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This page has been left blank deliberately FOREWORD The Surrey Heath Annual Monitoring Report (AMR) is published each year. This Report monitors the period 1st April 2009 to 31st March 2010. It sets out the progress achieved in implementing the Local Development Framework (LDF) and performance against the policies of the Surrey Heath Local Plan 2000 and the Core Output Indicators relating to development plans. This is the sixth statutory Surrey Heath AMR and will be submitted to the Secretary of State by 31st December 2010. This is in accordance with Section 35 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004, which requires every Local Authority to submit an AMR to the Secretary of State. Contact Details Planning Policy and Conservation Team Surrey Heath Borough Council Surrey Heath House Knoll Road Camberley Surrey GU15 3HD Telephone: 01276 707100 E-mail: [email protected] i This page has been left blank deliberately Surrey Heath Borough Council – Annual Monitoring Report 2009/10 CONTENTS Page EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2 CHAPTER 1 : INTRODUCTION 5 CHAPTER 2: SPATIAL PORTRAIT OF SURREY HEATH (PART A) 7 CHAPTER 3: PROGRESS OF THE LDF (PART B) 12 CHAPTER 4: MONITORING POLICIES IN THE SURREY HEATH 19 LOCAL PLAN 2000 (PART C) CHAPTER 5: GENERAL POLICIES 22 CHAPTER 6: URBAN ENVIRONMENT 33 CHAPTER 7: HERITAGE 35 CHAPTER 8: RURAL ENVIRONMENT AND BIODIVERSITY 38 CHAPTER 9: RECREATION 49 CHAPTER 10: HOUSING 51 CHAPTER 11: EMPLOYMENT 70 CHAPTER 12: SHOPPING 75 CHAPTER 13: MOVEMENT 79 CHAPTER 14: COMMUNITY SERVICES 83 CHAPTER 15: CAMBERLEY TOWN CENTRE 86 APPENDIX 1: CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION 90 APPENDIX 2: HOUSING COMPLETIONS 1st April 2009 – 31st 109 March 2010 APPENDIX 3: EMPLOYMENT COMPLETIONS OF 50+ SQM 111 2009/10 Surrey Heath Borough Council – Annual Monitoring Report 2009/10 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY a) This is the sixth statutory Surrey Heath Annual Monitoring Report (AMR) and will be submitted to the Secretary of State by 31st December 2010. This is in accordance with Section 35 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004, which requires every local authority to submit an AMR to the Secretary of State. b) The purpose of this Report is to present evidence of what actions have been taken to implement the Local Development Framework (LDF) and the Local Development Scheme (LDS), to indicate the extent to which policies in the Local Plan 2000 have been achieved, and to identify any solutions and changes where targets are not being met. c) As of 31st March 2010, none of the Local Plan 2000 policies had been replaced. However a list of policies had been “saved” after receiving approval from the Secretary of State. This list of policies deleted those which were considered to be out-of-date, no longer relevant or which duplicated national guidance. d) This AMR monitors the period from 1st April 2009 to 31st March 2010. e) The AMR has taken into consideration “The Town and Country Planning (Local Development) (England) Regulations 2004,” Planning Policy Statement 12: “Local Development Frameworks” (September 2004), “A Good Practice Guide to Local Development Framework Monitoring” (March 2005), “Annual Monitoring Reports (AMR) – FAQs and Seminar Feedback on Emerging Best Practice 2004/05” (ODPM, September 2005) and “Regional Spatial Strategy and Local Development Framework Core Output Indicators – Update 2/2008”. The Progress of the LDF f) The LDS sets out a programme of Development Plan Documents (DPDs) the Council will produce. The LDS sets out when the work for the DPDs will be carried out, when each of the DPDs will be available for public consultation at the Issues and Options, Preferred Options and Submission document stages, the anticipated date for adoption, and review date of the DPDs. g) The September 2008 LDS was the adopted version of the LDS being used in 2009/10. The LDS rolls forward the programme of updating planning policy in the Borough to 2011. In drawing up this LDS the Council has recognised the ongoing uncertainties around the ability to deliver avoidance and mitigation measures for the Thames Basin Heath’s SPA. This issue has resulted in ongoing slippage in the original programme for the Core Strategy. h) As a result, the Council has little confidence that the key milestone dates for the Core Strategy in the 2008 LDS can be met. The LDS is currently under review. The Review of Existing Local Plan Policies i) Overall, it is considered that the Local Plan is achieving its objectives. The Borough Council to date has exceeded the South East Plan annual housing requirement, needing to deliver a district allocation of 3,740 dwellings between 2006 and 2026. j) All housing allocation sites 1998-2001 (Policy H2) have now been completed and the completions target of 277 dwellings met. Of the housing allocation sites in the 2 Surrey Heath Borough Council – Annual Monitoring Report 2009/10 period 2001-2006, the majority have been completed. The impact of the Special Protection Area (SPA) on the Borough’s 5 year housing land supply and the publication of Planning Policy Statement 3: “Housing” (November 2006), will change the policy context guiding housing deliverability. k) No development has commenced at Salisbury Terrace, Mytchett owing to the mitigation requirements of the SPA. Two sites, 83 College Ride, Bagshot and Dyckmore, Streets Heath, West End are within 400 metres of the SPA. Within this ‘buffer’ area, Natural England has advised that new residential development cannot be mitigated. At the current time, none of these sites can therefore be considered as being appropriate for housing development. l) The Sergeants Mess was also no longer considered to be available as it has been withdrawn by the Ministry of Defence. However, in January 2008 the Secretary of State for Defence announced the disposal of Princess Royal Barracks, Deepcut. The Sergeants Mess will come forward as part of this site. m) The Borough Council has continued to ensure the most effective use of land is made wherever possible. In 2009/10, 100% of all housing completions were on Previously Developed Land (PDL), against a national target of 60%. n) The Council has sought to ensure environmental protection standards are met across the Borough. From November 2005 to August 2008, no new housing developments involving a net increase in dwellings were permitted, unless mitigation against their impact on the SPA could be provided. The Council adopted the Thames Basin Heaths Interim Avoidance Strategy in August 2008. This has allowed mitigation for small developments (1-9 net units) across the borough, up to a cumulative total of 280 dwellings. The issues surrounding the SPA have affected the ability to meet the annual housing requirement in the year analysed by this AMR. The Council is working with Natural England and other relevant stakeholders to deliver a long-term solution to the current constraint of the SPA. o) Policy TC19 Land West of Park Street, which seeks comprehensive mixed use development of a site in Camberley Town Centre was implemented in 2008/09. This has considerably enhanced the provision of leisure and entertainment facilities in the Town Centre, and increased the attractiveness of Camberley as a place to visit. 217 flats have been provided close to public transport services and amenities. The development has also contributed through a legal agreement for funding towards the creation of a pedestrian friendly area in Park Street (as set out in Policy TC10), greater provision of cycle facilities (Policy TC11) and funding to improve public transport interchange facilities in Pembroke Broadway (Policy TC12). The Council has supported efforts to maintain the Town Centre’s vitality and role as one of the most sustainable places to live in the Borough, by continuing to refuse proposals seeking the loss of residential accommodation in the Town Centre to alternative uses. p) Policy TC20 seeking comprehensive mixed-use development of the London Road block has not, to date, been implemented. q) The future pattern of land uses and proposals for individual locations in the Town Centre will be updated as part of emerging work for the Camberley Town Centre Area Action Plan. A Preferred Options Paper was published in April 2008. The consultation closed in June 2008 and responses have been published on the Surrey Heath website. Work on the Area Action Plan will resume following adoption of the Core Strategy. 3 Surrey Heath Borough Council – Annual Monitoring Report 2009/10 r) No affordable housing units were completed in 2009/10. This is largely due to restrictions imposed on development by the SPA. Although mitigation is now in place for sites of less than 10 (net) units, affordable housing has been sought only on sites of 25 or more units. The affordable housing threshold has therefore not been met in most cases. However, during the monitoring year, housing schemes were approved on two larger sites which will provide their own SANGS mitigation (Notcutts and Clewborough House School). These will deliver 106 affordable units. s) Housing Needs work was completed in 2007 and a Strategic Housing Market Assessment was published in Spring 2009. These will be used to inform forthcoming affordable housing policies in the Core Strategy DPD. t) Surrey Heath Borough Council is in the process of preparing a Core Strategy & Development Management Policies DPD, which will replace certain “saved” policies from the Local Plan 2000. A Preferred Options Paper of the Core Strategy was published in September 2005 and set out a monitoring framework to analyse the performance of the Core Strategy policies. u) However, a decision was made in March 2008, to return to an options stage for the Core Strategy and amalgamate it with the Housing Needs and Development Control Policies DPD’s to form the Core Strategy & Development Management Policies DPD.