Realising the Potential, Delivering Prosperity
The documents are available by clicking on the following links:
Walton Regeneration Framework - Main report
Walton Regeneration Framework - Executive summary
Walton Regeneration Framework - Baseline study
These documents were formally adopted by Tendring District Council in June 2010 as a supplementary planning interim document.
The Regeneration Framework is an ambitious attempt to realise the huge potential of the Town, and deliver long term prosperity for its community.
The Core objectives of the Regeneration Framework, which have been agreed through public consultation, are to:
- Build a strong year round economy – diversifying and extending the local economy to create new business and employment opportunities
- Create a unique destination which maximises its environmental and heritage assets - realising the largely untapped potential of Walton, presented by its natural environment and heritage, to create a destination unlike any other in the region
- Make Walton a place where people will choose to live and realise their potential- a town with a good range of housing, retail, community and leisure facilities which will attract people of all ages and encourage them to stay
- Ensure a sustainable future for Walton -maintaining a balance between economic growth and environmental management
The Framework has been prepared with delivery as the focus. A strategy, 10 year action plan, and spatial masterplan have been prepared to deliver a range of economic, physical and social interventions, which are intrinsically linked to the core objectives above.
Encouraging Investment
Tendring’s Regeneration Company, TDC and its partners will need to use this Regeneration Framework as a statement of intent and a tool for lobbying both public funding providers and the private investment market. By understanding the full range of issues and opportunities the document provides an invaluable basis with which to take these conversations forward and sets a strong foundation for their implementation. The Framework provides comprehensive and holistic development proposals, with a clear vision that the market can buy into. Spatial development proposals are clearly linked to a comprehensive strategy for delivery, which if all partners work together to implement, will increase investment in Walton and the wider Tendring area.
Partnership with the Community
Consultation with the community has been an integral part of developing the framework. The aim has been to deliver regeneration proposals where community support and partnership working are a key part in forward the ambitious proposals.
Delivery of the Regeneration Framework
This is a Plan for the whole Town. A scheme of this complexity cannot be delivered by one agency alone.
Tendring’s Regeneration Company, via the Clacton and Coastal Towns Project Group has been the lead organisation in setting the ambition for the project to the consultants, and it is proposed that they continue to project-manage delivery against the project programme. They will lead only on a proportion of the programmes and projects – those most closely and directly linked to the regeneration agenda. Complete success depends on all partners delivering their part of this ambitious programme.
These are bold, large-scale goals. If they can be achieved, the Town will realise its potential and the community will prosper.
The first two projects to come forward are the Crag Walk/Naze Tower project and the String of Pearls project. INTend has successfully secured ÂŁ520,000 pathfinder funding, on behalf of Tendring District Council, and is working in partnership with the Crag Walk steering group deliver this project in 2010/2011. Further details of this project are available via this link.
INTend have also provided assistance to the Walton Forum in their bid for funding towards the Walton Trial project, which forms part of the String of Pearls strategy.