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Hertsmere Local Development Framework Development Plan Document Core Strategy For submission to the Secretary of State December 2008 Hertsmere Borough Council Hertsmere Borough Council - Core Strategy DPD (December 2008) Contents Page Foreword ................................................................................................................ 5 1. Introduction and Context ........................................................................................ 7 Purpose and status of this Document .............................................................................. 7 About the Hertsmere Local Development Framework ...................................................... 7 What is the Core Strategy? .............................................................................................. 8 National policy, East of England Plan and other external influences .................................. 9 Community and stakeholder participation .................................................................... 14 Sustainability and alternative options ............................................................................ 15 2. Spatial Vision and Development Strategy .............................................................. 18 Spatial Portrait .............................................................................................................. 18 Spatial Vision ................................................................................................................ 20 LDF Core Strategy Objectives ........................................................................................ 21 Delivering the spatial vision .......................................................................................... 27 Hertsmere strategic spatial policy .................................................................................. 29 3. Housing ................................................................................................................ 32 The availability of land for new housing ........................................................................ 33 The distribution and location of new housing ................................................................ 34 Phasing and implementation strategy ............................................................................ 37 Affordable Housing ...................................................................................................... 40 Affordable Housing in rural areas .................................................................................. 43 Gypsies and Travellers .................................................................................................... 43 The mix of new housing ................................................................................................ 45 4. Employment and the Economy .............................................................................. 48 The local economy ........................................................................................................ 48 The Central Hertfordshire Employment Land Review ...................................................... 50 The location, scale and type of new employment development .................................... 51 Land use within employment areas .............................................................................. 54 5. Open Land and the Environment .......................................................................... 57 Protection and enhancement of the natural and historic environment .......................... 58 Historic assets .............................................................................................................. 60 Access to the countryside .............................................................................................. 61 The environmental impact of new development ............................................................ 63 Efficient use of natural resources .................................................................................. 65 6. Building Sustainable Communities ........................................................................ 68 Development and local services .................................................................................... 68 Providing a mix of uses .................................................................................................. 70 Funding sustainable communities .................................................................................. 71 Creating an accessible environment .............................................................................. 73 7. Transport and Parking .......................................................................................... 75 The location of new development ................................................................................ 75 Parking standards .......................................................................................................... 76 Promoting alternatives to the car .................................................................................. 79 8. Town Centres and Shopping ................................................................................ 82 Town centre strategy .................................................................................................... 82 The health of individual centres .................................................................................... 84 The evening economy .................................................................................................. 86 9. Delivery and Monitoring Framework .................................................................... 88 10. Responding to this Document .............................................................................. 93 11. Glossary and Acronyms ........................................................................................ 94 3 Hertsmere Borough Council - Core Strategy DPD (December 2008) Appendices Appendix 1 Linkages between the Hertfordshire Local Transport Plan and Hertsmere Borough Council ...................... 97 Appendix 2 Linkages with Community Strategy Action Plans .................................................................................... 101 Appendix 3 Key development proposals and policies in neighbouring local authorities .............................................. 105 Appendix 4 Hertsmere LDF Sustainability Objectives .................................................................................................. 108 Appendix 5 Local Area Agreement targets with land use implications ...................................................................... 109 Appendix 6 Schedule of Core Strategy policies for submission to Secretary of State .................................................. 110 4 Hertsmere Borough Council - Core Strategy DPD (December 2008) Foreword Hertsmere Borough Council aims to produce a Local Development Framework (LDF) which is not only distinctive to the Borough, but also provides an effective response to local issues and priorities. A key part of that process is the preparation of the Core Strategy, which will set the parameters for development in the Borough until 2021 and beyond. In February 2006, Hertsmere Borough Council published an LDF 'Issues and Options' report which set out a range of options for how the Borough could develop over the next 15 years. The Council subsequently published a set of Core Strategy preferred options in December 2007 and the priorities identified during the associated consultation have informed and guided the preparation of this document which will be shortly submitted to the Secretary of State. The planning system exists to balance competing land use interests but its role is not to prescribe or prevent development. As a spatial planning document which looks to reflect the priorities of both the local community and local service providers, the Core Strategy has also been prepared within the context of national and regional policy requirement. However, the Council remains committed to preparing a document which enables the Borough's local requirements to be met. I would like to thank everyone who has been involved in the preparation of this document and hope that it will provide the basis for ensuring that the Borough remains an attractive, safe and prosperous place for everyone who lives and works here. Councillor Hannah David Portfolio Holder for Housing and Planning Foreword 5 Hertsmere Borough Council - Core Strategy DPD (December 2008) 1. Introduction and Context Purpose and status of this document 1.1 The Core Strategy has been produced by Hertsmere Borough Council and sets out the Council’s strategic planning framework for the next fifteen years. It builds on the earlier Issues and Options and Preferred Options reports and sets out the key spatial policies to guide development in the Borough over this period. 1.2 Policies allocating individual sites for development are set out in a separate Site Allocations document which is currently being prepared. Detailed development control policies are to be reviewed in a third statutory planning document. This Core Strategy has been published for submission to the Secretary of State and public examination. Once adopted, it will supercede a number of policies in the Council’s existing Local Plan (2003), which are set out in Appendix 6 to this document. In the meantime, this document has been approved by the Council