Great and Little Chesterford Neighbourhood Plan Housing Site Selection (NPHSS) November 2020
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Great and Little Chesterford Neighbourhood Plan Housing Site Selection (NPHSS) November 2020 This document has been prepared by the Great and Little Chesterford Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group on behalf of Great and Little Chesterford Parish Councils. It is piece of evidence supporting the Neighbourhood Plan and provides information on the availability and suitability of development sites in the plan area. When the Neighbourhood Plan has been completed by the community and is submitted ready for independent examination, this Neighbourhood Plan Housing Site Selection will be submitted as an evidence base document in support of the Plan. Purpose As part of developing the Neighbourhood Plan, the Steering Group has prepared a Neighbourhood Housing Site Selection (NPHSS) which assesses housing land previously demonstrated as potentially suitable, available and achievable, against the vision and objectives of the plan. Planning Practice Guidance (PPG) states that the purpose of site selection is to identify a future supply of land for housing development over the plan period. This report therefore provides a summary of the sites selected for allocation for housing development and as such forms part of the evidence base for the Great and Little Chesterford Neighbourhood Plan. This report explains the methodology of the Steering Group for assessing housing sites for selection, provides individual site assessments against the vision and objectives of the plan, and gives a summary of conclusions based on these assessments. Methodology The site selection and allocation process has been undertaken using guidance specifically written for neighbourhood plans by Locality “Site assessment and allocation for neighbourhood plans: A toolkit for neighbourhood planners” As per Planning Practice Guidance, the Steering Group has previously prepared a Neighbourhood Housing Land Assessment (NPHLA), which shortlists the sites that it has demonstrated are potentially suitable, available and achievable. After a period of consultation with stakeholders, including landowners and Uttlesford District Council, a final version of this assessment was made available in July 2020. 1 The NPHLA, which also forms part of the evidence base for the Neighbourhood Plan, is an input into this NPHSS. Sites that have been assessed as Suitable, Potentially Suitable, Suitability Unlikely or Achievability Unlikely in the NPHLA are shortlisted for further consideration in this NPHSS. Site assessed as Not Suitable do not progress for further consideration. In this NPHSS, the shortlisted sites from the NPHLA have been further assessed against the vision and objectives of the Neighbourhood Plan, as documented in the Neighbourhood Plan Vision and Policies. Individual site selection assessments can be found after the Site Selection Summary. Site Selection Rating and Categorisation Symbol Categorisation Explanation Green: The site has been selected subject to no or minor Site selected subject to no conditions to enable it to achieve Neighbourhood or minor conditions Plan Visions and Objectives. No constraints exist and the site is available. Amber: The site has been selected subject to major Site selected subject to conditions that must be addressed to enable it to major conditions achieve the Neighbourhood Plan Vision and Objectives and/or overcome suitability or achievability constraints through appropriate design, layout and/or scale of development. Red: The site has not been selected as constraints are Site not selected too significant to enable it to meet Neighbourhood Plan Vision and Objectives and/or constraints of availability, suitability or achievability. Sites have only been considered where they have the potential to deliver at least 5 dwellings. Sites smaller than this did not form part of the Neighbourhood Plan Housing Land Assessment and do not form part of this Neighbourhood Plan Housing Site Selection. Any such sites, when they come forward, will be considered as a planning application against current policy, including the current Local Plan, and those policies adopted as part of the Great and Little Chesterford Neighbourhood Plan. 2 Sites assessed for selection Reference Address number Chest 1 Land adjacent to 1 Ashworth Villas, Whiteways, Great Chesterford, CB10 1NX Chest 8 Land to the north east of London Road, Great Chesterford (Little Chesterford Parish), CB10 1QP Chest 9 Land to the south west of London Road (B1383) Great Chesterford, (Little Chesterford Parish) CB10 1QP Chest 10 Land adjacent to Manor Cottages, off High Street, Little Chesterford, CB10 1TZ Chest 11a Land North of Kings Farm, High Street, Little Chesterford, CB10 1TS Chest 12 Land opposite Rectory Barns, Little Chesterford Chest 13 Land North of Bartholomew Close, Bartholomew Close, Great Chesterford, CB10 1QH Site Location Map For more detailed maps of each site location, see individual site selection assessments 3 Site selection summary Site identifier Chest 1 Chest 8 Chest 9 Chest 10 Chest 11a Chest 12 Chest 13 Site Land adjacent Land to the Land to the Land adjacent Land North of Land opposite Land North of description to Ashworth north east of south west of to Manor Kings Farm, Rectory Barns, Bartholomew Villas, Great London Road London Road Cottages, Little Little Little Close, Great Chesterford Chesterford, Chesterford Chesterford Chesterford Conclusion Site is Site is Site is Achievability Suitability No constraints Site suitable from Site potentially potentially potentially unlikely: unlikely: exist and the [Full planning Assessment suitable subject suitable subject suitable subject infrastructure achievability site is available permission to noise to reduction in to reduction in for road access and availability including reduction scale, scale, too great issues would access now measures landscaping and landscaping and need to be granted] flood risk noise mitigation overcome [Outline planning for 76 dwellings now granted] Does the site meet the Neighbourhood Plan Objectives? Spatial Maybe: No: Yes: Within Maybe: Maybe: Maybe: Yes: within Beyond Disproportion- adjusted Beyond Beyond Beyond development Development ate growth. development Development Development Development limits, Limits. Adjoins limits. Growth Limits. Limits. Limits. Proportional Proportional Development at limits of Proportional Proportional Proportional growth, no growth, no Limits. Must proportional. growth, must growth, no growth, no direct impacts direct impacts protect and No direct protect and direct impacts direct impacts on important on important enhance the impacts on enhance on important on important character character areas part within the important adjoining Cam character areas character areas areas CAM river character areas River valley Valley Area Area Settlement Maybe: Outside Maybe: Partly Maybe: No: Within No: Within Maybe: Adjoins Yes: Within of separation within Partly within separation zone separation separation zone existing zones. Adjoins separation zone adjusted although zone. Backland settlement edge settlement settlement although settlement adjoins development in and can follow and follows edge. adjoins separation settlement edge Little pattern. pattern. settlement edge zone, adjoins and can follow Chesterford. settlement edge pattern Getting No: No safe Maybe: with Maybe: with No: No safe No: footway on Maybe: Access Yes: Safe around pedestrian provision of provision of pedestrian narrow access to existing pedestrian access to village more direct and more direct and access to village trackway pedestrian access to amenities safer pedestrian safer pedestrian centre (no unlikely to be footway village and cycle access and cycle access achievable achievable; achievable; amenities to station, to station, and footway) existing narrow existing narrow village centre beyond footway to footway to and beyond centre. centre. Landscape Maybe: Maybe: Maybe: No: Low Yes: Yes: Yes: Character Low/Medium Medium Medium capacity for Medium/high Medium/high Within built capacity for capacity for capacity for change. Must capacity for capacity for environment change. change. change. preserve and change. change. Preserve and Preserve and Preserve and enhance views enhance views enhance views enhance views and green and green and green features features features Historic Yes: no impact Maybe: Must Yes: no impact Maybe: Must Yes: No impact Yes: No impact Maybe : Must Environment on historic protect & on historic protect and on historic on historic protect and environment enhance the environment enhance views environment environment enhance part of site from historic views from which is within centre of Little adjoining the Bordeaux Chesterford Conservation Farm rural Area context area, and protect and enhance views to/from Conservation Area. 4 Site identifier Chest 1 Chest 8 Chest 9 Chest 10 Chest 11a Chest 12 Chest 13 Site Land adjacent Land to the Land to the Land adjacent Land North of Land opposite Land North of description to Ashworth north east of south west of to Manor Kings Farm, Rectory Barns, Bartholomew Villas, Great London Road London Road Cottages, Little Little Little Close, Great Chesterford Chesterford, Chesterford Chesterford Chesterford Valued Neutral: no Maybe: Yes: Neutral: no Neutral: no Neutral: no Neutral: no Community impact, no/little Must preserve/ opportunity to impact, no/little impact, no impact, no impact, Spaces enhancement enhance enhance enhancement /little /little no/little opportunities qualities of recreational opportunities enhancement enhancement enhancement nearby space