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Westminster Infrastructure Plan: Technical Assessment 2006– 2026Final ReportLibrariesParks, sports and leisure.12. For the following infrastructure types strategic infrastructure plans do not exist and/or detailedinformation to feed into the strategic infrastructure planning exercise was not available:Gas, electricity, water, sewerage and telecommunicationsEarly years education and child careFurther education and adult learningPrimary and secondary healthcareEmergency services (police, fire, ambulance)Community and faith facilities, job brokerage, burials.13. A more detailed analysis of service providers‟ plans is given in Table 4 at the end of this executivesummary. This outlines the adequacy of the providers‟ planning documents and processes in thecontext of identified LDF growth. It can be seen that in most cases providers‟ estimates of forecastdemand were not available.URS Assessment of Demand14. To provide an independent assessment of the likely demand associated with planned growth inWestminster we modelled the requirements for various infrastructures to 2026. It was notmeaningful or feasible to quantify demand for all infrastructures, and the scope of the exercisewas necessarily broad brush and strategic. The outcomes provide an estimate of the scale oflikely future requirements and were tested with providers where possible.15. Table 2 sets out the estimates of quantum of demand for various infrastructures derived from theURS modelling exercise. (The HUDU model was used for primary and secondary healthcare). Ourestimates of infrastructure demand were compared with those of the infrastructure providerswhere possible, as shown in Table 2. Where providers‟ forecasts were available or investmentplans were in place, they sometimes mirrored our own forecasts (e.g. libraries, indoor sportsspace, secondary schools). Elsewhere they were different, for example WCC forecast much lessdemand for additional primary school places than our model.16. With regard to utilities, in our model we have taken a pragmatic, worst case scenario which drawson strategic / design standards used currently by utilities companies. Ultimately, this pointemphasises the significance of meeting demand for energy and water through low carbonrenewable sources, and these issues are examined in a separate section within the report.November 2009 Page 8