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Walsall SAD Adopted (January 2019) Walsall Site Allocation Document Version for Adoption at January 2019 Council Note: This version includes the Main Modifications recommended by the Inspector. It also includes various Minor Modifications which do not affect the soundness of the Plan. It is subject to final checking and minor editing. If adoption is agreed, the Council will produce a final version of the Plan for publication. That version will be in colour. Walsall Site Allocation Document 2019 Contents Chapter Contents Page 1 Introduction 1 2 Objectives, Regeneration Corridors and Issues (assets and 7 constraints) RC1: The Regeneration Corridors 3 Homes for Our Communities 23 3(a) General Housing 23 HC1: Land Allocated for New Housing Development HC2: Development of Other Land for Housing HC3: Affordable Housing and Housing for People with Special Needs 3(b) Accommodation for Gypsies, Travellers and Travelling 44 Showpeople HC4: Accommodation for Gypsies and Travellers and Travelling Showpeople 4 Providing for Industrial Jobs and Prosperity 56 IND1: Existing High Quality Industry IND2: Potential High Quality Industry IND3: Retained Local Quality Industry IND4: Local Industry Consider for Release IND5: New Employment Opportunities 5 Strengthening Our Local Centres 81 SLC1: Local Centres SLC2: Local Centres Development Opportunities 6 Open Space, Leisure and Community Facilities 91 OS1: Open Space, Sport and Recreation LC5: Greenways LC11: Land for Cemetery Extension, Bentley Lane UW1: Wolverhampton University, Walsall Campus, Broadway, Walsall 7 Environmental Networks 102 GB1: Green Belt Boundary and Control of Development in the Green Belt Walsall Site Allocation Document 2019 Chapter Contents Page EN1: Natural Environment Protection, Management and Enhancement EN2: Ancient Woodland EN3: Flood Risk EN4: Canals EN5: Development in Conservation Areas EN6: Highgate Brewery (IN47) EN7: Great Barr Hall and Estate and St. Margaret’s Hospital 8 Sustainable Waste Management 144 W1: Future Waste Management Requirements W2: Existing Waste Management Sites W3: New Waste Management Development – Waste Treatment and Transfer W4: New Waste Management Development – Waste Disposal 9 Sustainable Use of Minerals M1: Safeguarding of Mineral Resources 178 M2: Safeguarding of Minerals Infrastructure M3: Secondary and Recycled Aggregates M4: Sand and Gravel Extraction – Birch Lane M5: Sand and Gravel Extraction – Branton Hill M6: Brickworks – Future Supply Requirements M7: Brick Clay Extraction – Stubbers Green M8: Brick Clay Extraction – Other Areas M9: Coal and Fireclay Extraction - Brownhills M10: Energy Minerals - Unconventional Hydrocarbons 10 Transport and Infrastructure 236 T2: Bus Services T3: The Rail Network T4 The Highway Network T5 Highway Improvements Appendix UDP Policies replaced by SAD 246 Walsall Site Allocation Document 2019 Maps reproduced from the Ordnance Survey mapping with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. © Crown Copyright. Unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown copyright and may lead to prosecution or civil proceedings. © Crown copyright and database rights 2018 Ordnance Survey 100019529 Walsall Site Allocation Document 2019 1 Introduction 1.1 What is the Site Allocation Document? The Site Allocation Document (SAD) is part of Walsall’s Local Plan. It does the following things: It allocates sites for homes, jobs, shops, and other uses. It protects land to meet the current and future needs of Walsall. It protects important assets and seeks to improve the environment. The SAD will implement the Black Country Core Strategy (‘BCCS’ or ‘Core Strategy’), which came into force in 2011 and sets out a strategy for the four Black Country Boroughs (Dudley, Sandwell and Wolverhampton, as well as Walsall) looking forward to 2026. The BCCS provides a strategic framework within which the policies and allocations of the SAD must be considered, and forms the highest level of the Local Plan for Walsall. A review of the BCCS has now commenced and the SAD will help to inform this, by identifying Walsall’s current resource of development land as well as environmental assets, site constraints and designations. The SAD provides detailed policies allocating land for development or designating land for protection where necessary. However, the SAD also includes some policies that, although they do not directly allocate land themselves, will have significance for development on the land allocations and designations that have been identified. The SAD is accompanied by the Local Plan Policies Map for Walsall Borough that shows the allocations and designations set out in the document. The Policies Map replaces the Proposals Map in the Unitary Development Plan (UDP) with the exception of: The District Centre Insets (for Aldridge, Bloxwich, Brownhills, Darlaston and Willenhall). The Inset Maps in the UDP and the relevant policies for these areas in the UDP itself remain in effect. Walsall Town Centre. The Town Centre Inset Map in the UDP, and the policies for the town centre in the UDP, have been replaced by the Area Action Plan (AAP). The Policies Map accompanying the AAP is an inset to the Local Plan Policies Map The SAD will be used in the determination of planning applications, but it is primarily a land allocation document, identifying sites for development and / or designating them for protection. It is not intended to be a detailed development management plan containing policies to address all types of land use issues, proposals and changes of use that would apply irrespective of allocations shown on the Local Plan Policies Map. The SAD safeguards a large number of sites for their existing use, in particular sites that are used for industry, waste and minerals infrastructure and open space. However, although in most cases this use has planning permission or is long-established, the allocation of a site for a particular use does not necessarily imply that if the use is the existing use, it is necessarily lawful. Likewise, the allocation of a site for a proposed use does not necessarily imply that planning permission will be granted for that use: issues may arise during the detailed consideration of a planning application that were not known about in the preparation 1 Walsall Site Allocation Document 2019 of the SAD; for example, matters relating to the design of the proposal. Site boundaries may not reflect the boundaries of ownership or lawful use. It may also be necessary to include additional land or exclude part of the allocated land within a planning application site, for example to secure a suitable access on highway safety grounds. Other parts of Walsall’s Local Plan – the BCCS and the Unitary Development Plan (UDP) - contain policies that need to be considered alongside the SAD1. The ‘saved’ polices in the UDP are primarily concerned with development management, as well as covering the District Centres. The Council also has several Supplementary Planning Documents (SPD) that expand on the policies about various issues – for example, affordable housing. The SAD covers the whole of the Borough except Walsall Town Centre and the District Centres of Aldridge, Bloxwich, Brownhills, Darlaston and Willenhall. Walsall Town Centre is addressed in an Area Action Plan (AAP) that has been produced in parallel with the SAD. Walsall’s UDP will continue to cover the District Centres until plans are produced for them in the future. Map 1.1: Area Covered by Walsall SAD 1.2 Preparation of the SAD The preparation of the SAD involved several stages: a) In 2013 the Council consulted on an Issues and Options stage. This set out the issues it thought the SAD would need to address, and possible approaches to addressing those issues. The work drew on a range of different sites that the Council and other parties, including landowners and developers, thought might be suitable for development. 1 The Black Country Core Strategy and Walsall’s UDP, with annotations to identify the ‘saved’ policies, and Walsall’s Supplementary Planning Documents are on the Council’s website. 2 Walsall Site Allocation Document 2019 b) Preferred Options (PO) were published for consultation in Autumn 2015. The PO included sites that the Council thought ought to be allocated for development, as well as assets that ought to be protected. It also highlighted constraints that could potentially prevent or limit development in particular locations. c) The Publication Plan was the final draft of the document and was the version intended for submission to the Secretary of State. Consultation took place in Spring 2016. d) In response to issues arising from the Publication Plan consultation, the Council proposed a number of Pre-Submission Modifications. These were the subject of consultation before the Council agreed in April 2017 to submit the plan for public examination by a Planning Inspector appointed by the Secretary of State. The examination of the plan took place in September 2017. Following the examination, the Inspector recommended that various changes should be made to ensure the SAD was sound. These have now been incorporated into the plan. Consultation about these post- examination modifications took place in Spring 2018, prior to the inspector issuing his report. in November 2018. The Inspector’s Report was published by the Council in November 2018 and can be seen on the Council’s website. The Council adopted the plan in January 2019. 1.3 How the SAD relates to other planning documents The role of the SAD is to provide policies relating to the allocation of land for development,
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