Bracknell Forest Borough Local Plan
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Foreword Bracknell Forest Borough Council is committed to working with the local community and ensuring that the Borough is a place where people want to live, learn, play and work. This local plan will help contribute to that vision and seeks to balance the protection of the Borough’s environment against our future development needs. The Borough Council is facing the difficult task of trying to reconcile these needs whilst sustaining the local economy, enhancing the urban and rural environment, and protecting our quality of life in general. This local plan is the product of hard work and real commitment from all in the community to deliver a sustainable future for Bracknell Forest and I commend it to all involved in the shaping the environment of the Borough. Councillor Mrs Mary Ballin Executive Member for Planning &Transportation Bracknell Forest Borough Council Bracknell Forest Local Plan 2002 Bracknell Forest Local Plan 2002 Contents Foreword......................................................................2 POLICY EN15 Floodlighting ................................32 Chapter 1 ....................................................................3 POLICY EN16 Demolition of listed buildings.....33 About the Plan ...........................................................3 POLICY EN17 Development proposals including The geographical context of the plan area..............3 the alteration, extension, or change of use of The Policy context of the plan..................................4 listed buildings .....................................................34 Local plan strategy....................................................7 POLICY EN18 Conservation areas......................35 The form of the document ........................................8 POLICY EN19 Demolition in conservation areas 35 Chapter 2 ..................................................................14 POLICY EN20 Design considerations in new Built and Natural Environment...........................14 development 37 Issues and approach...............................................14 POLICY EN21 Crime and Design REPLACED BY Objectives ................................................................18 CS7 - DESIGN.......................................................41 Policies .....................................................................19 POLICY EN22 Designing for accessibility .........42 POLICY EN1 Protecting tree and hedgerow POLICY EN23 Advertisements ............................42 cover 19 POLICY EN24 Public Art REPLACED BY CS7 - POLICY EN2 Supplementing tree and hedgerow DESIGN .......................................................43 cover 20 POLICY EN25 Noise and other pollution............44 POLICY EN3 Nature conservation ....................21 POLICY EN26 Energy..........................................45 POLICY EN4 Local Nature Reserves, Wildlife Schedule of relevant Berkshire Structure Plan Heritage Sites and ................................................22 policies .......................................................46 Regionally Important Geological sites ...............22 POLICY EN5 Agricultural land...........................23 Chapter 3..................................................................47 POLICY EN6 Ancient monuments and Economy ..................................................................47 archaeological remains of national importance 23 Issues and approach...............................................47 POLICY EN7 Other important archaeological Objectives: ...............................................................50 remains 24 Policies.....................................................................51 POLICY EN8 Development on land outside POLICY E1 Development in Bracknell Town settlements 25 Centre ...............................................51 POLICY EN9 Changes of use and adaptation of POLICY E2 Development in defined employment existing non-residential buildings outside areas REPLACED BY CS20 – NEW settlements, outside the Green Belt ...................27 DEVELOPMENT IN EMPLOYMENT AREAS........54 POLICY EN10 Areas of landscape importance...... POLICY E3 Employment development on land .......................................................29 within settlement boundaries but outside ............. POLICY EN11 Warfield Park Mobile Home Site ..... defined employment areas and Bracknell Town .......................................................30 Centre REPLACED BY CS19 - LOCATION OF POLICY EN12 Historic parks and gardens ........31 EMPLOYMENT DEVELOPMENT..........................55 POLICY EN13 Water quality REPLACED BY CS1 - POLICY E4 Small businesses........................56 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PRINCIPLES ...31 POLICY E5 Hierarchy of shopping centres ..56 POLICY EN14 River corridors .............................32 POLICY E6 Shopping REPLACED BY CS21 - TOWN CENTRES AND CS22 - OUT OF TOWN CENTRE RETAIL DEVELOPMENT ......................58 Bracknell Forest Local Plan 2002 POLICY E7 Business development in shopping POLICY H7 Dwelling types REPLACED BY areas..................................................61 CS16 – HOUSING NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY ... POLICY E8 Change of use of shop units (A1) to .....................................................101 other uses outside defined shopping centres ...62 POLICY H8 Affordable Housing....................102 POLICY E9 Non Retail uses in Bracknell Town POLICY H9 Non-static housing.......................104 Centre primary shopping area and the retail core POLICY H10 Site briefing ................................104 area of Crowthorne...............................................62 POLICY H11 Retention of the housing stock 105 POLICY E10 Non-retail uses in Bracknell Town POLICY H12 Enclosure of open land in Centre secondary shopping area, Crowthorne residential areas .................................................106 retail area outside the retail core area and POLICY H13 Subordinate accommodation for Sandhurst Centre..................................................65 elderly or infirm relatives...................................107 (west of Swan Lane). ............................................65 POLICY H14 Accessible housing ...................108 POLICY E11 Village and neighbourhood centres and local parades .................................................68 Chapter 6................................................................110 POLICY E12 Identified major employment sites Movement...............................................................110 REPLACED BY SA4 – LAND AT BROADMOOR, Issues and approach.............................................110 CROWTHORNE AND SA5 – LAND AT Policies...................................................................114 TRANSPORT RESEARCH LABORATORY, POLICY M1 Traffic management and highway CROWTHORNE .....................................................69 schemes .....................................................114 Schedule of relevant Berkshire Structure Plan POLICY M2 Safeguarded road line ..................... policies .....................................................................71 Extension of the northern distributor road ......115 POLICY M3 Protected road lines .................115 Chapter 4 ..................................................................72 Sandhurst – Crowthorne bypass road scheme115 Green Belt ................................................................72 POLICY M4 Highway measures expected in Issues and approach...............................................72 association with new development ..................116 Objectives: ...............................................................75 POLICY M5 Service road schemes ..............117 POLICY GB1 Building in the Green Belt ...........76 POLICY M6 Cycling and walking .................117 POLICY GB2 Changes of use of land within the POLICY M7 Access for people with disabilities Green Belt .......................................................80 .....................................................118 POLICY GB3 Residential development within POLICY M8 Public transport............................118 Green Belt Villages...............................................82 POLICY M9 Vehicle and cycle parking ........120 POLICY GB4 Re-use and change of use of POLICY M10 Parking for countryside recreation buildings within the Green Belt...........................84 .....................................................121 POLICY GB5 Syngenta – a major developed site within the Green Belt............................................87 Chapter 7................................................................123 Schedule of relevant Berkshire Structure Plan Recreation, Leisure and Tourism ........................123 policies .....................................................................88 Issues and approach.............................................123 Objective: ...............................................................125 Chapter 5 ..................................................................89 Policies...................................................................126 Housing ....................................................................89 POLICY R1 Loss of open space of public value Issues and approach...............................................89 REPLACED BY CS8 – RECREATION AND Objectives: ...............................................................93 CULTURE .....................................................126 POLICY H1 New residential development POLICY R2 Urban