Consultation Statement Local Plan Consultation Document 2015 August 2016 Consultation Statement: Local Plan Consultation Document 2015 August 2016 Colin Haigh Head of Planning Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council Council Offices The Campus Welwyn Garden City Hertfordshire AL8 6AE Tel: 01707 357000 Fax: 01707 357285 E Mail
[email protected] Contents Introduction 1 Statement of community Involvement 1 How we consulted 3 Targeted consultation 4 Other consultations 4 Participation levels 5 Summary of main issues and the Council’s response 6 Introduction 7 Part 1 Strategic Policies 10 Emerging Core Strategy 11 Policy CS2 Meeting the Needs for Growth 13 Policy CS2 Meeting the Needs for Growth – Housing 22 CS2 Meeting the Needs for Growth - Figure 1 – Housing Market Area 29 Policy Intention CS2a – Housing Target 30 CS2 Meeting the Needs for Growth – Employment 36 Policy Intention CS2B Employment Land and Job Growth 40 CS3 Settlement Strategy 43 Table 1 – Potential distribution of housing growth 53 Policy Intention CS3 58 CS4 Green Belt Boundaries and Safeguarded Land – CS4 and Policy Intention CS4 64 Movement Strategy and New Policy Intention Movement 80 CS19 Strategic Green Infrastructure and Policy Intention CS19 86 Spatial Policies and Spatial Policies Intention 90 Part 2 Sites 93 Section 10 Welwyn Garden City, Welwyn Garden City Housing and Table 4 94 10 Welwyn Garden City Site Pea94 Bridge Road East 100 10 Welwyn Garden City Site WGC1, Creswick 101 10 Welwyn Garden City Site WGC4, Panshanger Aerodrome 104 Site WGC5 and Appendix A