Welcome to the Infrastructure Hub
This is a shared resource between Local Authorities within Yorkshire and the Humber; offering practical support, clarification and guidance to help prepare infrastructure delivery plans.
What is the Hub?
The Infrastructure Hub is the first place to look for information on how to help you prepare Infrastructure Delivery Plans (IDP). It will help you by:
- signposting current and emerging guidance;
- showcasing good practice from within and beyond the region;
- sharing key challenges and concerns that emerge from this work;
- developing shared solutions to help address local challenges; and
- acting as a forum to discuss and debate infrastructure issues with collegues.
An excellent place to look for information on how to do Infrastructure Delivery Plans is the Planning Advisory Service's website. This contains a practical guide to the process of delivering an IDP (steps approach), supporting material and tools and links to good practice. It is not the aim of this Hub to duplicate this. Instead we want to use our knowledge and that of Local Authorities who are progressing this work to build on the PAS materials.
The Hub will be supported by Local Government Yorkshire and Humber through an Infrastructure Delivery Steering Group comprised of Local Authority Officers and regional bodies. Work on the preparation of the Integrated Regional Strategy and our liaison with infrastructure providers will also feed into the Hub.
How is the Hub Structured?
The structure of the Hub is based around 5 key themes:
Key References
- provides a link to relevant guidance and other documents (e.g. research and studies);
- summarises what they say about infrastructure; and
- provides a focussed literature review i.e. you don't have to read the whole document.
Implementing the Steps Approach (step 1 through to step 7)
- helping you get the information you need to meet the PAS guidance e.g. sharing the regional evidence base;
- helping with the challenging recommendations from PAS e.g. training, sharing, building capacity, joint working;
- understanding what the key bits from other references are;
- understanding what good practice provides; and
- providing some clarity over how many of the steps need to be done and in what level of detail.
To view the steps click here
Sharing Resources
- briefs for consultants;
- approaches to standards;
- other useful tools to assist in producing IDPs; and
- experiences of joint working e.g. testimonials.
Contacts
- who is the right person to talk to (encourage contacts to prepare their own pen portrait setting out what they can offer and how they prefer to be contacted);
- which organisations should you contact; and
- links to investment plans and capital programmes.
What are other Local Authorities doing?
- details on Local Authorities within the region (click here);
- provides links and lessons from Local Authorities nationally (click here); and
- to see what stage each Local Authority in the region is at (click here).
Overview of Utility and Infrastructure Providers
- details on the structure of their industry, means of investment planning and current engagement with local and regional planners; and
- further useful information that will assist in the development of IDPs.
To view click here
NEW EVENT: Sustainable Economic Growth, Regeneration and Local Economic Assessments (LEAs)
Local government in Yorkshire and Humber needs to explore how we can work innovatively and build capacity to conduct robust and meaningful LEAs, which are also rooted in “real-life” economic geographies.
This workshop is intended to be the first of a series that will take place in the course of conducting LEAs during 2010, to share expertise and approaches and build capacity.
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Chair of Sustainable Development Board appointed
Councillor Arthur Barker has been appointed as the Chair of the new Independent Sustainable Development Board.
Leaders' Board Scheme consultation
Consultation on how the LGYH Leaders' Board is constituted and operates