Project Delivery and Funding

Governance

The leaders of the three Local Authorities (Adur District Council, West Sussex County Council and Brighton & Hove City Council) meet regularly to provide a strategic steer to the Regeneration Project. The officer working group driving the project is the Project Board on which all partners are represented. The local authorities are represented by economic development and planning officers. Transport Officers from Brighton & Hove and West Sussex also sit on the Board representing the two local Highway Authorities. The Project Board has been meeting on a monthly basis for over two years. Work is also on-going to consider options for the type of delivery vehicle needed to implement and deliver the project.

Other specialist sub-groups sit under the Project Board to address critical issues to the delivery of the project as and when required. The partners are represented on these subgroups as well as additional specialists when required.

The governance arrangements are continuously under review to ensure efficiency of resources, accountability, and to reflect recent changes in planning and political contexts.

Funding

The partners are investigating funding streams to deliver regeneration to tackle the main challenges that face the area and to deliver the regeneration vision. In particularly, Eco-town and Growth Point funding are the two main funding streams being utilised. The funding that has been received / investigated is summarised below:

• SEEDA provided £2.95 million in December 2007 to kickstart the project.
• The project was accorded ‘Growth Point Status’ by the Government in July 2008 with funding of £2.5million being allocated between 2009 and 2011.
• The project was successful in 2010 in attracting £750,000 of Eco-town funding to test the potential for Eco-town development at the Harbour.
• Community Infrastructure Funds (£5 million) were made available to the area in August 2009 to undertake much needed improvement works to the local transport network.
• The Shoreham Harbour Regeneration Project was awarded a further £249,700 by the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) as a contribution to technical works carried out during the financial year 2010/11.