Regional Integrated Infrastructure Scoping Study for Yorkshire and the Humber

The purpose of the study is to consider how the Region should take infrastructure forward in an integrated way at a strategic level and to help scope further work to inform the RSS 2009 Update. It is envisaged that this scoping study is the first part of a major work stream for the Assembly to enable infrastructure to influence future locational decisions and develop a better understanding of the impact of higher levels of growth on the Region’s infrastructure.

The overall aim of the infrastructure work stream is to enable infrastructure needs, constraints, opportunities and investment implications to proactively shape decisions about long-term future development patterns in the Region and to establish clear priorities for regionally and sub-regionally significant infrastructure investment.

The need for the study has emerged from the Government’s Housing Green Paper ‘Homes for the Future: More Affordable, More Sustainable’ published in July 2007. This identifies the need for reviews of Regional Spatial Strategies, the need for housing growth, and the related need therefore to look more closely than previously at infrastructure capacity constraints (and opportunities). This need to look more closely at infrastructure has been further strengthened by the Planning Reform Bill, which provides for a community infrastructure levy to help fund infrastructure (including "sub-regional infrastructure").

The Yorkshire and Humber Assembly have appointed Arup to undertake the scoping study. The final study is now available to download below:

will.kemp@yhassembly.gov.uk

ruth.hardingham@yhassembly.gov.uk