REGENERATION OF DERRYLONDONDERRY Challenges We Face

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REGENERATION OF DERRYLONDONDERRYChallenges
We Face
Sir Roy McNulty Chair, Ilex URC
21 May 2009
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ILEX REMIT

• To create and promote a deliverable vision for
  regeneration of the Derry City Council area
• to secure the commitment of all stakeholders to
  that vision
• and to pursue single-mindedly its
  implementation.

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Findings from my review in 2008

• Everybody agrees that we should aim high
• Our aim is to deliver in Derry the best
  regeneration
• any City in these islands has ever seen.
• Minister Margaret Ritchie
• November 2007
• Significant physical developments planned e.g.
  Ebrington, Fort George, Peace Bridge, NWDO
  Developments, major roads schemes.
• But the Citys progress has been disappointing ,
  and nobody believes that the present plans and
  approach will deliver what we want within a
  reasonable timescale.

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Resident working age employment rate (2007)
Source LADB and APS Note Derry shaded in white.
APS data averaged over four quarters. LADB data
is volatile and ideally is presented as a moving
average
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Total workplace employee job trends Derry versus
NI city councils
Source DETI Census of Employment, Oxford
Economics Note Scaled to NI total employee jobs
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Summary of findings (contd)

• The regeneration effort in Derry lacks key
  elements which support transformational change
• Clear sense of mission, leadership, energy,
  effective structures, relationships etc and
• A powerful guiding coalition, united behind a
  shared vision.
• Many reasons for all this, but the bottom-line is
  that Derrys progress all around has been
  disappointing and, with the current approach,
  likely to remain so e.g. Tourism.

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We Need

• A shared understanding of what Regeneration
  means
• Renewal - Economic
• - Physical
• - Social
• and ensure that gains in prosperity are shared
  with the Most Deprived Neighbourhoods

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We Need

• A Vision and a Plan which are clear, compelling
  and have a broad base of support
• Vision and Plan largely built on work done
  already
• e.g. - Ilex Regeneration Plan
• - City Vision Heart of the City
• - DCCs Integrated Development Framework
• - Programme for Government
• - NW Gateway Initiative
• (The key here is not so much another Vision and
  Plan, but a Vision and Plan which have sufficient
  buy-in across the community)
• Clear Organisational Framework.

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The challenge of getting the right balance in the
Plan

• Ambition the best regeneration etc
• Innovation think and do differently
• Realism
• Clear Priorities
• Deliverability

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Organisational Framework
High Level Strategic Oversight of Plan
Preparation Consideration of Key Strategic
Issues Approval of the Plan
Strategy Board
Economic Sub-Committee
Social Community Sub-Committee
Preparation and Integration of the
Plan Secretariat and follow up
Planning Project Management
Core Team
Sectoral Working Groups
Strategies Objectives Consultation Engagement
Priority Actions
Physical
Economic
Social Community
Equality Good Relations Sustainability Ambition
Innovation External Linkages Regional Capital
Role in NW
Education Skills
Transport Infrastructure
Citizenship Civic Pride
Cross-Cutting Themes Groups
Development of City Region Assets
Enterprise Employment
Health Well Being
Tourism, Arts, Culture Leisure
River Asset
Children Young People
Marketing the Derry Opportunity
Environment Conservation
Successful Neighbourhoods
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The challenge of establishing a new
Organisational Framework

• Making a new structure work
• Building new relationships
• Building a strong coalition
• Agreeing objectives and priorities

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The challenge of the Cross-Cutting Issues

• Equality a fundamental driver for the new Plan
• Good Relations key to many other objectives
• Ambition and Innovation
• External Linkages
• Regional Capital Role in NW

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REGENERATION OF DERRYLONDONDERRYChallenges
We Face
Sir Roy McNulty Chair, Ilex URC
21 May 2009