Site Specific Part 2 Local Plan Submission Plan May 2020 Contents 1 Introduction 4 2 Spatial Portrait, Vision and Outcomes 8 Spatial Portrait of Kettering Borough 8 Vision 10 Outcomes 12 3 Location of Development 23 Spatial Strategy 23 Scale of Development 23 Settlement Boundaries 23 4 Housing 25 Housing Requirements and Allocations 25 Housing Trajectory 27 Windfall and Infill Development: Principles of Delivery 27 Housing Mix and Tenure 28 Self-Build and Custom Build Housing 31 5 Employment 34 Existing Employment Areas 35 Employment Allocations 39 Live/Work Units 40 6 Town Centres 41 Town Centre Boundaries 41 Rothwell/ Desborough Medium Sized Food Store 42 Markets 42 Opportunity Sites and Environmental Improvements 43 Residential Development within Town Centres 43 Location and Scale of Town Centre Uses 44 Protection of Local Centres 46 7 Health and Well-being and Community Facilities 48 8 Natural Environment and Heritage 57 Flood Risk and Sustainable Water Management 57 Natural Capital and Green Infrastructure 60 Site Specific Part 2 Local Plan - Submission Plan Site Specific Part 2 Local Plan - Submission Plan Contents Heritage 66 Local Green Space 69 Open Space 71 9 Kettering and Barton Seagrave 74 Housing Site Policies 74 Employment Site Policies 87 10 Burton Latimer 88 Town Centre Policies 88 Housing Site Policies 91 Employment Site Policies 95 11 Desborough 96 Town Centre Policies 96 Housing Site Policies 99 Employment Site Policies 102 12 Rothwell 104 Town Centre Policies 104 Housing Site Policies 107 Employment Site Policies 108 13 Rural Area General Policies 110 The Role of Villages 110 Village Categories 111 Development in the Open Countryside 115 Rural Area Development Principles 117 Ashley 118 Braybrooke 120 Broughton 122 Cranford 123 Geddington 127 Grafton Underwood 134 Great Cransley 135 Harrington 138 Site Specific Part 2 Local Plan - Submission Plan Site Specific Part 2 Local Plan - Submission Plan Contents Little Oakley 139 Loddington 141 Mawsley 143 Newton 146 Pytchley 147 Rushton 149 Stoke Albany 150 Sutton Bassett 153 Thorpe Malsor 154 Warkton 155 Weekley 157 Weston by Welland 158 Wilbarston 161 14 Infrastructure 163 15 Monitoring and Review 164 16 Appendix 1 - Housing Trajectory 184 17 Appendix 2 - Superseded Policies 186 18 Appendix 3 - Policies Maps 188 19 Appendix 4 - Infrastructure Delivery Schedule 218 20 Appendix 5 - Glossary 226 Site Specific Part 2 Local Plan - Submission Plan Site Specific Part 2 Local Plan - Submission Plan Introduction 1 Introduction Purpose and Content of this Plan 1.1 The Site Specific Part 2 Local Plan (SSP2) will provide planning policies to guide future development in Kettering Borough. The SSP2 is the Part 2 Local Plan which develops in more detail the strategy outlined in the North Northamptonshire Joint Core Strategy (JCS), which is the strategic Part 1 Local Plan. The North Northamptonshire Joint Core Strategy was adopted in July 2016. This document is available on the North Northamptonshire Joint Planning and Delivery Unit website at www.nnjpdu.org.uk . 1.2 The JCS deals with strategic issues and covers the whole of North Northamptonshire. The JCS sets out the overall spatial strategy, the level of growth required and the distribution of growth. It also allocates strategic sites and sets out strategic policies, place shaping requirements, and development management policies. 1.3 The SSP2 will allocate non-strategic sites to meet requirements in the JCS and will provide detailed local policies for Kettering Borough. The SSP2 will not replicate policies included in the JCS but will provide more local detail specific to Kettering Borough. 1.4 The SSP2 will cover the period 2011-2031. The SSP2 covers the whole of Kettering Borough, however it will not address issues covered in the JCS, the Kettering Town Centre Area Action Plan, or the Broughton Neighbourhood Plan. The allocation of gypsy and traveller accommodation which will be progressed through a standalone Development Plan Ddocument (DPD). In addition to this standalone DPD, Policy 31 of the JCS sets out criteria to be applied to planning application for gypsy and traveller accommodation. The diagram below shows the documents that will form part of the development plan for the area. 1.5 The SSP2 will replace saved policies from the Local Plan for Kettering Borough, adopted January 1995. A list of policies which will be replaced is attached at appendix 2. Site Specific Part 2 Local Plan - Submission Plan Site Specific Part 2 Local Plan - Submission 4 Plan Introduction Process and Timetable 1.6 This document has been prepared in accordance with Government guidance and regulations. The following table sets out the key stages in preparing the document along with a timetable for preparation. Table 1.1 Stage in Production Timescale Background work, evidence gathering June 2008 to February 2009 Issues Consultation (identifying the scope of April 2008 the plan - Regulation 18 consultation) Development of options April 2009 to February 2012 Options consultation March to May 2012 Housing Allocations and Assessment of October to December 2013 Additional Sites and Update consultation Draft Plan consultation June to July 2018 Publication Plan Consultation (Regulation 19) December 2019 Submission to the Secretary of State - April 2020 CURRENT STAGE Examination in public July 2020 Adoption December 2020 1.7 Regulation 19 of the Local Plan Regulations 2012 (as amended) requires that before submitting a plan to the Secretary of State, the local planning authority must make a copy of the proposed submission documents available for inspection. Any person may make representations to the local planning authority about the local plan which the local authority propose to submit to the Secretary of State. Representations received will be sent to the Secretary of State when the plan is submitted. 1.8 The Site Specific Part 2 Local Plan - Publication Plan is the plan that the local planning authority intends to submit to the Secretary of State. Context for the Plan 1.9 The SSP2 must be consistent with national policy and should be prepared with the objective of contributing to sustainable development. National Planning Policy is set out in the National Planning Policy Framework (see glossary). When the SSP2 is examined the examination will consider whether the plan has been prepared in accordance with legal and procedural requirements, and whether the plan is sound. To be considered sound a plan must be: Positively prepared - providing a strategy which, as a minimum, seeks to meet the area's objectively assessed needs, and informed by agreements with other authorities, so that Site Specific Part 2 Local Plan - Submission Plan Site Specific Part 2 Local Plan - Submission 5 Plan Introduction unmet need from neighbouring areas is accommodated where it is practical to do so and is consistent with achieving sustainable development; Justified - an appropriate strategy, taking into account the reasonable alternatives, and based on proportionate evidence; Effective - deliverable over the plan period, and based on effective joint working on cross-boundary strategic matters that have been dealt with rather than deferred, as evidenced by the statement of common ground; and Consistent with national policy - enabling the delivery of sustainable development in accordance with the policies in the Framework. 1.10 Paragraph 36 of the NPPF highlights the tests of soundness will be applied to non-strategic policies in a proportionate way, taking into account the extent to which they are consistent with relevant strategic policies for the area. Evidence Base 1.11 Paragraph 31 of the NPPF requires that policies should be underpinned by relevant and up-to-date evidence. This evidence should be adequate and proportionate and focused on supporting and justifying the policies concerned. The SSP2 is supported by a robust evidence base which has been used to inform policies and proposals in the plan. The SSP2 is accompanied by a series of background papers and studies which provide background and evidence to the policies and proposals included in the plan. These background papers and studies are available to view on the Council's website at www.kettering.gov.uk/homepage/16/planning_policy_a_to_z. Duty to Cooperate 1.12 The Localism Act 2011 amended the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 to introduce the Duty to Cooperate. This places a legal duty on local authorities, county councils and public bodies to engage constructively, actively and on an on-going basis to maximise the effectiveness of Local and Marine Plan preparation in the context of strategic cross boundary matters. 1.13 Sections 24 to 27 of the NPPF set out the approach local authorities should take to planning strategically across local boundaries. Paragraph 25 requires that strategic policy-making authorities should collaborate to identify relevant matters which they need to address in their plans. In order to demonstrate effective and on-going joint working, paragraph 27 requires strategic policy-making authorities to prepare and maintain statements of common ground which document the cross-boundary matters being addressed and progress made in cooperating to address these. 1.14 Strategic matters are dealt with through the JCS, the SSP2 deals with more detailed local matters. The Council works closely with other local authorities and partners in the North Northamptonshire area through the existing joint working arrangements. This has included through the preparation of the JCS and through the