Gypsy, Traveller and Travelling Showpeople Accommodation Needs - Call for Sites 2015

Harborough District Council

Site Suggestion Form

As part of the Local Plan Options Consultation, Harborough District Council is currently seeking additional sites for consideration in its Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (SHLAA) update.

Only potential sites to meet the accommodation needs of gypsies, travellers and travelling showpeople are sought.

Please use this form to suggest any sites within the identified areas of search (outlined within the accompanying Guidance Notes) that you would like to be considered as part of the assessment.

The site assessments will form an essential part of the technical evidence base for the New Local Plan and will be used to help demonstrate the Council’s Five Year Gypsy and Traveller Housing Land Supply position and the potential supply over the next 6 to 10 and 11 to 15 years.

Next steps

This form must be used to provide information on sites suggested for inclusion in:

1. The Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (SHLAA) 2015 Update, specifically to update the land supply forecast for Gypsy and Traveller and Travelling Showpeople sites

Sites gathered at this stage have no statutory status they are submitted as evidence to determine supply levels only.

The response forms and the information within them will be made available to the public. By responding you are accepting that your response and the information within it will be made available to the public. Anonymous proposals cannot be accepted, as we will need to be able to contact you in the future.

1 Site Submission Checklist

For your site to be considered further, please ensure that you have completed the following steps: a) Read the accompanying guidance notes; b) Completed a new form for each site submitted; c) Answered all the questions so as to aid the assessment of your site; and d) Provided a separate site plan identifying the land suggested for each site at a scale of 1:1250.

Please note that is it very important that you answer all the questions as comprehensively as possible so that your site can be accurately assessed. Failure to provide the requested information could mean that your site will be excluded from consideration.

Completed forms should be submitted to the following address no later than 5pm on 30th October 2015.

By email: [email protected]

By post: Strategic Planning Team Harborough District Council The Symington Building Adam and Eve Street Market Harborough Leicestershire LE16 7AG

2 A) Contact Details

1 Full Name:

2 Company (if relevant):

3 Position (if relevant):

4 On behalf of (if relevant): (please supply name and address of landowner(s) at Question 28)

5 Address:

4. 6 Post Code:

7 Telephone Number:

8 Email address:

9 Please tick the most appropriate Owner of the site Land Agent position(s): Planning Developer Consultant Registered Social Local Builder Landlord Other

B) Site Details 10 Site Address/Location:

11 SHLAA Reference (if applicable):

12 Total Site Area (hectares):

13 Site Area Available for Gypsy, Traveller and Travelling Showpeople use (hectares): 14 Current Site Use(s):

3 15 Adjacent Use(s):

16 Type of Site: (Greenfield or Previously Developed)

17 Site Accessibility:

17a What is the speed limit on the road where access is proposed?

17b Does the site have access to the highway? Please name the highway.

17c Is there a proposed access point to the site? Please specify

17d Does the site have access by walking and cycling to services such as buses with an hourly service frequency, shops, schools etc. and what are the walking distances from the centre of the site to such services? Please give distances in metres.

17e Are there any existing highway problems in the vicinity of the site that you are aware of that the planning authority should be made aware of?

18 Relevant Planning History: (if known please include reference to any relevant planning applications)

4 C) Proposed Future Uses and Capacity Potential capacity Yes Please Specify Proposed (please supply information on the number of and, (Please Use type of gypsy and traveller pitches1, or travelling tick) showpeople plots2) 19 Residential – to meet Gypsy, Traveller and Travelling Showpeople accommodation needs to 2031

D) Site Ownership and Availability 20 Are you the sole owner of the site? (If Yes please go to Yes No Question 29)

21 Are you part owner of the site? Yes No

22 Are you acting on behalf of the landowner? Yes No

If you are not the owner or only own part of the site, please provide details of who owns the site or who owns the remainder of the site (including the number of joint owners). 23

24 Does the owner (and other owners) support the proposal Yes No for the site? 25 Is there an intention to develop the site for the proposed Yes No use? 26 Is there an intention to sell the site for the proposed use? Yes No 27 Please answer the following (if known): Land in other ownership must be acquired to develop Yes No Restrictive covenants exist Yes No

Current uses need to be relocated Yes No Please provide any further details:

1 Definition of ‘pitch’: Area of land on a gypsy and traveller caravan site developed for a single family (a group of related people who live and/or travel together - assumed to be the basic unit when assessing accommodation requirements). A single pitch will contain a maximum of 2 caravans, as defined in the Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 and the Caravan Sites Act 1968. 2 National Planning Policy Guidance (NPPG) provides the following definition ‘plot’: a pitch on a “travelling showpeople” site (often called a “yard”). This terminology differentiates between residential pitches for “gypsies and travellers” and mixed-use plots for “travelling showpeople”, which may / will need to incorporate space or to be split to allow for the storage of equipment.

5 E) Market Interest

Please choose the most appropriate category below and indicate what level of market interest there is currently, or has recently been, in the site.

28 Please specify: Yes No Comments

Site is owned by a developer

Site is under option to a developer Developer enquiries have been received in the last 10 years

Site is being marketed

Self build interest

Not Known

Other (please specify)

29 In your opinion, could the site become available to accommodate Gypsy, Traveller and Travelling Showpeople within: b) The next 0 to 5 years? Yes No

c) The next 5 to 10 years? Yes No

d) The next 10 to 15 years? Yes No

e) The next 16+ years? Yes No Please provide substantive evidence to support the selected time frame, particularly if 0-5 has been indicated:

6 F) Site Achievability

30 If possible, based on current information please provide an estimate of the number of pitches that could be accommodated on the site, per annum (April 1st to March 31st). Estimated no. of gypsy and traveller Estimated no. of travelling Year pitches showpeople plots 2015/16 2016/17 2017/18 2018/19 2019/20 2020/21 2021/22 2022/23 2023/24 2024/25 2025/26 2026/27 2027/28 2028/29 2029/30 2030/31 2031+ TOTAL

36 Once commenced how many years is it expected to fully occupy the site?

G ) Site Constraints 37 In your opinion, are there any site accessibility factors that could significantly restrict potential delivery on site within: a) The next 0 - 5 years? Yes No

b) The next 6 to 10 years? Yes No

c) The next 11 to 15 years? Yes No

d) The next 16+ years? Yes No Please provide details of how site accessibility has been considered and how any issues can be overcome:

7 38 In your opinion, are there any market factors that could significantly restrict potential delivery on site within: a) The next 0 - 5 years? Yes No

b) The next 6 - 10 years? Yes No

c) The next 11 -15 years? Yes No

d) The next 16+ years? Yes No Market factors include: economic viability of existing, proposed and/or alternative uses, level of potential market demand and projected rate of sales etc.

Please give details of market factor issues have been considered and how any issues can be overcome?

39 In your opinion, are there any cost factors that could significantly restrict potential delivery on site within: a) The next 0 - 5 years? Yes No

b) The next 6 - 10 years? Yes No

c) The next 11 - 15 years? Yes No

d) The next 16+ years? Yes No Cost factors include: site preparation costs relating to any physical constraints, any exceptional works necessary, relevant planning standards or obligations, prospect of funding or investment to address identified constraints etc.

Please give details of how cost factors have been considered and how any identified issues can be overcome?

40 Please supply any other information that may help the assessment of the site.