Project Title: Billingham Lifestyle, Health & Learning Project (& supermarket)

Project Description:
To achieve the regeneration of Billingham through a collaborative strategy for a public and commercial investment programme focused on Billingham Town Centre that will promote Billingham, in lifelong learning, leisure and commercial terms.

Objectives : There are 6 key objectives:

• Ensure that the overall regeneration strategy for Billingham is founded on sound collaborative planning for health, lifestyle, learning and commercial activities.
  
• Facilitate release of a significant site within the town centre for commercial development.
  
• Replace the existing Forum facility with a modern leisure, cultural and learning based facility with a sub-regional catchment and high quality, image defining identity.
  
• Create a unique collaborative post-16 learning environment in Billingham.
  
• Promote access to modern lifestyle facilities and primary health care agents.
  
• Revitalise the image of Billingham to enhance the image projected of the Tees Valley sub-region.

The main elements of the project are:
Freeing up for new commercial development the part of the town centre around the area that the Forum currently occupies.

Utilising the receipts gained from the above and matched with support from the Single Programme to develop the visionary strategy for leisure, learning and healthcare to service Billingham communities and a wider Tees Valley in the specific instances regional catchment.

The leisure, learning and healthcare strategies will include:

Primary healthcare
Secializing in primary healthcare, focusing on care which provides integrated, accessible healthcare services by clinicians who are accountable for addressing a large majority of personal healthcare needs, developing a sustained partnership with patients, and practicing in the context of family and community.

Leisure/Recreation
Modern indoor and outdoor leisure facilities of contemporary design to carry forward Billingham’s modern image and to include modern designed water space and provision of a new ice rink of important regional significance (the nearest similar facilities being at Hull, Bradford and Whitley Bay).

Joint Services Centre/Lifestyle Pavilion
Providing advice and guidance and linking learning, training and community initiatives, this facility will combine provision within the context of the leisure facilities to promote lifelong learning in a non traditional setting with links to primary healthcare and post 16 education. A library, ICT and advice and guidance facilities will also feature here.

Learning
To enhance and extend learning opportunities with the North Tees area and to maximize new opportunities created by partnerships with the recreation and lifestyle strategies leading to widening participation in post-16 learning.

Public/Private Management
this very contemporary and innovative grouping of facilities will create new opportunities for joint management and possibly act as a catalyst for new micro businesses providing services for the new facilities. There is an important business potential to contribute to the regional SME strategy.

Lead Organisation (underlined) and Key Partners:
Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council, North Tees Primary Care Trust (NTPCT), Riverside College, The Billingham Partnership