Development Management Policies Part 2 of the Local Plan for the Peak District National Park Publication Version for Consultation October 2016 www.peakdistrict.gov.uk Published October 2016 © Peak District National Park Authority Aldern House, Baslow Road, Bakewell, Derbyshire DE45 1AE Tel: 01629 816200 Fax: 01629 816310 www.peakdistrict.gov.uk This and other Development Plan Documents can be made available in large copy print, audio cassette, Braille or languages other than English. If you require the document in one of these formats please contact: Brian Taylor, Policy Planning Manager, PeakDistrict National Park at the address above, telephone: 01629 816303, or email [email protected] No parts of this report may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, or any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright holders. Designed and produced by the Peak District National Park Authority Design & Photography Team. 01629 816240. All photography © Copyright 2016 PDNPA unless otherwise stated. Development Management Policies Part 2 of the Local Plan for the Peak District National Park Publication Version for Consultation October 2016 www.peakdistrict.gov.uk Development Management Policies Contents List of policies 5 Chapter 1 Introduction 8 Chapter 2 Development Management Practice 13 Chapter 3 Conserving and Enhancing the National Park’s Valued Characteristics 14 Chapter 4 Farming and Economy 44 Chapter 5 Recreation and Tourism 56 Chapter 6 Housing 60 Chapter 7 Shops, services and community facilities 81 Chapter 8 Bakewell 89 Chapter 9 Travel and Transport 91 Chapter 10 Utilities 101 Chapter 11 Minerals and Waste 106 List of Appendices 1. Historic Environment Records contact details at Constituent Authorities 2. Natural Zone Definition 3. List of DS1 Settlements, including which Parish the settlement is in, and which parishes adjoin the parish that the DS1 settlement is in 4. Source list for further information on historic environment 5. Guidance for Preparing a Heritage Statement 6. List of Scheduled Ancient Monuments 7. List of Conservation Areas 8. Proving a housing need 9. Sports England criteria for assessing applications for or affecting sports and community facilities 10. Parking standards 11. Glossary of terms Figures 1. Map of Landscape Character Areas 2. Map of Landscape Character Types 3. Map of Natural Zone 4 Part 2 of the Local Plan for the Peak District National Park List of policies Development management Practice DM1 Presumption of sustainable development in the context of National Park purposes Conserving and enhancing the National Park DMC1 Conservation and enhancement of nationally significant landscapes DMC2 Protecting and managing the Natural Zone DMC3 Siting, design layout and landscaping DMC4 Settlement limits DMC5 Assessing the impact of development on heritage assets and their settings DMC6 Scheduled Monuments DMC7 Listed Buildings DMC8 Conservation Areas DMC9 Registered Parks and Gardens DMC10 Conversion of Heritage Assets DMC11 Safeguarding, recording and enhancing nature conservation interests DMC12 Sites, features or species of wildlife, geological or geomorphological importance DMC13 Protecting trees, woodlands or other landscape features put at risk by development DMC14 Pollution and disturbance DMC15 Contaminated land and unstable land Farming and Economy DME1 Agricultural and forestry operations DME2 Farm diversification DME3 Safeguarding employment sites DME4 Change of use of non-safeguarded, unoccupied or under-occupied employment sites in DS1 settlements DME5 Exceptional B1 uses DME6 Home working DME7 Expansion of existing industrial and business development where it is not ancillary to agricultural business DME8 Design, layout and neighbourliness of employment sites 5 Development Management Policies Recreation and Tourism DMR1 Touring camping and caravan sites DMR2 Holiday occupancy of camping and caravan sites DMR3 Holiday occupancy of self-catering accommodation DMR4 Facilities for keeping and riding horses Housing DMH1 New affordable housing DMH2 First occupation of new affordable housing DMH3 Second and subsequent occupation of affordable housing (The occupancy cascade) DMH4: Essential workers’ dwellings DMH5: Conversion of outbuildings within the curtilages of dwellings to ancillary residential uses DMH6: Re-development of previously developed sites to residential use DMH7: Extensions and alterations DMH8: New outbuildings in the curtilage of dwelling houses DMH9: Replacement dwellings DMH10 Sub-division of dwelling units DMH11: Section 106 agreements Shops, services and community facilities DMS1 Shops, professional services and related activities in Core Strategy named settlements DMS2 Change of use of shops, community services and facilities DMS3 Retail development outside Core Strategy named settlements DMS4 Shop fronts DMS5 Outdoor Advertising DMS6 Safeguarding sites for community facilities DMS7 Retention of community recreation sites or sports facilities 6 Part 2 of the Local Plan for the Peak District National Park Bakewell DMB1 Bakewell Development Boundary Travel and Transport DMT1 Cross-park infrastructure DMT2 Access and Design Criteria DMT3 Railway construction DMT4 Development affecting a public right of way DMT5 Operational parking DMT6 Non-operational parking DMT7 Residential off street parking DMT8 Air transport Utilities DMU1 Development that requires new or upgraded service infrastructure DMU2 New and upgraded utilities services DMU3 Development close to utility installations DMU4 Telecommunications infrastructure DMU5 Restoration of utility and telecommunications infrastructure sites Minerals and waste DMMW1 The justification for minerals and waste development DMMW2 The impact of minerals and waste development on amenity DMMW3 The impact of minerals and waste development on the environment DMMW4 Waste management facilities DMMW5 Restoration and aftercare DMMW6 The cumulative effect of mineral and waste development DMMW7 Safeguarding building and roofing stone DMMW8 Ancillary mineral development 7 Development Management Policies 1 Introduction 1.1 This is the Development Management Policies Assessment (SEA),4 ensures that social and Document for the Peak District National Park. environmental factors are given proper weight It contains a written statement of policies in plan making decisions. for the positive management and control of 1.5 Development Management Policies build on the development and the use of land1. strategic principles set out in the Core Strategy 1.2 This introduction explains: Development Plan Document (Core Strategy), adopted in October 2011. The Core Strategy • the policy background sets out the spatial planning framework for the • understanding the statutory purposes and National Park over a 20 year horizon. It is the the attendant duty of the National Park Core Strategy that decides basic directions and policies, taking into account key local issues • the purpose of the Development and trends, Government policy and the policies Management Policies Document of neighbouring authorities. • the relationship to the National Park 1.6 The Government published the National Management Plan Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) in March • how to use the following chapters 2012. It explains that national policy does not change the statutory status of the development • the presumption in favour of sustainable plan. Planning law requires that applications development in the context of National for planning permission must be determined in Park purposes. accordance with the development plan unless • securing planning benefits material considerations indicate otherwise. The NPPF is a material consideration in itself and sets out the Government’s planning policies and how these should be applied. The NPPF Policy Background recognises that plans and decisions need to take local circumstances into account so that 1.3 The Peak District National Park is classified as a they respond to the different opportunities ‘Category V Protected Area’ in the International for achieving sustainable development. It Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World also explains that ‘Planning policies and Commission on Protected Areas classification decisions must reflect and where appropriate system. The definition of a Category V area is: promote relevant EU obligations and statutory requirements’.5 An area of land… where the interaction of people and nature over time has produced 1.7 Forward planning by National Park an area of distinct character with significant Authorities is very different to other normal aesthetic, ecological and/or cultural value, local authorities who must ‘ensure choice 6 and often with high biological diversity. and competition in the market for land’ . Safeguarding the integrity of this traditional Development management in National Parks, interaction is vital to the protection, which ‘have the highest status of protection 7 maintenance and evolution of such an area.2 in relation to landscape and scenic beauty’ , is conservation led, rather than market led. 1.4 International Directives also drive planning Paragraph 115 of the NPPF refers to further matters in the National Park. The EC Habitats guidance and information about the statutory Directive3 gives protection to a range of purposes of National Parks provided through important habitats and species, and the the English National Parks and the Broads: UK European Directive on Strategic