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The Regeneration of Jaywick
February 2010 Update
Jaywick Community News launched. This free newsletter will be
distributed to all households in Jaywick to help keep residents up
to date with developments in the area.
June 2009 Update
The Jaywick Strategic Leadership Group
The Jaywick Strategic Leadership Group (JSLG) is a partnership
led by Essex County Council and Tendring District Council with the
support of the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA), the East of
England Development Agency (EEDA), the Environment Agency (EA) and
the North East Essex Primary Care Trust. It was established to
generate ideas for the regeneration of Jaywick and the surrounding
area.
The JSLG is working with the local community and other
stakeholders to put the case to the Government for investing in
Jaywick's future.
Initial funding has already been identified and the partnership
is working to address some immediate problems (such as the high
level of empty properties) while putting in place the arrangements
needed to deliver a programme of lasting change.
The regeneration effort will be focused on a wide area covering
not just Jaywick but the whole coastal area to Clacton. This will
provide a better chance to attract inward investment, jobs and new
opportunities for local people. The tourism and leisure
opportunities are there if they can be harnessed through the
imaginative use of public and private funding to transform this
unique coastal area.
Jaywick
Jaywick is on the North East coast of Essex within the Golf
Green Ward and is situated to the south west of Clacton-on-Sea.
Jaywick is relatively isolated and by not being part of a large
inner-city area, it has not had the investment opportunities
afforded to other deprived areas in the country. Something must now
be done to reverse the cycle of decline in this 'overlooked'
community. The reasons why regeneration is so desperately needed in
Jaywick are set out below.
Jaywick comprises three distinct parts: the Tudor Estate to the
north (often referred to locally as West Clacton), the Village
between the Tudor estate and the coast, and the Brooklands and
Grasslands area. Jaywick Sands was developed in the 1930s by Frank
Stedman as a holiday resort and it is perhaps the last remaining
"plotlands" development. As they were originally intended for
short-term holiday use many of the properties are small, poorly
constructed, and built along narrow unadopted lanes. However, over
some considerable time more and more people have made the area
their permanent home, and it has a proud tradition of
self-reliance.
Many properties are in a poor state of repair, and across almost
every indicator including those for unemployment, crime and health,
the Grasslands and Brooklands area is one of the most deprived in
the country. According to government official figures Grasslands
and Brooklands is ranked as the 3rd most deprived area in the
country, having moved from the 102nd most deprived in 2004.
Jaywick's situation is compounded by a combination of unique
circumstances not found in most of the other deprived areas in the
country.
- It is in a high risk flood zone but currently defended to a
high standard in that the existing sea defences are able to
withstand overtopping from a 1 in 200 year tide. Therefore,
providing there is no breaching or failure of the current defences
there is no immediate risk from this scale of event. However, as
with other areas on the east coast, the risk will increase over
time due to rising sea levels. In 50 to 75 years from now a 1 in
200 year predicted tide event could overtop the existing defences,
if their height is not raised from the present level. This limits
development and investment opportunities due to the government's
official guidance for development in flood risk areas (known as
PPS25). A flood risk study was commissioned in 2007 and detailed
information is now available on flood risk across the regeneration
area (see link).
- Approximately 45 of the estate roads are not adopted and some
are in very poor condition. Although mains sewerage was installed
in the early 1980s the Grasslands and Brooklands area does not
contain any of the basic infrastructure enjoyed by other
communities such as adequate street lighting, pedestrian crossings,
pavements, road signage, bus shelters.
- Dwellings when originally constructed had only two rooms. Most
properties have very poor energy efficiency ratings and many
households depend entirely on state benefits.
- There is no significant public sector housing in the area.
- Private rented accommodation amounts to approximately 30 per
cent of occupied properties in Grasslands and Brooklands.
Current Activity
The JSLG vision is to create:
"A deliverable programme developed with the community for
the transformation of Jaywick into an inclusive, safe, sustainable,
economically buoyant community taking advantage of its coastal
location".
Due to the scale of the problems facing Jaywick significant
central government funding is needed before major improvements can
be made and the JSLG is lobbying for that funding. At the same time
the JSLG is focused on delivering some immediate improvements
through activities and projects funded by the JSLG. These include
the following:
- A local neighbourhood office has been set up in the Enterprise
Centre on Lotus Way.
- Tamarisk Way car park will be resurfaced and landscaped in
2009.
- A new community garden will be created behind the multi-use
games area in Brooklands Gardens
- Work will be started to investigate the feasibility of a new
park on Tudor Fields.
- Work is underway with Essex Police to see how the area can be
made safer, especially around the alleyways in Brooklands.
- The JSLG will co-ordinate funding proposals in the areas of
economic participation, green spaces, and education and training
arts and heritage.
- JSLG is hosting visits to the area to show key decision-makers
what the local needs are.
- The work of the Interaction Partnership, including the
neighbourhood management team e.g. community wardens, benefits
advice, and funding for a range of charities and voluntary
organisations, will be developed.
- A strategic flood study has been completed (see link).
- A condition survey of the non-adopted roads has been
completed.
What needs to be done?
The JSLG is determined to make some changes in the short-term
but these will fall short of arresting the economic decline of
Jaywick and the surrounding area if no additional support is
available from central government.
Any long-term regeneration strategy needs to take account of the
longer-term flood risk faced by Jaywick. In the absence of
long-term funding the fear is that the area's decline will
continue. Consequently, the JSLG has a number of aspirations for
Jaywick that it is working to secure.
- Building on the current neighbourhood management work to tackle
anti-social behaviour, manage open spaces, and work to improve
community access to training and skills to help reduce
unemployment. A neighbourhood management programme.
- Tackling the worst housing by removing derelict properties,
providing new homes and offering better housing options for
existing residents. A better homes and places programme.
- Securing private investment to bring jobs, training, economic
activity and prosperity to the entire coastline from Jaywick to
Clacton, through a comprehensive seaside renaissance
programme.
- Undertaking selective public investment to improve and boost
the seaside and tourist economy; and
- Sustaining improvements over a long timeframe: at least
15-years.
The government's regeneration strategy, A New Commitment to
Neighbourhood Renewal aims to ensure that within 10 to 20 years
no-one in the U.K. should be seriously disadvantaged by where they
live. The strategy aims to tackle poor job prospects, high crime
levels, educational under-achievement, poor health, and problems
with housing and the local environment. Jaywick has needs in all
these areas.
How long will it take?
The JSLG is working on a 15-year timescale for the regeneration
of Jaywick. Within the first 3 years JSLG wants to implement all of
the immediate improvements shown above, and to have secured central
government funding so that further, more extensive, regeneration
can be delivered over the final twelve years. The JSLG will work
with the local community through its local team to develop an
agreed set of actions for the regeneration project.
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The money required to achieve a transformation of the area is
substantial. For long-term change, over fifteen years, it is likely
that a total investment of £45-£75million, would be needed.
JSLG Core Partners:
Essex County Council
Tendring District Council
East of England Development Agency
Homes and Communities Agency
NE Essex PCT
Environment Agency
Go East (Observers)
Contacts:
Neighbourhood Office
Neighbourhood Team
Unit 1
Enterprise Centre
Lotus Way
Jaywick
CO15 2LU Tel: 01255 428090
INTend /Tendring District Council
Karl Randall,
krandall@in-tend.org
Jaywick Strategic Leadership Group
Steven Lee-Foster,
steven.lee-foster@essex.gov.uk
Flood Risk Study
Before an area can be regenerated there is a legal requirement
to carry out a study into the risk of flooding. This is to ensure
that any development will be carried out safely and responsibly and
that developers, landowners and residents are fully aware of the
implications of flooding on development opportunities over a given
timescale.
As part of the Regeneration plans for Jaywick a
Strategic Flood Risk Study has been carried out. The maps that
accompany this study are listed individually below.
Map 1 Study Area
Map 2 Flood Zones
Map 3 Historical Flood Extents
Map 4 Existing Flood Defences and Structures
Map 5 Access Routes
Map 6 Coastal Defence Structures
Map 7 Breach 1 Maximum Flood Risk Hazard - 200 Year Event
Map 8 Breach 1 Maximum Flood Depth - 200 Year Event
Map 9 Breach 1 Maximum Flood Hazard - 1000 Year Event
Map 10 Breach 1 Maximum Flood Depth - 1000 Year Event
Map 11 Breach 1 Maximum Flood Hazard - 200 Year Plus 50 Year
Climate Change Event
Map 12 Breach 1 Maximum Flood Depth - 200 Year Plus 50 Year Climate
Change Event
Map 13 Breach 1 Maximum Flood Hazard - 200 Year Plus 100 Year
Climate Change
Map 14 Breach 1 Maximum Flood Depth - 200 Year Plus 100 Year
Climate Change Event
Map 15 Breach 2 Maximum Flood Hazard - 200 Year Event
Map 16 Breach 2 Maximum Flood Depth - 200 Year Event
Map 17 Breach 2 Maximum Flood Hazard - 1000 Year Event
Map 18 Breach 2 Maximum Flood Depth - 1000 Year Event
Map 19 Breach 3 Maximum Flood Hazard - 200 Year Event
Map 20 Breach 3 Maximum Flood Depth - 200 Year Event
Map 21 Breach 3 Maximum Flood Hazard - 1000 Year Event
Map 22 Breach 3 Maximum Flood Depth - 1000 Year Event
Map 23 Surge Overtopping Maximum Flood Hazard - 200 Year Plus 100
Year Climate Change Event
Map 24 Surge overtopping Maximum Flood Depth - 200 Year Plus 100
Year Climate Change Event
Map 25 Mitigation Measures
For further advice on the technical information contained within
the study please contact the Environment Agency on 08708 506506 and
ask for Jeremy Bloomfield.
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For further information please
contact:
Karl Randall on 01255 686352 or
regeneration.services@tendringdc.gov.uk |