breadth. Of the >5,000 businesses in Peterborough, only the top 25 companies are above SME size. Major companies range from Caterpillar Perkins, Amazon and British Sugar, through to Travelex, Bauer Media, and Diligenta (part of the Tata Group). The majority of the city’s workforce, however, is employed within SMEs and these provide the bedrock to the city’s success. So diverse is Peterborough’s economy that every sector is represented in the city, providing a rich resource to input into the city’s ambition. Our environment sector, with over 350 companies and 5,800 staff, is one of the largest in the country, and like the many other Peterborough businesses, is bringing forward cutting-edge innovation, from individual water management solutions such as Aquai-Mod, through to the £500m Energy Park being developed by PREL (Peterborough Renewable Energy Limited). The Water 5 Innovation Network is a unique collaboration between local businesses and the local water company Anglian Water: identifying innovative products to address water management issues, over 100 innovations have been trialled. Smaller scale businesses are also innovating: for example, the local environmentally friendly taxi service using hybrid vehicles, and a water-free car wash. level, as are the skills levels of the working age population. Over the last few years over £135million has been invested in the city’s school system, creating academies and the city’s first university centre, and that investment is continuing. As a result, there has been skills level improvement across the board, in some levels (e.g. Level 4+) at a rate higher than the national profile. Businesses across the city are helping to tackle the city’s challenges. Through the Investors in the Environment Scheme, businesses can sign up to reducing their environmental footprint and receive support to achieve that. Over 1,100 businesses are committed to the city’s ‘Skills Service’, volunteering direct employability training into schools, to build the workforce of the future and transform the opportunities for young people. While through the city’s Corporate Social Responsibility programme (Side by Side) businesses have a quick and easy way of inputting to worthwhile community initiatives. The greatest achievement in recent years has been the advent of significantly higher education provision to the city. Historically a higher education ‘cold spot’, Peterborough used to lose many of its school leavers to national universities elsewhere, many students failing to return. University Centre Peterborough (UCP) was established in 2009, a joint venture between Anglia Ruskin University and Peterborough Regional College, and has seen incredible success to date with exceptional recruitment rates, and is ahead of schedule to adopt self-awarding powers and full university status. Further courses are being offered across the city by Anglia Ruskin, Middlesex, and Bedford universities. A joint venture between the city council and Peterborough Renewable Energy Ltd (PREL) with Cranfield University, has developed the Centre for Renewable and Clean Energy, an education and research centre that has attracted interest from a large number of international students. The Greeniversity initiative, our sustainable skills share programme, continues to grow and thrive with over 100 teachers and 1,000 learners, and has received funding from Nesta to expand nationally. The green agenda also pervades the formal education system, with over 90% of all the city’s schools enrolled on our sustainable schools programme. Communications Peterborough’s urban areas are well served by communications infrastructure with excellent speeds and connectivity – this will be vital in underpinning the delivery of the city’s vision and the demonstrator proposal. Highspeed broadband provision to the rural villages is unlikely to be delivered by the market, however, so we are working with Cambridgeshire County Council and other partners on the Connecting Cambridgeshire project, to provide superfast broadband to 90% of homes and businesses by 2015. The many existing networks of people and organisations in Peterborough span businesses, communities, third sector and public organisations, providing an invaluable resource to build consensus and the vehicles of delivery for the city’s vision. Many of these are well-organised, and connected virtually, although some remain informal and poorly integrated. The successful use of these networks and appropriate deployment of technological communications will enhance the opportunities for informal groups to network and social cohesion. Education The skills of the population are vital for the delivery of an aspirational and high-achieving workforce, which in turn drives a transformation of the city’s prospects and economic activity. Educational attainment in Peterborough schools, however, is below national averages, by varying degrees at each Although Peterborough’s education system clearly has challenges, its current and future transformation will provide the human resource power, intellect and research to drive the practical delivery of the city’s vision. Environment The environmental performance of Peterborough is intrinsically linked to the performance of many other strands of the city’s systems and processes: from health and well-being to economic prosperity and social equity. Peterborough signed up to an environmental charter in 1991, and was one of only four cities to be awarded Environment City status in 1992. In 1993 we set up PECT (Peterborough Environment City Trust) as an independent charity to focus solely on driving forward the environmental agenda within the city. In 2008, Environment Capital was adopted as one of four priorities of the city partnership’s strategy and in 2010, ‘Environment Capital’ was approved by full council as a major city policy. The environmental aspiration is writ large across all of the city’s agenda. In business, this is represented not only in the commercial activities of companies, but also in their commitment to the Investors in the Environment scheme which has over 700 companies registered and 125 working towards formal accreditation. So successful is this scheme that it has expanded rapidly and was launched across Yorkshire and Humberside this year and is currently being adopted by Northamptonshire, with business members from Edinburgh to London. Retrofit programmes by local www.peterboroughfuturecity.co.uk 6 RSLs, new build of low carbon housing in the city centre (one of the largest in the country), and the Forest for Peterborough tree-planting scheme, are transforming the environment and lives of many of Peterborough’s citizens. Peterborough’s environmental impact, however, does not stop at its city boundaries. Over the last 3 years, the city has been involved in five EU funded projects that aim to drive green growth and sustainable development and build models of best practice and innovation across the EU, with Peterborough hosting many international events. The ‘Peterborough Model’, developed by the city in conjunction with IBM, Royal Haskoning and Green Ventures, has been demonstrated from as far afield as Bordeaux and Cape Cod, as well as receiving interest from councils and LEPs across the UK. The city faces existing challenges in environmental resilience and security; our technical knowledge, commitment (political, commercial and voluntary) and thought-leadership will continue to address those and ensure that the city’s growth ambition puts no further burden on those systems. Environment: Energy Peterborough’s energy supplies are reliant on critical infrastructure located outside of the local authority boundary. The gas-fired power station located in the city does not directly supply the city’s energy demands, and only operates when it is commercially viable for it to export power to the National Grid. Energy infrastructure is constrained in many areas (particularly in the south and north east of the city), requiring costly intervention to support Peterborough’s growth objectives. Rising energy bills are having significant impacts on Peterborough’s residents, with increasing numbers in fuel poverty, directly adding to the city’s health challenges. Rising energy costs also impact on the economic viability of the city’s businesses. Peterborough’s commercial electricity use is more than double the domestic consumption. Failure to address these issues will seriously constrain the delivery of the city’s vision; the new initiatives, as set out in this demonstrator proposal will start to fulfil those requirements in an innovative way. Innovative energy solutions are already underway, through both the private sector with companies such as Larkfleet Housing, Lark Energy and Aquavent, but also the public sector. Bluesky Peterborough, the city council’s recently created Energy Service Company (ESCo) has a remit to produce renewable energy and increase the energy efficiency across the council’s portfolio, and beyond. To date over 1000kW of solar PV have been installed on council properties, an agreement is in place with Viridor for a major energy from waste plant (to complement PREL’s Energy Park) and plans are well advanced for both wind and solar farms. Environment: Waste Although we are a high-performing authority for household waste reused, recycled or composted (47.5% 2011/12), we also produce a lot of it: around 900,000 tonnes per year, predicted to increase by 45% by 2030. www.peterboroughfuturecity.co.uk The cost of disposing of waste to landfill is increasing dramatically, and the city is predicted to reach its landfill capacity by 2014. We are therefore working with residents to increase the amount we recycle to at least 65% by 2020, as well as the private and public sector energy from waste plants already mentioned. Significant volumes of commercial and industrial waste are exported and imported into the unitary authority area. By addressing this element, creatively, with local businesses, and integrating this into a wider drive for efficiency (environmental and economic), as proposed in the demonstrator bid, we will set an exemplar for the wider community which will be promulgated through its integration with other systems. Environment: Water Situated in one of the driest and lowest-lying regions of the UK, Peterborough is vulnerable to both drought and flooding. Much of East Anglia is under serious water stress. The main source of potable water (Rutland Water) is located outside of the local authority boundary, providing little confidence in water security. Significant new water infrastructure will be required to meet Peterborough’s planned growth, which will need to be carefully managed to ensure no negative impacts on water availability, water quality and biodiversity. New development, however, also introduces opportunities to actively improve both flood risk management and the quality of water management. To reduce the need for costly and intrusive infrastructure interventions, innovative new models need to be explored, tested, demonstrated and communicated. Effective water management can reduce, if not obviate, the need for intensive intervention. Peterborough’s Water Innovation Network has already identified many new approaches, providing a ready-made test-bed for SME invention and innovation. Integrating this approach and these innovative products will provide the essential solutions to achieve the city’s vision. Health The health of people in Peterborough is generally worse than the England average. Deprivation is higher than average and about 9,800 children live in poverty. Life expectancy for both men and women is lower than the England average and whilst all-cause mortality rates have fallen over the last 10 years, there is evidence of the gap widening. There are also marked inequalities within Peterborough (life expectancy is 9.4 years lower for men and 5.6 years lower for women in the most deprived areas). Early death rates from cancer and from heart disease and stroke have fallen but the latter is worse than the England average. One fifth of Year 6 children are classified as obese. Levels of adult smoking, teenage pregnancy, GCSE attainment, breast feeding initiation and smoking in pregnancy are worse than the England average. Rates of road injuries and deaths are worse than the England average. Priorities in Peterborough include reducing health inequalities, focusing on promotion of healthy lifestyles and improving outcomes for long term conditions. 7 Peterborough’s Live Healthy Live Green Partnership is working to deliver significant improvements in the health and well-being of the people of Greater Peterborough and in the delivery of health and social care. For quality of life purposes, therefore, it is essential that all systems take consideration of this element and find ways of addressing these challenges. This can be through communication, education, skills, transport, energy technologies or even just in planning the system. Neighbourhoods Peterborough is a diverse and multicultural city, analogous to the UK’s largest cities; for example, Peterborough’s citizens speak over a third of the world’s languages. This brings both opportunities and challenges. A number of areas are in need of regeneration, with relatively high levels of deprivation: a dense population, fuel poverty, poor health, crime & anti-social behaviour, poor educational attainment. Although Peterborough was identified as a high crime area in 2005, there have been considerable reductions in crime levels in recent years, making us an area with one of the best crime reduction rates in the country Engaging with our communities is challenging on several levels. Cultural and language differences play a significant part but so does the method of engagement: public meetings are not well attended unless there is an immediate and significant issue affecting that particular neighbourhood. Encouraging residents to play a part in decision-making through engagement and consultation has not to date been as successful as it could have been. Greater engagement of communities through the RSA’s ‘Citizen Power’ programme has been invaluable, identifying new ways of working. We need to build on that, using technology, innovation and demonstrable benefits, to show real value to Peterborough’s citizens and the opportunities that growth can bring. Transport Transport is a vital element in the successful functioning of a city. It underpins economic vitality and growth; connecting people with jobs, goods and services. When it fails, however, it can have a dramatic impact on productivity and business performance. Transport also impacts on health, well-being and the environment. A well-managed network providing for all modes of travel can reduce congestion, improve resilience, reduce emissions, and promote sustainable transport leading to improved health and well-being. Transport is an important strength for Peterborough. The network of parkways, major city roads, bus routes, cycleways and footways have played an integral part in allowing Peterborough to grow. The city has continued on a course of advancement, but its commitment to an ambitious growth agenda will put additional stress on the transport network that will need to be addressed through major infrastructure intervention, unless innovative solutions can be found. Existing challenges, that will be exacerbated by increased population growth, include: tackling congestion and its impact on public transport particularly; improving resilience to accidents, road works, weather and security threats; reducing the environmental impacts of congestion; improving journey reliability and travel information. If these challenges can be addressed successfully, they will enhance economic vitality, underpin environment capital aspirations and improve the quality of life for Peterborough’s citizens. The solutions proposed in the demonstrator will progress that agenda, deliver the overall vision and integrate with other systems, using technology to maximise the value of existing infrastructure and reduce the need for more. www.peterboroughfuturecity.co.uk 8 1.4 Our Approach to Integration: Peterborough DNA The integration of the city’s systems has already begun, through the Sustainable Communities Strategy, Single Delivery Plan and imminent One Planet Living policy adoption. Our approach to sustainability, driven by our Environmental Capital ambition, recognises the need for a new delivery model to achieve change and build momentum towards realising truly sustainable growth it has enabled Peterborough to build a national and international reputation as a city that is developing new ways to embrace environmental change. Fundamentally, our proposal will build off the existing assets and strengths of the city, using those to further integrate our systems. Delivery of the demonstrator will be through strands of ever-improving helices of understanding and technological advancement, where systems are integrated within each strand, and where each strand is connected to the other within the body corporate of the city: effectively, the make-up – the DNA – of the city. Our rich tapestry of business networks and partnership organisations is supported by a robust research base. We have a strong body of evidence across many sectors and already have shared information platforms (Hawkeye, the Peterborough Model, the Neighbourhood Window), plus experience of acting as a test-bed for innovative service delivery models (e.g. Sustainable Transport Demonstrator City). Our ground-breaking ‘Peterborough Model’ approach to collaboration is a high speed way to align and visualise data from multiple sources, specifically designed to accelerate and improve partnership decisionmaking. Applying this approach means that we are already integrating systems, have established effective collaboration between stakeholders, including the private sector and utility companies, and enabled better engagement with our communities. Innovation is in the DNA of Peterborough. The ‘Peterborough DNA’ project will build on our excellent networks and existing innovations to provide an integrated city that benefits citizens and businesses, not just for the life of the FCD project, but into the future. All strands of the DNA proposal are not only multi-faceted and complex in themselves but also link to each other component, so that there is mutual gain and complementary advantage. The simplicity of the structure also offers an easily accessible concept containing a highly complex interaction. The ‘Peterborough DNA’ proposal will demonstrate delivery during the course of the funded project, but each strand, and the concept as a whole, has a clear long term life cycle, which, vitally, is self-funding and sustainable. The outcomes from the proposal are clear: • B usinesses will be able to access both a physical test bed environment and a robust innovation network – not only trialling solutions but also giving them the widest possible accessibility and audience; • R esidents and businesses will begin to adopt sustainable patterns of consumption and production, and benefit from enhanced environmental and quality of life experiences without the need for massive infrastructure investment – where utility systems are both secure and offer a clear financial return; • R esidents will also be better informed and empowered to make decisions on how they run their lives (from transport to skills and careers), as well as influence how the city’s systems are run through the self-learning city cloud; • T he FCD funding will be exploited to its absolute maximum within the period of the fund and also as a catalyst to access other funding streams (national and European), which will just continue to grow the project. ‘Peterborough DNA’ will consist of five distinct but integrally connected strands of projects. Delivering systemic change in its own right, but also underpinning the other strands will be a single integrated and interactive data system. The five strands of the ‘Peterborough DNA’ proposal are as follows: Living Data Provides the analytic engines and presentation tools not only for delivery of the Peterborough DNA projects, but also on a comprehensive city-wide basis. The proposition has three fundamental principles: • An overarching strategic, integrated series of strands; • E stablishing a platform (test-bed) for SME innovative solutions now and into the future; • Identifying and delivering specific solutions as part of the FCD proposal to demonstrate that Peterborough is innovative and can deliver. www.peterboroughfuturecity.co.uk Peterborough Innovation Pool Solves the city’s challenges by developing new ideas through collaboration and open innovation; providing a uniquely accessible portal and library of solutions. 9 1.5 Measuring Success Central to, and running through the core of, the Peterborough DNA proposal is the Peterborough citizen and the Peterborough business. Our proposal will have achieved little if it does not impact positively on the quality of life of local residents and on the prosperity of our companies. Sustainable City Metabolism Delivers working demonstration projects to improve resource efficiency and build business consortia to ensure economic efficiency. Skills for Our Future Combines a tailored IT platform to empower young people, with a bespoke Peterborough qualification system and network of graduate ‘Change Agents’ to provide the human resource to power the city’s transformation. Transporting Intelligence Drives-up business efficiency, drives-down carbon emissions and improves the travelling experience of Peterborough’s citizens in a high-tech, low infrastructure way. With each proposed project we plan to put the necessary structures in place to enable the city’s service delivery organisations, partners, businesses and citizens to continue to identify, test and deliver solutions to Peterborough’s challenges into the future. The component demonstrator projects will provide evidence of performance, enabling take-up of solutions elsewhere in the city and rollout nationally and internationally. This will include development of innovative financial and procurement models to support effective delivery of solutions to the city’s challenges at speed. The 183,600 population size of Peterborough, combined with consistent political commitment in the city, means that our demonstrator proposals can be delivered rapidly and that FCD funding will have a transformational effect on the entire city. We have made a good start towards achieving our aspirations for truly sustainable growth, but FCD funding has the real potential to enable Peterborough to achieve a paradigm shift. The investment in our proposed solutions will, we believe, result in long term, sustained benefits for the city, its businesses and residents. It will facilitate transformational change across a whole host of Peterborough challenges, faster than is currently achievable, and deliver tangible improvements to economic growth, life quality and environmental resilience. Crucially, it will also provide a clearer understanding of city challenges, assets and opportunities to inform future initiatives and funding decisions. Section 2.3 sets out the detailed processes for managing and evaluating success. Here we would like to identify what it will mean to the Peterborough citizen and business to be a part of our demonstrator city. The person in the street or at home, the big companies and small SMEs, will all be able to access live data on issues that matter to them: routes to training and employment, access to markets, environmental performance, journey times, community initiatives. Not only will they be able to ‘receive’ but we shall deliver solutions that enable them to input and influence: to engage directly with the systems that shape their lives and commerce. Living Data provides the means and innovation to transform how the city operates and interacts. So many innovative products are being created in Peterborough: from renewable energy solutions and water management devices, through to financial security algorithms and pioneering insurance products. Some of these products have come successfully to market, others are struggling. Through the Peterborough Innovation Pool, companies will be able to open up their innovation to the largest possible audience, to solve local and potentially global challenges, in a secure and value-enhancing environment. This will create real job opportunities, and begin to generate a paradigm shift in the perceptions of the city, its economy and its people. One clear contributor to enhancing company wealth or the quality of life is the recycling of money back into people’s pockets, either corporately or personally. Our Sustainable City Metabolism model will do just that, whilst also reducing over-reliance on unsustainable resources. Initially, the benefit will be felt by businesses in the Fengate industrial area, but the mechanisms and models tried, tested and established there will be able to roll out across whole business districts, residential areas and ultimately the city as a whole. Young people, NEETs, the unemployed, or just those looking to up-skill or change their lives, will be able to design and follow a Personalised Career Path, which matches their interests, abilities and ambition with bespoke skills and the needs of local business. The Skills for Our Future programme will offer a user-friendly, portable web-based platform, accessible to individuals, www.peterboroughfuturecity.co.uk 10 businesses and providers alike, to map and support those paths, kept consistently fresh and updated through hints, opportunities and advice so that real-life choices can be made. The development of a parallel model to this for health issues will not only facilitate the career paths being pursued, but also offer guidance to support lifestyle and health decisions that have a clear and purposeful result. Those with skills to use will not be wasted as a resource in the city, or feel the need to leave the city to exploit those. Through the ‘Change Agents’ initiative they will have direct and fruitful contact with local businesses, with both parties realising long-term benefit. Anyone travelling in Peterborough, by foot, bike, car or bus, whether residents, companies or visitors, will be able to access live-time data on the city’s transport network. Transporting Intelligence will provide them with the tools to make informed decisions on planning journeys, and their subsequent travelling experience will be quicker, smoother and safer, and, importantly, will have a reduced impact on the environment. Key to many of the strands is wider democratic engagement across the city, meaning that Peterborough’s citizens will be engaged as never before. They will not only understand but also, crucially, influence the delivery of the demonstrator programme. The Peterborough DNA website already created will ultimately be fully open. The development of a successful demonstrator programme in Peterborough will be underpinned by the use of our Peterborough Model for Accelerated Collaboration. This approach marries high speed evidence alignment with partnership building techniques and is a highly effective and low cost way of getting broad partnerships to work on complex issues. The Peterborough Model approach, from which the Living Data strand of the ‘Peterborough DNA’ programme has been extrapolated, will be deployed for complex partnership issues throughout the delivery programme. By connecting our learning to the Future Cities network, Catapult Centre and the TSB itself, our residents and businesses will be connected to a much wider community, and be able to demonstrate what it means to be a part of a truly sustainable city. In summary, the success of the Peterborough DNA proposal will be the positive impacts it has on everyone who lives or works in, or visits the city, and the speed with which the FCD funding enables those impacts to be realised. 1.6 Engaging the City Peterborough has taken a collaborative approach to the development of the FCD Feasibility Study right from the start by convening a series of workshops and discussions with many of the city’s partners: public sector bodies, businesses large and small, government agencies, not-forprofit organisations, academic institutions and individuals. All have contributed positively and enthusiastically, bringing not only an immense wealth of knowledge and expertise, but also a diverse range of perspectives and interests. Appendix G is a list of the many organisations who have contributed to the development of this proposal and who are committed to supporting its delivery. The writing of the bid alone has involved a total of 8 organisations, each contributing fresh observations and insights, often at no cost to the project. Peterborough already has an extensive network of formal and informal partnerships that are keen to contribute to creating a better, smarter and more integrated city. These range from the broad, such as the city’s ‘Bondholder’ networking scheme with over 1,000 members through to more focused alliances such as the internationally recognised EnviroCluster and Water Innovation Network. This fabric of partnerships, voluntary groups and alliances is strong right across the public, private, voluntary and inter-faith sectors in Peterborough. Harnessing the power of these partnerships through the demonstrator to invent and catalyse change is something that Peterborough may be unique in being able to offer. www.peterboroughfuturecity.co.uk 1.7 Leveraging Value As a whole logical sequence, the ‘Peterborough DNA’ proposal builds on existing operations, investments and processes, maximising the outcomes and assets created by those and ensuring not only their long-term sustainability and legacy, but importantly a paradigm shift in their impact on the city. Living Data Peterborough is probably one of the best researched cities in the country. Its Integrated Growth Study was a £500k research and strategic planning project that provided unparalleled perspectives of the city’s systems and performance. That, in turn, has been used to underpin the ‘Peterborough Model’, which is already transforming the way the city thinks and how communities can influence their environmental impact. Alongside these, the Neighbourhood Window and the city council’s Hawkeye system provide a plethora of data to varying degrees of accessibility. Not only will Living Data convert static data into a livetime reality, but it will be engineered so that the data that is collated and disseminated is useable and useful: many systems collect data which merely sits there. The catalytic funding through the demonstrator will bring the existing systems together for a far greater effect than would otherwise be possible, creating the best understood city in the country, in a model that is ultimately sustainable. 11 Peterborough Innovation Pool Peterborough has already taken major strides to establish innovation networks. The city’s EnviroCluster provides local businesses of any scale with both networking opportunities and access to new markets. Through the Water Innovation Network (WIN), companies have direct access to Anglian Water to pitch and trial their innovative products. This has already achieved tremendous success, and this water industry model is being explored elsewhere. Peterborough is clearly a hot-bed of innovation, with an unrivalled network of companies within the city and a willingness on their part to collaborate. This model will pull together in a single place (virtual as well as partly physical) challenges, solutions, funders, academic R&D and a library of successes or outstanding requirements. Without the pump-prime funding through the FCD competition, it would not be possible to deliver a model to cover every sector and innovation solution, but Peterborough’s track record shows it can be delivered. Sustainable City Metabolism A lot has been achieved in Peterborough in terms of gearing up communities and local companies to maximise their resource efficiency. Programmes such as the Investors in the Environment scheme, Cross Keys Homes retrofit programme for social housing, and the city council’s ESCo and its renewable energy interventions, have proved successful, but have relied on a single entity taking the lead. In all of this work, the major obstacle to expanded adoption has been making the business case to persuade others to realise the opportunities created through environmentally sustainable options (as evidenced by the work carried out by PECT in the Fengate area with local companies there). Planning permission and funding have been secured for a £10m Sustainable Skills Centre, which is scheduled to commence construction in early 2013, and which will become the long-term focal point of the Skills for Our Future strand. This strand of the programme will build on this success and take it to a new level: it will start to address career advice in a novel, effective and user-friendly way, as well as provide the skills and resource networks essential for economic growth. Although there are clear routes for long-term sustainability and replicability, transformational expansion of existing schemes would not be possible otherwise. Transporting Intelligence One of the city’s major assets has been its transport network. Historically, this has been car-orientated, but in recent years the city has achieved model shift (for example, modal shift percentages second only to London 2008). It has been a Sustainable Travel Demonstration Town (DfT), and has recently been awarded £5million under the Local Sustainable Transport Fund (LSTF). The last has been deployed across a range of initiatives aimed at increasing the use of sustainable transport modes, from information provision, promotion and advocacy to physical and practical interventions. Over the last 4 years, £18m capital has been spent on the city’s Parkway and other highways, with £30m on maintenance over the same period. Demonstrator funding will utilise the social and organisational infrastructure already in place through the LSTF, but importantly develop innovative and cross-cutting initiatives that would not otherwise be possible, using intelligence and intelligent approaches to develop truly sustainable transport flows in the future. The City Metabolism proposal builds on the work already done and not only demonstrates the environmental and business effectiveness of integrated renewable solutions, but importantly develops the business model to accompany them. Demonstrator solutions across the utility spectrum will encourage a business alliance or consortium for implementation on a practical and scalable basis. Any financial returns can come back into the business direct or into expanding the consortium across the whole district and ultimately the entire city and beyond. Skills for Our Future Peterborough’s approach to skills development in the city has been pioneering. In many ways, however, it is relatively simple: businesses need skills locally to thrive and prosper, so enable them to influence skills providers and encourage them to develop the employability of their future workforce. Over 1,100 companies (20% of the local business community) have signed up to the Peterborough Skills Service, committing to developing employability skills directly in schools. 600 businesses have also agreed to contribute to questionnaires to influence skills provision. www.peterboroughfuturecity.co.uk 12 2. Project Details 2.1 Peterborough DNA Strands 2.1.1 Living Data Improving upon the city cloud phenomenon, the Living Data strand is both the enabling element of the whole Peterborough DNA programme and a strand in itself: it will ultimately connect across total place data and be a resource for the whole city, producing exciting visualisations and enhanced interactive opportunities. The strands of sustainable Peterborough DNA – the Peterborough Innovation Pool, City Metabolism, Skills for Our Future and Transporting Intelligence – all require composite information from multiple partners that can be analysed in one place and communicated to targeted audiences. Living Data will provide the evidence base, analytical engines and presentational tools to meet the business objectives of each of the proposed demonstrator projects. City information systems cannot currently support the data and analytical requirements of the demonstrator programme to the effect required, as their architecture consists of separate operating environments focused on internal delivery. The spectrum of cloud-based options and smart analytics platforms has been evaluated; comparing ownership, delivery and costing models. The resulting plan has two phases: • P hase 1 of Living Data is targeted at providing the required data, analytics, city dashboard and a set of focused presentational tools to support the Peterborough DNA proposal. • P hase 2 will build the specification and business case for a wider general purpose city cloud, creating economies of scale, process, data and other efficiencies across city organisations. We propose that the savings accrued by those organisation will offset the capital cost of delivering the Phase 2 project and the long-term sustainability of the Phase 1 project after 2014. Appendix D shows the Phase One cloud structure and approach, and the development of the Phase 2 cloud over the lifetime of the FCD project. Phase 1 of Living Data is the immediate deployment of a hybrid cloud solution with a compatible, state-of-the-art data analytics capability. It will be delivered within eight months of the FCD award, delivering at speed, tailored solutions to the demonstrator programme requirements, whilst ensuring future flexibility for the expansion of the cloud, and its analytical and presentational services. This solution will also allow Peterborough to develop its own expert analytics team whilst partnering with a global ‘tech’ company for scaleability, specialist skills and accessing international innovation. The hybrid private cloud will take data from systems and www.peterboroughfuturecity.co.uk sensors across key partners into new data architecture. It will be enhanced by a powerful new city operations and analytics system which will be operated by local analysts with support from a global technical partner, who will be procured as the main delivery and R&D partner for cloud and analytics solutions. Phase 1 will provide the platform for all of the component parts of the Peterborough DNA strands that require IT/ portal accessibility, and then visualise their achievements in an exciting and innovative way. For example, it will provide the data repository, evaluation tool and innovation library for the Innovation Pool projects, and data from the Transporting Intelligence strand (e.g. from multi-functional traffic cameras) will be transformed into intelligent analysis and actions (e.g. automated calibration of traffic lights to increase transport network efficiency). Serco (Peterborough’s outsourced IS provider) will lead the process of delivering the Phase 1 cloud and procuring the technical partner for cloud and analytics services. For speed of execution Phase 1 of Living Data will not be an Impact Level Three secure system, and at this stage will focus on delivering the Peterborough DNA strands, rather than undertaking organisational negotiations about creating shared services. The Living Data presentational layer will deliver tools to provide citizen-centric and business-centric information to targeted audiences, and a city dashboard will assist local professionals in smarter operational management and decision-making. A key component will be a single live visualisation platform of the city with views for key user groups. Integration of the pioneering Peterborough Model (the city’s existing visual model and collaboration platform) with elements of the city council’s Neighbourhood Window (integrated neighbourhood data system) and Hawkeye (standard GIS platform) will provide the basis for the live visual platform across the city. All presentational tools will be developed to allow inclusion of increasing numbers of live sensors. The Living Data presentational layer will also be opened out to a much larger audience (within the parameters of commercial intellectual property, confidentiality and security) through new and exciting presentational media, ranging from ‘Apps’ and the Electronic Town Crier Service to the retina-reactive 21st Century Notice board (citizen information screens, described in more detail in Appendix D). These will be specified as part of the programme between March and June 2013. Other communications media such as voice-activated user interfaces will also be explored to both facilitate access to all users, but also enable feedback from communities and business into the system. Running in parallel with this, Phase 2 of Living Data will create the specification and business case for a city-wide service cloud. Phase 2 will change the way the city is run whilst delivering economies of scale, process, data and other efficiencies across Peterborough. The savings 13 accrued across organisations will mean this element is self-sustaining and will provide the head-room for the continued investment into the Phase 1 analytics, dashboard and presentational tools. The Living Data programme and delivery milestones are summarised in Appendix A. Total costs for the programme are £4.7m and a breakdown of these is shown in Appendix B. Living Data provides: • A common evidence base and platform to identify and quantify city issues through the creation of a scalable multi-partner data and analytics hub: leading to increased resilience by mirroring data and hosting this in a 3rd-party secure location (Phase 1), and a shared platform with an increase in security and resilience classification to Impact Level Three standards (Phase 2); • D iagnostics, analytics and presentational tools for each strand of the Peterborough DNA proposal (operational by August 2013); • P resentational tools for professional users, stakeholder organisations, SMEs and citizens that inform, alert and build a common understanding of city performance (October 2013-March 2014); • A focus for integrated thinking for better solutions for citizens and businesses: identifying, calibrating and improving local system efficiencies, and learning from that process, whilst developing home-grown skills in the analytics team to solve city issues. The Living Data team will employ its own analysts who will work to agreed KPIs. These KPIs will be identified in the specification phase of each of the strands and be supplemented by a set of performance improvement targets that relate specifically to the provision of data, analytical capability and, through this, new solutions. Key partners for data sourcing include: • Peterborough City Council; • Opportunity Peterborough (economic development company); • Serco (outsourced IS supplier) and key Living Data delivery partner; • Peterborough Environment City Trust; •Peterborough Health and Wellbeing Board and Peterborough NHS PCT (public health); •Environment Agency (flood, waste and sustainability expertise); •Anglian Water (drinking water, waste water and links to the Water Innovation Network); • UK Power Networks (Distributor Network Operator); • Centrica (gas supplier, power station operator). The development of Phase 2 of this proposal will provide for the long-term sustainability of this project through the very real savings accrued by the organisations entering into the ‘total cloud’ model. Although further work needs to be done in developing the details of the scheme with partners, it is anticipated that £1.7m of savings could be generated per annum which would more than cover the on-going annual cost of the system. The accelerated process to deliver the Phase 1 Living Data cloud will provide an (inter-)national template for cities, showing how cities with ‘applications delivery IT systems’ can migrate to a smart hybrid cloud and then onto an integrated shared cloud: delivering their own long-terms solutions but with technology company flexibility and support. Living Data Phase 1 will showcase a method for using high speed procurement and framework contracts to deliver shared data and intelligent analytics. The Phase 2 parallel work stream will provide the long term business case to support both the ongoing costs of phase one but also the transition to a more integrated city cloud to benefit the partners, local businesses and citizens. The Living Data Strand will fundamentally change the way that Peterborough is run. It will enable citizens to see and understand and improve the operation of their city. It will not only draw together the city information systems, but integrate city thinking and operations. As such Living Data will be the foundation of a smarter and more efficient city that can continue to innovate. 2.1.2 Peterborough Innovation Pool Providing a platform that not only enables but also encourages innovation is vital to both the success of the Peterborough DNA proposal and transforming the city’s future – many products fail to find funding, are untested or cannot be developed owing to a lack of resource on the part of the company. The Peterborough Innovation Pool provides the platform for all agents involved in innovation (public and third sector, SMEs, R&D, venture capitalists, business angels) to input to solve the city’s challenges by developing new ideas, products and services through the power of collaboration and open innovation. The focus of the project will be on establishing a network of Peterborough’s experts, entrepreneurs and innovative businesses, and an associated system that enables innovative products and services to be trialled and deployed. It will provide a single portal which will bring together this challenge-and-solution-based process in front of SMEs, large businesses, investment angels, funders, R&D institutions and others involved in innovation delivery, and crucially create a library of past activity. The city’s organisations (including utility companies, communities and even other businesses) will put forward their challenges and act as enablers and test-beds for new technologies. The city’s larger businesses would also be linked into the network to increase and improve collaboration with SMEs, to achieve mutual benefits. This new “cluster” concept is not sector-specific. It focuses on people, expertise, entrepreneurship and collaboration. The Peterborough Innovation Pool will build on existing business and innovation networks based in the city (EnviroCluster, Water Innovation Network), and business clusters that are currently ‘un-tapped’. Whilst the focus of the network will be on solving Peterborough’s challenges, the network will be open to both local companies and ultimately others globally with an interest in developing www.peterboroughfuturecity.co.uk 14 their innovations using Peterborough’s knowledge and expertise and the city as a whole as a test-bed. A process diagram for the Peterborough Innovation Pool is shown at Appendix E. The Innovation Pool will: • Deliver solutions to challenges; • Support the local value chain; • Increase innovation, resulting in business growth and job creation; • Enhance public procurement processes; • Achieve inward investment; • Increase media awareness and city brand; • E nable local business promotion and export opportunities; • Develop a city culture of open innovation. Businesses and experts would sign up to the network by registering areas of interest, skills and resources. The network will be underpinned by an ICT-based support system (developed as part of the Living Data strand), providing members with a visual representation of their network. The ICT system will provide information to innovative businesses on city services and systems issues and problems relevant to their areas of expertise, setting challenges for these businesses to solve or to link to their existing products. Challenges will initially relate to the other strands of Peterborough’s DNA, and other key city challenges such as health, city centre vitality and sustainable food, but can ultimately be opened up to any challenge (public or commercial). The visualisation outputs from the Living Data system will be used to show this information in an exciting and interactive way, describing the challenge and clearly demonstrating the links between the organisations that are interested. Businesses from any sector will be able to participate in generating solutions. As an indication, the range of challenges directed through this process could include: • E nergy generation along transport margins (e.g. pavement energy generation, alternative functions for street lighting columns); •Sustainable retrofit options which also encourage future flexibility of buildings for long-term economic sustainability (early work discussions have already been held with BRE which could act as a catalyst for this); • Innovative ways of directly addressing Peterborough’s health issues; • Improving the sustainability of Peterborough’s food chain (the city has submitted a proposal to the IBM Smarter Cities programme around this key sector of the city’s economy, the recommendations of which could feed directly into the Innovation Pool for practical solution delivery). www.peterboroughfuturecity.co.uk As well as the open-source, but managed and secure platform, an additional engine for innovation will be provided through the running of regular network events, open forums and workshops where challenges will be discussed and solutions fostered in collaborative partnerships between business, academia, R&D institutions and the public sector. Experts, automatically identified by the supporting ICT system, will be invited to participate in discussions relating to topic areas which match their area of expertise. Ideas and potential solutions generated by the network will be submitted for assessment to the organisation setting the challenge, leading to agreements and partnerships for future development. An interactive, digital Innovation Library will collect and showcase information ideas and potential solutions, so that the Innovation Pool can be used as a resource at any point and on any topic. The Peterborough Innovation Pool will act horizontally, across all industry sectors in the city. It can act as a driver for growth for the city’s existing environmental business cluster (EnviroCluster) but could also be used to galvanise growth in other strong sectors in Peterborough including manufacturing, engineering, transport & logistics, finance, agriculture and the creative industries. A physical space will also be set up in the form of an ‘Innovation Room’ to support and enable collaboration and interaction between organisations and promote creative thought-capture. This will incorporate cutting-edge technology solutions to aid collaboration, while incubation space will be provided to support the creation of start-up companies developing from the Pool. The Peterborough Innovation Pool will link to and be supported by the Skills for Our Future strand which will provide a crowd-sourced/freelance talent pool able to offer specialist input (product design, IT, communications). The Innovation Pool portal will enable local organisations to bid for time to progress innovation projects. Peterborough’s “Change Agents” will then be able to progress ideas generated by the network and evolve them out into new companies, or as joint ventures with existing businesses, to commercialise solutions. A collaboration and engagement programme will run alongside the development/operation of the network to support and enable SMEs and larger innovative organisations to work together to achieve mutual benefits. This would include provision of legal and financial advice to ensure that solutions are successfully brought to market. The Peterborough Innovation Pool programme and delivery milestones are summarised in Appendices A. Total costs for this strand are £1.2m; a more detailed breakdown is contained in Appendix B. A number of options have been explored to ensure the long-term sustainability of the Innovation Pool. These will be developed during the course of the project in collaboration with partners such as the TSB, local companies and business angels. Interestingly, one of the first challenges to run through the Innovation Pool process and be opened up to local businesses could be to identify its long-term sustainability. The following options are all 15 feasible and could be explored further: • P rovide flexibility within the Innovation Pool proposal to pump-prime product trials, with future revenue generated feeding back into the system; • M embership fee and/or profit-share arrangement for successful innovations that have been ‘incubated’ by the network; • D irect, transparent, sponsorship for enhanced company/ organisational profile, with no rights of commercial advantage awarded and tight controls on intellectual property. The success of this strand will ultimately be determined by how many innovative products come to market and the range of challenges that are solved. Degrees of success will also be measured, however, through a range of metrics. The rate of the success of existing Water Innovation Network (WIN) in terms of products brought forward for assessment, extent of further exploration and ultimate trialling, will be used as an initial baseline. Given the innovative expansion of WIN through the Innovation Pool, these levels will be expected to be exceeded during the course of the project, with initial targets as follows: • Q 1/2 (April 2013 – Sept 2013) - 15 products brought forward, 1 product trialled • Q 3/4 (Oct 2013 – March 2014) - 40 products brought forward, 4 products trialled The Peterborough Innovation Pool offers a unique opportunity for businesses to provide solutions for the city in which they operate in a forum which has a far wider, potentially global, reach. Just as the Living Data strand underpins the delivery of the Peterborough DNA programme in terms of data sharing and utilisation, so the Innovation Pool will be a mechanism for solution delivery both within the DNA programme and across the city as a whole. 2.1.3 Sustainable City Metabolism The Sustainable City Metabolism strand will create working demonstration projects to improve the performance of Peterborough’s energy, waste, water and transport systems, whilst also building a collaborative business consortium that focuses on improving system sustainability and effectiveness and realises real financial returns. Section 1.2 has indicated the challenges faced by the city in many of its systems: limited energy capacity; waste capacity and disposal costs; water security; transport congestion and its associated air quality, emissions and health impacts. The urban metabolism is “the sum total of the technical and socio-economic processes that occur in cities, resulting in growth, production of energy, and elimination of waste” (Kennedy et al, 2007). This strand of the Peterborough DNA programme aims to increase the effectiveness and resilience of the city’s systems, taking a holistic approach that strives to balance material and energy exchanges between nature and society, working towards eco-effectiveness, city self-sufficiency and longterm resilience. The Metabolism demonstration projects will mainly focus on the Fengate business park, located to the east of Peterborough. Fengate businesses are primarily, although not exclusively, SMEs, operating in a variety of sectors, whose challenges reflect those of the city as a whole: •Lack of information and understanding of system challenges (e.g. water and energy availability) and business benefits of improving system sustainability; •Economic constraints limiting opportunities for improving efficiency and effectiveness; • Businesses operating in isolation; • Rising energy, water and waste costs; •Transport congestion, limited parking space, poor public transport connections; and •Local flood risk from surface water, and deteriorating water quality. The projects will strengthen the Fengate Business Network via an engagement programme that builds on the Peterborough Business Clusters project (2010-11), which aimed to improve the resource efficiency of the Fengate business cluster and establish behavioural change. An initial understanding was gained of Fengate’s systems and their interactions, but it was found that small businesses struggle to make changes towards improved sustainability without support to invest in shared solutions, and that they need compelling evidence to be driven to change their processes. Therefore this strand will provide evidence of the benefit of making business processes more sustainable, with investment in solutions that businesses can trial on a ‘try before you buy’ basis. A range of solutions are identified as part of this strand, as identified in the milestones below. These will integrate trials of mobile and demonstrator technological solutions (e.g. mobile wind turbines, water management devices) and future-proof existing initiatives to maximise their impact. The Fengate Business Network will also link to the Peterborough Innovation Pool strand, setting sustainable business process challenges for innovators to solve and becoming a test-bed for the trial of new technologies. The engagement programme will support businesses to recognise the benefits of collaboration to achieve mutual benefits, as some solutions may be more cost effective when undertaken jointly, e.g. waste exchange or rainwater harvesting and reuse. The aim is to build the business consortium within the Fengate district and ultimately roll this model out across Peterborough, to achieve a ‘total place’ consortium of businesses working for mutual benefit towards eco-effectiveness. Appendix F describes the scope of the proposed Energy Metabolism, Waste Metabolism, Water Metabolism and Transport Metabolism demonstration projects in more detail. These projects will address Peterborough’s infrastructure challenges by delivering: • Established Fengate Business Network (June 2013); •Operational connections from three Fengate businesses to the planned district heat network (January 2014, subject to progress with EfW plant delivery), and a business case for wider roll-out of district heat networks across the city (June 2014); www.peterboroughfuturecity.co.uk 16 •Collaborative trial of smart energy meters on a residential development and installation of neighbourhood scale substation energy meters, plus business case for roll-out (January 2014); • Information on Fengate’s energy use linked into the Living Data strand (January 2014) and used to identify solutions for improving energy demand management (March 2014); •Business case and identified funding stream for implementation (if viable) of a Fengate Smart Grid (June 2014); •Development and trial of mobile wind turbine and solar units (January 2014); •An innovative operational waste “bring facility” underpinned by a Living Data portal to maximise efficacy (operational by August 2013); •Anaerobic digestion (AD) plant demonstrator for businesses to trial feedstock suitability (operational by March 2014), and business case for a co-operative AD plant for the Peterborough area (November 2014); •Functional water management infrastructure at trial locations (October 2013), and business cases for upscaling (March 2014); •Electric bike hub powered by mobile wind turbine trialled (January 2014); • Monitoring data from demonstrator trials (March 2014). The Sustainable City Metabolism programme and delivery milestones are summarised in Appendix A. Total costs for this strand are £6.2m, with a breakdown shown in Appendix B. Success will be demonstrated by: •Sign up to the business network by >50 businesses and >75% positive feedback on benefits, justifying roll-out across Peterborough as a new approach to the city’s environmental, economic and quality of life challenges; •Commitment by 5 businesses to connect to the district heat network; • 1 0% reduction in energy and water demand by Fengate businesses and residents by end 2014; •A viable business case for wider roll-out of the AquaiMod technology for water demand reduction; •Commitment by 5 businesses to implement renewable energy, AD technology and sustainable transport solutions. The project will build on, and maximise the potential of, a wide range of other initiatives in the city (as set out in Section 2.2 below), realising new outcomes for projects including the city’s ESCo and energy from waste programmes, as well as providing new models for initiatives such as the EU Zero CO2 project in the Glinton & Peakirk community. During the delivery of the Sustainable City Metabolism projects, comprehensive business cases will be developed to determine the viability for their continuation and rollout to other parts of the city. These business cases will www.peterboroughfuturecity.co.uk include identification of appropriate funding streams, which might include: • Business subscription to city business networks; •Charges levied for use of the AD demonstrator and mobile energy units. Alternatively, the mobile energy units and AD demonstrator could be sold on or rented to an individual business or another city; •Revenue generated by future sales of demonstrator products, based on profit-share with the city based on the Peterborough’s initial investment in the product development and trial (see Peterborough Innovation Pool); •Business subscription to enable the ongoing operation of the mobile wind and solar energy units, the AD demonstrator and the electric bike hub. • European funding programmes; •Partnership funding from Anglian Water, the Environment Agency and energy supply and distribution companies. •Savings realised through implementing water efficiency and energy saving measures on the Council’s property portfolio. The Sustainable City Metabolism is a practical demonstration project in its own right, where holistic resource approaches can be used to achieve environmental and economic benefits. Trialling and demonstrating innovative solutions, and establishing robust business consortium opportunities which recover costs from improved energy efficiency, provides a model not only for business, but also communities. 2.1.4 Skills for Our Future Peterborough knows that it faces significant challenges in the skills base of the city and has already started to address those. It is abundantly clear that the city needs inspired and ambitious young people with the right skills to enable businesses to prosper and to meet its challenges, both now and in the future and this strand provides a step change to our current achievements. The Skills for Our Future strand takes a comprehensive and exciting approach to skills provision. It will build on our existing innovative approaches to skills (the Skills Vision and Skills Service brokerage scheme), provide pioneering careers advice – a challenge for the country as a whole – and will ultimately use the “SmartLIFE-Peterborough’ centre (scheduled for construction in 2013-14) as a focal hub. The Skills for Our Future strand has three distinct but connected elements. The programme for delivery is outlined in Appendix A, while a breakdown of the total costs of £2.3m is shown in Appendix B. The first element will provide a tailored IT platform both to inspire and empower young people and to support the identification of skills required to meet the needs of local businesses. It will: •In partnership with the Young Persons Employment 17 Service, Peterborough Skills Service and local providers, offer a single, virtual space for independent, impartial skills and careers advice for young people. The Training Service will develop an independent trading arm to provide the service to city schools and colleges and beyond. An estimated 120 young people will benefit from the new approach by April 2014 rising to 250 per annum thereafter. will provide ongoing revenue to support future maintenance and development. The second component is the design and provision of a range of unique qualifications based on identified business needs (based on the Skills Survey) and the needs of a future city. Specifically, the project will: •Test, in three selected schools, a new element of the National Curriculum based around the Future City concept – designed to inspire, motivate and empower young people to take up careers which play to their personal strengths and meet the needs of local businesses together with those of a growing, sustainable city. •Empower and inspire all those with low skills levels to design, develop and implement their own career path, using this unique, on-line platform to match these paths with tailored training and development opportunities. These IT-based career paths would be supported by “hints” collated through a social media/ network approach based on the experiences of others at key stages; a “learning” system in every sense of the word. Personal Career Pathways (PCP) would be “portable”, enabling young people to access and update their personal career path on the move through specific “apps” on mobile devices. Initial trials will see the development of 80 PCPs with an additional 200 each year beyond April 2014. •Ensure bespoke training (see below) at all levels and match young people with relevant and specific personal and business development needs including work experience, apprenticeships and employment opportunities. •Work with Peterborough NHS to investigate parallel “Personal Health Pathways” to support young people in making decisions that may have an impact on their ability to pursue their PCPs, potentially addressing, at an early age, health challenges such as mental wellbeing, obesity and life expectancy. •The virtual platform will also offer a facility to collate the skills and talents of Peterborough’s new arrivals to develop a virtual knowledge pool and exchange, to support local SME development and promote social cohesion. An initial investment of £1.2m will be required to instigate this platform, while the trading arm above, coupled with advertising and subscription revenue from the PCP website, •Develop a range of modular, Future City Qualifications at all academic levels, from NVQ through to Higher Degrees, through a partnership of providers in the city, including nationally recognised academic institutions such as Cranfield and Anglia Ruskin universities, as well as local institutions. This will include the UK’s first Technical Baccalaureate which would be developed in partnership with a wide range of local businesses. The content of all qualifications will be reviewed annually against known and predicted city challenges and accredited and awarded by those institutions. Three such qualifications will be developed during 2013/14. The initial focus will be on skills for sustainability as part of Peterborough’s Environment Capital ambition, including support for the city’s 350-strong environment sector. • D evelop a Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Cranfield University which will match research and development opportunities with local business needs, through a link between this strand and the Innovation Pool portal. The development of a range of courses will require an initial £500k investment. The programme will become self-sustaining through course fees and sponsorship beyond the FCD period. The third component would see the introduction of a fully supported graduate “Change Agent” programme, in partnership with Change Agents UK: bringing the brightest and best future graduate talent to the city to increase economic development, help deliver the Future Cities programme, and act as a long term city-wide resource. This element will build the capacity of the business community, and particularly those in the EnviroCluster by using a high quality, low risk staffing resource; linking closely to the Innovation Pool strand to identify short-term capacity requirements, through: •Creating a high profile placement scheme which complements the Environment Capital and inward investment aspirations of the city, through collaborative partnerships with business. •Building a crowd-sourced/freelance talent pool of graduates able to offer specialist input (product design, IT, communications) from which local organisations can bid for time to drive Future City projects and support the R&D elements described previously. www.peterboroughfuturecity.co.uk 18 •Establishing an on-going talent pool by initially harnessing the 500-strong national “Graduate Entrepreneurs” network, to encourage and support home-grown entrepreneurs (10 in year one), fostering a “make a job don’t take a job” culture. •Expanding the graduate/young professional community in Peterborough, creating social, personal and professional networking opportunities, by attracting high calibre graduates to live, work and stay in the city. •Build a local network of sustainability graduates (30 in year one) able to offer flexible and ‘bitesize’ support to SMEs, plugging into and utilising the national network of 10,000 sustainability graduates. Peterborough will be the focal generator for that network and act as the catalyst for a “crowd-sourced thinktank” for ideas generation. infrastructure intervention costs, as well as lower longterm running and maintenance costs for enhanced system sustainability. Transporting Intelligence will deliver: •An expanded system of data sensors, variable message signs and coordinated signals (delivered in two phases ending September 2013 and June 2014); •A network of Bluetooth sensors and access to GPS data to collect intra-city trip data (September 2013); •An automated network management system (fully operational by June 2014); •A live transport model of the city (fully implemented by end June 2014; incremental roll-out from September 2013); •A universal sensor that will collect the greatest amount of data possible in a single unit (November 2013); An initial investment of £800k will be required to upscale this project during the initial twelve months of the demonstrator programme, sustainability thereafter provided through anticipated business sponsorship or membership fees. •Temporary signals that can communicate and be integrated into the network (by end November 2013); Each of these elements will be integrated to ensure maximum effect and the potential for cross-fertilisation of ideas and opportunities. The impact will be transformational both on the economic performance of the city’s businesses, but also on the lives of young people and their communities. •A low cost city centre communications system that can handle large packets of data (November 2013). 2.1.5 Transporting Intelligence Transporting Intelligence aims to enhance the operation and resilience of Peterborough’s transport network: reducing congestion and thereby decreasing emissions whilst improving users’ travel experience; promoting business efficiency. This strand aims to future-proof the network for Peterborough’s ambitious growth agenda and provide the platform from which to effect significant modal shift to sustainable transport. Our existing traffic data is static and requires manual review. Although this informs decision-making and influences how we operate the network, it could do much more. This strand aims to improve data and information management (how it is collected, analysed, used and distributed) and making data a powerful tool for change. Information on network performance and traffic conditions will be used to automate network management: moving from reactive to proactive responses to incidents and events, with the system continuing to learn over time. The result will be a safer, more efficient, flexible and resilient network, with reduced need for infrastructure, reduced operating costs and lessening environmental impact. Our goal is to provide comprehensive, accurate and valuable real-time data to citizens and businesses alike, providing transport information updates through message signs, applications, and innovative social media devices (including linkages through the Living Data programme). Key to the success of this strand will be creative solutions around communication and off-grid energy provision, lower www.peterboroughfuturecity.co.uk •An off grid sustainable energy system that will reduce emissions and costs associated with sensor units and signs (by end November 2013); To reduce costs and impacts of the proposed system, an off-grid, cost effective, zero emission means of power for network management units will be developed as part of this strand. This will have the potential to be used for street lighting and on street sign lighting. The project will create a new communication network across the city, potentially making use of schools, sports centres, libraries, other council buildings and on street infrastructure to act as communication hubs across the city, linked to either a hard-wired network of communication lines, a wireless solution or a mobile data collection system. The Transport Intelligence programme and delivery milestones are summarised in Appendix A. Total costs are £5.6m, and detailed breakdown is shown in Appendix B. Business models around commercial sponsorship of data and the system’s interaction with the Living Data strand, will provide opportunities for long-term maintenance and sustainability of the system. Although only at early stage discussions with technology agencies, we are also exploring pioneering information dissemination through the low-cost DAB broadcast service. An Integrated Transport Strategy and Implementation Plan are currently in place for transport infrastructure delivery. This project will complement and accelerate the capability of achieving automated network management and, in combination with existing infrastructure, the equipment will act as a benchmark for new technology to be tested alongside it. These developments will add considerably to the city’s capability to manage the network and influence travel behaviour. The improvements to and extension of the collection of data, management and information systems will allow the installation, management and enforcement of low emission zones, priority for high occupancy vehicles and low emission vehicles and the promotion of sustainable modes, amongst others. 19 Feedback is an integral part of how this system will operate and as such it will be largely self monitoring. All data collected will evaluate the performance of the system, with continual improvements implemented automatically. The key to success will be journey time reliability, low levels of congestion, high levels of modal shift and reduced carbon footprint. A monitoring regime will be established against existing baseline indicators of average journey times through the network, the number of congestion incidents, carbon emissions and recovery time after an incident. Transporting Intelligence will contribute to stretch targets in each of these areas contributing to a 20% reduction in congestion and 3% reduction in CO2 emissions compared to what would otherwise occur by 2015. Transportation is often seen as a single strand issue. The reality is that its success, or failure, and the approach adopted here have huge interactions with the economic, environmental and life quality aspects of the city as a whole. Transporting Intelligence enables the entire transport system as a whole not only to be integrated more thoroughly within the city’s fabric, but also to act as an agent for positive transformation. Transporting Intelligence is integrally linked to the other Peterborough DNA strands. Through the Living Data model, it will inform planning and highways decisions from a statutory basis, as well as facilitate the programming and timing of work by other statutory undertakers, such as utility companies. It will be available to private businesses and other organisations, so that they can more effectively plan their commercial operations and any long-term transport plans, using basic analytic functions. It will also be available to individuals going about their daily life. Equally, experiences of those using the transport network will be fed back through the Living Data model should the user interface aspect of that strand come forward successfully. Challenges raised through the Transporting Intelligence programme will also be run through the Innovation Pool process. 2.2 Maximising Linkages The interaction between the Peterborough DNA programme and other city initiatives has already been outlined in Section 1.7. Here we identify more specifically how the strands will exploit that existing investment. The Living Data strand builds on, and takes to the next level, a range of existing city data systems: the Peterborough Model visualisation, Neighbourhood Window, and Hawkeye. The considerable investment represented by these data platforms (the equivalent monetary value for the development of the Peterborough Model alone would be at least £300,000) as well as the £500k Integrated Growth Study work, is invaluable to the success of the Living Data strand and the Peterborough DNA proposal as a whole. Peterborough Innovation Pool maximises the potential of the existing networks of the EnviroCluster and Water Innovation Network, funded by investment from the city council and Anglian Water respectively, and develops them in a way which would not be possible without the FCD competition funding. The city has invested considerably in its environmental performance over the years; exploring new and innovative ways to drive environmental and resource resilience. The Sustainable City Metabolism strand will make maximum use of a range of city projects and schemes: • city council’s Energy study and Water Cycle studies; • ongoing EU Zero CO2 project in Glinton & Peakirk; • establishment of Peterborough’s ESCo; • investment by the city council into new MRF & EfW facility; • Sustainable Transport Town and LSTF projects; • the Peterborough Business Clusters Project undertaken by PECT with Resource Efficiency East and Renewables East in 2010/11. Peterborough’s Skills Vision and Skills Service are currently supported by over £200,000 per annum from the city council and other partners (e.g. the Side by Side CSR programme), let alone representing a massive commitment by the companies in releasing personnel to provide employability training and business insights in schools. This programme has already proved a huge success, and is already being explored as a model of best practice by other authorities across the country. The Skills for Our Future initiative will provide a paradigm shift in the impact of this area of activity, integrating it with the full range of city systems, and importantly, use the links already in place with other authorities to provide a replicable model. The city’s Local Sustainable Transport Fund (LSTF) has already attracted £5m from central government. Transporting Intelligence will use this as a platform and provide a new, exciting and innovative approach to transport management, embedded in other systems across the city, transforming the role and impact of the transport network. 2.3 Delivering Peterborough DNA 2.3.1 Project Plan & Delivery Process An outline programme for delivery is contained in Appendix A, identifying the main activities and milestones, while a detailed project implementation plan will be developed immediately following award of the FCD funding, which will set out in detail the full scope of each strand and their component projects, including delivery milestones, programme gateways and reviews, and risk management processes. It will be important for the project plan and the proposed methodology for the component projects to ensure that the delivery process is programme driven, recognising the risks and factors influencing the scheme (see Section 4). Regular reviews will need to be undertaken to ensure focused implementation, taking account of programme, risks and costs and providing early warning of changes or potential deviations from the project plan. An outline delivery programme (Appendix A) has been prepared during this Feasibility Phase, which identifies the main activities and milestones for each strand. Delivery milestones for each of the five strands of Peterborough’s DNA are set out within Section 2.1. www.peterboroughfuturecity.co.uk 20 2.3.2Project Management Team 2.3.4Procurement Strategy A core team is proposed to manage the delivery of the five strands of the Peterborough DNA proposal, with resources allocated for this team in the financial spreadsheet. The team includes: Peterborough City Council will ensure that the substantial FCD fund is either spent or contracted by March 31st 2014. We will ensure that all tender processes are carried out with complete probity and full compliance with existing local and national statutes, policies and guidelines. Wherever possible, however, we will use creative but compliant procurement processes, both existing and new to provide rapid delivery of the proposal and its component strands. • E xecutive Programme Director – responsible for the overall delivery of Peterborough DNA to meet the objectives and targets agreed with the Governance Board, reporting to the TSB and to the city council’s Growth Steering Board (which consists of Council Leader, Chief Executive and other senior officers of the Council, and Opportunity Peterborough, the city’s economic development company); Section 5 on funding carries more detail on the approaches to be taken in this regard. • P rogramme Managers – responsible for delivering each of the 5 strands to programme and budget, overseeing outsourced contracts where appropriate and managing project risks; Compliance and due diligence will be the major responsibilities of the lead Peterborough DNA team, and will be audited and verified through the council’s legal and finance teams. • P rocurement Manager – responsible for coordinating the procurement of sub-contractors for the delivery of technical components of the programme; 2.3.5Programme Measurement • C ommunication & Engagement Officer – responsible for leading the communication and engagement programme, in accordance with the agreed communications plan, for the overarching programme and the component projects within the five strands; Early in the delivery programme we will focus attention on further developing key outcome indicators and milestones for each of our strands, together with a bespoke performance management approach. The latter will use existing baselines, where these exist, from which: 2.3.3Governance • B aselines will be identified for each strand of the FCD programme together with stretch targets to drive the changes required (many targets have already been identified in the descriptions of the five strands and component projects in Section 2); A Governance Board will be established for Peterborough’s DNA, to oversee the delivery of the programme against objectives agreed at the outset of the programme, and to set, monitor and review outcomes against appropriate stretch targets. These targets will relate to the agreed objectives, but are likely to evolve over the course of the programme. • P erformance data will be captured electronically through the council’s project management tool and will be linked with the Living Data programme. Project Managers will be tasked with updating VERTO on a monthly basis including performance against milestones and the investment profile as well as a review of the risks associated with the project. • Administrative support. We propose that membership of the Peterborough DNA Board includes: • C abinet Advisor for the Environment, Peterborough City Council; • Operations Director of Peterborough City Council; • Executive Director - Strategic Resources of Peterborough City Council; • Chief Executive of Peterborough City Council; • Chief Executive of Opportunity Peterborough; • Chief Executive of Peterborough Environment City Trust; • P ermanent member - independent adviser nominated by TSB. It will be vital that the Peterborough DNA Board is closely linked with the Future Cities Demonstrator and Catapult teams, which will be the responsibility of the appointed engagement officer. The city’s excellent links will also be exploited to establish partner collaborator cities – reports from which will be fed into the governance structure to ensure shared learning is embedded at the highest level. www.peterboroughfuturecity.co.uk • In the first instance the monitoring will ensure that Peterborough DNA, together with the associated spend, is delivered within the prescribed timescales. During this phase, a performance management framework will be developed, tested and implemented for each strand in partnership with the TSB and its Catapult Centre, in order that early impacts can be recorded and collated. • T he partnership with the Catapult Centre is crucial to ensuring that performance continues to be monitored over a much longer period. It is during this extended phase that the majority of predicted impacts will be realised. It is envisaged that each project will be assessed and reviewed on an on-going basis so that they can be adjusted and further developed to ensure maximum benefits and replicability. We propose that a “think-tank” comprising representatives from the other FCD applicants be integral to this approach. • M echanisms for circulating updates and for seeking views on progress from the wider FCD community will be developed in partnership with the TSB and Catapult Centre. 21 2.4 Peterborough DNA Dissemination Data will be collected through each of the strands of the Peterborough DNA proposal and will be fed into and activated through the Living Data model. It will then be disseminated to the widest possible audience (taking into account any areas of commercial sensitivity or confidentiality). Effective communication and engagement with Peterborough’s communities and businesses will be critical for the successful delivery of the FCD programme. Excellent relationships with the city’s delivery partners will be needed to achieve support for proposed projects, in particular the ambition for Peterborough to become a test-bed for innovative solutions to city challenges. Public support and interaction will be vital for the successful delivery of the projects – we will need to ensure that citizens recognise how the Future Cities Demonstrator programme will benefit them individually and collectively. For all projects, citizen feedback on effectiveness and impact, through the innovative media streams identified in the strands, will be a critical measure of success. There are three main principles supporting the dissemination of the proposal for Peterborough DNA: • Internal & external: ensuring that the data and the experiences through the programme are made available, relevant and useable to audiences in the city and beyond. • Involvement, engagement & interaction: truly integrating citizens and businesses into the development of the programme by using existing and new networks and the enhanced communication tools provided through the Peterborough DNA strands. • V isibility: a website has already been established for the submission phase of the Peterborough DNA proposal. This will be further enhanced and expanded to enable high profile visibility of the programme’s progress and afford a wide range of possible interaction processes (blogs, Pinterest, TED, etc). A communication and engagement plan will be developed on award of funding, with a dedicated communications officer being a key member of the project delivery team. Direct routes of collaboration will be established between the programme operators and partners such as the TSB and other agencies using the engagement opportunities described above. Links with other cities through existing connections will also be exploited so that partner collaborator urban areas can be identified for rapid transfer of replicable models. Peterborough is a major partner in the Greater Cambridge Greater Peterborough Local Enterprise Partnership (GCGP LEP), taking the lead in delivering skills solutions with the private sector across that wider geography, providing a focal point for inward investment enquiries and UKTI engagement, and driving initiatives to improve access to finance through the LEP’s Banking Sub-Group. Peterborough established and leads the Growth Cities Network, 12 mid-sized cities across the Greater South East of England collaborating to deliver growth through shared best practice and providing a combined voice in discussions with central government on urban policy. There are also huge opportunities for visibility, engagement and involvement within the individual strands of the Peterborough DNA proposal. • T he fundamental principle of the Living Data system is the sharing and iteration of usable and useful data. This will be an invaluable tool for disseminating the progress and results of the programme as a whole, through enhanced and exciting visualisation approaches. • T he Peterborough Innovation Pool relies on the accessibility of data and visibility of contemporaneous and past challenges and solutions, while output data from the Smart Metering in the Sustainable City Metabolism strand will be directly relayed, and where not commercially sensitive, shared through the Living Data model. • T he Sustainable City Metabolism programme incorporates the development of a collaborative Business Network for Fengate, with a focus on improving sustainability and system effectiveness. The projects will also engage with Fengate residents to improve energy and water management. • S kills for Our Future similarly relies on an openly available portal to encourage take-up by those seeking or planning skills enhancement paths, but will also be supported by high profile marketing and promotion through education providers and other partner organisations. • T ransporting Intelligence will provide improved information to citizens and enable them to feed their own data into the system, e.g. routes used, time taken etc. and there can be little more public manifestation of the Transporting Intelligence system than its high profile signage and innovative social media. We recognise that as a demonstrator programme, it is vital that the lessons learned from the Peterborough DNA programme are fully understood and shared. Understanding why solutions have not worked, if that is the case, will be as important to understanding why they do. We are strongly convinced, however, that the holistic approach and ground-breaking but realistic innovations contained in this proposal will be adopted by cities around the country and internationally, providing huge opportunities for economic growth and export. Peterborough Model visualisation of broadband provision across GCGP LEP area www.peterboroughfuturecity.co.uk 22 3. Peterborough DNA Impacts 3.1 Qualitative Impacts As a holistic approach to the city’s systems, the Peterborough DNA programme will have a transformational effect on Peterborough’s economic prosperity, quality of life and environmental resilience. It will also act as a catalyst to other major initiatives to provide a positive long-term legacy both for Peterborough and any city which subsequently adopts the successful practices demonstrated. The Living Data strand will: •Enable and empower agencies across the city to make informed decisions about the planning, resource resilience and system mutuality of Peterborough – realising both environmental, societal and financial advantages. •Provide enhanced security and system efficiency and effectiveness for data systems in the city, driving direct financial savings in the provision of that information. •Engage citizens in the fabric of the city and its delivery processes, so that they are not only informed and able to make better choices, but feel that they can have a voice in how Peterborough operates. The delivery of the Living Data strand will require innovative IT solutions (from presentational models and media through to system security) which SMEs can provide and test. It will also provide an opportunity for local homegrown skills to be deployed within the central analytics team. The Peterborough Innovation Pool will: •Directly drive economic growth by providing a comprehensive framework for innovation testing, funding and delivery. • P rovide local SMEs with routes to market, finance and innovative human resource support (by links to the Skills for Our Future strand), making companies resilient to economic downturns and enabling product and company expansion. •Open up routes to employment, increase local spend and drive higher rates of economic activity. The Innovation Pool is the vehicle for any SME to present innovations to a viable test-bed, but an early focus on the environmental sector, and solutions for the Peterborough DNA programme, will also positively impact on the environmental performance of the city. The Sustainable City Metabolism strand will: •Demonstrate the financial savings and returns that can be realised by local business through adopting renewable energy solutions. In turn this will result in greater business efficiencies, ensuring the long-term viability of the companies involved. www.peterboroughfuturecity.co.uk •Through developing the business case for collaborative business consortia in delivering renewable solutions and waste and water management, accrue benefits across a wider area to support the long-term sustainability of the model. •Be replicable across residential areas, providing the opportunity for people to make real savings in their livelihood costs, freeing up money for other commitments or lifestyle activities. •Inform other city initiatives (for example, the city council’s pioneering collective energy share scheme) and enable those to expand and become more effective. •Through the deployment of electric bike hubs, powered by renewable energy solutions, encourage the take-up of sustainable transport modes. The Metabolism strand will, of course, improve the environmental resilience of the city, and through seeking ground-breaking solutions to challenges such as energy, waste and water, act as a thorough and supported test-bed, a ‘living lab’ for new ideas, processes and solutions. Skills for Our Future will: •Provide a step-change in the already improving skills levels of our citizens. It will offer pathways to training, employment and careers in a way that has never been achieved before: giving anyone (pupils, school leavers, students, NEETs, the employed) not only the opportunity for self-fulfilment but the tools to achieve it. •By achieving increased employment in the city, and tackling the mismatch between business needs and skills availability locally, lead to higher levels of economic activity in the city, becoming a virtuous circle of improving prosperity. Given the open source nature of the strand’s processes, anyone will be able to access those pathways, leading, therefore, to economic and social equity in Peterborough. •With an initial focus on the environmental sector for the ‘Change Agents’ element, provide the human resource to underpin the Environment Capital aspirations of the city, supporting and instigating the solutions to drive environmental sustainability. This resource, and the opportunity to provide innovative solutions in the delivery of the strand, will support the commercial activity of local SMEs. Transporting Intelligence will: • R educe congestion on Peterborough’s transport network, and make it resilient to, and a facilitator of, the growth plans of the city. This will enable economic development through that city growth, and reduce carbon emissions to enhance environmental conditions. •Provide the platform for testing innovative off-grid energy solutions, driving SME development and environmental resilience. •Through effective traffic flow management, improve the 23 travelling experience of those using the network and increase safety and security levels. •Support more effective delivery of public transport options and therefore encourage modal shift towards more sustainable transportation, through information sharing. It will also enable businesses to better plan their operations, leading to immediate and long-term commercial efficiency. 3.2 Quantitative Impacts As well as the above over-riding and strategic impacts, the strands of the Peterborough DNA proposal will have specific quantifiable impacts, as follows: Strand Impacts Living Data 1 single platform hub for multi-agency data sharing, providing diagnostic, analytic and presentational tools. Key Milestones: August 2013 (analytics) October 2013-March 2014 (presentation) Peterborough Innovation Pool April 2013-Sept 2013: 15 products brought forward 1 product trialled Oct 2013-March 2014: 40 products brought forward 4 products trialled Sustainable City Metabolism Full period: 25 jobs created By end of period: 50 businesses signed up to Fengate Metabolism Business Network (to explore any of the waste/water/energy initiatives) 75% positive feedback on benefits to justify roll-out programme Commitment by 5 businesses to connect to district heat network 0% reduction in energy and water demand by Fengate businesses and 1 residents by end 2014 Commitment by 5 businesses to implement renewable energy, AD technology and sustainable transport solutions Fully evaluated, viable business case for wider roll-out of the Aquai-Mod technology for water demand reduction Skills for Our Future Independent, impartial virtual skills space: • 120 young people in FCD period • 250 young people annually thereafter Downloaded Personal Career Paths (PCP): •80 in FCD period •200 per annum thereafter Future City Curriculum: •3 schools engaged in developing the Technical Baccalaureate Change Agents in FCD period: •10 enterprises established in FCD period •A network of 30 sustainable graduates locally based Transporting Intelligence Contributing to stretch targets on baseline evidence for the number of congestion incidents, carbon emissions and incident recovery time with: 0% reduction in congestion, and 3% reduction in CO2 emissions 2 compared to baseline, by 2015 www.peterboroughfuturecity.co.uk 24 4. Risks 4.1 Key Risks & Mitigation Measures The effective management of both strategic and project level risks will be important if the Peterborough DNA proposals are to be delivered successfully. Therefore we have undertaken a comprehensive risk assessment on the overall programme and for each of the strands, considering the likely risks on component projects. A detailed risk register, including details of risk probability, mitigation measures and potential costs if the risk is realised is included in Appendix C. During the project planning phase, immediately following funding award, we will hold a risk workshop to review in detail the overarching programme risks and to update the risk register and identify specific time risk allowances within the programme. Project-specific risk workshops will be held as required. The principal risk to the successful delivery of Peterborough DNA relates to the ability to deliver the proposed programme of projects within the FCD programme period. In particular, the risk of time slippage as a result of procurement and organisational drag is a critical issue. Therefore, we have given detailed consideration to our procurement strategy (described in Section 2.3.4), and recognise that the trial of alternative procurement approaches is a key aspect of this demonstrator process. Our approach to procurement also reduces the risk to the Council of liabilities from ongoing project costs. To minimise the risk of such liabilities, and that Peterborough DNA is not sustainable beyond the FCD funding period, each strand of the programme will develop a business case and identify funding streams for on-going delivery. Our proposals for Peterborough DNA include a comprehensive programme of component projects. This approach introduces flexibility and the opportunity to balance risks across the programme. If a critical risk is realised on one project, the status of other projects will be reviewed and budgets balanced by expanding or curtailing other parts of the demonstrator programme. We recognise that a contingency sum is not allowed for in the financial spreadsheet, but in line with best practice, we have identified a recommended sum for each risk area. Applying the Prince2 approach to programme management, project risks will be reviewed regularly and the risk budget updated accordingly. 4.2 Top 20 Risks at Launch The following table summarises the top 20 risks at project launch, based on the risk register provided in Appendix C. Risk Initial Priority 1. General: Failure to meet programme risking loss of funding and unable to deliver projects High 0.90 Project plan prepared for each strand, including resource requirements & realistic programme with agreed gateways. Review programme against objectives at gateways. Monitor/update progress regularly. Identify possible delays early & take measures to minimise impact. Recognise other programme risks. Prince2 project management approach High 0.250 5 2. General: Onerous procurement requirements result in costs and delays High 0.90 Discussions with Peterborough City Council (PCC) legal & procurement during FCD feasibility phase, to identify most effective procurement routes using existing frameworks High 0.250 5 3. Procurement: Delays delivery timetable - programme & cost impact on all strands High 0.90 High 0.250 12.5 0.450 4.5 0.90 Early engagement with Viridor, inclusion of proposals in feasibility study for District Heat Network. Engage with PREL to investigate options for linking project to PREL EfW plant High High 5. Metabolism: Legislative requirements for AD trial delay programme/make project non-viable High 0.90 Early identification of all consents requirements and engagement with PCC Planning team and Environment Agency (Waste Regulations) High 0.450 22.5 6. Spend: Unable to spend budget in FCD delivery period so unable to deliver projects High 0.45 Resolve procurement requirements early. Project Plans to identify projects which could be expanded if others are delayed. Regular review of risks High 0.250 2.5 4. Metabolism: Delays in delivery of EfW plant; heat network enhancements may not be possible www.peterboroughfuturecity.co.uk Initial Mitigation Probability Early engagement with Serco to check IS contract parameters. Assess opportunity to procure urgent services using government framework contracts. Check with potential ‘tier 1’ technology providers that contracting via government/local government frameworks is possible Residual Priority Residual Recommended Probability Risk Budget (£k) 25 Risk Initial Priority Initial Mitigation Probability 7. Sustainability: Projects not sustainable beyond FCD funding: benefits not realised, potential ongoing liabilities High 0.45 All projects to identify revenue generation opportunities. Choose solutions with long term resilience, not 1-off investments. Minimise future liabilities by ring-fencing projects to FCD period 8. Living Data: Mobilising a large specification team at high speed results in programme delay High 0.45 9. Living Data: Organisational negotiations delay Phase 2 programme. Associated costs. Unable to procure full cloud in FCD funding period High 10. Living Data: Business Case for fully integrated cloud does not cover ongoing Phase 1 cost or costs for Phase 2. Unable to deliver full project Residual Priority Residual Recommended Probability Risk Budget (£k) Medium 0.250 50.0 Early discussions with Serco during FCD feasibility. Escalate to Serco board on being short-listed for FCD award. Initial check on Serco’s existing relationships with possible ‘tier 1’ tech. suppliers High 0.250 5.0 0.45 Agreement secured to lead the process at CEO level with a senior city leader as Project Director. Increased time provision made to deliver Phase 2. Deploy Peterborough Model ‘Accelerated Collaboration’ process for delivery Medium 0.250 12.5 High 0.45 Phase 2 lead-in period brought forward to Oct 2013. If business case for full cloud not viable, fall back project will be agreed. Savings will offset Ph1 operating costs. Ph1 costs & programme will be reduced if there is a shortfall Medium 0.250 75.0 11. Innovation Pool: Businesses unable to agree commercial arrangements so unable to progress trials or additional costs to progress new trials High 0.45 Programme to include development and trial of suitable commercial models and provide support for businesses in implementing these Medium 0.250 25.0 12. Innovation Pool: City organisations/communities unwilling to be test-bed for innovation trials causing delay and cost from additional engagement, may be unable to progress trials High 0.45 Use accelerated collaboration approach to engage with city organisations and demonstrate benefits of undertaking trials. Develop appropriate assessment process for potential solutions to provide sufficient justification for trials in advance of implementation. Financial support for initial trials (pump-prime funding) to get initiative off the ground and demonstrate benefits more widely Medium 0.250 2.5 13. Innovation Pool: Managing expectations of businesses – risk there is an expectation that all products will be trialled, leading to lack of interest in Network and reduced success High 0.45 Set clear parameters for assessment of potential solutions. Ongoing liaison with business within the network. Communication of successes and lessons learned. Develop approaches for supporting businesses to revise their solution to better fit the challenge Medium 0.250 2.5 14. Metabolism: Unable to identify suitable site (within budget) for AD demonstrator High 0.45 A site elsewhere in Peterborough could be used if necessary. Scale of demonstrator could be reduced to fit budget if site costs higher than estimated High 0.450 45.0 15. Transport: Unable to identify product development partner/ fail to develop suitable product. Poor quality outcomes High 0.45 Early engagement with the market including research of existing products and developments. Review second phase roll-out based on what can be achieved Medium 0.45 13.5 16. Transport: Timescales for developing new solutions greater than estimated; data not available in FCD period, reducing quality of outcomes High 0.45 Ensure clear project plan in place and appropriate and adequate resources identified Medium 0.25 7.5 17. Skills: Insufficient student enrolments to ensure viability of new courses High 0.33 Early and ongoing input from academic institutions and testing concepts with prospective students and businesses Low 0.100 3.0 18. Cooperation: Lack of cooperation from city stakeholders; further engagement needed causing delays and costs High 0.25 Build on existing projects & engagement. Apply Peterborough Model accelerated collaboration process to achieve effective and rapid engagement Low 0.100 1.0 19. Innovation Pool: Innovation trials unsuccessful; poor quality outcomes, additional costs & time for new trials High 0.25 Develop appropriate assessment process for potential solutions that provides justification for trials in advance of implementation. Realistic to expect that some trials will be unsuccessful Medium 0.250 25.0 20. Innovation Pool: Technology fails when underwritten by the Council; cost/time to resolve, poor quality outcomes, no revenue generated, liabilities High 0.25 Develop resilient technology solution. Develop appropriate assessment process for potential solutions to provide sufficient justification for trials in advance of implementation. Robust process re. underwriting risk Medium 0.100 50.0 www.peterboroughfuturecity.co.uk 26 5. Funding Peterborough City Council will ensure that the substantial FCD fund is spent by 31 March 2014. This will be achieved through balancing financial expediency with effective and compliant governance whilst not compromising best value principles. We are acutely aware that the earlier we can procure and implement our proposed solutions, the sooner funding outputs can be achieved and the impacts of our solutions can be realised. The specialist skills, knowledge and R&D capabilities of a wide range of companies will be employed as part of the programme. Wherever possible, we will provide opportunities to local SMEs but we accept that the larger scale outputs may only be delivered, at speed, by some of the larger, international companies. Tender opportunities include (although not exhaustively) the following: • the overarching Cloud and related technology (such as app design, 21st century noticeboard, town crier etc) required for the successful delivery and dissemination of the Living Data strand; • a secure portal for innovation sharing, financing and evaluation; • smart metering and smart grid technologies; • renewable energy production and water management hardware; • software to monitor, present and disseminate the above; • a new, innovative platform to enable young people, amongst others, to develop and implement Personal Career Paths so that these can be matched automatically with the needs of businesses; • c utting-edge traffic camera and data technology to support greater city accessibility as part of the Transporting Intelligence strand. Whilst timescales are, to a large extent, dictated by EU Procurement requirements, the Council has already sought advice on the most efficient and effective approaches in each case. Due to the nature of some of the products and services required, the Council intends to make a rapid start on its procurement strategy by utilising its existing framework contracts for IT provision, transport and procurement. In addition, it is intended that many of the larger elements would be procured through the Government Procurement Service (GPS) resulting in a substantial reduction in the duration of the procurement process. Where acceptable and appropriate, the Council also intends to apply the accelerated EU Procurement approach alongside the use of exemption reports permitted under Council Standing Orders. www.peterboroughfuturecity.co.uk The Council intends to establish a directly employed, core team of professionals to oversee programme and strand delivery accounting for 6% of the overall spend. Employed initially for the duration of the FCD spend period, contracts could be extended or made permanent once the on-going resource requirements of each project has been assessed. To reduce risk to the programme, city council and TSB, the majority of costs have been assigned to sub-contracts. We also recognise that funding through the Future Cities Demonstrator competition may be a catalyst to other sources of funding. Indeed, preparation of the feasibility study for this competition has provided the city with a rich resource of understanding, ideas and propositions that can be used to seek funding from elsewhere. A number of funding streams have been identified which the FCD money could leverage, or which the preparation of this proposition could help in securing. We acknowledge that the advertised timescales for submission on some of these funds is tight, but it is indicative of the range of other funding available, and in some instances it is anticipated that further calls or phases of funding will be announced. The range of other potential funds includes the following: • T he Shell Springboard Awards may link closely to outputs from the Peterborough Innovation Pool as it supports the bringing to market of carbon reduction innovation. • T he Energy Entrepreneurs Fund also provides financial assistance to businesses developing low carbon ideas for the future, particularly in relation to energy efficiency of buildings. This could supplement and enable delivery of solutions as part of both the Innovation Pool and City Metabolism strands. • T he Nominet Trust, with its focus on using new technology to engage young people, may also support the Skills for Our Future strand, particularly in relation to the Personal Career Path concept. • Intelligent Energy Europe may support additional developments of our City Metabolism programme alongside FP7 – Smart Cities 2013 particularly in relation to district heating and cooling. The Peterborough DNA delivery team will ensure that these and emerging funding streams are identified and investigated on an ongoing basis throughout the demonstrator period and beyond. 27 6.Appendices APPENDIX A - Programme www.peterboroughfuturecity.co.uk 28 www.peterboroughfuturecity.co.uk 29 APPENDIX B – Summary of Project Costs The following tables summarise the costs of the component projects for each strand of Peterborough DNA. These project costs include staffing costs where appropriate with the exception of programme management and related roles. Living Data Item Cost (£k) Specify and build Phase 1 Cloud Deliver Living Data requirements for other 4 strands Develop presentation tools Cloud Infrastructure – servers & related hardware Software licences Hosting of cloud and related arrangements Analytics support Analytics Team (5 no.) Specification & Business Case – Phase 2 Cloud Develop/implement 21stC noticeboard (interactive screen) & community café’ Develop & implement street-scale interactive screens 21stC noticeboard engagement programme Sub-Total for Living Data Peterborough Innovation Pool Item Cost (£k) Initial programme development & procurement Innovation Room hire and fit-out ICT development and implementation Innovation Pool delivery team Marketing and Promotion of Innovation Pool Development of business case & plan for roll-out Initial funding stream for innovation pilots Sub-Total for Peterborough Innovation Pool Sustainable City Metabolism Item 450 640 550 300 400 480 200 316 625 500 200 50 4,711 25 250 50 300 25 50 500 1,200 Cost (£k) Programme development, management, engagement & monitoring District heat network enhancement Mobile wind turbine & solar energy trials Energy demand management trials Anaerobic Digestion demonstrator Business waste management solution Water pressure& sustainable water management trials Mobile electric cycle hub trial Sub-Total for Sustainable City Metabolism Skills for Our Future Item Cost Definition Development of IT platform Design and provision of future city qualifications Enhanced skills survey & brokerage Implementation of Graduate Change Agent programme Young persons liaison officers (x4) Sub-contract Sub-contract Sub-contract Sub-contract Labour Sub-Total for Skills for Our Future 700 1,600 700 400 1,600 300 600 300 6,200 Cost (£k) Transporting Intelligence Item Cost Definition ANPR Camera / Solution CCTV Cameras VMS Communications Network UTC IT Support Equipment Bluetooth Units Develop Power Solution Develop communications solution Develop camera solution and roadworks temporary signals Live model and automation solutions Implementation Engineers x2 Traffic Data software licence Power, Communication and Maintenance Capital equipment Capital equipment Capital equipment Capital equipment Capital equipment Capital equipment Sub-contract Sub-contract Sub-contract Sub-contract Labour Materials Other Sub-Total for Transporting Intelligence 550 500 300 800 194 2,344 Cost (£k) 1,115 200 2,000 500 200 200 200 200 400 600 133 40 67 5,855 www.peterboroughfuturecity.co.uk 30 Appendix C – Risk Register www.peterboroughfuturecity.co.uk 31 www.peterboroughfuturecity.co.uk 32 APPENDIX D - Living DataHybrid Supporting Information Cloud to enable Peterborough FCD Programme City Visualisation Electronic Hybrid Cloud Apps to enable Model Peterborough FCD Programme Town Crier Hybrid Cloud to enable Peterborough FCD Programme Traditional web Search Search Traditional web Traditional web City Visualisation Data & Reports Model Electronic City Visualisation Town Crier Model Electronic Voluntary Town Crier Network Hub Data & Reports Data & Reports Voluntary Network Voluntary Presentation Hub Network Hub Public Pay for Private data Domain Apps Apps Presentation Analytic Engines Presentation Public Pay for Private data Domain Private Public Data Transport Pay for data Domain Analytic Engines Analytic Engines City GIS Transport Transport Data Data Secure Secure Data DataSecure Data Search Building & retaining local smart city expertise Private cloud to: Private to: Speed cloud of delivery smart city&expertise Building retaining Build partnership withlocal a smart tech. city expertise global company Specialist skills & Voluntary network Voluntary network Voluntary network Emergency Emergency Energy Energy Hosted elements to: international insight Hosted elements to: Build partnership with a global tech. company Build partnership with a global tech. company Specialist skills & international insight Specialist skills & international insight Energy Weather Weather Public crowd Sourcing Utility Public Utility Utility Environment Environment crowd 2013 to 2014 (FCD)Public Sourcing crowd Sourcing UK Power Networks 2013 to 2014 (FCD) NHS /(FCD) PCT 2013 to 2014 UK Power Networks Environ. UK Power Networks City Trust NHS / PCT NHS / PCT P’boro City Council Environ. City Trust Environ. City Trust P’boro City Council P’boro City Council Speed of delivery Speed of &delivery Building retaining Hosted elements to: local Emergency Weather City GIS City GIS Environment Private cloud to: Annual recurring costs of £750K One off Investment of £4m One off recurring Investment of £4m Annual costs Making Data Live Hybrid Cloud of £750K Annual recurring costs of £750K Drives FCD outcomes across the six Peterborough FCD programmes Making Data Live Making Live HybridData Cloud Hybrid Cloud Anglian Water One off Investment of £4m EA Drives FCD outcomes across the six FCD Peterborough Drives outcomesFCD across programmes the six Peterborough FCD programmes Leisure Trust Anglian Water Anglian Water EA EA Leisure Trust Leisure Trust 2014 onwards, post FCD NHS/PCT 2014 onwards, post to FCD Cloud Services local organisations 2014 onwards, post FCD NHS/PCT NHS/PCT Cloud Services to local Cloudorganisations Services to local organisations P’boro City Council P’boro City Council P’boro City Council Anglian Water Anglian Water Anglian Water Evolution to City Cloud P’boro City Council NHS/ Leisure Environ. City PCT Trustto Trust Evolution P’boro City P’boro Council City Council Environ. Leisure City Trust Environ. Leisure Trust City Trust Trust UK Power Networks UK Power Networks UK Power Networks Cloud expands to deliver combined operational services Cloud expands to deliver Ongoing financing of services for partners combined operational for partners cloud through: Evolution to City Cloud City Cloud NHS/ PCT NHS/ PCT Leisure Trust Process efficiencies Economies of scale of Ongoing financing Ongoing financing of Services to new partners cloud through: cloud through: Process efficiencies Environ. City Trust EA Leisure Trust Leisure Trust www.peterboroughfuturecity.co.uk EA EA Cloud expands to deliver combined operational services for partners Environ. City Trust Environ. City Trust Process efficiencies Economies of scale Economies Services to of newscale partners Services to new partners 33 21st Century Noticeboard A significant challenge across Peterborough is the level of direct, two-way engagement organisations are able to have with residents. The Living Data strand will incorporate development of a ‘21st Century Noticeboard’, to transform the organisation-to-citizen engagement, providing information about neighbourhood and city issues and activities in a widely accessible format. The aim of this project is to use technology to address human issues by providing a tool for citizens to ‘fix the place’ themselves: addressing, deprivation, skills and education, health and life expectancy, physical regeneration and social cohesion. All of these systems face challenges in their delivery owing to the lack of engagement with the residents of the city: this crosscutting communication tool will enable interaction as never achieved previously and provide an essential resource to those fundamental systems. The digital screen will be directly linked to the Living Data ICT system to provide live data on the city’s systems and enable residents to make informed decisions. It will be a multi-sensory and multi-lingual screen, potentially incorporating digital retina communication ability. As such it will provide an innovative and attractive way to interact that can zone in on peoples’ interest areas and communicate with them in a way they can understand (e.g. in an individual’s preferred language) and in a way they will want to use. With the noticeboard as the shop front of a community café, the facility will provide a range of services, e.g. skills and health advice, employment opportunities etc. It could also be used to disseminate information about community events and local requirements or opportunities, as well as undertaking live experiments or crowd-sourcing. The model, and how it is used to support, deliver and encourage transformational regeneration initiatives, will be rolled out to other neighbourhood areas. During the demonstrator period, opportunities to generate income or savings from the noticeboard to enable self-sustainability will be realised. For example, we will work with local healthcare partners to tailor their communications outputs to particular communities towards this media, representing significant budget savings through the new media being proposed. The medium will also be open to other parties who can ‘buy’ space and time on the noticeboard, clearly with lower costs for public or third sector parties, but higher costs for commercial sponsorship or advertising, should it prove necessary to go down that route. The total cost for the initial screen and implantation is £750,000. This includes product innovation, development and trials, associated infrastructure, ancillary professional advice and implementation. It also allows for rapid roll-out and flexibility of models dependent upon location. Ongoing future maintenance would be expected to be met by revenue generation from the model. As the screen will rely on interaction with the Living Data strand, its installation is planned to occur in October 2013. Depending on performance and interaction measures, roll-out will take place January-March 2014. Crucially, this will provide interactive engagement with citizens, engagement opportunities with whom are currently constrained. Once tested, this could roll out to smaller scale, stand alone interactive noticeboards for further trials. In addition, the Living Data strand will develop smart phone applications that will enable the noticeboard to be accessed remotely. The initial trial of the noticeboard will be undertaken in the ‘Operation Can Do’ regeneration area, to build on and integrate existing initiatives in one of the most deprived wards in the city. ‘Operation Can Do’ was established in 2011, initially as a focused community cohesion programme, but has grown into a pioneering delivery partnership that seeks to transform the Gladstone, Millfield and New England areas in the centre of Peterborough. www.peterboroughfuturecity.co.uk 34 APPENDIX E - Process Diagrams: Innovation Pool & Skills for Our Future Peterborough Innovation Network Model Challenges A new challenge is issued by the Network Agreements Agreements & partnerships created Idea Submission Process Ideas submitted to the “challenger” for assessment Innovation Library Showcasing new ideas & solutions New Challenge New Innovation Publication in Challenge Library Publication in Innovation Library Peterborough Innovation Network Members & Collaborative Events “Innovation Pool” Businesses from any sector and location can participate in generating solutions Idea Refinement Publication in Challenge Library Collaborative Events Open forum and workshops to discuss & create ideas Reject Skilling the Future Joe Smith’s career path Idea Submission Process Ideas submitted to the “challenger” for assessment Agreements Agreements & partnerships created New Challenge New Innovation 50 Publication in Challenge Library 40 Publication in Innovation Library Own business Peterborough Innovation Network Members & Collaborative Events 30 Team leader Hints Idea Refinement Publication in Challenge Library 21 Reject Exploit Engineer Exploit Further education 18 Hints Healthy & Happy Timeline Apprenticeship Sample screen-shot: Personal Career Pathway Joe Smith www.peterboroughfuturecity.co.uk 35 APPENDIX F – detailed project descriptions for ‘Sustainable City Metabolism’ strand Energy Metabolism: This project addresses the effectiveness and sustainability of Fengate’s energy use, working towards achieving continuous loop processes in the city’s energy, waste and heat metabolisms, improving energy demand management and trialling flexible energy solutions. • Fengate Heat Network: Waste heat from PCC’s Energy from Waste (EfW) plant (construction in 2013/14) is intended to be used to supply the nearby Regional Swimming Pool and Lido. This project will install junctions into the heat network to enable future connection by Fengate businesses. Trial connections to 3 businesses will showcase the benefits of the network and enable assessment of the business case for district heat networks across Peterborough. A junction will be installed to enable the network to be linked in future to heat outputs from the proposed PREL EfW plant. • Smart Grid: This project will trial solutions to improve energy demand management, moving towards a smart grid for Peterborough. Better energy use data at household, business and neighbourhood levels will enable effective engagement with businesses and citizens to change useage patterns and reduce Peterborough’s (peak) energy demand. Working with UK Power Networks and energy supply companies, a solution will be implemented to collect, manage and analyse data from domestic and business energy meters and share this information via the Making Data Live system. Trial installation of smart energy meters in a new residential development will be progressed with the energy supply companies, as will installation of meters at electricity substations, working with UK Power Networks to collect neighbourhood scale data. The viability of integrating Fengate’s energy use using a specialist “smart grid” system will be investigated (a “smart grid” connects electricity supply, grid, and demand elements through an intelligent communication system to give improved visibility of energy use and enable better management of costs and peak demand and greater opportunities for renewable energy to feed into the grid). We do not propose to use FCD funding to implement a smart grid for Fengate, but the viability study would deliver a robust business case for implementation (if viable) and identify a funding stream. • Renewable energy demonstrators: Development and deployment of a mobile 50kW wind turbine and a mobile solar photovoltaic unit, with integrated battery pack energy storage. The mobile energy units would be loaned to businesses to enable them to test the benefits of on-site renewable energy generation – on a ‘try before you buy” basis. Energy stored during the day could be used for low demand processes overnight, to power a specific operation or as a back-up supply. Waste Metabolism: This project will optimise the flow of material resources and waste in Fengate, supporting businesses to collaborate to share resources, reduce and reuse wastes. • Business waste solutions: Solutions to optimise business waste recycling and reuse will be trialled in Fengate. Peterborough businesses have access to flexible waste management solutions, including waste audits and advice on the best waste management solution for their business. Services provided include co-mingled or multibin recycling collections, plus residual waste collections for non-recyclable and non-hazardous waste. However, economic constraints often mean that small businesses are not able to recycle or reuse their waste streams. A business engagement programme and development of a waste management portal, building on data held by the Environment Agency, will investigate opportunities for inter-business waste reuse and alternative solutions for small business waste disposal, including a trial of a ‘bring facility’ for unusual waste streams. The ultimate aim of this project is a city-wide waste reuse programme that achieves a more continuous loop in the city’s use of material resources and production of waste. • Anaerobic digestion (AD) demonstrator: An anaerobic digestion demonstrator will be developed at an appropriate location in Fengate to improve exposure of Peterborough businesses to the potential benefits of this technology to their business processes, and to enables local businesses to trial the suitability (energy output) of their biological waste as AD feedstock, either using single- or multiplesource wastes. This demonstrator will build on ongoing research by Cranfield University and previous proposals for a mid-scale AD plant for the city. As well as allowing Peterborough businesses to trial AD on a ‘try before you buy’ basis, this project will enable a comprehensive feasibility assessment to be undertaken and a business case developed on the viability of a co-operative AD plant for the Peterborough area. Outputs from the demonstration AD plant could be supplied as fertiliser to local agribusinesses. Water Metabolism: This project aims to optimise water use in Fengate, through improved demand management and demonstration of the benefits of increasing water reuse by business and agriculture. • Water demand management demonstrator: A solution will be implemented to collect, manage and analyse data from domestic and business water meters, feeding into the Living Data system. Citizen engagement, in partnership with Anglian Water, will aim to improve Fengate’s domestic water meter uptake and sustainable usage patterns. The Aquai-Mod technology, which monitors and regulates water network pressure and flow to reduce leakage and energy use, will be trialled and monitored at scale with individual businesses or at district scale, assessing the cost savings realised and developing of a comprehensive business case for wider roll-out of this technology at city scale. • SuDS and Water reuse: This demonstrator aims to increase water reuse by Fengate businesses, reducing potable water demand and improving water quality. SME uptake of SuDS and rainwater harvesting technologies is limited by up-front investment requirements, and collective systems for rainwater harvesting are not currently common in the UK. In partnership with the Environment Agency, an engagement programme aiming for increased business uptake of SuDS will share cost and water quality monitoring results. The following trials are proposed: • SuDS and rainwater harvesting trials at e.g. greyhound stadium, rugby club and/or a group of business units, with water reused as greywater for flushing toilets, irrigation (adjacent agriculture, sports fields), and/or outdoor cleaning. • Collaborative working with Caterpillar Perkins to assess opportunities and business case for SuDS implementation. Transport Metabolism: This project aims to improve the accessibility of Fengate by sustainable transport. A mobile hub for charging electric bikes will be developed, with bikes loaned to Fengate businesses for employees to trial. This flexible solution will enable future trials on various city routes. Electric bikes aren’t new technology, but this trial could achieve a step change towards more sustainable transport in Peterborough, enabling the city, businesses and citizens to “try before they buy”. By linking this trial to the mobile energy unit trials, off-grid renewable energy could be used for bike charging. www.peterboroughfuturecity.co.uk 36 Appendix G Statement of commitment Peterborough is an innovating and ambitious city. We will continue to find new and creative ways to deliver our growth agenda to secure a truly sustainable and prosperous future for all our citizens. The funding through the Future Cities Demonstrator competition will give Peterborough the means to deliver transformational solutions to system challenges through clearly understood and practical integration. Peterborough is already a national leader in many areas: the data visualisation tool, the Peterborough Model, which is being explored by authorities and LEPs across the country; collective energy sharing schemes, with 15 other authorities signed-up, and other innovative financing deals; routes to market for innovating companies through the Water Innovation Network; transforming our communities through pioneering workability training and the RSA’s Citizen Power Programme. The expertise we have used to achieve these will underpin all that we do through the Future Cities Demonstrator. Our ambitions for the future lie in growth and sustainability – economic, environmental, societal and cultural. All of these elements are integrated and intrinsically interdependent in our holistic and comprehensive proposition. We will deliver the Peterborough DNA programme as set out in the proposal and we will exploit our existing collaborations with major UK cities to ensure our experiences are shared and lead to greater learning across the country. Cllr Marco Cereste Leader, Peterborough City Council The following organisations have provided input to and support the Peterborough DNA proposal: • Anglia Ruskin University • NHS Peterborough (Primary Care Trust) • Anglian Water • Opportunity Peterborough • Aquavent UK • Peterborough City Council • Arqiva • Peterborough Environment City Trust (PECT) • Building Research Establishment • Peterborough ESCo • Change Agents UK • Peterborough Health & Wellbeing Board • Cranfield University • Peterborough Regional college • Davis Langdon • Peterborough Renewable Energy Limited • Environment Agency • Peterborough Skills Service • Environmental Advantage • Philips • Greater Peterborough Partnership • Royal HaskoningDHV • Green Energy Parks Limited • Serco • GreenSpec • Shailesh Vara, MP (North West Cambridgeshire) • Green Ventures • Stewart Jackson, MP (Peterborough) • IBM • Kubicki Consult • UK Centre for Economic & Environmental Development (UK CEED) • Microsoft • UK Power Networks • Midas Technologies • University Centre Peterborough www.peterboroughfuturecity.co.uk