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AGENDA

Meeting of the London Legacy Development Corporation LLDC Regeneration Committee

Meeting Date: Tuesday 24 September 2013

Time: 1.30 - 3.00 pm

Venue: The CRE-8 Centre, The Old Baths, 80 Eastway, London E9 5JH

Members of the LLDC Regeneration Committee are hereby notified and requested to attend the meeting of the LLDC Regeneration Committee of the Corporation at 1.30 pm on Tuesday 24 September 2013 to transact the business set out below. Committee Members: Lord Mawson OBE (Chair) Sonita Alleyne Neale Coleman David Gregson David Ross

1 Apologies for Absence

2 Declarations of Interests

3 Minutes (Pages 1 - 4)

The Committee is asked to agree the minutes of the meeting held on 12 June 2013.

4 Matters Arising and Actions List (Pages 5 - 6)

The Committee is asked to note the actions arising from the previous meeting.

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5 Executive Director of Regeneration and Community Partnerships' Update (Pages 7 - 14)

The Committee is asked to note the report which provides progress updates on the LLDC’s activities related to jobs, growth, community, place-making and connectivity as well as an update from The Legacy List charity.

6 Regeneration Programme: Hackney Wick and Fish Island Update (Pages 15 - 24)

The Committee is asked to note the report on LLDC’s work to support the regeneration of Hackney Wick and Fish Island.

7 University Technical College Update (Pages 25 - 28)

The Committee is asked to note the report on the plans to establish two University Technical Colleges for 14-19 year olds in or around the Legacy Corporation’s area.

8 Any Other Business the Chairman Considers Urgent

The Chairman will state the reason for urgency of any item taken.

9 Exclusion of the Press and Public

Members are recommended to agree to exclude the public and press from the meeting, in accordance with part 1, paragraph 3 of schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended), in order to consider the following items of business:

10 Minutes of the Previous Meeting Held on 12 June 2013 that Contain Exempt Information (Pages 29 - 30)

The Committee is asked to agree the minutes of the meeting held on 12 June 2013 that contain exempt information.

11 University Technical College Update: Appendix (Pages 31 - 32)

Exempt Supplemental Information Relating to the item on Part 1.

The Committee is asked to note the Appendix containing exempt information.

12 Date of Next Meeting: 12 November 2013 at 2.00pm.

Minutes of the Meeting of the Regeneration and Communities Committee of the London Legacy Development Corporation

Meeting Date: 12 June 2013

Time: 3.30pm

Venue: The Boardroom, 3rd floor, The House Mill, Three Mill Lane,

Bromley-by-Bow, London E3 3DU

PRESENT: Andrew Mawson (Chair) Neale Coleman David Gregson Sonita Alleyne APOLOGIES: David Ross IN ATTENDANCE: Paul Brickell, Executive Director of Regeneration & Community

Partnerships Michelle Reeves, Mayor of London’s Observer Vicki Austin, Head of Equalities and Inclusion Eleanor Fawcett, Head of Design Pippa Gueterbock, Senior Designer Will Steadman, Planning team Rachel Massey, Secretariat

1 Apologies for Absence

1.1 The Chair welcomed members to the meeting and noted an apology of absence from David Ross.

2 Declaration of Interests

2.1 The Chair noted that members had declared registrable interests in line with the Standing Orders. The Chair asked Committee Members to confirm if they had any additional interests to be declared and any relating to matters listed on the agenda. No new declarations were made. Andrew Mawson declared an interest in Item 7 but it was agreed that this was not a pecuniary interest and he therefore continued to take a full part in the meeting.

MINUTES

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3 Minutes of the Meeting of the Regeneration and Communities Committee meeting on 19 March 2013

3.1 The Committee approved the minutes of the previous Regeneration and Communities Committee meeting held on 19 March 2013.

4 Executive Director of Regeneration and Community Partnerships’ Update

4.1 The Executive Director of Regeneration and Community Partnerships introduced the report which provided an update on key projects across the work streams of socio-economic regeneration; equalities and inclusion; community and business engagement; arts and culture; and physical regeneration.

4.2 The following points were highlighted:

(a) LLDC has been working with Greenwich Leisure Limited (GLL), the Copper Box venue operator, to encourage local people to apply for jobs in the venue. Of the 52 job offers in this round of recruitment, 90% were offered to Host Borough residents, exceeding the target of 65-75%. These include 12 apprentices. This has also resulted in GLL building relationships with the local borough job brokerage services for further recruitment opportunities.

(b) The volunteering programme is focusing on the summer events series and using local borough and Team London databases to recruit volunteers. Committee members noted the importance of building on the success of the Games and that the volunteering programme could give people that weren’t involved last year the opportunity to volunteer.

(c) The Executive Director noted that Community feedback on the Park and legacy plans at the LLDC residents’ meetings had been positive overall with some local and specific issues being raised.

(d) It was suggested that the report could be presented thematically covering jobs, growth, community, place-making and connectivity. The Executive Director agreed to prepare subsequent reports in this way and to include an update from The Legacy List charity in future reports.

4.3 The Committee noted the report.

5 Education Update

5.1 The Executive Director of Regeneration and Community Partnerships introduced Report 2 which provided an update on the work to deliver the Legacy Communities Scheme (LCS) schools and facilitate additional capacity in the LLDC’s area, to inspire learning and build career pathways for young people and the engagement with Further Education and Higher Education institutes in the area.

5.2 The following points were highlighted:

(a) The Executive Director noted that the LLDC had commissioned an update of the projected numbers of school places as part of the work

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to develop the Local Plan. This would also look at the plans for schools provided by the local education authorities and other providers. The Committee noted the importance of building relationships between schools in and around LLDC’s area and the importance of driving up school quality.

(b) The LLDC had held a very constructive meeting with Loughborough University who were moving into the Broadcast Centre about enterprise, business and connecting with local schools.

(c) The Legacy Careers project is focused on secondary school children. Sonita Alleyne offered to share her experience of working with primary school children, and about how their curriculum relates to different careers.


6 Motivate East and the Paralympic Legacy Festival

6.1 The Head of Equalities and Inclusion introduced Report 3 which provided an update on the delivery of the Motivate East programme, which is a key element of the Legacy Corporations’ Paralympic Legacy programme.

6.2 The Head of Equalities and Inclusion also provided an overview of the plans for the Paralympic Legacy Festival to be held in the North Park on 7 September 2013. This will be the final event of the Legacy Corporation’s summer events series and will be a free event.


7 Regeneration Programme – Bromley by Bow Update

7.1 The Executive Director of Regeneration and Community Partnerships introduced the report which outlined the opportunities for regenerating the Bromley by Bow area including Sugar House Lane and 3 Mills.

7.2 The Head of Design set out some of the issues and challenges in the area including multiple land owners and the potential for piecemeal development without adequate physical infrastructure such as new road junctions and crossings across the A12.

7.3 The Committee noted LandProp’s outline planning permission to create a new neighbourhood of 1,200 homes in the Sugarhouse Lane area. The first phase is due for completion in 2015.

7.4 The Committee noted the Tesco planning application for a mixed use development for the Bromley by Bow area east of the A12 and the failed CPO for the required land assembly. The Committee noted the importance of LLDC championing a new crossing on the A12 and the need for high level discussions with both TfL and Tesco about this. Andrew Mawson declared an interest as he had been in discussions with Tesco about other projects.

7.5 The Committee thanked the team for the presentation and asked for a map showing the town centre hubs set out in the London Plan.


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8 Any Other Urgent Business the Chair Considers Urgent

8.1 The Chair did not have any urgent business to raise in this part of the meeting.

9 Exclusion of the Press and Public

9.1 The Committee agreed to exclude the public and press from the meeting, in accordance with Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, for the next items of business on the grounds that it would be likely to involve the disclosure of exempt information as defined in part 1, paragraph 3 of Schedule 12A of the Act.

10 Education Update – Appendix 1

10.1 The Committee noted the Appendix to the full report, which contained exempt information.

11 Close

11.1 The meeting closed at 5pm.

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Regeneration and Communities Committee Actions List (reported to the meeting on 24 September 2013) Outstanding Actions from the Last Meeting

Minute No. Item/Description Action By Target Date Status/note

4.2 Executive Director’s Update The Executive Director’s report to be presented thematically covering jobs, growth, community, place-making and connectivity and include an update from the Legacy List charity.

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Subject: Executive Director of Regeneration & Community Partnerships’ update Meeting Date: 24 September 2013 Report to: Regeneration and Communities Committee Report of: Paul Brickell, Executive Director of Regeneration & Community

Partnerships

For Information

This report will be considered in public

1. Summary

1.1. This report provides progress updates on the activities related to the remit of the Committee.

2. Recommendation

2.1 The Board is invited to note this report.

3. Jobs and Growth

3.1 The key focus of activity in this work-stream so far this year has been to ensure that residents of the east London Growth Boroughs are able to compete effectively for jobs and apprenticeships on the Park during the Transformation phase. The Legacy Corporation set itself ambitious targets and these have by and large been exceeded through effective partnership with the Growth Borough job brokerages, BAM Nuttall (the Tier 1 contractor for the Transformation works), Balfour Beatty (the Tier 1 contractor for the Aquatics Centre works), sub-contractors and our delivery partner Reds10.

3.2 Performance over the lifetime of the programme up until to 31 July 2013 is shown in the table below and compared to the contractual targets and to performance up until 30 April 2013, which was reported at the last meeting of the Committee.

Workforce target Target %

Actual April 30

%

Actual / RAG July 31

%

Permanent residency in Growth Boroughs 25 41 41 G

Previously unemployed 10 18 17.4 G

BAME groups 25 59 62.4 G

Women 5 6 6.9 G

Disabled people 3 2.4 3.3 G

Apprentices 3 4.3 5.1 G

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NB there are a number of contractors who LLDC is awaiting reporting data from for Q2. Their workforces add up to circa 50 people, so they are not considered to have a significant impact on overall performance against targets). RAG rating: G = on/exceeding target

3.3. These figures are pleasing and performance has improved in most areas since the last update. Following work with contractors, for the first time the indicative minimum target of 3% of the workforce being disabled (this differs from contractor to contractor) has been exceeded.

3.4. LLDC has carried out a survey completed by half of the on-site workforce which revealed that 85% of those local residents surveyed had been residents of their boroughs for at least one year.

3.5. Apprentices: 14 apprentices have completed their initial placements and have been found follow-on placements to allow them to complete their apprenticeships, many of these being other placements on the Park, demonstrating the value of the apprenticeship training agency model.

3.6. LLDC has started work to hold an Apprenticeships Awards ceremony in December 2013 to celebrate the cohort of 59 apprentices (including those who have completed their initial placements on the Park), highlight the LLDC’s commitment to apprenticeship delivery, recognise the contributions made by our contractors’ staff in supporting apprentices, demonstrate to Park contractors the business benefits of employing apprentices and the support available, and showcase the work of local delivery partners.

3.7. LLDC has been supporting Camden Society’s recruitment for the Timber Lodge: 36% of staff recruited are disabled people, 71% BAME and 43% are women. LLDC facilitated a meeting between the Camden Society and the Borough Brokerages on 18 September to look at how the boroughs can support future recruitment and raise the percentage of the workforce from the four boroughs (currently 21%) and to support local people into apprenticeships, which are being recruited later in the year.

3.8. The Legacy Corporation has been working with EFM contractors to establish pathways for local people into jobs with The Landscape Group. In July the overall workforce comprised 164 people, made up of 59% residents of the six host boroughs (against a target of 85%). Of these, 22% were female (against a target of 42%), 6% were disabled people (against a target of 10%) and 47% were BAME people (against a target of 35%). Clearly, the EFM contractors have some way to go before they meet their contractual workforce targets. However, LLDC is supporting their recruitment processes and has strengthened the links with borough brokerages. It is anticipated that the figures will improve following the next recruitment drive from November.

3.9. LLDC has completed a project with the Copper Box venue operator, Greenwich Leisure Limited (GLL), to encourage local people to apply for jobs in the venue which opened to the public in late July 2013. This has resulted in 58 job starts for residents of the growth boroughs, meaning that 90% of their work force are local people. Furthermore of the growth borough recruits, 45% are women; 14% of host borough recruits are disabled & 62% of host borough recruits are BAME.

3.10. Senior level meetings have been held with iCITY about apprenticeship and skills, including advice on shaping PQQs for their procurement exercises to

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help to ensure that there are significant employment opportunities for local people

3.11. In early September LLDC ran leadership training for 55 sixth formers (18/19 year olds). This training is developing their confidence and skills as well as enabling the sixth-formers to become strong peer mentors to year 9s (13/14 year olds), whereby sixth-formers are paired-up with younger pupils to provide additional career information, advice and guidance. This is part of the Legacy Careers Project, which aims to use the opportunities being created in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and the surrounding area to raise aspirations and inspire extraordinary careers. The project will equip young people with the information, confidence and motivation they need to plan and manage their own careers, helping them to become east London employers’ workforce of tomorrow.

3.12. The sixth formers will support Business Volunteers, to participate in five enrichment days in schools to broaden horizons and help prepare people for the world of work. Volunteers from the Legacy Corporation will be taking part in the first ‘Your Hired’ day on Friday 6 September at St Angela’s Ursuline School, to be followed by sessions at Heathcote Secondary School (Waltham Forest), George Green Secondary School (Tower Hamlets), St Paul’s Way Trust School (Tower Hamlets) and Cardinal Pole School (Hackney) across the autumn.

3.13. The Transformation Job and Apprenticeship Brokerage project has commenced delivery and will continue until March 2014. The project takes demand-side information from contractors and works with supply-side referral agencies, principally borough-based brokerages, to source appropriately-skilled, job-ready local people for emerging vacancies. In certain cases, where work with contractors and partners has identified a need, the LLDC provides funding designed to:

o Support demand-led pre-employment training that is not already funded from other sources;

o Provide additional brokerage resources to support job seekers, complementing existing provision;

o Work with contractors to forecast their workforce requirements; and

o Coordinate skills training strategically to ensure it is in line with employers’ demand.

4. Community

4.1. The well received series of events on the Park closed on 7 September with the National Paralympic Day featuring the Mayor of London’s Liberty Festival, a free family day out with a host of activities in the Park showcasing the very best of disability sports and arts. Over 18,000 people attended the event which included an opportunity to try out Paralympic sports, meet Paralympic medallists and watch Paralympic GB stars take on the world in the Copper Box Arena. The Liberty Festival presented an exciting programme of deaf and disability arts including street theatre, dance, live music, film, installations and children’s activities in the North Park.

4.2. Motivate East programme commenced with a launch on 3 July 2013 at Bromley By Bow centre, attended by local disabled people, Baroness Grey-Thompson and other strategic partners. 11 Para-legacy agents have been appointed to recruit people to the programme. Motivate East has a throughput target of 1,560 for the first six months of the project. It has so far

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reached 1,982 (of whom 813 were disabled), and a unique user target of 435, which it has exceeded, having reached a total of 665 people.

4.3. The successful opening of the North Park was supported by community engagement with local residents including delivery of workshops, a community road show in the four boroughs, work around maps and routes, naming the north park hub buildings (Timber Lodge and Tumbling Bay playground) and working with community clubs. Community engagement work will continue for full Park opening in spring 2014, including launch pads for Warton Road and Hackney Wick for enhanced viewing of the Park.

4.4. LLDC has commenced a series of free boat tours around the Park aimed at local residents: 60 tours have been organised so far for around 3,600 people. In partnership with the Institute of Civil Engineers there will also be boat tours as part of London’s Open House weekend on 21 and 22 September 2013.

4.5. LLDC completed its schools engagement programme with an awards evening that saw pupils from four local schools competing to find the best business idea to attract young people into the Park. Lister Community School beat Haggerston School and Skinners’ Academy in Hackney, and Buxton School, Waltham Forest, to the top prize of £5,000 to invest in their idea. The winning idea features a youth enterprise market, activities including an eating competition and dance competitions, a youth community festival and permanent artwork on the Park.

4.6. Each of the four schools partnered with a business mentor to put together their pitch. The four groups faced a panel of four judges including Rachel Latham, former Paralympic swimmer and Channel 4 television reporter, Stevie Spring, Chairman of BBC’s Children In Need, Andy Larholt, Founding Partner of Montash recruitment agency and Jonathan Dutton, LLDC’s Executive Director of Finance and Corporate Services.

4.7. Delivery has commenced on ‘Active People, Active Park’, a pilot programme of sport and physical activity opportunities targeting those that are the least active, capturing the interest generated by the Games, enriching the lives of local communities and of Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. It will form the basis of the future Park programme, and has had over 2,000 participants to date.

4.8. Further to the successful range of sporting events already held in the Copper Box Arena, the Barry McGuigan Boxing Academy (BMBA) recently announced it will be based in the Copper Box Arena and will continue working with local residents. Recent BMBA community sports programmes funded by LLDC have targeted people living in four of the growth boroughs; Waltham Forest, Hackney, Tower Hamlets and Newham. They have engaged a total of 2,345 participants over 31 sport and physical activity sessions as part of the Boxing for Health Initiative Events.

4.9. It was recently announced that the Aquatics Centre will host the 2016 European Championships and the 2016 European Masters Championships (for

swimmers over the age of 25) following a successful bid with British Swimming.

4.10. The East London Makers Outside (ELMO) project was launched with a successful event at the William Morris Gallery on 3 and 4 August, attracting 500 visitors. This project includes a mobile library bus which has been converted into a travelling arts and crafts workshop, hosting a range of artists based in east London to provide a variety of opportunities for local

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people. To the end of August 2013 over 600 people had used the Mobile Artists Studio. The studio will be an attraction at the National Paralympic Day. The ELMO project also delivers a mentorship programme for approximately 100 young people to work directly with the artists and develop careers in the creative sector.

4.11. Good progress has been made on the SPOKE project, a poetry and spoken word programme offering people in East London an opportunity to watch, perform and develop careers in spoken word and performance poetry in and around the Park. A New Direction, Apples and Snakes and Spread the Word commenced work to deliver a poetry and spoken word project in and around the Park, with two successful and well-attended events being held at the Tumbling Bay playground. The appointment of a Young Poet Laureate has commenced: 56 applications were made and 6 were shortlisted. The programme is on schedule to appoint the Young Poet Laureate and announce this with an event on National Poetry Day on 3 October 2013.

5. Placemaking and Connectivity

5.1. Work has continued, to mobilise the Leaway project (formerly known as Fatwalk) which aims to provide a linear pedestrian and cycle path from Three Mills Green to East India Dock Basin and help contribute to the sustainable development of the Lower Lea Valley by connecting local communities, unlocking riverside walkways and improving access to green spaces. Funding has been secured from GLA for this and LLDC is also in positive funding discussions with TfL to help deliver the first phase of the project.

5.2. Grassroots interim uses: in parallel with plans to appoint a Park wide operator the LLDC has progressed plans to procure an operator to develop smaller scale interim uses on the Park. This project aims to animate the routes to the Park, enhance the visitor experience and increase visitor numbers and begin to establish a mix of retail and commercial elements for the new neighbourhoods on the Park when these are built.

5.3. LLDC is aiming to unlock development in the Hackney Wick Fish Island area; procurement for initial property, transport and design work is due to complete soon. More details are provided in an accompanying report.

5.4. LLDC has appointed DRMM architects to look at Bromley By Bow masterplanning leaving Tesco in situ and the possibility of using Compulsory Purchase Order powers. This is linked to wider work around 3 Mills future strategy and TfL’s work on the all movements junction study.

5.5. Work has been commenced by Thomas Matthews to work with Dents in the Fence and marketing to dress routes from underground stations to the Park giving a local perspective. This has received good feedback from partners and the Marketing team. The next phase for Leyton is due to complete in autumn this year.

5.6. Art on the Park: Parabola have been appointed to provide temporary artwork in the Park, 3 plots in the North Park have been agreed for this work which will include a camera obscura and will be complete in Autumn 2013. The first artwork on hoardings on Carpenters Road and Taylor Wimpey will be complete by October 2013.

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6. Legacy List

6.1. The Legacy List is a charity founded by the Mayor of London’s Office and LLDC’s predecessor body, OPLC. It is tasked with helping to deliver the cultural and education legacy for the Park and its surroundings. The work of the Legacy List is progressing well.

6.2. Recent achievements of the charity include:

o Completion of the All Canals Projects Walls project. Films of all four walls, including Gainsborough schools project, are on the Legacy List website http://www.thelegacylist.org.uk/;

o The Floating Cinema 2013 summer programme is underway and will continue until 30 September 2013;

o The Summer Schools pilot programme with Space studios sessions will have been completed by 22 August 2013. Four schools took part and there has been good feedback to date;

o Held a successful weekend as part of the Open East festival with Legacy List Lounge by Mark Lyken (who created live artwork). Over 200 people took part in the Family History tree project over the two days; tours run through the Floating Cinema programme and Time Out winners got guided tour of Art in the Park by Sarah Weir;

o Sparked 2 – photography competition winners have been chosen. The History Trees programme at ViewTube is ongoing until September including family day (as part of a wider Community Links programme) on 11 August. Sparked also had a presence as part of National Paralympic Day; and

o The Building Brighter Futures project is now underway with 11 schools in Waltham Forest, reaching over 200 children over three years.

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7. APPENDICES

None

List of Background Papers • None

Report originator(s): Oliver Shepherd Telephone: 020 3288 1828 Email: [email protected]

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Subject: Regeneration Programme: Hackney Wick and Fish Island Update

Meeting date: 24 September 2013 Report to: Regeneration and Communities Committee Report of: Paul Brickell, Executive Director of Regeneration & Community

Partnerships

For Information

This report will be considered in public

1. Summary

1.1. The purpose of this report is to present an outline of the approach to unlocking the regeneration of Hackney Wick and Fish Island and the significant opportunities there, and the work streams the Legacy Corporation is currently progressing to support this.

2. Recommendation

2.1. The Committee is asked to note the contents of the report.

3. Timing

3.1. There are no pressing timing issues in relation to this report, but we need to proceed with the programme at pace.

4. Background

4.1. Since its establishment in April 2012, the Legacy Corporation has taken on a wider role in the regeneration of East London than that played by its predecessor, the Olympic Park Legacy Company. The core of the Legacy Corporation’s role, as defined by the Mayor of London, is “to promote and deliver physical, social, economic and environmental regeneration in the Olympic Park and surrounding area”.

4.2. Hackney Wick/Fish Island (HWFI) is one of the key regeneration areas within the Legacy Corporation’s boundary. HWFI forms the western edge of the Legacy Corporation’s area, and is located between iCity, East Wick and Sweetwater to the east and the A12, Homerton, Victoria Park and Roman Road to the west. The area straddles the administrative

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boundaries of Hackney and Tower Hamlets. Previously the area was within the London Thames Gateway Development Corporation boundary.

4.3. A map of the area is provided in Appendix A.

4.4. HWFI represents an opportunity to develop an exemplary approach to urban regeneration which creates long term value and a successful, distinctive, ‘authentic’ place. As planning authority, development corporation and landowner in HWFI, the Legacy Corporation is keen to engage pro-actively with this opportunity.

4.5. This report is intended to provide a high level summary of the regeneration context and key opportunities, the current challenges, the work streams underway and the areas for discussion. It addresses the issues and practical steps to be taken in relation, first, to the HWFI area in general and, second, to a proposed new neighbourhood centre to be created in Hackney Wick.

5. HWFI - Overview of Opportunities and Issues

5.1. HWFI is a dynamic place with a flourishing and constantly evolving creative scene, which has become established in many of the area’s historic industrial buildings, alongside more traditional industrial businesses. HWFI has over 600 artists’ studios, believed to be the highest density of artists’ studios in Europe, some of which have been established since the 1980s. Small businesses linked with the creative sector are currently being attracted to locate in the area, and visitors are also discovering HWFI as a destination. The area is increasingly ‘on the map’ as a hotspot in East London’s landscape.

5.2. The existing business and residential communities in HWFI are becoming increasingly organised and formalised, and are recognising the strategic contribution which they can make to the regeneration of the wider area. Within the HWFI area, Hackney Wick is identified in local and regional planning policy as the location for a new neighbourhood centre to support the Legacy Community Scheme (LCS) neighbourhoods and future business growth in HWFI. Furthermore, the value of a quirky, creative and ‘authentic’ Hackney Wick to complement the very different characters of the other urban districts around Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park (QEOP), including Stratford City, is widely acknowledged, including by iCITY and others. The activities and businesses here also have the potential to expand into QEOP, building local ownership and connectivity and bringing a sense of place to the new LCS neighbourhoods.

5.3. Another example of the growing maturity of the HWFI community is the number of Community Interest Companies which have recently become established there. Grassroots organisations which provide skills and training to the wider community, especially young people, are also establishing themselves in HWFI. The Legacy Corporation has supported many of these initiatives and been central to the overall effort to empower and recognise the value of HWFI’s existing residential and business communities and their activities.

5.4. For HWFI today the biggest challenge and opportunity is the imminent scale of change which will result from mixed use development on sites

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across the area. Post-2012, landowners and developers are actively progressing schemes here. There are numerous development schemes currently in pre-application discussions with the Legacy Corporation’s Planning Policy and Decisions Team (PPDT), and a small number of live applications. This scale of investment in the area represents a huge opportunity to deliver exemplary urban regeneration. Equally, it could also represent the demise of the positive characteristics of the area and its transition to yet another generic neighbourhood. Whilst up to date planning policies are in place via the adopted Hackney Wick and Fish Island Area Action Plans (AAPs), which support the overall vision and the introduction of mixed use to the area, we currently find that in general the development proposals coming forward do not contribute to the long term sustainability of the positive physical, social and economic attributes of the place. The Legacy Corporation’s planning powers provide powerful tools to refine the policies for the area via the Local Plan, and to secure well coordinated, exemplary schemes via the development control process. These processes are now well underway.

5.5. HWFI is a place at the threshold of a new era, and the Legacy Corporation has the significant responsibility of defining the type of place which it will become and stewarding this process of change. Fundamentally, the Legacy Corporation’s challenge is to ensure that HWFI becomes even more distinctive and successful as a place as a result of the investment and intensification, alongside fulfilling its strategic role within the wider area.

6. HWFI – Current Workstreams

6.1. To this end, the Legacy Corporation has commissioned three pieces of work to inform its planning policy and strategic approach to regeneration in HWFI. These are as follows.

6.2. Planning and Design study: this was commissioned by the Legacy Corporation in spring 2013 to develop a more detailed spatial understanding of how the overarching policies set out in the adopted AAPs would be applied. This study has been prepared by a team led by dRMM architects with AZ Urban Studio, muf, Robert Bevan and Stockley, and is currently in a final draft. This will form part of the evidence base for the Local Plan which will promote, guide and control existing and future development proposals across the whole HWFI area. It provides a useful basis for the Legacy Corporation’s overall vision for HWFI and the role and character of the neighbourhood centre within this, building on the adopted Hackney Wick and Fish Island AAPs. Outputs from this commission also include important work on the heritage of HWFI and provide updated conservation area management plans and local listing and Tree Preservation Order recommendations for PPDT to consider when preparing the Local Plan.

6.3. Strategic Connectivity Study: A critical role for the Legacy Corporation within HWFI is to improve the currently poor local connectivity for pedestrians, cycles and vehicles. An improved network will establish a clear framework for integrated developments, and will unlock strategic regeneration opportunities by connecting local communities west of the A12 with QEOP and the opportunities there. Although scoping of projects

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to tackle this has been carried out in the past, there is a lack of consensus on priority projects for delivery. This study has just been commissioned and will review the overall network and previous studies in order to identify key projects. These are anticipated to include improvements to the connections over the A12 and Greenway to the Roman Road/Bow communities, improved links over the Hertford Union Canal and over the Lea Navigation.

6.4. Survey of creative workspaces in HWFI: As part of the ‘Emerging East’ initiative, the Legacy Corporation commissioned a local resident and architect to compile this survey of the spatial requirements (indoor and outdoor), activities and rental levels in a range of typical workspaces across HWFI. It provides an invaluable insight into current requirements and the reality of the working arrangements for the area’s creative communities, and is intended to be a useful resource for developers and potentially future policies.

7. Hackney Wick neighbourhood centre – Overview of Opportunities and Issues

7.1. The area around Hackney Wick station has been identified by the Mayor of London and the Mayors of Hackney and Tower Hamlets as the location for a new neighbourhood centre to support the increase in numbers of residents anticipated in this area and to provide a robust urban structure for the future development. The Legacy Corporation owns the critical sites directly adjacent to Hackney Wick station and therefore has a central role to play in the delivery of this vision. Therefore the Hackney Wick neighbourhood centre area has become a particular area of focus and several work streams area underway, which will produce a Hackney Wick Development and Delivery Strategy by the end of 2013.

7.2. The aims and objectives underpinning the Legacy Corporation’s approach to Hackney Wick can be summarised in terms of the creation of:

• A new ‘neighbourhood centre’ at Hackney Wick, which anchors and supports development in HWFI, East Wick, Sweetwater and iCity;

• A place which has a distinctive character reflecting the area’s creativity, innovation and heritage;

• A place where activities which serve the existing business and residential community and visitors are clustered – cafes and bars, community and civic uses, galleries and incubator units, a network of public spaces;

• Utilisation of the Legacy Corporation’s land assets to achieve an appropriate balance between commercial and residential uses;

• A reconfigured and accessible station, which improves permeability and creates a high quality arrival point to the entire area; and

• Improved connectivity between Hackney Wick and QEOP, Fish Island and the wider communities across the A12.

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7.3. There are a number of components being progressed in and around the future Hackney Wick neighbourhood centre which indicate that there is now a critical opportunity for the Legacy Corporation to lead the coordination and delivery of the overall vision. These include:

• The Legacy Corporation and its partners are making significant progress with proposals for improvements to Hackney Wick station and the associated delivery of a key new North-South route;

• The northern areas of QEOP and the Copper Box are now open, and the development of the adjacent neighbourhoods of East Wick and Sweet Water in QEOP are being accelerated, providing a much clearer context;

• iCITY is becoming established at the Olympic Media Centre and the future character and opportunity is clear. It will provide a focus of employment growth that will be most successful if well integrated with its hinterland in Hackney Wick;

• Development proposals for key sites within the neighbourhood centre are currently being progressed by landowners, pre-application discussions with PPDT are underway, and there is a desire to ensure that these are fully coordinated with the bigger picture. However the landowners are unlikely to wait for too long;

• Similarly, the Legacy Corporation wishes to ensure that development proposals for sites in its own ownership are fully coordinated with delivery of the overall strategic vision; and

• The Legacy Corporation is currently preparing the Local Plan for the whole of its area, including the proposed Hackney Wick neighbourhood centre. There is an opportunity for the outcomes from the Hackney Wick studies and master planning to input into consultation on the Local Plan and the associated Infrastructure Delivery Plan.

8. Hackney Wick Neighbourhood Centre - Current Workstreams

8.1. The Legacy Corporation and its partners are currently commissioning consultants to develop the Hackney Wick Development and Delivery Strategy and the Legacy Corporation’s approach to the development of their sites and the area as a whole. The commissions are as follows:

8.2. Masterplanning – This commission is to develop a master plan and development brief for the core area north and south of Hackney Wick station. This will be developed via a range of scenarios exploring alternative approaches to issues such as mix and arrangement of land uses, routes and public realm, massing and density, approach to existing buildings and heritage assets, and constraints such a flood risk. The viability and deliverability of these scenarios will be appraised by Lambert Smith Hampton to inform the selection of a preferred option. This will also articulate the vision for the character of the area.

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8.3. Property and Delivery – Lambert Smith Hampton have recently been appointed to this role. The main objectives of the Property and Delivery commission is to test and inform the emerging masterplan, and to produce a delivery strategy that is both commercially viable/robust and delivers the planning and design objectives for the area. The Property consultants will produce, with input from the master planning consultants, the development and delivery strategy that will identify, prioritise and cost the public sector interventions that would be required to deliver and support these aims, make best use of the Legacy Corporation’s assets, and unlock private sector investment. These interventions may include a combination of land acquisition/disposal, infrastructure investment, and/or use of planning or CPO powers.

8.4. Hackney Wick station improvements – Proposals to improve Hackney Wick station and create a new north-south pedestrian/cycle connection via a new portal through the railway embankment are currently being prepared for submission as a planning application in November 2013. A significant proportion of the funds required to undertake the work have already been secured from external sources, and additional funds are being sought from other external sources. The project has secured GRIP 4 approval from Network Rail. If funding is secured, the station upgrade can be delivered by the end of 2015.

8.5. Hackney Wick station – second entrance study - Alongside progressing the scheme to deliver improvements to Hackney Wick station, TfL are leading the commissioning of a study into the station configuration in order to assess how the station and its access to QEOP could be further improved with a second phase of upgrades, including the potential for a second entrance on the eastern side of the Lea Navigation within QEOP.

8.6. All of these commissions are working to similar programmes, with completion by the end of 2013.

9. Future Review

9.1. To be discussed and agreed at the meeting.

10. Financial Implications

10.1. Budgets for the initial scoping steps outlined above are included within the Legacy Corporation’s Business Plan, but delivery of substantial elements such as new infrastructure would require funding to be secured from external sources. Delivery of the Hackney Wick station upgrades will cost £10.5m.

10.2. The Legacy Corporation owns sites to the north and south of Hackney Wick station, therefore consideration should be given of the best use of these assets as part of the delivery of the neighbourhood centre and station improvements.

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11. Legal Implications

11.1. As a Mayoral Development Corporation (“MDC”), the LLDC is bound by the objects and powers for a MDC as set out in the Localism Act 2011 (the Act). Section 201 of the Act states:

(1) The object of an MDC is to secure the regeneration of its area.

(2) An MDC may do anything it considers appropriate for the purposes of

its object or for purposes incidental to those purposes.

12. Priority Themes

12.1. The Programme focuses explicitly on how the Legacy Corporation can promote equality and inclusion, convergence and community participation, including through the use of high quality design strategies.

13. List of Appendices

Appendix A: Hackney Wick and Fish Island plan.

List of Background Papers Report 3 (Regeneration Programme) LLDC Regeneration and Communities Committee 19 March 2013

Report originator(s): Eleanor Fawcett Email: [email protected]

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Subject: University Technical College Update

Meeting date: 24 September 2013

Report to: Regeneration and Communities Committee

Report of: Paul Brickell, Executive Director of Regeneration and Community Partnerships

For Discussion

1. Summary

1.1. This paper provides a further update on the Legacy Corporation’s work in supporting the development of two University Technical Colleges (UTCs) in and around its area, as part of its work with partners to improve the quality and relevance of vocational training in east London.

2. Recommendation

2.1 The Committee is asked to note the report.

3. Background

3.1. The Education Update paper, considered by the Regeneration and Communities Committee in June 2013, highlighted the work the Legacy Corporation is undertaking with partners to improve the quality and relevance of vocational training in its area, particularly through the delivery of apprenticeships.

3.2. The Legacy Corporation’s Transformation construction apprenticeship programme has been highly successful to date, with over 50 local young people employed as apprentices on the Park in a range of roles from general construction operatives and business administrators to quantity surveyors and civil engineers.

3.3. According to the National Apprenticeship Service (NAS), the Park has the highest number of apprentices on a single site in London, if not the country. The Legacy Corporation has achieved this by putting significant effort into highlighting the benefits of employing apprentices to its contractors, and making it as easy as possible for them to do so, as well as ensuring that local young people are aware of the range of career opportunities available to them in the construction sector, and on their doorstep.

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3.4. It is clear that strong employer involvement, high quality training and real work opportunities are key ingredients to a successful apprenticeship programme and to ensuring that local young people secure sustained employment. The Legacy Corporation sees UTCs as a the ideal vehicle to scale up this work, to mainstream it and to provide supported pathways into legacy careers to an even younger age cohort, and therefore reducing the risk of our young people becoming NEET (Not in employment, education or training).

3.5. The Legacy Corporation is actively involved in the development of two University Technical Colleges (UTCs), which will be located close to the Park, and will focus on various elements of construction.

3.6. The first of these is the London Design and Engineering UTC, sponsored by Alpha Building Services Engineering, Thames Water and the University of East London (UEL), is one of 13 new University Technical Colleges recently approved to move to pre-opening stage by the Department for Education (DfE), and is set to open from September 2014. Its focus is on design, engineering and the built environment.

3.7. The second UTC project, the proposed ‘London Legacy UTC’ is in its pre-application stage, with an application due to be submitted to DfE in January 2014. Further information, is included as an Appendix to this report under the exempt agenda.

4. University Technical Colleges

4.1. UTCs are a new form of education, recommended by Ron Dearing (Baron Dearing) designed to close some of the technical skills gaps in the UK. UTCs are for students aged 14 to 19 that specialise in technical studies, offering vocational pathways to employment and are sponsored by a university. It offers full time courses, which combine practical and academic studies.

4.2. The UTC ethos and curriculum is heavily influenced by local and national employers who also provide support and work experience for students.

4.3. UTCs are sub-regional, taking students from a wide geographical area and they specialise in subjects that require technical and modern equipment, for example, engineering, product design, health sciences, construction, and land and environmental services. They also teach business skills and the use of ICT.

4.4. Employers’ role in the UTC partnership is key as they have an active role in curriculum design and planning. UTCs will typically have a large number of employer partners in their region and these will be interested in contributing to the curriculum, providing work experience and building close links with students who will be potential future employees. Universities play a key role in the UTC by:

i. Influencing the development of the curriculum to ensure that it

reflects the most up to date methods and prepares students for higher education.

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ii. Allowing university staff to assist in the teaching of areas in which they have particular expertise e.g. teaching mathematics for engineers.

iii. Supporting and mentoring students, in particular those who might be considering or have the ability to consider entry to higher education.

iv. Allowing the UTC to use university specialist facilities to inform and inspire the students.

v. Providing undergraduate and foundation degree modules to UTC students who have the ability to benefit from them.

4.5. There are a number of UTC’s either open or in development across east London. These are:

- Hackney Community College UTC in Health and Digital Technologies which opened in September 2012. It has links to iCity and is a a partnership involving BT Group, the University of East London, the Homerton University Hospital NHS Trust, The Learning Trust and the London Borough of Hackney.

- The East London UTC: Located at CEME (Centre for Engineering and Manufacturing Excellence) near Dagenham. It is being sponsored by Ford Motors and will specialise in Manufacturing, Engineering, Product Design and Development and is due to open in September 2013.

- The Greenwich UTC: Led by the University of Greenwich and sponsored by Lewisham College, this UTC will specialise in Construction and Engineering and is also due to open in September 2013.

- Mulberry UTC: Located in Tower Hamlets and opening in September 2014, this UTC specialises in healthcare and medical services, and digital technology.

5. Proposed UTCs

London Design and Engineering UTC

5.1. The London Design and Engineering UTC proposed to be located at Abbey Mills near Stratford and is due to open in September 2014. Its proposer is Alpha Building Services Engineering, the university sponsor is the University of East London and partners include Thames Water.

5.2. The UTC specialises in design, engineering and the built environment looking to create pathways for young people to benefit from the infrastructure development projects that are being delivered in east London, such as the Thames Tideway Tunnel.

5.3. The LLDC was approached in late 2012 to join the partnership, provided a letter of support to the application and has a place on the UTC’s Board.

London Legacy UTC

5.4. Further information is included in the Appendix to this report under the exempt agenda.

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6. Next Steps

London Design and Engineering UTC

6.1. The Legacy Corporation will work as part of the project steering group to advise on curriculum development and to ensure that that the UTC offer complements other provision in the area and forms part of a supported pathway in legacy careers.

London Legacy UTC

6.2 Further information is included on this in the Appendix to this report under the exempt agenda.

7. Legal Implications

7.1. Legal advice will need to be sought as part of the next phase of developing the governance structure of the London Legacy UTC.

8. Financial Implications

8.1. There are no financial implications and the LLDC has made clear in its commitment to partners that it is making no financial commitment to the project.

9. Priority Themes

9.1. A University Technical College specialising in modern methods of construction and BIM, and supported by a number of high profile construction contractors and universities, will ensure there are a pool of local young people skilled to meet the current and future demands of construction sector. This will make a contribution to Convergence and further establish the Park and east London as a place where high quality, vocational training is designed and delivered.

10. Appendices

10.1. Appendix A - Further information relating to sections 3, 5 and 6 of this report which contains exempt information.

List of Background Papers: Regeneration and Communities Committee 12 June 2013, Report 2 – Education Update

Report originator(s): Paolo Nistri Telephone: 020 3288 1760 Email: [email protected]

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