Local Plan 2037 Infrastructure Delivery Plan 2020
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INFRASTRUCTURE DELIVERY PLAN September 2020 2 Contents 1. Introduction ........................................................................................................ 1 2. Policy Background ............................................................................................. 3 3. Methodology ...................................................................................................... 9 4. Infrastructure Themes and Existing Situation .................................................. 11 5. Baseline Conclusions and Influencing Factors .............................................. 115 6. Local Plan Strategy ........................................................................................ 118 7. Infrastructure Requirements of Allocated Sites .............................................. 120 8. Monitoring and Review .................................................................................. 131 Appendix 1 – Consultation pro-forma ..................................................................... 132 Page intentionally left blank 0 1. Introduction Purpose 1.1 Understanding the infrastructure needs of the Borough and ensuring its timely provision to support new development, is vital to ensure that undue pressure is not placed on existing infrastructure, facilities and services or residents and their local communities. 1.2 This Infrastructure Delivery Plan (IDP) provides an assessment of current infrastructure across the Borough as a whole (excluding the new garden village at Welborne as shown in Figure 1). Assessing the existing situation and understanding what commitments, investments and improvement plans are in the pipeline of infrastructure providers, has aided the council when it considers which sites to include in its the revised Development Strategy for the Local Plan. Existing capacity issues or ‘show-stopping’ constraints have influenced the choice of site allocations within the Plan. Figure 1: Areas covered by the Infrastructure Delivery Plan 1.3 The IDP is one of several evidence documents that help the council to determine the way forward for delivering a sustainability-led Local Plan. It will be regularly reviewed to reflect any changes in circumstances regarding the requirement for infrastructure, as well as consultation responses from infrastructure providers. It forms an integral part of the evidence base supporting the Fareham Local Plan and meets part of the requirement for delivery strategies to accompany the production of local plans as set out in the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) and Planning Practice Guidance. More about the policy context is set out in the following section. 1 1.4 The IDP sets out the types of infrastructure - facilities, installations and services (covered in Chapter 2) needed to ensure that the development strategy being planned, can be delivered and support the new and expanding communities. The infrastructure requirements identified herein, will form part of the final allocation policy for each site and will play a key role in ensuring that developer contributions can be sought at the planning application stage. The IDP also plays an important role in setting the Community Infrastructure Levy charge through any future reviews of the Charging Schedule. The information gathered on infrastructure costs associated with development sites will feed into the development site viability work that forms the basis for that review. 1.5 Planning for infrastructure is important to ensure that new development contributes to the provision of infrastructure and services and ensures that new development is acceptable in planning terms. The IDP enables the council to show that the Local Plan has been prepared positively, has been shaped by early engagement and ultimately can be considered sound. Chapter 2 sets out the policy background against which this IDP has been prepared, and Chapter 3 sets out the methodology for how the issues have been identified and the sources of information used. Chapter 4 sets out the ‘baseline’ thematically, using a template format, detailing the various types of infrastructure, who provides it, what the existing position is and highlights any known planned provision. Chapter 5 provides some analysis and conclusions based on the ‘baseline’ position. Chapter 6 sets out the proposed Local Plan Strategy including proposed allocations. Finally, Chapter 7 sets out the detailed infrastructure requirements identified by infrastructure providers in response to the proposed delivery strategy for housing and employment growth, and sets out what the projects are, who will implement them and when, and what they will cost. Chapters 1 to 6 are the subject of consultation as part of the Draft Plan Regulation 18 stage, and Chapter 7 will be added as part of the Publication Plan Regulation 19 consultation stage. 1.6 Ongoing engagement with infrastructure and service providers is key to ensure that the requirements of the development strategy are fed through the Local Plan and represented in housing and employment allocation policies. The council will therefore continue to liaise with infrastructure and services providers moving forward throughout the Local Plan process. The council will also work with providers to review the perceived priority of required infrastructure, identifying that which is considered critical is prioritised over other requirements that are important and desirable. 1.7 As the IDP has been prepared to inform and support the Local Plan it has been consulted on and updated as part of the ongoing Local Plan preparation process. It is a live document that can be updated through active monitoring to inform decisions. It may therefore be updated to draw upon the annual monitoring and review process to provide more accurate costs, priorities and needs, and take account of the infrastructure that has been provided as the implementation of the Local Plan takes place. 2 2. Policy Background National Context 2.1 The National Planning Policy Framework (2019), sets out the planning policy framework for local planning authorities to follow both when making plans and when determining planning applications. Paragraph 8 refers to the three dimensions to sustainable development: economic; social; and environmental. The economic role for planning includes, ‘…and by identifying and coordinating the provision of infrastructure’. 2.2 Paragraph 16 recognises the importance of timely liaison with the infrastructure and service providers during the plan making process. It states that: ‘Plans should: c) be shaped by early, proportionate and effective engagement between plan makers and … infrastructure providers and operators …’ Paragraph 25 also refers to engagement with infrastructure and service? providers. 2.3 Whilst Infrastructure Delivery Plans are not explicitly required in either the NPPF or its accompanying Guidance documents, paragraph 20 states that: ‘Strategic policies should set out an overall strategy for the pattern, scale and quality of development, and make sufficient provision for: b) infrastructure for transport, telecommunications, security, waste management, water supply, wastewater, flood risk and coastal change management, and the provision of minerals and energy (including heat); c) community facilities (such as health, education and cultural infrastructure; and d) …green infrastructure….” IDPs are therefore considered a useful and influential tool for infrastructure planning alongside the Local Plan. 2.4 Paragraph 34 of the NPPF sets out the link to developer contributions. It states that: “Plans should set out the contributions expected from development. This should include setting out the levels and types of affordable housing provision required, along with other infrastructure (such as that needed for education, health, transport, flood and water management, green and digital infrastructure). Such policies should not undermine the deliverability of the plan”. The detail of the IDP will therefore inform the Local Plan Viability Study, and the CIL Charging Schedule review by identifying the infrastructure costs associated with development sites in the borough. 2.5 The Planning Practice Guidance (PPG) requires charging authorities to identify the total cost of infrastructure they wish to fund wholly or partly through the levy. In doing so, they must consider what additional infrastructure is needed in their area to support development, and what other sources of funding are available, based on appropriate evidence. The guidance states that the information on the charging authority area’s infrastructure needs should be drawn from the infrastructure assessment that was undertaken when preparing the Local plan and their CIL charging schedules. The IDP is that infrastructure assessment. Local Plan Context 2.6 The Local Plan sets out the development strategy to meet the housing and employment needs for the Borough. The retention, provision of, and timely delivery of new infrastructure is fundamental to the delivery of the Plan. Proposed policies, development 3 allocations and supporting text will make specific references to infrastructure requirements. 2.7 This IDP supports Local Plan Policy TIN1 to TIN4 in providing the framework and evidence for securing infrastructure provision and how development proposals will be required to provide and contribute towards new or improved infrastructure. As previously noted, the NPPF requires Local Plans to set out the specific infrastructure requirements for proposed allocations.