Key themes and priority actions

Over the course of the Business Plan period (up to 2012), PUSH will implement the following key actions:

To establish the Quality Places Delivery Panel as an effective forum bringing together key stakeholders from local government, education, and the cultural sector, in order to support the collaborative delivery of Quality Place offer in South Hampshire.

To build a consensus relating to the strengths of South Hampshire, and the way Quality of Place can be used, to reinforce the belief that South Hampshire is a great place to live, work, and invest.
To work with partner Local Authorities, the Historic Dockyard, the Mary Rose Trust, and other stakeholders, to maximise the economic and social benefits associated with Portsmouth Harbour and its role as the Home of the Navy.
To work with Southampton City Council to support the development of the Southampton New Arts Complex (SNAC) and the Sea City project.
To promote collaboration between Southampton City Council, Portsmouth City Council, and partner Local Authorities, in order to promote the cultural offer in South Hampshire and build on successful collaboration which has led to the development of the joint Portsmouth / Southampton City of Culture proposal.

To develop and implement the South Hampshire pilot of the South East Cultural and Creative Opportunities framework in order to provide web based analysis of cultural and sporting provision serving the South Hampshire area.
Use a web based tool to assess the availability of cultural and sporting offer to all South Hampshire residents.
To support cultural education initiatives serving the South Hampshire area, such as Find Your Talent, and Creative Partnerships.
To work in partnership with Hampshire County Council, Portsmouth City Council, and Southampton City Council in order to maximise opportunities for culture and sport arising from the Building Schools for the Future programme, and other investment programmes which could promote co-location as a means of enhancing the cultural offer available to South Hampshire residents.
To ensure that opportunities for cultural and sporting engagement are considered as part of the master planning of all major developments in south Hampshire.
To work with partner Local Authorities in order to promote South Hampshire Cultural offer to all residents.

To review funding mechanisms to support the development of cultural and sporting offer in South Hampshire.
To prepare a suite of planning guidance to support the Quality Place Agenda in South Hampshire. This guidance will cover enhancement of the green infrastructure offer, sensitive use of the historic environment, quality place design in the built environment, and the promotion of a range of services accessible to all communities including sport and culture.

To develop and implement the South Hampshire Creative Industries Framework.
To strengthen provision of business advice, building on the success of the CIBAS model developed by Portsmouth University.
To work with the Arts Organisation ASpace and partner organisations to ensure access to creative workspace across South Hampshire.
To work with South Hampshire Colleges and Universities to support the development of skills within the creative sector and to develop opportunities for school leavers, apprentices, and graduates, to gain placements within the creative sector in South Hampshire.
To work with Universities to support their role in incubating and growing the creative sector, including knowledge transfer and technology transfer.

Promote the visitor economy within South Hampshire.
In partnership with SEEDA implement Solent Corridor Gateway Project in order to promote the South Coast reputation as a destination for sail tourism.
Implement South Hampshire Greeter project and celebrate the region’s cultural offer.

Publish Quality Place and Built Environment Design Guidance
Launch South Hampshire Design Awards
To implement a programme of skills development and capacity building across the South Hampshire Authorities to develop a greater understanding of the Quality Place Agenda within planning authorities.