tony harvey developing the socio economic potential of waterway corridors
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Green & Blue Futures
Developing the Socio Economic Potential of Waterway Corridors9th & 10th October 2013, Clonmel, Co Tipperary, Ireland
How can waterways deliver social and economic benefits to the nation?
Tony Harvey – Head of National [email protected]
• The canals of • England & Wales
The decline of our canals
Supremacy of the railways
The renaissance of canals
Canals today
Launch of the Canal & River Trust
Our Governance
Council
Income for the first 9 months of the Trust
The first year – social and economic benefits delivered? months)
Green & Blue FuturesCANAL & RIVER TRUST UK Charity / Nav.
Authority€0.69 21%
PROVINCE OF WEST FLANDERS
BE Regional Authority €0.43 13%
SCOTTISH WATERWAYS TRUST
UK Charity / Nav. Authority
€0.56 17%
PROVINCE OF HAINAUT BE Regional Authority €0.62 19%
SOUTH TIPPERARY COUNTY COUNCIL
IR Regional Authority €0.45 14%
REIUSSIR EN SAMBRE FR Regional Dev’t Agency
€0.42 13%
SCOTTISH CANALS SC Local Public Authority
€0.08 3%
Measuring public benefits
• NSS uses a multi-criteria analysis approach to combine a range of indicators, using appropriate weights and scores
• Indicators have been developed for maintaining the network, public usage and customer experience and there is evidence of these wider benefits and their value from recent and ongoingstudies
National Stewardship ScoreBW stewardship
score
Objective 1: Maintaining the
network
State of assets
Objective 3: Delivering public benefits
Functionality of network
Asset-related safety
Customer experienceUsage Other public
benefits
Ease of use of user
operated mechanisms
Bank protection condition
Serviceability of principal
assets
Towpath condition
Non-compliant channels
Number of unplanned closures
Condition of principal assets
Customer incidents relating to
infrastructure failures
Boat licences
Propensity of holiday
boaters to recommend
Number of towpath visitors
Propensity of boat owners
to recommend
Propensity of destination visitors to
recommend
% score for staff being
friendly, helpful and
conscientious
Condition of SSSIs
Employee incidents relating to
infrastructure failures
Heritage compliance
Propensity of towpath
visitors to recommend
65 35
55 1530 5545
12.5 25 20 12.5 15 15
50 50
1585
20
20
2020
20
70 15 15
Measuring public benefits• Canal River Trust uses Network Stewardship
Score (NSS) to measure progress against strategic objectives:1. Maintaining the network 3. Delivering public benefits
• Waterways deliver a range of other public benefits (health, environmental, heritage, community and recreational) which are currently omitted not part of the NSS
The Canal & River TrustScope for new thinking -data can be aggregated to enable us to understand information on socio economic benefits:
• Short-term user benefits where visitor numbers/enjoyment responds to improved condition
• Longer-term benefits and risk management: through maintenance in comparison to the benefits of short-term functional investment
• Physical health and wellbeing benefits: where the physical exercise generated by the canals can be monetised
The Future