Chapter 3 - Implementation and Resources

IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PLAN

3.1 The Policies and Proposals for development and action set out in the Plan will not be successfully achieved by the efforts of the Council alone but by the combined efforts of the Council, the private sector, the Government, other public bodies and agencies and the residents of Trafford.

3.2 The private sector by and large will be responsible for the physical implementation of the commercial and other development proposals included in the Plan. The Council, the Government and other public agencies by and large will be responsible for co-ordinating the funding and planning of the provision of the necessary supporting social and community infrastructure. The Council will refer to the content of the document to help inform the consideration and preparation of its annual Capital Programme.

3.3 The Council, through its development control powers, will be responsible for determining in detail the appropriateness or otherwise of the individual development proposals that come forward utilising the Policies and Proposals set out in this Plan. Consideration of the individual proposals that come forward will be undertaken flexibly, taking full account of the prevailing economic and social circumstances and policy priorities of the Council.

FINANCIAL RESOURCES

3.4 The financial resources necessary to implement the Plan's Policies will be drawn from sources and organisations across the economy. The Plan recognises, however, that they will principally be derived from the private sector; and that the scale of private sector investment necessary to bring the Plan into reality will in cash terms be much greater than the contribution from other sectors of the economy. Investment by the Council itself will be targeted at creating conditions that will encourage appropriate development within the Borough. The financial implications of Council projects will require to be fully evaluated at the time of implementation.

3.5 The robustness of the Plan's Proposals and the speed at which they can be progressed is critically dependent upon the international and national economic situation and on central government fiscal policy in terms of market confidence and hence availability of finance. Similarly, the speed at which the Council is able to do its part is dependent upon its ability to incorporate local authority financed projects within the Council's financial programmes, that in turn depends upon the central government view of acceptable levels of local spending on both capital and revenue account.

3.6 The Plan does not, therefore, contain any rigid time-scale for implementation, which will take a longer or shorter period dependent ultimately upon the economic circumstances prevailing over the Plan period.