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2013 - Review of Available Sites 1 Introduction 4 How to use this document 4 How to respond to this consultation 5 2 Background 8 3 Next steps 14 4 Theoretically available sites 16 Urban Area 18 Western and Southern Arc 74 Estuary Zone 114 Rural Zone 121 Appendices A Unsuitable sites 124 B Site updates since April 2012 138 North East Lincolnshire Council 2013 - Review of Available Sites North East Lincolnshire Council 2013 - Review of Available Sites Introduction North East Lincolnshire Council 3 2013 - Review of Available Sites 1.1 The Council is undertaking a review of potential housing sites to inform the preparation of the Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (SHLAA) and the New Local Plan for North East Lincolnshire. 1.2 The sites presented in this document have been promoted for housing development through previous SHLAA/Local Plan Call for Sites and/or by the submission of planning applications. 1.3 The purpose of this review is to establish which sites are theoretically available for allocation in the New Local Plan. How to use this document 1.4 This document has been prepared to inform the Council's ongoing and active engagement with site promoters(1). 1.5 Section 4 'Theoretically available sites' includes all of the sites that are, at the time of publication, considered to be theoretically available for allocation. 1.6 Appendix A 'Unsuitable sites' lists all of the sites which are not, from the outset, considered to be suitable for consideration as potential housing allocations. Index An Index is provided at the end of the Adobe PDF document to help you find your site(s)(2). Sites are indexed by settlement, site reference and site description(3). Those sites which do not fall within an existing settlement boundary are listed by the settlement closest to their location. To locate a site within the Adobe PDF electronic version of this document please click on the page number, which provides a hyper link to the site information within the document, and follows the site description within the Index. 1 Those who have promoted sites for consideration as potential housing allocations (land owners, developers, agents). 2 Please note the Index is not available in the online Consultation Portal version of this document only the Adobe PDF versions. PDF versions of this document can be generated through the Consultation Portal or are available to download on the Council's website http://www.nelincs.gov.uk/council/Planning-policy. 3 This is the description given to the site by the site promoters 4 North East Lincolnshire Council 2013 - Review of Available Sites How to respond to this consultation 1.7 If your site is presented in Section 4 'Theoretically available sites' and you have not submitted an up to date Call for Sites form(4)and/or a recent planning application for housing development, please complete the Call for Sites form and return it to the Spatial Planning Team, along with a map showing the correct boundary of the site, by Friday 8 November 2013. 1.8 If your site is presented in Appendix A 'Unsuitable sites' but you do not agree with the Council's reasons for identifying the site as unsuitable, please complete the Call for Sites form and return it to the Spatial Planning Team, along with a map showing the correct boundary of the site and statement outlining your reasons why the Council should reconsider the site, by Friday 8 November 2013. 1.9 If you wish to promote a new site as a potential housing allocation, please complete the Call for Sites form and return it to the Spatial Planning Team, along with a map showing the correct boundary of the site, by Friday 8 November 2013. The Call for Sites will remain open following this consultation. However, if you do not submit an up to date form and your site does not have planning permission, or is not part of a planning application for housing development, your site will not be included in the next SHLAA. 1.10 This document contains a small number of questions about the Council's approach to identifying and assessing potential housing allocations. Please send your responses to these questions to the Spatial Planning Team, by Friday 8 November 2013. How to contact the Spatial Planning Team Email: [email protected] Telephone: 01472 324297 Spatial Planning North East Lincolnshire Regeneration Partnership Origin One 1 Origin Way Grimsby North East Lincolnshire DN37 9TZ 4 Either for consideration as part of the 2012 SHLAA or in response to the New Local Plan Initial Issues and Options consultation. North East Lincolnshire Council 5 2013 - Review of Available Sites 6 North East Lincolnshire Council 2013 - Review of Available Sites Background North East Lincolnshire Council 7 2013 - Review of Available Sites 2.1 In October 2012, the Council published its Draft SHLAA 2012 to support the consultation on its New Local Plan Initial Issues and Options Paper and Draft Interim Planning Statement: Housing Supply Approach. Following the consultation, the Council decided to cease work on the Interim Planning Statement: Housing Supply Approach and SHLAA 2012(5). 2.2 The Initial Issues and Options consultation incorporated a Call for Sites. Through this process a number of additional sites were promoted as potential housing allocations and additional information on sites already identified in the SHLAA was submitted. This document includes the additional sites and reflects the additional information submitted through the Initial Issues and Options Call for Sites. 2.3 In addition, in response to the consultation on the Initial Issues and Options and Draft Interim Planning Statement, comments were received on sites identified in the Draft SHLAA 2012. This document reflects the responses received during the Initial Issues and Options consultation. 2.4 This document also takes account of planning permissions and housing completions for the period 1 April 2012 to 31 March 2013. A summary of all the changes that have been made since the Draft SHLAA 2012 was published are set out in Appendix B 'Site updates since April 2012'. Available sites 2.5 Most of the sites presented in this document have been considered in previous SHLAAs. The questions set out in 'Is the site available?' are included in the SHLAA 2009 - Updated Methodology. Is the site available? 1. Does the site benefit from an extant planning permission, or is there a current planning application being considered by the Authority? 2. Have the owner(s) expressed an intention to develop the site? 3. Are there any legal constraints (e.g. Ransom strip, restrictive covenant, ownership etc.)? 4. If the site includes any education land, when will the land be formally declared surplus to educational requirements within the SHLAA period? 5 Further information about the decision to cease work on the Interim Planning Statement and SHLAA 2012 can be found on the Council's website at: http://www.nelincs.gov.uk/council/planning-policy/ > Supplementary Planning Documents > Interim planning statement housing supply approach. 8 North East Lincolnshire Council 2013 - Review of Available Sites 5. Ownership - is the site owned Publicly/Privately/Public-Private/Multiple Ownership (Where sites are in multiple ownership please confirm if any agreement; formal or informal; is in place between the various interests)? Question 1 Are there any other questions that should be asked as part of the assessment of availability? Unsuitable sites 2.6 Whilst this is primarily an assessment of 'availability' there are a number of sites which are not, from the outset, considered to be suitable for consideration as potential housing allocations. 2.7 The sites listed in Appendix A 'Unsuitable sites' are sites that were identified as unsuitable in previous SHLAAs and/or have been identified as unsuitable in this review for at least one of the reasons set out in Table 2.1 'Criteria for identifying sites as unsuitable'. Criteria for identifying sites as unsuitable Reason Justification Developed The site has been developed Almost developed The site is under construction and is likely to be developed by the time the local plan is adopted Withdrawn The site has been withdrawn by the site promoter Merged The site has been merged with another site or is a duplicate of another site Alternative use The site has been promoted / developed for another use Below allocation threshold The site is not large enough to be considered as a potential housing allocation(6) 6 The threshold is outlined in the SHLAA 2009 - Updated Methodology. Sites smaller than 0.4 hectares will not be included (unless they have been shown to have a capacity in excess of 10 units via a prior planning permission). North East Lincolnshire Council 9 2013 - Review of Available Sites Criteria for identifying sites as unsuitable Reason Justification Rural The site falls within the rural area where the Council is not seeking to allocate land for housing development Remote The site is remote from existing settlements Flood risk The site falls within Flood Zone 3 and is not previously developed (greenfield)(7) Table 2.1 Criteria for identifying sites as unsuitable Question 2 Is the allocation threshold outlined in the SHLAA 2009 - Updated Methodology still appropriate? Question 3 Do you agree with the Council's approach not to seek to allocate land for housing development in the rural area? Some housing development would be allowed in the rural area but sites would be classed as 'windfall' sites(8). Sites within Strategic Gaps 2.8 There are a number of sites that fall within the Strategic Gaps defined to prevent coalescence of the Grimsby/Cleethorpes urban area with the settlements of Humberston, Waltham and New Waltham to the south and Bradley, Laceby and Healing to the west (2003 Local Plan Saved Policy NH9 'Landscape Areas of Strategic Importance').