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Our Plan’, a New Strategic Plan for West Devon Shaping our communities to 2031 Regulation 19 Publication Version February 2015 West Devon - A Leading Rural Council Foreword Welcome to ‘Our Plan’, a new strategic plan for West Devon. Whilst the Core Strategy was a plan for future growth and development to take us from 2006 to 2026, since it was written planning policy has undergone some significant changes as set out in the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) and we need to ensure our plans are fit for purpose and in conformity with this national policy. This new plan also has to cover a wider range of issues that go beyond traditional planning policy and it makes more sense to write a new plan rather than try and amend the existing ones. Therefore, ‘Our Plan’ will be the overarching strategic plan for the Borough of West Devon up to 2031. Developing a new plan is always challenging and it is often controversial with different sectors and individuals in our communities understandably seeing things from their own view point. However, we need to remember that we are planning for the communities of tomorrow not just for ourselves today. What we do now will have a significant impact on how people live their lives in West Devon in the future. Our biggest challenge is enabling growth and providing much needed homes and jobs whilst, at the same time, protecting the beautiful place that is West Devon - no mean feat as I’m sure you can appreciate. To do this we have gathered and considered evidence about local need and the views and comments shared by you and a wide range of partners during the process have helped us to shape a plan that we believe takes account of local needs and aspirations. Engaging with communities, stakeholders and partners has been a major part of developing the plan and we have used a mixture of the modern such as social media, twitter, e-newsletters, and the traditional to do so. We are pleased that so many people have chosen to be involved and we hope this will continue as planning never stays still and there are always more opportunities to engage, especially if your area is considering developing a Neighbourhood Plan. We hope you will agree that this plan offers a balanced approach to growth in West Devon and planning ahead for the future of this very special place. Philip Sanders, Leader, West Devon Borough Council 2 Mid Devon Hatherleigh A3072 North Tawton A3072 A386 Torridge RiverTaw A3124 River Okement A3079 A30 Okehampton A382 River Lyd Lifton Dartmoor A386 National Park River Tamar Tamar Teignbridge Valley B3357 B3212 AONB Tavistock Cornwall Bere Alston River Tavy South Hams Plymouth Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2015 Our Borough The area Our Plan will cover 3 Contents 1. Introduction 8 What is Our Plan? ................................................................................................................................................8 What will Our Plan cover? ..................................................................................................................................9 How will we measure and review Our Plan? ................................................................................................10 2. Our Partners 11 Larger than Local Issues ..................................................................................................................................11 3. Our Vision and Objectives 13 Vision for West Devon .....................................................................................................................................13 Plan Objectives .................................................................................................................................................14 Our Wellbeing ....................................................................................................................................................14 Our Communities ..............................................................................................................................................14 Our Homes ..........................................................................................................................................................14 Our Economy ......................................................................................................................................................14 Our Infrastructure .............................................................................................................................................15 Our Environment ...............................................................................................................................................15 Our Heritage ......................................................................................................................................................15 Our Resources ....................................................................................................................................................15 4. Our Wellbeing 16 Objectives ...........................................................................................................................................................16 Policy OP1: Wellbeing ............................................................................................................................18 5. Our Communities 19 Objectives ...........................................................................................................................................................19 Sustainable West Devon ..................................................................................................................................20 Policy OP2: Sustainable Development ...............................................................................................21 Meeting our Future Development Needs ....................................................................................................22 Distributing Development throughout the Borough ...............................................................................23 Policy OP3: Meeting Future Development Needs ...........................................................................23 Policy OP4: Borough Wide Development Strategy .........................................................................25 A. Setting Minimum Planned Requirements for Housing ........................................................................26 Table 1: Housing Commitments as of 1st April 2014 .................................................................................26 Policy OP5: Minimum Planned Requirements ..................................................................................27 Table 2: Minimum Planned Requirements ...................................................................................................28 Existing Allocations ..........................................................................................................................................29 4 Okehampton ......................................................................................................................................................30 ED2 and SP22B - Employment Land to the East of Okehampton...........................................................30 Policy OP6: East of Okehampton Strategic Employment Site .....................................................31 SP22A - Residential Development to the East of Okehampton .............................................................32 Policy OP7: East of Okehampton Strategic Housing Site...............................................................33 Tavistock ..............................................................................................................................................................34 SP23A Land at Callington Road and SP23B Land at Plymouth Road.....................................................34 Policy OP8: Area of Employment Opportunity - Land at Plymouth Road, Tavistock ..............35 Policy OP9: Land at Callington Road Strategic Housing Site ........................................................36 ED4 - Pixon Lane ................................................................................................................................................37 Policy OP10: Area of Employment Opportunity, Land at Pixon Lane, Tavistock ................................................................................................................37 Bere Alston .........................................................................................................................................................38 ED5 - Land at the Station, Bere Alston .........................................................................................................38 Policy OP11: Area of Employment Opportunity - The Station, Bere Alston ..............................38 Hatherleigh .........................................................................................................................................................39 ED6, ED7, ED8 Holsworthy Road, Hatherleigh ............................................................................................39 ED9 Hatherleigh Market ..................................................................................................................................39 Policy OP12: Area of Employment Opportunity - Hatchmoor .....................................................39 North Tawton .....................................................................................................................................................40
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