Proposed Submission Settlements and Countryside Local Plan Part 2
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Foreword The Daventry District Settlements and Countryside Local Plan (Part 2) is a key document that will help to shape the future of the District. When this document is adopted, it will sit alongside the West Northamptonshire Joint Core Strategy (Adopted 2014) and made Neighbourhood Development Plans. These will collectively be the basis for helping to guide and shape the development and use of land across the District. This document is therefore very important for helping to shape the future of the District. This document is the Proposed Submission Version, which builds on the Issues and Options and Emerging Draft consultations undertaken in early 2016 and late 2017. We are grateful to everyone who responded to those consultations, your views have been taken into account in preparing this plan. This plan is based on a thorough evidence base which is set out on the Council’s website. Further details of the consultation are set out within the document including how you can respond, it is important to note that comments must relate to legal compliance and the tests of soundness and be made on the prescribed response form. The consultation also includes a series of exhibitions taking place in early September which you are encouraged to attend. Following consultation on this document, the Council will then consider the responses received before submitting the plan, the responses and other supporting information. This will be undertaken by an Inspector appointed by the Secretary of State. Adoption is anticipated to take place in summer 2019. We look forward to your participation. Kind Regards Councillor Alan Chantler Strategic Planning Portfolio Holder and Chair of Local Plan Steering Group Contents Consultation Arrangements .......................................................................................................... 1 CHAPTER 1 – Introduction ............................................................................................................ 3 1.1 Planning context ..................................................................................................................... 3 1.2 How to read this document .................................................................................................... 6 1.3 What is the purpose of this consultation? .............................................................................. 6 1.4 Duty to Cooperate and Statement of Common Ground......................................................... 6 1.5 Sustainability Appraisal and Habitats Regulations Assessment .............................................. 7 1.6 Infrastructure Schedule .......................................................................................................... 9 1.7 Neighbourhood Development Plans and Orders .................................................................... 9 1.8 Presumption in Favour of Sustainable Development ........................................................... 12 CHAPTER 2: Spatial Portrait ........................................................................................................ 13 2.1 Plan Area ............................................................................................................................... 13 2.2 Population ............................................................................................................................. 14 2.3 Housing ................................................................................................................................. 14 2.4 Economy ................................................................................................................................ 15 2.5 Transport ............................................................................................................................... 16 2.6 Built and Natural Environment ............................................................................................. 16 CHAPTER 3: Vision and Objectives .............................................................................................. 18 CHAPTER 4: Daventry District Spatial Strategy ............................................................................ 21 4.1 Daventry District ................................................................................................................... 21 4.2 Daventry Town ...................................................................................................................... 23 CHAPTER 5: Development in the Rural Areas .............................................................................. 25 5.1 Rural Areas ............................................................................................................................ 25 5.2 Settlement Hierarchy ............................................................................................................ 27 5.3 Renovation and Conversion of existing buildings ................................................................. 40 5.4 Open Countryside ................................................................................................................. 41 CHAPTER 6: Meeting the District’s Housing Needs....................................................................... 44 6.1 Daventry Town Housing ........................................................................................................ 44 6.2 Self Build and Custom Housebuilding ................................................................................... 58 6.3 Rural Worker Dwellings ........................................................................................................ 59 6.4 Rural Exception Sites ............................................................................................................. 61 6.5 Meeting Specific Housing Needs ........................................................................................... 62 6.6 Gypsies, Travellers and Travelling Showpeople .................................................................... 68 CHAPTER 7: Vibrant Economy .................................................................................................... 72 7.1 Vibrant Town Centre ............................................................................................................. 72 7.2 Employment .......................................................................................................................... 79 7.3 Regeneration and Renewal ................................................................................................... 90 7.4 Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal (DIRFT) ........................................................... 94 7.5 Rural Economy ...................................................................................................................... 94 CHAPTER 8: Sustainable Transport .............................................................................................. 96 8.1 Walking and Cycling .............................................................................................................. 96 8.2 Lorry Parking ......................................................................................................................... 98 8.3 Northampton Northern Orbital Route and Northampton North West Relief Road ............. 99 CHAPTER 9 - The Built and Natural Environment ....................................................................... 101 9.1 Landscape ........................................................................................................................... 101 9.2 Green Wedge ...................................................................................................................... 107 9.3 Green Infrastructure and Biodiversity ................................................................................ 108 9.4 Daventry Country Park ........................................................................................................ 113 9.5 Historic Environment .......................................................................................................... 114 9.6 Renewable Energies and Low Carbon Development .......................................................... 119 9.7 Design .................................................................................................................................. 122 9.8 Local Flood Risk ................................................................................................................... 124 CHAPTER 10 : Community and Well Being ................................................................................. 127 10.1 Health and Wellbeing.......................................................................................................... 127 10.2 Protecting local retail services and public houses outside Daventry town centre ............. 135 CHAPTER 11: Parish Annex ...................................................................................................... 137 APPENDICES ............................................................................................................................ 139 APPENDIX A - Monitoring Framework ........................................................................................... 139 APPENDIX B – Glossary of terms ..................................................................................................... 157 APPENDIX C- List of Inset Maps – see separate documents ..........................................................