Purbeck Local Plan Part 1: Planning Purbeck’S Future
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Foreword – ‘Planning Purbeck’s Future’ This Plan sets out the strategy for the delivery of development and supporting infrastructure in Purbeck for the period 2006-2027, in balance with the exceptional landscape and environmental setting. It is the culmination of seven years’ preparation and engagement with the local community. The Plan will help deliver the aspirations of the community as set out in the Purbeck Community Plan and Town and Parish Plans. This is highlighted by the Council’s own Corporate Strategy objectives: Protecting and enhancing the natural environment Meeting the housing needs of local people Improving the local economy and infrastructure Enhancing local communities and involvement Being an efficient and effective council The Plan includes new policies to improve the delivery of affordable housing, with a target of achieving around 780 new affordable homes for local people that will remain affordable in perpetuity. There is also plenty of opportunity for local businesses to expand and create jobs, and policies that will help protect and improve local services and facilities. Traffic congestion, particularly during the summer is a concern, but environmental designations mean that it is extremely difficult for us to build new roads. Much thought has gone into providing a package of measures paid for by the new development that will improve the choice of travel and reduce the reliance upon the car. We would like to thank the local community for contributing to the preparation of this strategy. It may not satisfy everyone’s wishes, but we feel that this plan represents a pragmatic approach to the balance of development and protection of the environment we value so highly. Development undoubtedly brings pressures and difficulties, but it also presents us with opportunities. The challenge for Purbeck District Council is to manage development so that we can meet the needs of present and future generations. Councillor Gary Suttle Leader of the Council Purbeck Local Plan Part 1: Planning Purbeck’s Future Contents 1. The Context for the Purbeck’s Local Plan 1 1.1 Introduction 1 1.2 Purbeck Local Plan – Future Partial Review 3 1.3 Important Considerations 4 1.4 Neighbourhood Plans 5 1.5 Duty to Cooperate 5 2. Characteristics of Purbeck 6 3. Issues and Challenges 13 3.1 How can we? 13 4. Vision and Spatial Objectives 14 4.1 Introduction 14 4.2 Vision for Purbeck 15 4.3 Spatial Objectives 16 5. General Location of Development 17 5.1 Presumption in Favour of Sustainable Development 17 5.2 Development Strategy 18 6. Supply of Housing, Employment and Retail Growth 20 6.1 Housing Land Supply 20 6.2 Character Area Development Potential 21 6.3 Housing Trajectory 21 6.4 Affordable Housing Supply 22 6.5 Employment Land Supply 25 6.6 New Employment Land 28 6.7 Retail Floor Space Supply 29 7. Spatial Distribution of Development 31 7.1 North West Purbeck 31 7.2 South West Purbeck 37 7.3 Central Purbeck 44 7.4 North East Purbeck 53 7.5 South East Purbeck 62 8. Development Policies 70 8.1 Introduction 70 8.2 Countryside 70 8.3 Housing Mix 73 8.4 Affordable Housing 74 8.5 Rural Exception Sites 76 8.6 Gypsies, Travellers and Travelling Show People 78 8.7 The Needs of Different Household Groups 79 8.8 Biodiversity & Geodiversity 79 8.9 Retail Provision 85 8.10 Community Facilities and Services 86 8.11 Green Infrastructure, Recreation and Sports Facilities 87 8.12 Flood Risk 89 8.13 Groundwater Protection 90 8.14 Coastal Erosion 90 8.15 Design 91 8.16 Renewable Energy 93 8.17 Landscape, Historic Environment and Heritage 95 8.18 Employment 97 8.19 Tourist Accommodation and Attractions 98 8.20 Military Needs 99 Purbeck Local Plan Part 1: Planning Purbeck’s Future 8.21 Consultation Zones 100 8.22 Improving Accessibility & Transport 101 9. Implementation and Monitoring 103 Appendix 1: Key Diagram 106 Appendix 2: Abbreviations and Glossary 107 Appendix 3: Monitoring Framework 117 Appendix 4: Changes to Proposals Maps 137 Appendix 5: Guidelines for the establishment of SANG 160 List of Maps Map 1: Purbeck in Context 6 Map 2: Landscape Character Areas of Purbeck 8 Map 3: Nature Map 9 Map 4: Purbeck’s 5 Spatial Areas 11 Map 5: Distribution of Affordable Housing Requests and Proposed Supply by Spatial Area 23 Map 6: Distribution of Housing Supply 2006-2026 25 Map 7: Distribution of Existing Employment Land and Estimated Remaining Availability 27 Map 8: Context in North West Purbeck 33 Map 9: Context in South West Purbeck 40 Map 10: Context in Central Purbeck 46 Map 11: Settlement Extension to Wareham – Land at Worgret Road 49 Map 12: Context in North East Purbeck 54 Map 13: Settlement Extension to Upton – Land at Policeman’s Lane 58 Map 14: Settlement Extension to Lytchett Matravers-Land at Huntick Road 61 Map 15: Context in South East Purbeck 65 Map 16: Affordable Housing Sub Market Areas 75 Map 17: 5km and 400metre Heathland Buffer 82 Map 18: Current Opportunities and Potential in Purbeck for Renewable Energy 94 Purbeck Local Plan Part 1: Planning Purbeck’s Future List of Spatial Objectives and Policies Below is a list of the Purbeck Local Plan Part 1 policies against the most relevant spatial objective that the policy seeks to deliver: Spatial Objective 1: Respect the character and distinctiveness of Purbeck’s settlements and countryside Policy LD: General Location of Development 19 Policy NW: North West Purbeck 35 Policy SW: South West Purbeck 42 Policy CEN: Central Purbeck 48 Policy NE: North East Purbeck 56 Policy SE: South East Purbeck 67 Policy CO: Countryside 71 Spatial Objective 2: Meet as much of Purbeck’s housing needs as is possible Policy HS: Housing Supply 23 Policy AHT: Affordable Housing Tenure 73 Policy AH: Affordable Housing 75 Policy RES: Rural Exception Sites 77 Policy GT: Gypsies, Travellers and Travelling Show People 78 Spatial Objective 3: Conserve and enhance Purbeck’s natural habitat Policy BIO: Biodiversity & Geodiversity 80 Policy DH: Dorset Heaths International Designations 82 Policy PH: Poole Harbour 85 Spatial Objective 4: Support local communities Policy RFS: Retail Floor Space Supply 30 Policy RP: Retail Provision 85 Policy CF: Community Facilities and Services 86 Policy GI: Green Infrastructure, Recreation and Sports Facilities 88 Spatial Objective 5: Reduce vulnerability to climate change and dependence on fossil fuels Policy FR: Flood Risk 89 Policy GP: Groundwater Protection 90 Policy CE: Coastal Erosion 91 Spatial Objective 6: Ensure high quality, sustainable design Policy D: Design 92 Policy REN: Renewable Energy 95 Spatial Objective 7: Conserve and enhance the landscape, historic environment and cultural heritage of the District Policy LHH: Landscape, Historic Environment and Heritage 96 Spatial Objective 8: Promote a prosperous local economy Policy ELS: Employment Land Supply 29 Policy E: Employment 97 Policy TA: Tourist Accommodation and Attractions 98 Policy MOD: Military Needs 99 Policy CZ: Consultation Zones 100 Spatial Objective 9: Provide an integrated transport system and better accessibility to services for everyday needs Policy IAT: Improving Accessibility & Transport 102 Policy ATS: Implementing an Appropriate Transport Strategy for Purbeck 102 Other: Policy SD: Presumption in Favour of Sustainable Development Policy DEV: Development Contributions 104 Purbeck Local Plan Part 1: Planning Purbeck’s Future The Context for the Purbeck’s Local Plan 1.1 Introduction 1.1.1 Part 1 of the Purbeck Local Plan is a District-wide plan, which sets out a long-term vision for the District and establishes strategic policies that will enable the Council and its partners to deliver that vision. Part 1 covers the period 2006-2027. The Council and local communities will prepare subsequent plans to cover more specific areas of the District. These will form further parts of the Purbeck Local Plan as follows: South East Dorset Heathlands DPD Prepared jointly with local authorities in South East Dorset, the plan will provide strategic mitigation measures to implement housing growth up to 2027 that will ensure that there is no adverse effect upon the integrity of European protected sites1. Dorset Gypsy and Traveller Site Allocations Plan Prepared jointly with local authorities in Dorset, the plan will provide a 5, 10 and 15-year supply of gypsy and traveller sites and policies to determine planning applications. Swanage Local Plan Prepared jointly with Swanage Town Council and Swanage Community Partnership, the plan will allocate 200 dwellings on the edge of Swanage and provide new retail growth in the town centre. Purbeck Site Allocations Plan The plan will review designations rolled forward in Part 1 of the Local Plan such as settlement boundaries, town centre boundaries, open spaces and safeguarded employment land. Partial Review The Partial Review will further investigate ways of meeting affordable housing needs in Purbeck (further detail in section 1.2 below). Neighbourhood Plans Prepared by local communities to directly influence new development in their community (further detail in section 1.4 below). The hierarchy of plans is shown diagrammatically below: 1 A term used throughout the Local Plan to simplify the document. It refers to nature conservation sites which are subject to the requirements set out in the Habitats Regulations 2012, e.g. SPA and SAC sites and, as a matter of government policy, Ramsar sites (NPPF para 118) Purbeck Local Plan Part 1: Planning Purbeck’s Future Page 1 1.1.2 The Purbeck Local Plan has to conform to national policy and to prepare a truly ‘spatial’ planning document, the Purbeck Local Plan should take forward the aspirations of the Purbeck Community Plan (June 2009) and other plans and strategies within Purbeck including Town and Parish Plans.