Lostwithiel Neighbourhood Plan
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Lostwithiel Neighbourhood Plan Part One: Context and Framework Draft November 2017 Produced by: Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group on behalf of Lostwithiel Town Council Taprell House, North Street Lostwithiel Cornwall PL22 0BL Tel: 01208 872323 Website: http://www.lostwithielplan.org.uk Page 1 An Introduction from the Mayor The Town Council welcomed the opportunity to develop a Neighbourhood Plan that would shape the future of the town for the next twenty years and to meet the needs of future generations of residents in Lostwithiel. With the help of a Steering Group of local residents, this Plan has been drawn up with the intention of reflecting and sustaining the sense of community and heritage that is so important to all who live in the town. We see this Plan not simply as a practical administrative device to guide planning decisions. We have endeavoured to engage with you and to consult you over what you wish to see in the town and we hope it gives a vision of the town and its future that all who live in it will embrace. The Plan will be put to you in a local Referendum, which will be your chance to endorse the future that the Council is committed to realising. Pam Jarrett Mayor of Lostwithiel Page 2 Contents Introduction: The Purpose of the Plan ............................................................................... 5 Purpose of the plan ................................................................................................................................ 5 How This Plan Was Constructed ........................................................................................ 6 Membership of the Steering Group..................................................................................................... 6 Lostwithiel in Context ......................................................................................................... 7 A Vision for Lostwithiel ...................................................................................................... 11 Objectives of the Neighbourhood Plan ............................................................................................ 12 Town and Country Environment: A Heritage Landscape ................................................. 14 The rural and natural environment .................................................................................................... 14 Open space provision .......................................................................................................................... 15 The urban environment ....................................................................................................................... 16 Public consultations ............................................................................................................................. 17 Housing .............................................................................................................................. 19 The planning context ........................................................................................................................... 19 Future housing needs 2017 to 2030 ................................................................................................... 21 Sustaining community infrastructure and open spaces ................................................................... 22 Provision of affordable housing ......................................................................................................... 23 Implications of climate change ........................................................................................................... 23 The Development boundary ............................................................................................................... 24 Style and layout of new developments .............................................................................................. 25 Employment and the Local Economy .............................................................................. 28 Lostwithiel employment structure ..................................................................................................... 28 Business zones and major businesses ................................................................................................ 29 Shopping and eating ............................................................................................................................. 30 The character of small businesses ...................................................................................................... 30 The future .............................................................................................................................................. 32 Transport and Travel ......................................................................................................... 33 Cars and traffic...................................................................................................................................... 34 Buses ...................................................................................................................................................... 35 Railways.................................................................................................................................................. 36 Walking and cycling ............................................................................................................................. 37 Community Wellbeing and Recreation ............................................................................. 38 Page 3 Education and culture .......................................................................................................................... 38 Health and social care .......................................................................................................................... 39 Sport and leisure ................................................................................................................................... 39 Lostwithiel Character Zones ............................................................................................. 42 1. The Core of the Medieval Town. ................................................................................................. 42 2. Queen Street. ................................................................................................................................... 44 3. The Lower Town. ........................................................................................................................... 44 4. The Upper Town. ........................................................................................................................... 45 5. The Riverside. .................................................................................................................................. 46 6. The North End of the Town. ....................................................................................................... 46 7. Bridgend. .......................................................................................................................................... 46 8. The South West and Southern Edge of Town. ........................................................................... 47 9. Park and Water Meadows. .............................................................................................................. 48 Appendix 1: Consultation and Engagement Strategy ....................................................... 50 Appendix 2: Reports and Publications ............................................................................... 51 Page 4 Introduction: The Purpose of the Plan This plan has been produced in accordance with the 2011 Localism Act, which empowered local communities to produce Neighbourhood Development Plans. Restormel Borough Council had produced a twenty-year local plan in 1991, and Lostwithiel Town Forum produced the twenty- year Lostwithiel Area Action Plan in 2004. This Neighbourhood Plan is the first long-term plan for the area and is produced in relation to the National Planning Policy Framework. (NPPF) and the Cornwall Local Plan. Lostwithiel Town Council took up the opportunity to develop a Neighbourhood Plan and established a Steering group, with representation from the local community, to undertake the preparation of the plan. A key aim was to ensure that local planning and related policies and proposals were those supported by local people and that would protect and enhance the particular and valued local community and environment. Following the various informal consultation processes, the Plan has undergone a formal Pre-Submission Consultation in accordance with the NPPF. The plan set out here and the policies that it contains, if passed by an independent inspector as being in conformity with national planning conditions, will be the subject of a local referendum. If passed by a majority vote in the referendum the plan will become the formal basis of all planning decisions within the town. What is a Neighbourhood Plan? It is a document that sets out how development is controlled for a particular area in the future. It has to comply with national and local policies, but it gives local people a much bigger say in how these policies are put into effect. It has a legal status and must be taken into account by the Local Planning Authority when considering planning applications in the future. In this plan we set out the specific planning