Draft Bassetlaw Local Plan NOVEMBER 2020 DRAFT Foreword This new draft Bassetlaw Local Plan provides an ambitious, innovative and positive planning framework to shape the future of the District to 2037 and identifies where, when and how new development will be delivered. Bassetlaw is undergoing huge change, over this Local Plan’s timeframe it is our ambition that it will become a modern and prosperous District. Ensuring that Bassetlaw has robust, effective and up-to date planning policies that secure our long-term economic future which continue to adapt and embrace changing circumstances, such as climate change, a growing population, and that deliver the Government’s required housing and growth targets will be key to our long term achievements. Providing for the Government’s commitment to housing growth is extremely challenging. This Plan makes good use of brownfield land; this has been showcased in the way we are promoting town centre regenerations, improvements to neighbourhoods and re-use of former power station sites. But to meet the Government’s targets other land is required. By planning for growth through this Plan we can make sure that housing and businesses are accompanied by the right infrastructure to help our communities sustainably grow. Growth will have an emphasis on healthy lifestyles and active travel; this draft Plan provides for more walking and cycling routes, new parks and open spaces, sports facilities and improvements to health facilities to the benefit of existing and new communities. Ensuring our communities are better able to make the transition to a low carbon lifestyle is a vital part of this Plan. A new Green Energy Hub at High Marnham will secure Bassetlaw’s place as a centre for green energy and technology development, bringing inward investment and better paid, higher skilled jobs. Significant tree planting, flood mitigation, new wildlife habitats and the start of the new low carbon Bassetlaw Garden Village will build in climate resilience for the future. This draft Plan has been shaped with the support and involvement of local communities, landowners, businesses, infrastructure partners and many others - all who share the desire to plan for an innovative, positive, prosperous future for the District by meeting the need for new homes, a growing economy and the protection of our natural environment and heritage assets over the next 17 years or so. Building on the successful consultation in January this is the next step in our conversation with local people, businesses and our communities. As the Plan develops it is vital that people take this opportunity to look at what is being proposed and have their say. Councillor Jo White Portfolio Holder for Regeneration and Deputy Leader of the Council 2 www.bassetlaw.gov.uk Draft Bassetlaw Local Plan, November 2020 3 Contents 5 | 1.0 Introduction 14 | 2.0 Structure of the Draft Bassetlaw Local Plan 15 | 3.0 Context 20 | 4.0 Bassetlaw Vision and Objectives 24 | 5.0 A Spatial Strategy for Bassetlaw POLICY ST1: Bassetlaw’s Spatial Strategy 32 POLICY ST2: Rural Bassetlaw 35 POLICY ST3: Bassetlaw Garden Village Site Allocation 43 POLICY ST4: Bassetlaw Garden Village Spacial Design Framework 46 POLICY ST5: Bassetlaw Garden Village Delivery & Legacy Management 48 POLICY ST6: Worksop Central 51 POLICY ST7: Cottam Priority Regeneration Area 53 56 | 6.0 Delivering Economic Prosperity POLICY ST8: Provision of Land for Employment Development 60 POLICY ST9: Site EM008: High Marnham Green Energy Hub 62 POLICY ST10: Site EM01: Apleyhead Junction, Worksop 64 POLICY ST11: Existing Employment Sites 65 POLICY ST12: Rural Economic Growth & Economic Growth Outside Employment Areas 67 POLICY ST13: Visitor Economy 68 POLICY ST14: Town Centres, Local Centres, Local Shops and Service 71 POLICY ST15: Management of Town Centres 74 76 | 7.0 Living Communities POLICY ST16: Housing Distribution 78 POLICY 17: HS1: Peaks Hill Farm 81 POLICY 18: Site HS2: Former Pupil Referral Centre 84 POLICY 19: Site HS3: Radford Street 85 POLICY 20: Site HS4 Former Manton Primary School 87 POLICY 21: Site HS5: Talbot Road 89 POLICY 22: Site HS6 Former Knitwear Factory 91 POLICY 23: Site HS7: Trinity Farm 93 POLICY 24: Site HS8: Milnercroft 95 POLICY 25: Site HS9: Former Elizabethan High School 97 POLICY 26: Site HS10: St Michael’s View 98 POLICY 27: Site HS11: Fairygrove 100 POLICY 28: Site HS12: Station Road 102 POLICY 29: Site HS13: Ordsall Road 104 POLICY 30: Site NP04: Ollerton Road 107 POLICY 31: Affordable Housing 110 POLICY 32: Housing Mix, Type and Density 112 2 www.bassetlaw.gov.uk Draft Bassetlaw Local Plan, November 2020 3 POLICY 33: Specialist Housing 115 POLICY ST34: Sites for Gypsies and Travellers 117 POLICY 35: Houses in Multiple Occupation 119 POLICY 36: Agricultural and Forestry Workers Dwellings 120 122 | 8.0 Local Character and Distinctiveness POLICYST37: Design Quality 124 POLICY 38: Shop fronts, Signage and Security 126 POLICY ST39: Landscape Character 128 POLICY ST40: Green Gaps 129 POLICY ST41: Green and Blue Infrastructure 131 POLICY ST42: Biodiversity and Geodiversity 134 POLICY ST43: Trees, Woodlands and Hedgerows 136 POLICY ST44: The Historic Environment 139 POLICY 45: Heritage Assets 140 142 | 9.0 Healthy Communities POLICY ST46: Promoting Healthy, Active Lifestyles 144 POLICY ST47: Protection and Enhancement of Community Facilities 145 POLICY ST48: Delivering Quality, Accessible Open Space 147 POLICY ST49: Promoting Sport and Recreation 149 POLICY 50: Protecting Amenity 150 POLICY 51: Contaminated and Unstable Land 151 153 | 10.0 Greening Bassetlaw POLICY ST52: Reducing Carbon Emissons, Climate Change Mitigation and Adaption 157 POLICY ST53: Renewable and Low Carbon Energy Generation 160 POLICY ST54: Flood Risk and Drainage 162 POLICY ST55: Protecting Water Quality and Management 164 166 | 11.0 Transport and Connectivity POLICY ST56: Transport Infrastructure and Improvement 168 POLICY ST57: Promoting Sustainable Transport and Active Travel 171 172 | 12.0 Infrastructure and Delivery POLICY ST58: Safeguard and Land 173 POLICY ST59: Digital Infrastructure 175 POLICY ST60: Provision and Delivery of Infrastructure 178 180 | 13.0 Implementation and Monitoring 180 186 | 14.0 Monitoring Framework 201 | Glossary Appendix 1: Policies Schedule 213 Appendix 2: References 219 4 www.bassetlaw.gov.uk Draft Bassetlaw Local Plan, November 2020 5 1.0 Introduction 1.1 What is the Local Plan? 1.1.1 This draft Local Plan sets out the Council’s development strategy, planning policies and proposals, including site allocations, to guide land use and planning decisions in the District up to 2037. This document is the written statement of the Local Plan and should be read alongside the draft Local Plan Policies Map which provides a visual representation of the Local Plan policies. 1.1.2 The draft Local Plan provides an important strategy for Bassetlaw District. It will play a leading role in delivering sustainable development in appropriate locations and in helping to protect the countryside, important green spaces and the built and natural environment from inappropriate development, thus enhancing the quality of life for people and our communities. 1.2 What does the Local Plan cover? 1.2.1 The Local Plan covers the whole of Bassetlaw District as shown in Figure 1. The Local Plan may be supplemented by more detailed policies and proposals in neighbourhood plans where these are prepared for parts of the District. 1.2.2 The Local Plan explains how many new homes and businesses are needed, where they should be located and how and when they will be delivered. It sets out how the town centres will be supported and improved and also identifies any additional infrastructure (such as new roads and schools) which is needed to support development and explains how this infrastructure will be delivered. 1.2.3 Once adopted, the Local Plan will replace the Bassetlaw Core Strategy and Development Management Policies DPD (2011)1. Appendix 1 provides a Policies Schedule which shows which Core Strategy policies have been replaced by those in this Plan. On adoption the Local Plan will, along with ‘made’ neighbourhood plans and adopted minerals and waste local plans form the overall development plan for the District. 1.2.4 The Local Plan is the starting point for considering whether planning applications (apart from for minerals and waste development) can be approved. Decisions on planning applications will be taken in accordance with its policies, unless material considerations indicate otherwise. The Local Plan covers a range of issues and it is likely that several policies will be relevant to any proposed development. It is important therefore that the plan is read as a whole rather than considering policies in isolation. 4 www.bassetlaw.gov.uk Draft Bassetlaw Local Plan, November 2020 5 1.3 How has the Local Plan been prepared? 1.3.1 Following the adoption of the Core Strategy in 20111, the Council began the production of a Site Allocations Development Plan Document which aimed to identify strategic business and residential allocations to deliver the Core Strategy. The following changes in circumstances, meant this document was not pursued: • the revocation of the East Midlands Regional Spatial Strategy in April 2013 which meant that reliance on the Regional Spatial Strategy housing figure was no longer a valid approach to determine housing numbers for site allocations; • the publication of new national policy – the National Planning Policy Framework2 – firstly in 2012, and accompanying Planning Practice Guidance; which included several new requirements, including the need to have a five year housing land supply. This resulted in some of the Core Strategy policies being out of date; • the Council’s positive approach to neighbourhood planning introduced by the Localism Act 2011, to facilitate the delivery of neighbourhood plans including sustainable housing growth, particularly in the rural parts of the District 1.3.2 On that basis an evidence base review began in 2014 to inform a new Local Plan.