Goal 7 | Evolve Innovative Approaches and Strategic Priorities
Each MASP identifies the strategic locations for population and jobs growth, which will act as a baseline indication of current priority projects. Achieving theNPF growth targets in compact forms will require in depth consideration for new locations and initiatives by each local authority. The existing priority locations alone will not fulfil targets, but they are a snapshot of current strategic priorities which the MASPs support investment in.
Opportunities for strategic regeneration of vacant and underused land and property, refurbishment, land use and transport planning integration, active land management initiatives and development agency type approaches are examples of the many different approaches that will need to emerge. Aligned with Goal 6 for pioneering approaches, the identification of new strategic priorities need to be informed by innovative solutions and demonstrate incorporation of good international and regional practices.
The MASPs allow flexibility therefore for new strategic priorities, further to those listed in each MASP, to emerge over the MASP/RSES timeframe and to be identified in City and County Development Plan Core Strategies, based on the following criteria which demonstrates that the priority initiative/location:
• Aligns with national and regional planning policies and objectives; • Helps to achieve compact growth targets, provides infrastructure led development with identified packages of interrelated infrastructures, physical and social, and phasing proposals for delivery identified; • Promotes effective alignment between land use and transportation planning, especially alignment with public transport networks, encouragement of sustainable travel and consolidation of suitable nodal points on public transport corridors; • Where new infill locations are proposed, demonstrate how reinforcement and consolidation of the existing settlement pattern is achieved; • Is identified in collaboration with all required landowners and stakeholder agencies with a role for delivery of enabling infrastructure; • Is in accordance with national guidelines;
• Is assessed under flood risk and environmental assessments; • Is informed by innovative solutions and good practice to achieve the overarching MASP goals; • Is a demonstrator of good practice within the Region for integration of sustainable design, renewable energy, transition of the MASP to a zero-carbon future, green infrastructure and smart technology; • Where applicable, demonstrates how the priority initiative/location can help the delivery of strategic regional projects funded through the NPF/NDP for Urban and Rural Regeneration, Climate Action and Disruptive Technologies or from other funding streams; • Where applicable, demonstrates how the priority initiative/location assists delivery of actions through the National Regeneration andDevelopment Agency.
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