First Steps

• Create a host Town Centre Partnership (e.g. Shaping Newport CLG, alternating chair between NPC and NBA, meetings held at each campus in turn, board constituted by hub representatives e.g. NHS/CCG. IW College, Medina College, Harbour Master etc.), appoint (recruit or second) a Town Centre Champion.

• An 18-month Shaping Newport budget built from in-house options: IWC and NPC cost-centre allocations, s106 pool, top-sliced parking revenue fund

• A First Action Programme:

• A New Town Charter:

• Newport SPD providing policy conditions for town renewal.

• Landlord MOU between town centre landlords and Shaping Newport.

• New Town Map, identifying, naming and locating every district, every Shaping Newport campus, and every public space.

• A Town Calendar programming and curating 12 months of public event and spectacle (and launching the Town Users’ Guide).

• A Town Users’ Guide, encouraging and enabling easy access to and use of open spaces in Newport for public, community and commercial hire.

• A Media Pack containing a parish gazetteer and photographic library, made available for free to all Newport businesses and organizations.

• A Priority Project List selected from the DNA programme.

• An Evaluation Method comprising a repeat of the Place Standard questionnaire after the first 18 months, and footfall comparisons in key spaces (e.g. August 2018 and 19, October half-term 2018 and 19, Christmas 2018 and 19).

• A Forward Funding Plan expanding scope and improving sustainability through external bidding, community asset income etc. (but keeping in place s106 arrangements to the town centre and formalising car park revenue top slice), and when the time is right in the longer term, a BID or other levy scheme, potentially linked with local business rate management.