Submission City Plan Part 1 Foreword I am delighted to introduce the Submission City Plan Part 1 for Brighton & Hove. The plan is as ambitious as it is robust and practical. Despite the difficult economic circumstances we currently face, the plan is a clarion call for the resilience of the local economy. It sets out a clear framework for future prosperity for our city’s communities, and endorses our optimism about securing jobs, training and apprenticeships while underlining our continued support for home-grown business in sectors such as the creative, digital and IT industries. Sustainability principles are integrated throughout the plan. As a strategic document, it affords us many opportunities for carbon reduction as we look confidently to the future with policies that reflect our respect for our planet and its resources. We aspire to high quality modern design and thoroughly fundamentally sustainable building practices. Our city’s motto describing the relationship with the natural environment around us is particularly apt: ‘Between the Downs and the Sea we flourish’ and through the life of the plan we can continue to flourish between the Downs and the Sea if we understand our symbiotic relationship with our planet. Talking to residents, businesses and our many communities across the city has highlighted the many challenges that lie ahead. This vital input has helped to shape and improve the City Plan. Our focus now must be on achieving a balance between providing desperately needed new homes and the right amount of space for jobs, while protecting our rich heritage of buildings and open spaces from inappropriate development. Our hope for this city, our responsibility for its future prosperity and our ambition to sustain its unique, finite environment drives us to prepare a plan which I strongly believe will carry us on a safe journey to 2030. Councillor Phélim Mac Cafferty Deputy Leader, Brighton and Hove City Council Contents Section One: Introduction page no. Introduction and Overview 4 A profile of Brighton & Hove – context and challenges 9 Section Two: The Strategy Vision and Objective 16 The Strategy 24 SS1 - Presumption in Favour of Sustainable Development 27 Section Three: Development and Special Area policies DA1 – Brighton Centre and Churchill Square Area 33 DA2 – Brighton Marina, Gas Works and Black Rock Area 38 DA3 – Lewes Road Area 47 DA4 – New England Quarter and London Road Area 55 DA5 – Eastern Road and Edward Street Area 64 DA6 – Hove Station Area 72 DA7 – Toad’s Hole Valley 79 DA8 – Shoreham Harbour 87 SA1 – The Seafront 93 SA2 – Central Brighton 101 SA3 – Valley Gardens 107 SA4 – Urban Fringe 111 SA5 – The South Downs 114 SA6 – Sustainable Neighbourhoods 118 Section Four – City Wide Policies A Strong and Prosperous City CP1 Housing Delivery 127 CP2 Sustainable Economic Development 133 CP3 Employment Land 138 CP4 Retail Provision 144 CP5 Culture and Tourism 148 CP6 Visitor Accommodation 152 CP7 Infrastructure and Developer Contributions 156 A Sustainable City CP8 Sustainable Buildings 160 CP9 Sustainable Transport 166 CP10 Biodiversity 176 CP11 Flood Risk 179 An Attractive City CP12 Urban Design 183 CP13 Public Streets and Spaces 187 1 CP14 Housing Density 189 CP15 Heritage 192 CP16 Open Space 194 CP17 Sports Provision 200 Healthy and Balanced Communities CP18 Healthy City 206 CP19 Housing Mix 209 CP20 Affordable Housing 213 CP21 Student Housing and Housing in Multiple Occupation 217 CP22 Traveller Accommodation 222 Appendix 1 Glossary of terms 225 Appendix 2 Key Diagram 233 Annexes (published separately) Annex 1: Implementation and Monitoring Annex 2: Infrastructure Delivery Plan Annex 3: Housing Implementation Strategy List of Tables Table 1 – City Plan Part 1 preparation timetable 5 Table 2 – One Planet Principles of Sustainability 25 Table 3 – Summary of Development Proposals 31 Table 4 – Housing Delivery, Supply Breakdown 2010-2030 131 Table 5 – City Plan Employment Floorspace 140 Table 6 – Estimated Retail Need 146 Table 7 – Definition of Development Size 164 List of Figures Figure 1 Relationship of City Plan to other Strategies 6 Figure 2 – Housing Trajectory 2010 – 2030 130 List of Key Illustrations DA1 – Brighton Centre and Churchill Square Area 33 DA2 – Brighton Marina, Gas Works and Black Rock Area 38 DA3 – Lewes Road Area 47 DA4 – New England Quarter and London Road Area 55 DA5 – Eastern Road and Edward Street Area 64 DA6 – Hove Station Area 72 DA7 – Toad’s Hole Valley 79 DA8 – Shoreham Harbour 87 SA1 – The Seafront 93 SA2 – Central Brighton 101 SA3 – Valley Gardens 107 SA4 – Urban Fringe 111 SA5 – The South Downs 114 SA6 – Sustainable Neighbourhoods 118 2 Section 1 Introduction 3 Introduction & Overview What is the City Plan? 1.1 The City Plan is the first Development Plan Document (DPD)1 to be produced as part of a wider set of local planning policy documents known as the Brighton & Hove’s Local Development Framework. Its purpose is to provide the overall strategic and spatial vision for the future of Brighton & Hove through to 2030. It will help shape the future of the city and plays an important role in ensuring that other citywide plans and strategies achieve their objectives. 1.2 The City Plan Part 1 sets out how the council will respond to local priorities; how it will meet the social, economic and environmental challenges that face the city; and how it will work with partners to reduce inequalities. It identifies the broad locations, scale and type of development and supporting infrastructure that will take place in the city. The City Plan also responds to, and provides for, the needs of a growing population and a growing local economy and reflects the role and importance of the city in the sub region and the south east. 1.3 The City Plan Part 1: Sets out a vision and objectives for the development and growth of Brighton & Hove up to 2030; identifies broad locations for development and allocates strategic sites and employment sites; Sets clear policies that guide decisions on planning applications; Indicates how the plan will be implemented and shows how progress will be monitored; Sets out the infrastructure requirements for the city up to 2030 and how these will be addressed. Other Local Development Framework Documents 1.4 The policies in all the other documents forming the Brighton & Hove LDF have to be in line with the City Plan Part 1, so it is the most important part of the LDF. The City Plan Part 2 will contain site allocations and the remaining development management policies. A Joint Area Action Plan (JAAP) is being developed with Adur District Council and West Sussex County Council that will set out a comprehensive, deliverable plan for the future revitalisation of Shoreham Harbour. Supplementary Planning Documents will provide guidance on specific areas or topics. 1 Development Plan Document (DPDs) are the key statutory documents within Local Development Framework's and will set out the vision, strategy and policies for the area. They are subject to Sustainability Appraisal and to a formal examination in public. The City Plan Part 1 is Brighton & Hove’s Core Strategy. 4 • Waste and Minerals Plan- the Council, working in partnership with East Sussex County Council and the South Downs National Park Authority, is preparing a Waste and Minerals Plan2 that will provide planning policies to guide the management of waste and production of minerals in the plan area until 2026. • The South Downs National Park was formally designated in April2010 and the National Park Authority brought into effect in April 2011. This is now the planning authority for the administrative area of Brighton & Hove that falls within the National Park. This area will no longer be covered by Brighton & Hove City Plan Part 1 policies but will be covered by the Core Strategy for the National Park. Table 1 City Plan Part 1 Preparation Timetable Stage Date Reg 18: Options Consultation October-November 2011 Reg 18: Draft City Plan Consultation May- July 2012 Publication of the Document February- April 2013 Date for submission to Secretary of State May 2013 Pre-examination meeting with Inspector July 2013 Examination in Public (estimated) September 2013 Estimated date for adoption by the council February 2014 Relationship to other Strategies 1.5 The City Plan Part 1 has been informed by the aims of the city's Sustainable Community Strategy, other citywide plans and strategies and national planning policy and feedback from consultation. Figure 1 shows the relationship to these documents. Policies in the City Plan are in conformity with the National Planning Policy Framework and apply it at the local level. 1.6 The Localism Act sets out the government's intention to revoke regional spatial strategies. lt is acknowledged that any move to revoke existing regional strategies is subject to the outcome of the consultation on the related environmental assessment (SEA of Revocation of the South East Regional Strategy Environment Report) which was published 11 October 2012. The South East Plan remains part of the list of documents which local authorities must have regard to when preparing their development plans until the government orders revoking the existing Regional Plans are published and take effect. Therefore although it is considered that the draft City Plan remains 2 Waste and Minerals Core Strategy is anticipated to be adopted March 2013 5 in conformity with the South East Plan, it is not referred to explicitly within the City Plan. Figure 1 Relationship of the City Plan to other Strategies Links to neighbouring areas 1.7 Brighton & Hove provides jobs, entertainment, shops and leisure, health and education facilities for people living in neighbouring areas. The city is a regionally significant visitor economy and a transport hub. Brighton & Hove’s Travel to Work Area (TTWA), stretches north through Burgess Hill and towards Haywards Heath and Crawley, east to Newhaven and Lewes and west as far as Shoreham and to a lesser extent Worthing.