event summery - Wandle Valley Regional Park

Delivering green
infrastructure in
economic growth areas:
The key role of sub regional partnerships
Welcome to today’s seminar. This pack contains a delegate list, information on the speakers, Wandle
Valley Regional Park and Lee Valley Regional Park Authority, who are sponsoring the seminar. Thanks
are also due to the GLA who are supporting this session.
Help spread the word! There is free wifi here, please use the hashtag #futureparks and tag us @wandlevalley
9.00am Registration and refreshments
9.20am Opening address - Chair Peter Murray (New London Architecture)
9.30am Operational context
Shaun Dawson - Chief Executive, Lee Valley Regional Park Authority
Sue Morgan - Chief Executive, Wandle Valley Regional Park Trust
9.50am Session 1 - The case for Sub Regional Partnerships
Making the case - Peter Massini, Principal Policy Officer, GLA Environment Team
Housing partnerships delivering green infrastructure - Beth Kay, Tottenham Housing Zone, London
Borough Haringey
The role of Business Improvement Districts and private landowners delivering Green Infrastructure Susannah Wilks, Director, Cross River Partnership
Facilitated panel discussion followed by Q & A
10.50am Break
11.00am Session 2 - Effective implementation, delivery & governance of Sub Regional Partnerships
Setting the context - Sue Morgan, Chief Executive, Wandle Valley Regional Park Trust
An overview of a successful non statutory partnership in operation - Kathryn Hardcastle, Chief
Executive, River Nene Regional Park
How Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) in Oxfordshire have delivered Green Infrastructure - Frazer
Osment, Board Director, LDA Design
How the private sector works with and values Green Infrastructure - Dr Jon Kirkpatrick, Director of
Sustainability, Lend Lease
Facilitated panel discussion followed by Q & A
12 noon Summary
12.30pm Buffet lunch and networking
1.30pm Sponsored by
Event close
Speaker profiles
Peter Murray - Seminar Chairman
Peter Murray is Chairman of New London Architecture and of The London Society, Founder
Director of The London Festival of Architecture, Deputy Chairman of the Bedford Park
Society, and member of the Mayor of London’s Design Advisory Group. He was formerly
editor of Building Design, of the RIBA Journal and founder publisher of Blueprint magazine.
He is President of Wordsearch, the global design and marketing consultancy specialising
in architecture and real estate, Visiting Professor at IE University in Madrid and author of
numerous books including The Saga of Sydney Opera House and a campaigner for better
conditions for cycling.
Shaun Dawson - Chief Executive, Lee Valley Regional Park Authority
Shaun has led the award winning Lee Valley Regional Park Authority since 1997. He is
responsible for the development and management of the 26 mile long 10,000 acre park
which stretches from the Thames through Essex to Hertfordshire. The park’s portfolio
includes three stellar London 2012 legacy venues, regional sports locations, country parks,
nature reserves, visitor accommodation, leisure attractions and over 500 events every
year. As Chief Executive, Shaun has brokered key national, sub-regional and regional
partnerships creating a phase of dynamic initiatives bringing new parklands, sports venues
and facilities for communities across the region to enjoy nature, sport and leisure.
Shaun has a BSc in Ecology and an MSc in Recreation Management. Before joining Lee Valley, Shaun had a
management career in the leisure industry and was Assistant Director of Education and Leisure at the London
Borough of Hackney.
Sue Morgan BA Hons, Dip Hons, PGCE - Director Around the Block and Chief
Executive of Wandle Valley Regional Park Trust
Sue began work as the part time consultant CEO for the Wandle Valley Regional Park Trust
in January 2014 through her company Around the Block. Sue is a landscape architect,
further education lecturer, and trained horticulturist. Sue started her career as one of the
last apprentice gardeners for the Greater London Council.
Prior to founding Around the Block, Sue held senior posts with London Borough of
Southwark, Better Bankside BID, Groundwork London, BSRIA and Notting Hill and
Southwark Urban Study Centres. Sue has more than 25 years’ experience of public realm consultancy, strategic
management and project delivery. She has worked across the public, private and voluntary sectors in London
and the South.
Sue holds external positions as a long standing Built Environment Expert for Design Council Cabe, Director of
the Park Alliance Board, Trustee for the Bankside Open Space Trust and is a Civic Trust Buildings & Landscape
Awards Assessor. In addition Sue contributes to the GLA Green Steering Group.
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Peter Massini MCIEEM - Principal Policy & Programme Officer, Green Infrastructure Development,
Enterprise & Environment, Greater London Authority
Peter has spent the majority of his 20 year professional career as an ecologist and natural
environment policy maker in London.
He started his career with the London Wildlife Trust and then worked for London Ecology
Unit, providing advice to London Boroughs on spatial planning issues, development control
and site management.
He subsequently worked for Natural England where he had responsibility for the agency’s
strategic planning and policy work for the London region.
Peter currently works for the Greater London Authority on green infrastructure, managing policy and
programmes aimed at improving London’s green spaces and greening London’s built environment. He has a
particular interest in understanding how to make the natural environment more relevant in London, by ensuring
its many benefits are recognised as being an essential part of a liveable, resilient city.
Beth Kay - Regeneration Project Officer, Tottenham Regeneration
Beth is an architect and experienced local government officer. She leads multi sector
partnerships in the delivery of transformation projects in urban areas and has a lot of
experience of delivering physical, social and economic regeneration projects including
planning policy, master plans, housing, civic and cultural buildings, high street renewal
and public realm. Before working in Haringey, Beth was Regeneration Manager for the
Alperton, Burnt Oak/Colindale and Church End growth areas in Brent. Beth has been
working in the Tottenham Regeneration Team since 2015 and has been leading on the
delivery of the placemaking and green infrastructure in Tottenham Hale. The transformation
of Tottenham Hale will deliver 5,000 homes and 4,000 jobs by creating a new District Centre around the
international transport hub. The 10 year programme will see significant investment in the streets, public realm
and open spaces and delivery of new and improved links to the Upper Lea Valley.
Susannah Wilks - Director, Cross River Partnership
A qualified Town Planner, Susannah has over 22 years’ experience working in regeneration
in the UK, in and out of London, across the public, private (consultancy), voluntary,
community and academic sectors.
Five years ago Susannah was appointed as the Director in charge of Cross River Partnership
(CRP) (www.crossriverpartnership.org), having worked at CRP since 2000, with sole
responsibility for all partners, programmes, fundraising and staffing.
Since then Susannah has grown CRP from its original four Local Authority members, to
take in eight central London local authorities (the City of London Corporation, City of
Westminster, Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark, Camden, Islington, Kensington and Chelsea) plus 15 Business
Improvement Districts (BIDs) from those areas. Annual turnover has been increased from £2 million to £4.5
million.
Cross River Partnership is now a mature, sub-regional, public-private partnership delivering programmes on
everything from green infrastructure, to air quality, to freight consolidation, to sustainable employment anything that helps central London be the best possible place that it can be.
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Kathryn Hardcastle - Chief Executive Officer, River Nene Regional Park
Kathryn started her career in the public sector working in catchment and river management
in the South West of Australia. Moving into the private sector after a decade of
government employment Kathryn then worked on innovative sustainability initiatives
retaining a focus on water quality improvement, treatment and reuse.
Kathryn joined the River Nene Regional Park in April 2013. An environmental scientist
with particular skills in landscape scale projects, Kathryn has worked within the public
and private sectors, for over two decades, in the delivery of wide ranging projects
contributing to sustainable development in the UK and internationally. Kathryn is also a highly skilled facilitator
with experience of designing and delivering complex stakeholder engagement processes, drawing on the
skills and experience of all involved to find win / win solutions to shared problems in the management of the
environment. Kathryn has a passion for partnerships working, information sharing and collaboration.
Frazer Osment BA (Hons) MPhil CMLI - Board Director, LDA Design
Frazer is a masterplanner and advisor to public agencies on development and infrastructure
delivery. He is a creative talented masterplanner and a strong communicator with a
particular strength in creating a consensus for change and building momentum behind
delivery processes. He is a regular speaker on planning and design matters and is an advisor
to a number of LEPs and growth areas.
Frazer has particular expertise in planning for and managing long term growth. He has
a strong understanding of the evolving Localism agenda and changes to the funding
environment. He has
helped economic areas consider how best to prioritise infrastructure deliver and community investment in order
to create a virtuous cycle of growth and investment. He leads the LDA Design ‘Creative
Delivery’ initiative which seeks to simultaneously achieve commercially sound and highly creative design and
planning solutions.
Frazer has led a number of strategic green infrastructure and environmental infrastructure projects at the LEP
scale to help support the delivery of growth.
Jon Kirkpatrick - Head of Sustainability, Europe, Lend Lease
Jon heads up sustainability for Lend Lease across the EMEA region, and acts as the central
liaison for all sustainability issues across all of its business units.
His role covers two essential areas, environmental operations plus associated performance
and development innovation and strategy (both environmental and community investment).
In addition to embedding sustainability across the business, he is also ultimately responsible
for sustainability on major projects at Lend Lease, and works primarily on significant urban
regeneration projects across Europe (such as Elephant and Castle & The International
Quarter).
Jon works closely with the development teams to focus on comprehensive urban and infrastructure problems,
including finding solutions for renewable energy, water, waste, transport, biodiversity, green infrastructure and
public realm issues through integration of sustainability into design.
Before joining Lend Lease, Jon has experience across a wide number of major projects globally including the
London 2012 Olympic Park and Education City in Qatar as an associate director of EDAW/AECOM.
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Delegate list
Maria
Adebowale-Schwarte
JP
Agrawal
Frances
Bennett
JohnBevan
Vivien Blacker
Stephen Bromberg
Sally
Bloomfield
MikeBrook
SueBrown
John
Bryden
Matthew Buckham
Jon
Buick
Tony
Burton
RosalieCallway
MarkCamley
JonCarney
Joanna Clayton
Steve
Cole
Chris Coode
Louise Crothall
Mark
Dalzell
ShaunDawson
Charles Dean
Nick
Draper
Nic Durston
BerylFoster
Hannah
Gilbert
DelGoddard
Angela
Gorman
PaulGraham
Rob
Gray
PippaGueterbock
Kathryn
Hardcastle
Craig
Harrison
LindaHaysey
Laura
Hill
Stuart
Hobley
SuzieJackman
HeatherJohnson
Bevan
Jones
Living Space Project
Derivatives Value
Friends of the River Crane Environment
LVRPA
Vivien Blacker Consulting
LVRPA
LB of Sutton
Tamesis
Thames 21
Wandle Housing
LB of Merton
Wandle Trustee
LLDC
LVRPA
Sustrans
Housing Federation
Thames 21
LB of Wandsworth
LB of Sutton
LVRPA
Wandle Trustee
Wandle Trustee
LVRPA
Carefully Crafted
LVLT
Wandle Trustee
River Cray
LLDC
River Nene Regional Park
Forestry Commission
LVRPA
Laura Hill Architecture
Heritage Lottery Fund
TfL
LVRPA
Catalyst Housing
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AnaJubran
Andrew
Judge
Krystallia
Kamvasinou
Evina
Katsou
Beth
Kay
Dr Jon
Kirkpatrick
MonikaKiss
Tony
Leach
Paul
Lincoln
BrynLockwood
ClaireMartin
PeterMassini
Jayne
McCoy
Sarah McDermott
Richard
McKeever
Neil
Monaghan
Sue
Morgan
Peter
Murray
Doug
Napier
Rob Naybour
Helen
Neve
Frazer
Osment
Rob
Pearce
TheoPike
Mandy
Rudd
Gordon
Scorer
Jennifer
Sibley
SuzanneSimmons
Sarah
Sturrock
Sagar A Sumaria
Kate
Swade
Andrew
Taylor
Andrew Turner
DebbieValman
Simon
Wales
Tom Walsh
Rebecca
Watts
Dave
Webb
LesleyWertheimer
StephenWilkinson
Jill
Whitehead
MeredithWhitten
Susannah
Wilks
Tim Williams
Joanna
Wilson
David
Withycombe
Robert
Wolstenholme
LB of Merton
University of Westminster
Brunel University London
LB Haringey
Lend Lease
TfL
London Parks & Green Spaces Forum
The Park Alliance
Sustrans
LVRPA
GLA
Wandle Trustee
Wandle Trustee
Fields in Trust
Environment Agency
Wandle Valley Regional Park
New London Architecture
LB of Merton
Weston Williamson
Land Management Services
LDA Design
The Landscape Group
Green Space Information for Greater London
London Wildlife Trust
London Councils
Ciria
South London Partnerships
SO Ethical Media
Shared Assets
Sutton Housing Partnership
Virirdor
Groundwork
LB Sutton
Sustainable Merton
LB of Wandsworth
Environment Agency
LVRPA
Wandle Trustee
LB of Lambeth
TfL
Future of London
Land Management Services
Trilogy Property
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Wandle Valley
Regional Park
A new regional park for Londoners
in the Wandle Valley
Background
The Wandle Valley Regional Park in South London stretches from
Croydon in the south through the boroughs of Sutton, Merton and
Wandsworth in the north, covering some 24 kilometers in length with
over 937 hectares of open space with the River Wandle at its heart.
The Wandle Valley presents a rich mix of heritage assets and places,
residential communities, strategic industrial land, Metropolitan Open
Land, open parkland, local nature reserves, a complex mix of wildlife
areas, and the Wandle Trail pedestrian / cycle route, combined with the
rich biodiversity from the River Wandle itself.
Over the centuries, people have harnessed the Wandle and made it
London’s hardest working river, using the Wandle Valley as a catalyst for
growth and urban expansion.
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Economic positioning
The Wandle Valley is identified as one of London’s four strategic corridors, and as such provides 10% of
London’s employment and almost 20% of London’s manufacturing base. It is the location for many of south
London’s town and district centres and strategic industrial locations. There are a number of regeneration
opportunity areas because of the decline in light industrial activity in the Wandle Valley offering growth
opportunities.
Since the early development stages of the regional park and the incorporation of the Trust as a charity, the
sub-region that encompasses the Wandle Valley has seen significant economic growth and development: from
Nine Elms / Battersea, Ram Brewery development in Wandsworth Town, planned tube extensions in the north
at Wandsworth and Wimbledon, to the exponential growth of Croydon and the intensification areas in Merton
and Sutton.
With projections of population growth in London the Wandle Valley is increasingly an important asset.
Developing planned strategic green infrastructure in the WVRP through good quality public realm, excellent
parks and open spaces, connectivity for pedestrians and cyclists, resilience for climate change and flood
alleviation can be used to attract investment and be seen to deliver on the following agendas: health, growth
and employment, climate change, micro enterprise development, and connectivity.
With the increased importance of Business Rates to Local Authority finances, assets which promote inward
investment are of value. Green infrastructure is also known to increase property values and drive resident
satisfaction.
Partnership and vision
Current partnerships have recognised the value of the Wandle Valley as a strategic resource for London, in
which the protection and restoration of its natural qualities will play an important role in making a strategically
important green infrastructure asset vital and vibrant for existing and future generations. The partners’ shared
vision is for:
‘an innovative, sustainable and high quality Regional Park in the Wandle Valley that is easily accessible, with
a rich and thriving biodiversity, offering recreational, landscape, heritage, cultural and resource management
benefits in which local people and businesses can take pride and ownership.‘
Wandle Valley Regional Park Trust
Established as company in 2012 and a charitable trust in 2013,
the Wandle Valley Regional Park Trust has been established to
provide the vision, leadership, coordination, and resources to
create a new regional park along the River Wandle over the next
10 years.
The Wandle Valley Regional Park Trust (WVRPT) has been set up
by partners to:
• Provide leadership, coordination, collaboration and facilitation
to develop, promote and establish a regional park along the
River Wandle in the Boroughs of Sutton, Wandsworth, Merton
and Croydon.
• Oversee, facilitate, deliver and develop new initiatives
in alignment with the SPG All London Green Grid Area
Framework 8
Through high level support (and funding) from the four local
authorities along the Wandle, the National Trust, the Greater
London Authority, and with many partner organisations from
the community and voluntary sector, the WVRPT has begun to
develop projects that can help lever in high quality investment.
The board of trustees include the National Trust, Environment
Agency, Natural England, LB Wandsworth, LB Sutton, LB Merton,
LB Croydon, The Wandle Valley Forum, Mitcham Common
Conservators and The South East London Rivers Trust.
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Lee Valley Regional Park
50 years of working with partners
Sub Regional Partnerships lie at the heart of the
delivery of the Lee Valley Regional Park which
stretches from the banks of the Thames to rural
Hertfordshire.
In the 1960s a partnership of local councils worked to realise Sir
Patrick Abercrombie’s vision for the park contained in his seminal
1944 Greater London Plan. Their energy and drive resulted in
the creation of the Regional Park and Lee Valley Regional Park
Authority in 1967 through the Lee Valley Regional Park Act 1966.
Today, the 26 mile-long, 10,000 acre Lee Valley Regional Park
attracts over six million visits a year. From award winning open
spaces to iconic, world class sporting venues, it offers the best
in nature, sport and recreation, and delivers this by working
together with an assortment of partners.
The partnership working is characterised by establishing a
clear vision, understanding the roles of partners and the
value each can bring in order to focus on delivery.
Since its inception, the Authority has implemented a
range of innovative partnership projects to reclaim and
rehabilitate land scarred by industry, enrich wildlife and
create facilities so that communities can enjoy and
interact with nature, and take advantage of first rate
sport and leisure opportunities. Examples of some of
the Authority’s sub regional partnership are detailed
here.
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Gunpowder Park, Waltham
Abbey, Essex - remediation of
defence industry testing site to
create parklands
Opened to the public in 2004 the site was
a Royal Ordnance munitions testing facility.
The Authority worked in partnership with the
Ministry of Defence and the local authority
remediating and capping the land and creating
a unique landscape reflecting its history. Now a
Green Flag site it is now made up of a network of
walking and cycling routes and bridleways.
Tottenham Green Spaces strategy improving public access
The Authority is a member of a partnership focused
on improving access into the Regional Park from
Tottenham High Road. The partnership includes the
London Borough of Haringey, the Canal and River
Trust, landowners and the Authority. Its purpose is
to create a green link from the High Road into the
Regional Park through the creation of new routes,
improved wayfinding and new bridges over the
area’s waterways.
Three London 2012 venues – one
enduring community focused legacy
The Authority owns three London 2012: Lee Valley
White Water Centre, Lee Valley VeloPark and Lee
Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre and a number
of other world class sports venues. Working with
partners including international sports federations,
National Governing Bodies, charities, community
groups and schools, they deliver programmes and
events for people of all abilities, from grassroots to
elite.
Walthamstow Wetlands – access to nature
The scheme involves the creation of new access to
a nature site on the Walthamstow reservoirs which
form part of the Lee Valley Special Protection Area
and are a Site of Special Scientific Interest. The
partnership includes Thames Water, the London
Boroughs of Waltham Forest and Haringey, the
Environment Agency, Natural England, the London
Wildlife Trust and the Authority. The Authority initially
conceived the idea for opening up the reservoirs for
greater public access in 2007 and commissioned
a visioning document. This created interest and
resulted in the partnership which is led by Thames
Water and Waltham Forest. The scheme will create
a new visitor attraction in the Regional Park and is
planned to draw up to 250,000 visitors each year.
Since launching, the London 2012 venues have
staged 15 world class sports events, held in
partnership with sports governing bodies and
commercial bodies, including the UCI Track Cycling
World Championships at Lee Valley VeloPark which
is taking place 2-6 March 2016.
A range of other sub-regional partnerships have
ensured that 80% of these venues’ programming is
set aside for community activities – a central part of
the Authority’s Olympic legacy drive.
Nature Improvement Area – improving
access to nature
Programmes include:
Although the partnership was unsuccessful in 2012
in its bid for NIA funding for 34 projects, the group
of 21 organisations continues to implement projects
as funding becomes available. The focus is on
delivering. These projects aim to deliver improved
habitat and access to nature through an integrated
approach to landscape and biodiversity.
Creation of the Lea River Park –
public access and new spaces
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Tennis sessions for disability players and school
and community groups, organised jointly with
the Tennis Foundation at Lee Valley Hockey and
Tennis Centre
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Cycling for those with learning and physical
disabilities at Lee Valley VeloPark, run by social
inclusion charity Bikeworks
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Disabled hockey sessions run in partnership with
the Free Flyerz community hockey club, east
London at Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre.
The Authority has recently launched programmes
to capitalise on the phenomenal interest in the
UCI Track Cycling World Championships. The
Sport England-funded project is being delivered by
British Cycling, Bikeworks, the London Boroughs
of Newham, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest and
Hackney and Lee Valley Regional Park Authority
The Authority is working with a London
Legacy Development Corporation-led
partnership which includes London Boroughs
and private sector land owners to create a new
park extending from the south of the Queen
Elizabeth Olympic Park to the Thames. The
proposed park will include five areas of open
space, three of which currently exist and are
owned and managed by the Authority.
These will be linked by the Lea pathway –
a cycle and pedestrian route which will be
completed in 2018 with work on the open
spaces completed by 2023.
Further information at
leevalleypark.org.uk
and visitleevalley.org.uk
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