Bradford on Avon Community Area strategy

Future development in Bradford on Avon should be on a modest scale and should deliver additional employment, thereby helping to improve the self-containment of the town. Development will need to meet high standards of sustainable design and should incorporate renewable energy provision. Housing development in Bradford on Avon should be phased for delivery towards the end of the plan period (2016-2026), and development should be employment led wherever possible.

BradfordBradford-on-Avon on Avon Data is indicative and subject to change

Resident based professions, 2001 Population: Bradford-on-Avon community area

Agriculture; hunting; forestry, 31% 2% 65+ Other, % age 23% 970 5% Bath/ Health and Electricity; gas Bristol social work, Manufacturing, and water 135 50% 11% 16% supply, 0% A363 18-64 % age 58% Construction, Education, 5% 13% Bradford-on-Avon 2006 19% Wholesale and retail trade, 13% 0-7 % age 20% Bradford-on-Avon 2026 Public admin and defence, 8% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%

Real estate, 14% Hotels and Housing built since 2001 catering, 5% Transport and Large new housing sites Financial, communication, 3% 5% Strategic employment sites Proposed allocations Town centre

300 GP 240

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Rural Percentage of people that live and Conservation area 60 GP work in Bradford-on-Avon (2001) Urban boundary 50 Hospitals

40 GP GP surgeries Secondary schools 30 Station 20 Green belt 10 AONB

0 Commuting flows (2001)

790

245

Cricklade Bradford-on-Avon Wilts (lowest in (highest in Outside A363 ) Wiltshire)

Bradford-on-Avon community map

House price to income ratio 10 Average house price 2009 = £171,000

8 Bradford-on-Avon (highest in mid and ) 310 6 Average for Wiltshire towns Trowbridge 765 4 /Ludgershall (lowest in mid and north Wiltshire)

2 South West

UK 0 House price to income ratio

Specific issues in Bradford on Avon: • The town currently has a high level of out-commuting. • Further loss of employment land should be strongly resisted. • The overall retail offer serves only basic local needs. • High traffic volumes and congestion in the town centre. • The town has aspirations to become ‘carbon neutral’ by 2050. • High level of need for affordable housing in the town. • Development should be planned so as to conserve and enhance the high quality built and natural environment. • An ‘area of opportunity’ in Holt will be protected as it continues to offer a suitable location for mixed use development, such as light industrial, workshops, offices and residential uses. Wiltshire Local Development Framework Bradford on Avon Community Area proposals

Employment and housing Over the plan period (2006 to 2026), 2-3 hectares of new employment land and 670 new homes will be B3109 provided across the community area. 510 dwellings should occur at the town of Bradford on Avon, including land identified for strategic growth to the east of the B3107 town on land at Kingston Farm. Specific requirements for the strategic site at Kingston Farm include: • 2-3 hectares of employment land including space for an existing local firm to expand • 40% affordable housing • development to provide an exemplar for sustainable Strategic Sites development and renewable energy in Wiltshire Type Employment • protection and, where possible, enhancement, of Green Space the setting of the Conservation Area, and The Hall © Crown copyright and database rights 2011 Ordnance Survey 100049050 Mixed Use and its park and garden • protection and enhancement of the River Avon environmental corridor • survey and mitigation of the impacts on bats and other protected species and local wildlife habitats/ features associated with the river corridor • improvements to the junction of the B3107 and B3109, and potential widening of the B3107.

160 homes will be provided in the rest of the community area over the plan period.

The following principal employment areas will be supported: Treenwood Industrial Estate and Elm Cross Trading Estate

Delivery of proposed housing 2006 to 2026, Bradford on Avon Community Area:

Area Housing already provided for Housing to be identified

Proposed Completions Specific Proposed Remainder requirement 2006-10 permitted strategic to be 2006-26 sites sites identified Bradford on Avon 510 61 256 150 43 Remainder 160 62 30 0 68 Community area total 670 123 286 150 111

Are there any changes that you would suggest to the strategy set out for Bradford on Avon Community Area?

Wiltshire Local Development Framework Bradford on Avon Community Area infrastructure

Role of settlements ¯

Monkton Farleigh

Holt

Winsley Bradford on Avon Limpley Stoke Staverton

Westwood

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Towns Wingfield Larger Villages Smaller Villages County Wildlife Sites Flood Zone 3 Flood Zone 2 Green Belt

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Infrastructure Infrastructure requirements identified so far to support development at Bradford on Avon: • Sustainable transport solution for the town centre. • Improvements to the sewer system. • Reinforcement of low pressure gas mains. • Financial contributions towards expansion of primary and secondary schools. • Expansion, or relocation to larger premises, of one or both GP surgeries. • Expansion of the existing cemetery and provision of pedestrian links to the town centre. Are these additional infrastructure requirements needed to support development in Bradford on Avon Community Area?

Wiltshire Local Development Framework