FOI - Queen's Crescent (Gospel Oak) development and Good Growth funding [Aug 2023]

Your request  

1. GLA documentation about prospects for and reasons to think economic development in Queen's Crescent would result from the Good Growth Funding announced in 2018.
2. LEAP documentation provided to the GLA. LEAP are cited in Camden Council's Queen's Crescent publicity as a contributor to the work.
3. Economic baseline survey work for Queen's Crescent which Camden Council shared with the GLA in relation to the 2018 Good Growth funding.

Our response

1. GLA documentation about prospects for and reasons to think economic development in Queen's Crescent would result from the Good Growth Funding announced in 2018.

Please see the relevant attachments and links below:

• 'Final Good Growth Fund Expression of Interest' submitted to the GLA in September 2017.
• Final Stage 2 GGF application submitted by Camden Council to the GLA in January 2018. 
• Published Gospel Oak Framework setting out the economic background and regeneration approach by Camden for the Gospel Oak Area (supercedes the Draft Framework).
• 'NW32 QC Stage 2 Appraisal' – GLA scoring for the project.
• MD2163 sets out the assessment criteria (MD2163 GG appendix 1) submitted as part of the programme Stage 1 approvals and the subsequent DD 2222 that secured approval for the detailed allocations. 
• NW32 Queen’s Crescent - The Queen’s Crescent Heart of Gospel Oak funding agreement. Page 27 onwards sets out the impact the project was expected to make. 

2. LEAP documentation provided to the GLA about the same topic. LEAP are cited in Camden's Queen's Crescent publicity as a contributor to the work.

LEAP was London’s Local Enterprise Partnership, responsible for awarding and monitoring Local Growth Funds allocated to London by central government. LEAP operated entirely through its accountable body, the GLA. It had no separate staff, neither did it hold documents separately to the GLA.

LEAP decisions were taken by a Board, chaired by the Mayor of London and including local authority and independent business members, and by committees of that Board - in this case, the LEAP Investment Committee. 

Documents provided to the LEAP Board and committees for decision, including those linked below, were generated by GLA officers and held within GLA systems.

Decisions of the LEAP Board and its committees were in-principal only. They were implemented via the GLA’s formal decision-making processes and contracts were managed by GLA staff.

• The full minutes are available online.

There are no private minutes for that particular item. 

3. The economic baseline survey work for Queen's Crescent which Camden Council shared with the GLA in relation to the 2018 Good Growth funding.

All documents provided in support of the GGF application have been shared in response to Question 1.

If you have any further questions relating to this matter, please contact us, quoting reference MGLA020823-3407.