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Hinckley and Bosworth Local Plan 20202039 P E P O R P LE O TY SPERI P LA CES Consultation Draft Plan Regulation 18 June 2021 Hinckley & Bosworth Local Plan 2020-2039 June 2021 Consultation Draft Plan Regulation 18 Page 1 of 169 Contents Contents .................................................................................... 2 Consultation Overview .............................................................. 5 1 Introduction ....................................................................... 7 What is the Local Plan? ................................................................................... 7 How has it been prepared? .............................................................................. 8 What area does it cover? ................................................................................. 9 Neighbourhood Planning ................................................................................. 9 Strategic Growth Plan .................................................................................... 10 Duty to Co-operate and Statements of Common Ground .............................. 11 2 Spatial Portrait ................................................................. 13 3 Vision and Objectives ...................................................... 17 The Plan Vision .............................................................................................. 17 The Spatial Objectives - People, Places, Prosperity ...................................... 18 4 Spatial Development Strategy ......................................... 21 SS01 Sustainable Development .................................................................... 30 5 Climate Change .............................................................. 32 CC01 Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change ...................................... 32 CC02 Flood Risk ............................................................................................ 34 CC03 Sustainable Drainage Systems ............................................................ 38 CC04 Renewable and Low Carbon Energy ................................................... 40 6 Place Making and Design ............................................... 43 PMD01 High Quality Design .......................................................................... 43 PMD02 Active Design and Travel .................................................................. 48 PMD03 Preventing Pollution .......................................................................... 51 PMD04 Redundant Rural Buildings ............................................................... 55 PMD05 Open Space, Sport and recreation facilities ...................................... 57 7 Housing ........................................................................... 61 HO01 Provision of New housing .................................................................... 61 HO02 Housing Mix, size and Type ................................................................ 61 HO03 Space Standards ................................................................................. 63 HO04 Housing Density .................................................................................. 64 HO05 Accessible Housing ............................................................................. 66 HO07 Gypsies, Travellers and Travelling Showpeople .................................. 69 Page 2 of 169 HO08 New Housing in the Countryside ......................................................... 71 HO09 Affordable Housing .............................................................................. 72 HO10 Rural Exception Sites .......................................................................... 75 8 Economic Prosperity ....................................................... 78 EP01 Scale and distribution of new Employment Sites ................................. 79 EP02 New Employment Development ........................................................... 80 EP03 Existing Employment Areas ................................................................. 82 EP04 Existing Non-Identified Employment Areas .......................................... 84 EP05 Strategic Distribution ............................................................................ 87 EP06 MIRA Technology Park Enterprise Zone .............................................. 88 EP07 Education and Skills for a strong local workforce ................................. 90 9 Town Centres .................................................................. 93 TDC01 Sustainable Town Centres ................................................................ 93 TDC02 District, Local and Neighbourhood Centres ....................................... 97 TDC03 Hot Food Takeaways and Betting Offices ....................................... 100 10 Communities, Leisure and Tourism .............................. 103 CLT01 Community Facilities ........................................................................ 103 CLT03 Cultural and Tourism Facilities ......................................................... 108 CLT04 Twycross Zoo ................................................................................... 110 11 Heritage and Conservation ........................................... 112 HE01 Conserving and Enhancing the Historic Environment ........................ 112 HE02 Heritage Assets ................................................................................. 113 HE03 Preserving the Borough’s Archaeology .............................................. 120 12 Natural Environment ..................................................... 122 NAT01 Green Infrastructure ........................................................................ 122 NAT02 Green Wedges ................................................................................ 125 NAT03 Trees, Hedgerows, Woodlands and Development .......................... 127 NAT04 National Forest ................................................................................ 129 NAT05 Charnwood Forest ........................................................................... 131 NAT06 Local Green Space .......................................................................... 133 NAT07 Protecting Biodiversity ..................................................................... 134 NAT08 Enhancing Biodiversity and habitat connectivity .............................. 137 NAT09 Development in the Countryside and Settlement Separation .......... 141 NAT10 Landscape Character ...................................................................... 144 NAT11 Blue Infrastructure ........................................................................... 147 Page 3 of 169 13 Transport ....................................................................... 150 HT01 Highways and Transportation ............................................................ 150 HT02 Parking Standards ............................................................................. 152 HT03 EV Charging Infrastructure................................................................. 153 HT04 A5 Improvement Corridor ................................................................... 156 14 Infrastructure ................................................................. 159 INF01 Infrastructure and Delivery ................................................................ 159 INF02 Water Supply and Wastewater Management .................................... 162 INF03 Telecommunications Infrastructure ................................................... 164 Appendix 1 Building with Nature Standards .......................... 167 Page 4 of 169 Consultation Overview We are consulting on a draft of the new Local Plan. The Plan builds upon previous consultations, incorporating views received and new evidence collected since those consultations. The purpose of this consultation is to present the emerging position and seek comments and ask questions on key aspects of the Local Plan, which will help us to refine and shape the strategy and policies of the Plan. The Plan contains draft policies on various planning matters however there remains uncertainty over a number of issues and we want to hear the views of residents, community groups, businesses and other interested parties on those issues and of potential alternative approaches to those set out in the draft Plan. These uncertainties include housing provision and the distribution of unmet housing need in Leicester, location of future development and highways infrastructure, and proposed changes to the planning system set out in the Government’s Planning White Paper ‘Planning for the Future’1. Whilst consulting on this plan we are continuing to work on the supporting evidence for the plan. In particular work is ongoing on highways modelling and infrastructure and viability of new development. The relevant sections of the draft Local Plan explain these uncertainties and areas where further work is underway or required to understand these uncertainties. This consultation accords with Regulation 18 of the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2012 by notifying residents, community groups, businesses and other interested parties of the subject of the Local Plan and inviting comments on what the Local Plan ought to contain. Consultation on this draft plan is an informal stage in the development process of the Local Plan. Following this consultation, the plan will be revised and subject to