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| y t i l a u Q East Ayrshire Local Plan 2010 Key to Settlement Maps Contents

Settlement Boundary Settlement and Rural Area Development Opportunities Policy Number: IND 4; RES 3, 4; RTC 3 1 The Local Plan Area 4 The Local Plan Maps 5 Town Centre Boundary Policy Number: RTC 2, 4, 5, & 12 2 Settlement Maps Proposal 6 11 Housing Opportunity Burnside 11 Policy Number: RES 1 15 Coalhall 19 Miscellaneous Opportunity 19 Crookedholm 22 Business & Industry Opportunity 24 Policy Number: IND 3 (Including , Skerrington & Craigens) 28 & Burnton 34 Open Space Dalrymple 39 Policy Number: CS 6, 7 & 8 & Priestland 42 47 Conservation Area Dunlop 52 Policy Number: ENV 7 Fenwick & Laigh Fenwick 54 Galston 57 Local Nature Reserve Policy Number: ENV 13(iii) Gatehead 61 Hayhill 61 Number of houses in Development Site Hollybush & Skeldon Mills 64 to be developed post 2017 66 71 Broad direction of future settlement 77 growth 2017 to 2025 to meet Structure 80 Plan requirements Leggate, Connel Parkand Bank Glen 82 Logan And Lugar 84 Policies SD 1 - 4 and 6 - 8; IND 8 - 11; TOUR Lugton 87 1 - 6; RES 2, 5, 6, 8, 22 - 26 and 28 - 32; 89 RTC 1, 9 - 11 and 15 - 18; CS 1 - 3, 5, 9 - Moscow 94 17; WM 1 - 14; T 1 - 9; ENV 1 - 6, 9 - 12, 13(iii) - (vi), 14 and 18 - 26 ; Proposals PROP 96 2, 4 - 9, 10 - 12, 14 and 19 - 30; 101 Recomendations REC 1 - 5 and 9 relate to the 106 whole of the Local Plan Area. 111 Patna 114 117 117 Sinclairston 120 Skares 120 Sorn 123 125 Waterside (Doon Valley) 130 Waterside (By Fenwick) 130 The Rural Area 133

2 EAST AYRSHIRE LOCAL PLAN 2010 Volume 3: Settlement and Rural Area Development Opportunities 3 The Local Plan Maps 1.9 The policies indicated on the Local Plan maps are 1 Settlement and Rural prefixed by the following letters, representing the topic 1.5 Local plan maps have been produced for all of the to which the policy refers, i.e.: Area Development settlements within East Ayrshire comprising 15 or more houses and a local plan map has also been IND Business and Industry; produced relating specifically to the rural area. The TOUR Tourism; Opportunities local plan maps: M Minerals; • identify those housing, industrial and other sites The Local Plan Area which are considered to provide opportunities RES Housing; 1 1.1 The Local Plan area is predominantly rural in nature for appropriate new development to the year RTC Retailing & Town Centre Activities; 2017; and covers an area of 1,268km2 with a population of CS Community & Service Infrastructure; some 120,310 in 2001. Stretching some 70km from • identify those areas which are specifically WM Waste Management ; Settlement north to south, the area contains a wide and diverse safeguarded for specific existing uses; and range of landscapes ranging from good quality T Transport; enclosed agricultural dairy lands, through large areas • indicate those specific local plan policies and and Rural Area of open moorland and forestry plantations, to the proposals which relate to any one particular area. ENV Environment. remote wilderness areas of the Southern Uplands. 1.6 In those settlements defined as strategic expansion 1.10 While all attempts have been made to indicate all Development 1.2 Strategically located in the northern part of the area, locations in the Ayrshire Joint Structure Plan, a broad relevant policy areas on the local plan maps, it has not Kilmarnock is the largest town in the area with a indication is also provided on the local plan maps been possible, in the interests of clarity, to indicate the population of some 43,588 in 2001. Cumnock is the pertaining to the particular settlements concerned, as following on the local plan rural area map: Opportunities to the broad direction of possible growth of the second largest town in the area with a population of • those areas of land comprising prime quality community beyond the local plan period, between some 9,358 and is also an important settlement in and good quality agricultural land; and strategic terms as regards both its size and location. 2017 and 2025. • non-statutory nature conservation sites such as There are nine other main centres of population in the 1.7 Each local plan map is also accompanied by a Provisional Wildlife Sites area with over 3,000 residents, a further eight supporting written statement which gives: settlements have populations of between 1,000 and 1.11 Both of these categories of land are given a degree of • a brief settlement description; 3,000 persons and sixteen settlements have protection by local plan policy and these particular populations between 100 and 1,000. In addition, • a synopsis of the particular local issues to be areas, together with the policies which relate to them, there are numerous small groups of houses and addressed; are shown on separate policy maps as appendices to individual houses scattered throughout the rural area. the plan. • details of the uses considered appropriate to 1.3 Most settlements within East Ayrshire have each development opportunity site identified, experienced various degrees of population decline together with information regarding the size of since 1981, including the main settlements of site, its indicative or specific capacity and other Kilmarnock and Cumnock. There is now evidence, site specific considerations; and however, of population stabilisation and limited growth in some areas and some communities are • an indication of the various community / experiencing increasing development pressure. environmental projects to which any developer contributions will be directed. 1.4 The economy of East Ayrshire has been based, historically, on the textile, heavy engineering, food 1.8 The Development Opportunity Sites identified on the and drink and coal industries. The decline in these local plan maps have all been given unique reference traditional industries has led to high levels of, numbers which are cross-referenced to the written especially long term, unemployment in certain areas statements supporting each map e.g. 017H, 102B, and has left many of the towns and villages in the 125M. The letter ‘H’ represents a housing area with a legacy of urban and rural dereliction and a development opportunity site, ‘B’ a business or degraded urban fabric. These factors notwithstanding, industrial development opportunity site and ‘M’ a the towns and villages in the area and the miscellaneous or other development opportunity site. surrounding countryside remain, on the whole, attractive and have considerable potential for inward investment and future development. Effective communication links are seen as being an essential pre-requisite for the future economic prosperity of East Ayrshire and there is considerable scope for improvements to be made to both the strategic road and rail networks.

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