Ensuring Hackney’s involvement as a Host Borough
Renaisi principal consultant Nicky Doherty is working with Hackney’s Olympic and Paralympic Unit to co-ordinate Hackney’s involvement in three key 2012 Legacy plans:
1. Strategic Regeneration Framework
The Strategic Regeneration Framework (SRF) will articulate an over-arching vision and strategic objectives of the 5 Host Boroughs to reflect, guide and inform the spatial and socio-economic delivery plans across the boroughs. The SRF is intended to be a high-level, long-term and flexible document. It will articulate a series of common issues, common principles and a common purpose to facilitate working in partnership across the five host boroughs.
2. Legacy Masterplan Framework
The Legacy Masterplan Framework (LMF) is the spatial plan for the Olympic Park area and will form an integral part of the Strategic Regeneration Framework when it is published in summer 2009.
3. Multi-Area Agreement
The Multi-Area Agreement is a cross-boundary local area agreement designed to help tackle issues that are best dealt with jointly with other local authorities on a sub regional or regional basis. LB Hackney will be part of three MAAs being put together by the Five Borough Unit.
Nicky’s role involves ensuring that all Hackney’s representatives, on upwards of 20 themed groups involved in putting these plans together, are supported to contribute to the process to the best of their ability and capacity. She has established a Forum for Hackney representatives that will meet monthly to ensure that communication between theme groups is opened up and that synergy and conflicts between various theme groups are identified and either built on or resolved. The Hackney Forum will also make sure that the strategic aims of the borough being discussed at a political level are fed through the Forum and into the various theme groups.
Nicky says “Integrating the three documents and development processes will be crucial if there is to be a plan that is legible to investors and the communities that live in Hackney. It is really important that Hackney contributes as much as it can to these processes and is not isolated from the other four Olympic boroughs when high level ambitions are being discussed that will affect our borough.”
For more information please contact Nicky Doherty