Casino Advisory Panel Report 30 January 2007 PDF
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Final report of the Casino Advisory Panel Recommendations to the Secretary of State for Culture Media and Sport on locations for one regional, eight large and eight small casinos allowed under section 175 of the Gambling Act 2005 30 JANUARY 2007 Final report of the Casino Advisory Panel Recommendations to the Secretary of State for Culture Media and Sport on locations for one regional, eight large and eight small casinos allowed under section 175 of the Gambling Act 2005 30 JANUARY 2007 1 Final report of the Casino Advisory Panel Contents NB: This report and many of the related documents can be found on the Casino Advisory Panel website at http://www.culture.gov.uk/cap/ Preface ................................................................................................................................................7 Summary ..........................................................................................................................................8 Map of recommended areas ............................................................................10 Part 1: Our work ................................................................................................................11 Chapter 1: Panel appointment, our remit and criteria ...........................................................12 Background..............................................................................................................................................12 The appointment of the Panel ...........................................................................................................12 Membership of the Panel ....................................................................................................................13 Members’ interests ................................................................................................................................13 The Panel’s criteria .................................................................................................................................13 Consultation, openness, transparency and the views of the public .......................................15 How many casinos? ..............................................................................................................................15 Relationship of our remit to licensing and the problem of contracts.....................................16 Gaming duty ...........................................................................................................................................17 Chapter 2: Panel procedures..........................................................................................................................17 Our process..............................................................................................................................................17 Process phase 1: scoping and invitation of proposals.................................................................18 Process phase 2: submission of proposals, sifting and shortlisting .........................................19 Process phase 3: finalisation of the shortlists, further examination and testing of proposals......................................................................................21 Process phase 4: decision and reporting.........................................................................................26 2 Contents Part 2: General considerations (lessons learned) .................27 Chapter 3: Best possible test of social impact ................................................................................28 What would be a good test? .............................................................................................................28 Particular demographic and social characteristics ........................................................................29 Local demographic and social data ..................................................................................................29 Ease of identification of social changes...........................................................................................29 Lessons from present casinos .............................................................................................................30 Likelihood and timeliness of implementation................................................................................30 The test and individual proposals......................................................................................................30 The test and the whole selection ......................................................................................................31 Chapter 4: Social considerations ................................................................................................................31 What is regeneration? ..........................................................................................................................31 Multiple deprivation ..............................................................................................................................31 Employment.............................................................................................................................................32 Ambient and impulse gambling ........................................................................................................32 Crime.........................................................................................................................................................32 Chapter 5: Some questions of regeneration....................................................................................33 Government policy ................................................................................................................................33 Demand and economic modelling....................................................................................................33 Job creation .............................................................................................................................................35 Location, profitability and social benefit .........................................................................................35 Chapter 6: Willingness to license...............................................................................................................36 Part 3: Appraisal of proposals .........................................................................37 Chapter 7: Appraisal of the shortlisted proposals for a regional casino..................38 Blackpool ..................................................................................................................................................38 Cardiff........................................................................................................................................................42 Glasgow....................................................................................................................................................45 Greenwich................................................................................................................................................48 Manchester ..............................................................................................................................................51 Newcastle .................................................................................................................................................54 Sheffield....................................................................................................................................................57 3 Final report of the Casino Advisory Panel Chapter 8: Appraisal of the shortlisted proposals for large and small casinos .......60 Bath and North East Somerset...........................................................................................................60 Bournemouth..........................................................................................................................................61 Brighton and Hove ................................................................................................................................63 Chelmsford ..............................................................................................................................................65 Chesterfield..............................................................................................................................................66 Dudley .......................................................................................................................................................68 Dumfries and Galloway........................................................................................................................69 East Lindsey..............................................................................................................................................71 Great Yarmouth......................................................................................................................................72 Hastings ....................................................................................................................................................74 Kingston-Upon-Hull...............................................................................................................................75 Leeds..........................................................................................................................................................77 Leicester ....................................................................................................................................................79 Luton..........................................................................................................................................................80 Mansfield..................................................................................................................................................82 Middlesbrough........................................................................................................................................83 Milton Keynes .........................................................................................................................................85 Newham ...................................................................................................................................................87 North East Lincolnshire.........................................................................................................................88 Peterborough ..........................................................................................................................................90 Restormel..................................................................................................................................................92 Scarborough ............................................................................................................................................93 Sefton ........................................................................................................................................................95 Solihull.......................................................................................................................................................97 South Tyneside........................................................................................................................................99 Southampton........................................................................................................................................100 Swansea .................................................................................................................................................102 Torbay......................................................................................................................................................103 Wolverhampton ...................................................................................................................................105 4 Contents Part 4: Conclusions and recommendations ..............................107 Chapter 9: The regional casino..................................................................................................................108 Conclusions ...........................................................................................................................................108 Recommendation ................................................................................................................................109 Chapter 10: The large and small casinos..............................................................................................109 Conclusions ...........................................................................................................................................109 Recommendations (large casinos) ..................................................................................................110 Recommendations (small casinos) ..................................................................................................110 Annexes ........................................................................................................................................111 Annex A: Personal profiles of Panel members ............................................................................112 Annex B: Independent Casino Advisory Panel – Terms of reference ...................................114 Annex C: Casinos – Statement of national policy......................................................................115 Annex D: Framework Document ....................................................................................................120 Annex E: Call for proposals 31 January 2006 ............................................................................125 Annex F: List of proposals submitted and withdrawn .............................................................132 Annex G: The first-stage sifting process........................................................................................133 Annex H: List of documents submitted to the Casino Advisory Panel ................................135 Annex I: Casino Advisory Panel: Selected matters for discussion at the Examinations in Public into the shortlisted proposals for a regional casino ...................................164 Annex J: Schedule of Examinations in Public of shortlisted proposals for a regional casino, and persons and organisations who participated....................169 Annex K: Final stage of the evaluation process..........................................................................175 Annex L: List of existing permitted areas for the licensing of casinos ...............................177 5 Final report of the Casino Advisory Panel 6 Preface Preface This document constitutes the final report of the Casino Advisory Panel to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and discharges the Panel’s duties conferred on it by her. Much of our report is of an historical nature, charting the progress of our work from our appointment on 1 October 2005 to the formulation of our conclusions and recommendations in this report. Elsewhere in our report, we make some general findings, concerning such matters as our views on what might constitute the best possible test of social impact and the relationship between a casino development and the likelihood of it becoming a catalyst for regeneration on a larger scale. Then we give a brief appraisal of all the proposals that remained before us to the end and finally our recommendations for the location of the seventeen casinos to be permitted. In the course of our fact finding in relation to the proposals selected for further examination, a very large amount of evidence was amassed. Inevitably it is impossible to record every bit of relevant evidence in this report. Nevertheless, all relevant evidence has been considered even though it has been possible only to mention the most persuasive elements in our analysis of the proposals concerned. I would like to extend my thanks to the other members of the Casino Advisory Panel, and to the members of the Secretariat who supported us, for their hard work, dedication and commitment throughout the process. Professor H. Stephen Crow CB 7 Final report of the Casino Advisory Panel Summary Process • The Casino Advisory Panel was set up by the Secretary for State for Culture Media and Sport to make recommendations to her on where new casinos (one regional, eight large and eight small) allowed by the Gambling Act 2005 should be located. • The Panel called for proposals from local authorities in January 2006. In May 2006 the Panel issued a provisional shortlist of proposals for further examination on which it then collected further written and oral evidence. That included, in August and September 2006, a round of examinations in public for the seven areas shortlisted for the regional casino. The Panel moved to final consideration and evaluation of that evidence and its recommendation making and report writing phase in the final quarter of 2006. Recommended area for a regional casino • After careful consideration of the proposals and all the relevant evidence against our remitted criteria, we recommend that the area in which a regional casino should be licensed is the City of Manchester. Recommended areas for eight large casinos • After careful consideration of the proposals and all the relevant evidence against our remitted criteria, we recommend that the areas in which large casinos should be licensed are: � Borough of Great Yarmouth � City of Kingston-upon-Hull � City of Leeds � Borough of Middlesbrough � City of Milton Keynes � London Borough of Newham � Borough of Solihull � City of Southampton 8
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