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Watford Core Strategy Publication Draft &Amp Watford Core Strategy Publication draft (pre- submission consultation) Draft for Cabinet 22 March 2011 1 Contents Page nos 1. Introduction 3 2. Watford Today 6 3. Watford’s Vision and Strategic Objectives to 2031 11 4. Watford’s Spatial Strategy to 2031 13 5. Special Policy Areas and Infrastructure Projects 17 6. Sustainable Development 25 7. Town and Local Centres 30 8. Housing 43 9. Economic Development and Employment 54 10. Transport 61 11. Infrastructure Delivery 70 12. Urban Design and Built Heritage 74 13. Green Infrastructure 79 14. Monitoring and Delivery 84 15. Glossary 87 Tables: 1. Core Strategy Production Process 4 2. Retail Hierarchy 31 3. Retail Floorspace to meet forecast demand 35 4. Leisure and Cultural Needs 36 5. Access to Local Facilities 39 6. Housing Targets – Supply 43 7. Size Mix of Housing Requirements 2007-21 48 8. Monitoring (currently saved as separate file) 86 Appendices (see separate files) A) Relationship between Core Strategy Policies and Objectives, the One Watford Sustainable Community Strategy and Watford Borough Council’s Corporate Objectives. B) Evidence Base C) Schedule of Watford District Plan 2000 policies to be replaced, retained or deleted D) Representation form and guidance notes Figures and Maps (all saved as separate files apart from housing trajectory) i) Key Diagram ii)Flood Map iii) Energy Opportunity Areas iv) Retail Hierarchy v) Town Centre Character Areas vi) Employment Locations vii) Proposed Green Infrastructure Network 2 INTRODUCTION The Core Strategy Watford Borough Council’s Core Strategy sets out the key elements of the Council’s planning vision and spatial strategy for the borough. The Core Strategy will be the central part of the Local Development Framework (LDF), and will set the direction for other documents that will set out our planning strategy and policies in more detail. All other Local Development Framework documents must be consistent with the Core Strategy. The Core Strategy contributes to achieving the vision and objectives of Watford’s Sustainable Community Strategy (SCS) and helps the Council’s partners and other organisations deliver relevant parts of their programmes. Appendix A shows the relationship of policies to the SCS and the Council’s Corporate Plan. When the Council adopts the Core Strategy it will, along with other Local Development Framework documents, eventually replace our current Watford District Plan (2000). Appendix C details the policies which will be replaced by the Core Strategy. The Core Strategy is one of several Development Plan Documents (DPDs) to be produced as part of the Local Development Framework. The others are: • Development Management Policies – which will support the Core Strategy by setting out additional planning policies that the Council will use when making decisions on applications for planning permission. • Site Allocations – this will provide more detail on site specific matters and will allocate sites for different land uses. • Town Centre Area Action Plan – this will provide more detail on town centre policies and strategy. We will supplement these DPDs with other documents including: • Supplementary planning documents (SPDs) – these will give detailed guidance on how the Council’s planning strategy and policies will be implemented for specific topics, areas or sites. • Site specific development briefs. The Annual Monitoring Report provides an assessment of the progress made against targets and the performance of policies in the Local Development Framework. The documents that make up the LDF must be tested through the process of Sustainability Appraisal (SA) to ensure that they are compatible with the aims of sustainable development, and that economic progress is balanced with social and environmental needs. For the more strategic documents a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) will be integrated into the SA process to ensure that the likely cumulative and secondary effects of policies on the environment are considered. An Environmental Report of this assessment has been published alongside this consultation. 3 The Local Development Framework must be based on a robust and credible evidence base. The evidence base used for the Core Strategy is set out in Appendix B. In July 2010 the Government announced their intention to abolish regional plans in the Localism Bill. Until this is enacted policies must be in conformity with the relevant regional plan, which for Watford is the East of England Plan. In the interest of sustainable development all development proposals will be considered against the core strategy in its entirety, and subsequent development plan documents. The Core Strategy Process The following table illustrates the process for preparing the Core Strategy and other DPDs to be produced by the Council: Table 1 – Core Strategy Production Process Issues And Options Public consultation on the issues and options started in 2005, and was followed by ongoing consultation December 2005 – with stakeholders. The comments received were January 2006 used to inform the Core Strategy Preferred Options document. Preferred Options Consultation on the Core Strategy preferred options took place in February 2008. The outcome of this February – March 2008 revealed a need for further work to be done on the evidence base which was subsequently undertaken. Further consultation workshops were held in April and May 2009 and Dec 2010. A consultation shop event took place in July 2010. Pre-submission The Core Strategy and final Sustainability Appraisal consultation May/June report will be published for consultation for six 2011 weeks. All comments received at this stage will be submitted to the Examination, together with a summary of the main issues raised. Submission Once all comments have been considered and appropriate changes made to the document, the November/December Core Strategy will be submitted to Government for 2011 independent Examination. Public Examination An Examination will be carried out by an independent Planning Inspector. The Inspector will March/April 2012 assess the ‘soundness’ of the Core Strategy, and consider all comments received at Pre-submission stage in order to produce a report with recommendations for the Council. 4 Adoption The Council will amend the Core Strategy as required by the Inspector’s Report, and adopt it as September 2012 soon as practicable following the receipt of the Inspector’s Report. It will then become part of the LDF and one of the development plan documents for Watford Borough. How to get Involved This document marks the stage in the production of the Core Strategy, known as the ‘Pre-submission consultation’. At this public consultation stage, we are only allowed to consider comments on the ‘soundness’ of the document, and whether it is legally compliant. This is because we have already consulted on the general content. The accompanying notes (enclosed) explain these requirements in greater detail. You can submit comments online via Watford’s consultation portal (www.ldf.watford.gov.uk), which also offers you the opportunity to view representations submitted by others. Alternatively you may submit representations on paper to the following address, using the representation form provided: Planning Policy, Watford Borough Council, Town Hall, FREEPOST ANG0394, Watford, Herts, WD17 3EX The Council’s ‘Statement of Community Involvement’ (SCI) sets out what you may expect from consultation on this and other LDF documents. The SCI is available on the Council's web site at www.watford.gov.uk/planning. 5 WATFORD TODAY Watford is an urban borough in South West Hertfordshire, on the edge of the East of England region to the north-west of London. It covers 2,142 hectares (8.3 square miles), and is the only non-metropolitan borough wholly contained within the M25. The Borough has excellent transport links with direct mainline rail connections to London, Gatwick Airport, the Midlands and the North, Underground and Overground connections to London, its north-west suburbs and the rural Chilterns, community rail connections to St Albans, national coach services to Heathrow, Luton and Stansted airports, and convenient road connections via the M1, M25 and A41. A long established urban centre, with a market charter dating to the 12th century, Watford expanded rapidly from its linear layout along the historic High Street during the nineteenth century with the coming of the railway line. Much of the character of the area is formed by the streets of terraced Victorian housing, which were followed by an extensive variety of planned housing estates during the twentieth century. These estates, along with their associated employment areas, reflect the styles of design that predominated at the time of their construction, with the resulting diversity of urban character visible across the Borough. Watford is the centre of a sub-region serving around 500,000 people, living within a 20 minute traveling time catchment. As part of the London commuter belt, Watford is strongly influenced by London; and whilst this brings the benefits of a buoyant economy, it also brings significant environmental pressures such as high levels of traffic congestion, high house prices and, with limited land available for development, pressure on all land, including the green belt. Watford's Environment Although Watford is predominantly urban, 20% of its area is Metropolitan Green Belt, (Local Planning Authority Green Belt Statistics, England 2009/10, published 23 April 2010, www.communities.gov.uk ) and this is supplemented
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