Fife Local Development Plan Monitoring Statement January 2012

Appendix 2 - Fife Local Development Plan Monitoring Statement January 2012 CONTENTS 1. Introduction 3 2. The Current Development Plan 5 3. Objectives as set out in the Adopted Local Plans 6 PHYSICAL 6 Brownfield 6 Population 9 ECONOMIC 10 Tourism 12 Rural Economy 14 Employment 15 Retail 22 Business 24 SOCIAL 24 Mixed Use Areas 24 Affordable Housing 27 Recreation & Health 31 Education 33 ENVIRONMENTAL 36 Landscape 36 Transport 40 Carbon Reduction/Renewable Energy Sources 44 Biodiversity 46 4. Technical Papers 48 5. Impact of Policies and Proposals within the Adopted Local Plans 49 PROPOSALS 49 POLICIES 50 Strategic Policy 50 Local Plan Policy 51 6. Conclusion 52 Appendix 1 – Technical Papers Informing the Main Issues Report Appendix 2 – Strategic Policy Comparison Appendix 3 – FIFEplan Local Development Plan Policy Monitor 1 List of Figures Figure 1 Input to the Monitoring Statement 3 Figure 2 Total Population, Fife 10 Figure 3 Total Benefit Claimants, Fife 19 Figure 4 Jobseekers Allowance Claimants, Fife 19 Figure 5 Affordable Housing Completions since 2006/07 28 Figure 6 Population with a Degree 35 List of Tables Table 1 Employment Land Take 21 Table 2 Strategic Land Allocations 29 2 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 The Planning etc (Scotland) Act 2006 places a statutory duty on Fife Council to prepare a local development plan for the area and also sets a new framework for planning practice as part of modernising the planning system in Scotland. 1.2 The Act requires that a monitoring statement is prepared to accompany a main issues report for the local development plan when it is published. A monitoring statement must contain sufficient data to enable the main issues report to be prepared and to relate to the following: • the changes to the principal physical, economic, social and environmental characteristics of the district; and • the impact of the policies and proposals in the current development plan. 1.3 This monitoring statement will form part of the evidence base for the local development plan and provide a baseline for future monitoring of the local development plan. It has been informed by the documents illustrated in Figure 1: Figure 1 – Input to the Monitoring Statement 3 1.4 As this is the first local development plan that Fife Council has prepared, it cannot look back to monitor the progress of a previous local development plan. Instead, it has to consider the existing development plan documents prepared under the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997. 4 2.0 THE CURRENT DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2.1 The development plan in Fife, at November 2012, comprises TAYplan, SESplan, the Fife Structure Plan 2006-26 (for all but the area of north Fife covered by TAYplan), three recently adopted local plans covering Mid Fife, Dunfermline & West Fife, and St Andrews & East Fife, and the adopted Fife Minerals Subject Local Plan. 2.2 There is also an adopted Fife Core Paths Plan which identifies core paths for walking, cycling, horse riding and use by the disabled across Fife and which is relevant to the content of the local development plan. 2.3 This monitoring statement reviews the performance of these plans to date and identifies what should be taken forward through the local development plan. This will help to inform the new local development plan, justify its content and provide a baseline for future monitoring. In this respect the report is divided into two main parts. • Section 3 assesses the overall performance of the local plans against the core strategic land use and locational objectives that are contained within the plans; and • Section 5 assesses the performance of proposals and particular policy areas in order to identify where significant change may be required. 2.4 Fife Council’s local plans have all recently been adopted during 2012. The Mid Fife Local Plan was adopted in January, the St Andrews & East Fife Local Plan in October, and the Dunfermline & West Fife Local Plan in November. Therefore, the existing plans are up to date and there has been little time for the objectives and proposals within these local plans to be realised. This has been compounded further by the economic downturn which has resulted in many proposals not being implemented within the timescales originally programmed. FIFEplan: The New Local Development Plan 2.5 Fife Council Planning Committee agreed in June 2011 to prepare a single local development plan for Fife. It will amalgamate current plan strategies into a single Fife-wide planning vision. We are calling the local development plan FIFEplan to give it a Fife identity as it spans the strategic development plan areas of TAYplan to the north and SESplan to the south. 5 3.0 OBJECTIVES AS SET OUT IN THE ADOPTED LOCAL PLANS 3.1 The following section brings together the objectives that are set out in the strategies of the adopted Mid Fife, Dunfermline & West Fife and St Andrews & East Fife Local Plans and illustrates how they are being addressed through policies and proposals. They have been split into physical, economic, social and environmental objectives. The geographical area that each objective relates to is highlighted in brackets after the objective number along with whether the objective is ongoing or complete. PHYSICAL Brownfield sites Objective 1. (Fife wide - ongoing) - Promoting the re-use of suitable and appropriately remediated brownfield land and buildings where possible. 3.2 The Mid Fife, Dunfermline & West Fife and the St Andrews & East Fife Local Plans promote brownfield opportunity sites through specific proposals and promote these sites to the market as being available for redevelopment. The action programmes that accompany these plans group these proposals together and monitor their reuse. Fife Council also produces a vacant and derelict land study which further identifies brownfield sites and promotes their reuse. Policies and Proposals for Objective 1 Policies - Proposals – Brownfield Opportunity Sites Mid Fife CRH02 – Former Grounds Maintenance Depot & Church, Main Street, Crosshill; BUR06 – Grange Distillery, Burntisland; BUR07 – Greenmount Hotel, Burntisland; BUR08 – South of Lammerlaws Road, Burntisland; COW10 – Adjacent Gas Works, Cowdenbeath; COW11 – High Street, Cowdenbeath; COW12 – Rosebank, Cowdenbeath; CRO04 – Builders Yard adjacent to Crossgates Primary School, Crossgates; CRO05 – Rear of Hillview Crescent, Crossgates; LES03 – 250 - 254 High Street, Leslie; LES04 – Prinlaws Mill, Leslie; LES05 – South of Walkerton Drive, Leslie; KEL07 – Old Gas Works, Kelty; 6 KNH02 – Viewforth Place, Kinghorn; KDY41 – Den Road, Kirkcaldy; KDY42 – Former Car Sales Garage, Millie Street, Kirkcaldy; KDY43 – Junction Road, Kirkcaldy; KDY44 – Millie Street, Kirkcaldy; KDY45 – Park Road/Lawson Road, Kirkcaldy; KDY46 – Smeaton Road, Kirkcaldy; KDY47 – Victoria Road, Former Power Station, Kirkcaldy; KDY48 – Victoria Road, Kirkcaldy; BKN05 – Factory Road, Buckhaven MET08 – Glencast Foundry, Methil MET09 – Rear Bayview Park, Kirkland Road, Methil; MET10 – Land to the east of Aberhill Primary School, Methil; MET11 – Methil Power Station, Methil; MET12 – Riverside, Methil; KEN05 – Kennoway School, Kennoway; LGY10 – Cartmore Road, Lochgelly; LGY11 – Old Filling Station, Lumphinnans Road, Lochgelly; THO07 – Network Rail Land, Thornton; THO08 – Orebank Terrace/Strathore Road, Thornton; and THO09 – Riverside, Thornton. West Fife ABD001 – Hillside School, Aberdour; CHL003 – Land at Charlestown Harbour (Ballast Bank), Charlestown; CUL001 – Blackadder Haven, Culross; DUN061 – South of Elliot Street, Dunfermline; DUN062 – Paton Street North, Dunfermline; DUN063 – Paton Street South, Dunfermline; DUN064 – School Row, Dunfermline; DUN065 – Rolland Street/Moodie Street, Dunfermline; DUN066 – Priory Lane West, Dunfermline; DUN067 – Priory Lane/New Row Corner, Dunfermline; DUN068 – New Row/Park Avenue, Dunfermline; DUN069 – Viewfield House Car Park, Dunfermline; DUN070 – Chalmers Street, Dunfermline; DUN071 – Randolph St, City Centre, Dunfermline; DUN072 – Pittencrieff Street, Dunfermline; DUN073 – Walmer Drive, Dunfermline; HVF003 – Abbey Street, High Valleyfield; HVF004 – Chapel Place/Carlisle Street, High Valleyfield; INV012/INV004 – Land at Prestonhill Quarry, Inverkeithing; INV010/INV004 – Caldwell Mill, Inverkeithing; INV011/INV004 – RM Supplies, Inverkeithing; OAK005 – Holy Name Primary School, Oakley; ROS016 – Land adjacent Ferrytoll Road, Rosyth; TWH001 – Townhill Power Station Site, Townhill; TWH002 – Townhill Loch Car Park, Townhill; LWD012 – Saline Road Oakley; LWD013 – Land at Knockhill; and LWD014 – Castlehill Mine. 7 East Fife ANS04 – Depot, Pittenweem Road, Anstruther; ANS05 – Anstruther Wester Primary School, Anstruther; COB02 – South Wynd Depot, Colinsburgh; CUP05 – Ceres Road, Cupar; CUP06 – Former Snooker Hall, North Burnside, Cupar; CUP07 – Kirk Wynd, Cupar; CUP08 – Provost Wynd, Former Leuchars Removals, Cupar; DSH01 – Former Dunshalt Primary School, Dunshalt; LAD06 – Former Railway Goods Yard, Ladybank; LAR02 – Opposite Staghead, Largoward; and NEB02 – Mugdrum East, Newburgh. Objective 2. (Mid Fife - ongoing) - Identifying and promoting many significant regeneration opportunities along the coastal route from Burntisland to Methil on land that is vacant and/or derelict. The redevelopment of brownfield land along the coast will be balanced by other policies that will maintain and enhance the environmental, recreational, and tourism appeal of the Fife coast. Development along the coast within the plan boundaries will take account of the Fife Coastal Path, given its value as a tourism

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