Southern Culture
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Big Screen
The South East is linked with several pioneers of the film industry
Sub regional planning and the Growth Areas
Please also see SECO's pages on Growth Areas, Sustainable Communities Resources and Growth Points
Guidance suggests that where there are specific strategic cross boundary issues that cannot be dealt with by individual or joint local authority development plans, then sub-regional strategies may be drawn up.
The South East Plan includes details of nine sub regional strategies, and separate proposals for the Isle of Wight. These are:
- South Hampshire, the Sussex Coast, East Kent and Ashford;
- Kent Thames gateway, the London Fringe and the Western Corridor/Blackwater Valley; and
- Central Oxfordshire, Milton Keynes and Aylesbury Vale and the Gatwick area.
Progress in the South East Growth Areas
The DCLG web site contains a useful section on aspects of the Growth Areas programme, including individual sections on each growth area. Topics include Policies for the Growth Areasђ, Infrastructure and Servicesђ, and Publications about the Growth Areasђ.
See also reports of expenditure under the Growth Areas Fund.
www.communities.gov.uk/index.asp?id=1503799 and 1164594
South East Growth Points
During 2006, DCLG announced seven new growth points in the Region. These will benefit from additional infrastructure funding from the Government to expedite growth. The growth points are; Basingstoke; Didcot; Maidstone, Oxford, Partnership for South Hampshire (PUSH), Reading, and Reigate and Banstead. In total some 77,000 new homes are predicted to be built by 2016 in these areas.
Guidance with a Cultural Angle
Living Spaces Guidance on Culture in Milton Keynes ֖ South Midlands
This comprises advice to local authorities and other local delivery vehicles on how to plan for culture in the sub region. The document contains sections on sharing resources (joint service provision) and funding cultural infrastructure. Download the document here
Cultural Framework and Toolkit for Thames Gateway North Kent
Contains details of the national, and regional spatial planning policy context for cultural development in the area (Section 5). Also a useful section on the support available for planning in localities, from the regional cultural agencies.
Culture at the Heart: Cultural Strategy for Ashford Borough: 2007-2011
This includes a section on planning for culture. Culture will form part of an infrastructure tariff, which will be developed as part of the LDF.
www.ashford.gov.uk>news>culture at the heart
[also Core Strategy of LDF, pages 44-50]
Other Sub Regional Studies
Two recent examples of sub-regional strategies for aspects of culture include:
- An Arts and Culture Strategy for the Cambridge Sub region; and
- Major Sports Facilities Strategy for the Cambridge Sub-region.
Both have been produced as part of the Quality of Life Programme of Cambridgeshire Horizons, a body charged with driving forward sustainable development in the Cambridge sub region.