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Proposed Local Development Plan CONTENTS CONTENTS • FOREWORD Economic Competitiveness CHAPTER 4 Economy and Employment CHAPTER 1 Purpose, Process and Policy Contexts • Introduction • Development Plans • Policy Context • The Process and Policy Context • Policies: • Inverclyde Alliance Single Outcome Agreement • Business and Industrial Areas • Development Opportunities • Inverclyde Local Development Plan • Proposals for Working from Home • Strategic Environmental Assessment • Tourism • Habitats Regulation Appraisal CHAPTER 5 Transport and Connectivity • Supplementary Guidance • Introduction • Action Programme • Policy Context • Monitoring and Review • Policies: • How to Use the Plan • Managing the Transport Network • Sustainable Access • Road Proposals Sustainable Development and Spatial Strategy • Developer Contributions CHAPTER 2 A Sustainable Development Strategy Sustainable Communities • Introduction • Sustainable Development – Core Policies CHAPTER 6 Housing and Communities • The Strategic Planning Context for Inverclyde • Introduction • Inverclyde’s Sustainable Development Strategy • Policy Context • A Sustainable Spatial Strategy – Key Policies • Housing Development Strategy • Policies: CHAPTER 3 Major Areas of Change and Potential Change • Safeguarding Residential Areas • Major Areas of Change • Redevelopment of Brownfield Land • Housing Provision and Land Supply • Areas of Potential Change • Development Opportunities • Development Option Sites • Provision of Affordable Housing • Local Development Frameworks • Development of Community Facilities • Residential Development in the Green Belt and Countryside INVERCLYDE LOCAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN i PROPOSED PLAN 2013 CONTENTS CHAPTER 7 Town Centres and Retailing CHAPTER 9 Built Heritage and Townscape • Introduction • Introduction • Policy Context • Policy Context • Policies: • Policies: • Network of Designated Centres • Conservation Areas • The Sequential Approach • Listed Buildings • Town Centre Uses • Archaeology • Greenock Town Centre: Central Area, • Gardens and Designed Landscapes Retail Core and Outer Area • Development Opportunities • Use of Conditions Energy and Infrastructure • Residential Uses Above Commercial Properties • Shopping to Meet Local Needs CHAPTER 10 Energy Planning and Service Infrastructure • Introduction Environmental Heritage • Policies: • Renewable Energy • CHAPTER 8 Natural Heritage and Environmental Resources Energy Efficiency • Waste • Introduction • Flooding and Flood Risk Management • Policy Context • Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems • Policies: • Communications Infrastructure • • Designated Environmental Resources Mineral Extraction • Green Belt and the Countryside • Green Network • Open Space • GLOSSARY • Woodland • Biodiversity • Water Quality • PROPOSALS MAP (A) Rural Area and Index Map (B) Inverkip and Wemyss Bay & Kilmacolm and Quarrier’s Village (C) Greenock Central and West, and Gourock * (D) Greenock East and Port Glasgow * including ‘Retail Core: Greenock Town Centre’, Figure 7.3 in Chapter 7 ii INVERCLYDE LOCAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN PROPOSED PLAN 2013 CONTENTS LIST OF SCHEDULES LIST OF FIGURES 4.1 Business and Industrial Areas and Development Opportunities 1.1 Location of Inverclyde 4.2 Tourism Opportunities 2.1 A Sustainable Development Strategy 6.1 Residential Development Opportunities 2.2 ‘Place Identity’ on the Clyde Estuary: Glasgow City Region Clyde 6.2 Community, Schools and Leisure Proposals and Opportunities Waterfront Development Corridor 2.3 Spatial Strategy and Place Making 7.1 Town Centre/Retail Development Opportunities 3.1 Spatial Strategy: Major Areas of Change and Potential Change 8.1 Green Network: Opportunities for Enhancement 4.1 Hierarchy of Business and Industrial Land 5.1 Strategic Transport Network in Inverclyde LIST OF TABLES 5.2 Sustainable Transport and Access (Travel Priorities) 1.1 Inverclyde Alliance SOA (2012-2017) and Proposed Plan 6.1 Planning and Housing Geographies (HMA & SHMA/HNDA/LHS) 1.2 Timetable for the Inverclyde LDP and the Glasgow and the Clyde Valley SDP 7.1 Network of Centres 7.2 Retail Catchments 6.1 Comparison of HNDA, HST and LDP Land Supply 2011/12 - 2024/25: 7.3 Retail Core: Greenock Town Centre (inset of the Proposals Map) Households and Dwellings (Totals) - Inverclyde 6.2 Housing Land Supply, by Housing Market Area/SHMA 8.1 Environmental Resources 8.2 Green Network : Existing, Proposed and Potential Links 8.1 Natural Heritage and Other Environmental Designations 9.1 Built Heritage Designations (Existing and Proposed) 9.1 Built Heritage and Other Cultural Designations 10.1 SEPA ‘Local Plan Districts’ for Flood Risk Management INVERCLYDE LOCAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN iii PROPOSED PLAN 2013 CONTENTS iv INVERCLYDE LOCAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN PROPOSED PLAN 2013 FOREWORDCONTENTS Inverclyde is changing for the better and this first new style of Plan – a Local These and many other smaller new opportunities for investment are in place Development Plan - aims to ensure that it continues to do so. so that land should be no constraint to the continuing transformation of Inverclyde over the next decade – to grow and diversify its local economy, Inverclyde has an unrivalled position only 25 miles from the centre of Glasgow arrest and stabilise the population and, through continuous improvements to on the south bank of the River Clyde, stretching round the Tail ‘o the Bank and the quality of design in the built environment, to have towns and villages that south with unparalleled views out across the Firth of Clyde, backed by the complement our setting on the Clyde Coast and attract new people and upland moors and Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park. It combines a wealth of cultural investment. heritage in its built environment, having developed rapidly with the growth of shipbuilding and marine engineering through the 19th and 20th centuries. Yet, This unrivalled coastal setting reminds us of the untapped potential to seize a Inverclyde has not stopped changing with new employment in finance, banking, growth sector that Inverclyde has barely exploited – tourism. The LDP makes electronics and an emerging renewables sector, and it is the purpose of this provision for new marinas and other tourist facilities with significant new LDP to ensure that this change continues in a sustainable manner over opportunities identified among its historic docks and harbours. the next decade. I commend this ambitious, sustainable LDP and ask all the many stakeholders 10 years ago Inverclyde Council took the bold decision to plan on a much that have been involved in its preparation to use it in the submission of their larger, more comprehensive scale and for the long term. The 2005 Local Plan own plans and proposals, to ensure Inverclyde continues to improve for the set out an ambitious vision and development strategy for the transformation better. of the area, realising major changes along its strategic waterfront and through urban renewal of many of its housing areas. Much was being achieved as anyone visiting Inverclyde for the first time in ten years in 2008 would have seen. It is testament to that vision that despite the economic difficulties we have all experienced over the last 5 years, this first LDP continues much of that legacy that was planned 10 years ago. The LDP sits within a national, regional and local context – Scottish Government Councillor McCormick, Convener Environment and Regeneration Committee planning policy, the Glasgow and the Clyde Valley Strategic Development Plan, and the Inverclyde Alliance Single Outcome Agreement, and complements and assists a wide range of plans and strategies, across these different levels. Taking all of these influences on board, the LDP has as its central purpose the protection of Inverclyde’s natural and built heritage, while making provision for growth in a wide range of sustainable locations for new investment and development. Seven large areas are identified where the future of Inverclyde will be planned for the better, and two major areas of study will enable the tradition of long term and comprehensive, phased planning to continue into the medium to longer term. INVERCLYDE LOCAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN v PROPOSED PLAN 2013 CHAPTER 1 PURPOSE, PROCESS and POLICY CONTEXTS DEVELOPMENT PLANS sustainable development, ratified by governments across the world over the last 25 years (from the 1.1 A development plan is a document that sets Rio Summit in 1992 through Kyoto in 1997 to the out where development should take place and present), have been incorporated in European identifies which areas should not be developed. It Union Directives and transposed into UK and recognises where the main areas of change should Scottish Government legislation, are central to be and includes policies and proposals which planning policy and practice. These Scottish provide the framework upon which all planning obligations have influenced greatly the applications can be determined. It provides environmental agenda and the discretion national guidance to developers, investors and all other governments and planning authorities have in stakeholders, including the general public, who exercising their duties. For Inverclyde and this LDP, have an interest in their local area, town and these agreements and directives find expression in environment. our designated natural heritage and environmental resources and in our requirements to plan for waste, The Process and Policy Contexts water and flood risk, respectively (refer to Chapters 8 and 10). Legislative Context National Policy Context 1.2 The preparation of a development plan is a statutory
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