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Stroud District Local Plan Review Draft Plan for Consultation November 2019 Development Services Stroud District Council Ebley Mill Stroud Gloucestershire GL5 4UB Stroud District Local Plan Review Draft Plan for Consultation November 2019 Development Services Stroud District Council Ebley Mill Stroud Gloucestershire GL5 4UB The Planning Strategy Team 01453 754143 [email protected] visit www.stroud.gov.uk/localplanreview Contents Local Plan Review 1 Making Places | 3. Making Places | Shaping the xx Draft Plan for Consultation The Development Strategy future of Stroud District What is this document about? 1 2.4 Our towns and villages x 3.0 A spatial vision for Stroud x How can you get involved? 2 2.5 Housing x District Events and exhibitions 3 2.6 Local economy and jobs x 5.1 The Stroud Valleys x “Parish clusters” 3 2.7 Our town centres x 5.2 The Stonehouse cluster x 2.8 Local green spaces and x 5.3 Cam & Dursley x community facilities 5.4 Gloucester’s rural fringe x 1. Setting the Scene | x 2.9 Core Policies: x 5.5 The Berkeley cluster x Why do we need a plan? Delivering Carbon Neutral by x 5.6 The Severn Vale x 1.0 What is a Local Plan for? x 2030 5.7 The Wotton cluster x 1.1 Putting it into perspective: x Strategic growth and x 5.8 The Cotswold cluster x Our District’s issues, development locations Mini Visions x challenges and needs Settlement hierarchy and x Site Allocations x settlement boundaries 2. Making Places | x Making places x The Development Strategy Infrastructure and developer x 4. Homes and Communities xx 2.1 A Vision for the future x contributions Core Policies: xx 2.2 Strategic Objectives x Achieving healthy and inclusive xx 2.3 An introduction to the x communities development strategy Affordable housing xx Homes and Communities 6. Our environment and xx Image credits and information xxx Gypsies, Travellers and Travelling xx surroundings showpeople Core Policies: xx Maps and figures Delivery Policies: xx A ‘checklist’ for quality design xx Residential development at xx and development xxx defined settlements and on A quality living and working xx xxx strategic development sites countryside xxx Detailed criteria for new housing xx Delivery Policies: xx xxx developments A sustainable future: living, xx xxx Community-led housing schemes xx working and growing within our xxx Other forms of residential xx environmental limits xxx development Protecting our built and natural xx Extending your home xx heritage Planning for healthy xx Quality of design: places and xx communities spaces 5. Economy and Infrastructure xx 7. Delivery and Monitoring xxx Core Policies: xx 7.0 Delivery and monitoring xxx Economic growth and strategic xx employment needs Appendices Retail and town centres xx A Potential changes to xxx Travel and transport xx settlement development limits Delivery Policies: xx B Areas of search for renewable xxx Protection and development of xx energy locations employment sites C Parking standards for vehicles xxx Shopping, leisure, tourism and xx and cycles community facilities Travel and transport xx Local Plan Review | Draft Plan for Consultation What is this document about? What is our programme? The Stroud District Local Plan identifies the We have built into the timetable plenty of housing, employment, retail and community time to discuss issues, options and Issues and options consultation Autumn 2017: development that is required to meet local needs proposals with local communities. We have An opportunity to discuss emerging issues and up until 2031. It sets out the strategy for already completed public consultation on identify ways of distributing and managing distributing development within the District and Issues and Options during Autumn 2017 future development needs. policies for protecting and conserving the natural and we sought views about an Emerging Emerging strategy consultation Winter 2018: and built environment. Strategy (and alternative options) last year. We now know the minimum number of houses The District Council started the process of There will be ongoing engagement with that we need to provide for and we have reviewing the current Local Plan in 2017. This organisations, but the main public identified a potential strategy for delivery. consultation Draft Plan sets out the Council’s consultation activities will be... Final draft plan consultation Autumn 2019: preferred strategy for meeting growth and A chance to check that we have the right draft development needs over the next 20 years. plan in place. The current Local Plan Pre-submission consultation Autumn 2020: Why are we reviewing the The formal stages of making representations on Local Plan now? the plan. Modifications Summer 2021: Consultation on The Government wants all local authorities to any proposed modifications to the plan review their local plans every 5 years. The current Local Plan was approved in November 2015. New Adoption: It is anticipated that the new Local plans can take 5 or more years to finalise and so it Plan will be adopted by Winter 2021/22. is important that we make progress now. STROUD DISTRICT LOCAL PLAN REVIEW | DRAFT PLAN 2019 Page | 1 How can I get involved? The purpose of this Draft Plan consultation is to Direct communication... We will be emailing understand:- agents, developers, key stakeholders, local interest groups, town and parish councils and How can you make comments? Do you support the Council’s preferred strategy members of the public who have expressed an We have not posed specific questions in this for meeting Stroud District’s future growth and development needs? interest in being kept informed. document and there is no set ‘questionnaire’. Individual groups... We are particularly interested However, there are a few prompts based around Are there any additional issues or constraints in making contact with groups and individuals who specific themes or proposals, to help focus relating to the proposed sites? And how should feedback. If you would like to make comments, specific constraints, needs and opportunities be are often under-represented in consultation reflected in the final site allocation policies? events, such as community groups and young please reference site numbers, policy numbers or people. Please contact us if you know of a group paragraph numbers and be as specific as possible. Are any further changes to the proposed that would like to get involved. Electronic responses (by email or online) would be policies necessary? Are there specific things appreciated, as scanning and processing paper that should be included in supporting text? Documents... This document and background letters and documents significantly slows our documents can be accessed through our web ability to analyse and respond to representations. We want people to engage fully in this process so pages www.stroud.gov.uk/localplanreview. You that responses can be fed into the next stage (the can view paper copies at the following locations: Find out more and submit your pre-submission draft, next year). comments via our online portal: Parish council offices open to the public www.stroud.gov.uk/localplanreview This Draft Plan consultation will involve: Public libraries Stroud District Council offices, Ebley Mill [email protected] Public exhibitions... We are holding public @ exhibitions around the District during the Local Plan Review consultation period. This will provide an The Planning Strategy Team Please respond by opportunity to chat to officers working on the Stroud District Council the closing date of Local Plan review. Time and venue details can be Ebley Mill found on the following page. XXth January 2020. Stroud GL5 4UB 01453 754143 STROUD DISTRICT LOCAL PLAN REVIEW | DRAFT PLAN 2019 Page | 2 How can I get involved? | Events and exhibitions We are holding drop-in exhibitions around the Severn Vale Gloucester fringe Cotswold cluster Stroud Valleys Although there are no th District during early December. You will be able to Dates and venues of any HardwickeDates and venues Village of PainswickDates and Town venues Hall, of StroudDates and Sub venues Rooms. of Saturdayany 24 potential sites in this area, exhibitions to be Hall,any exhibitions Green La ne.to be Victoany riaexhibitions Square. to be Nov.exhibitions 10.30am to be– 1.30pmconfirmed chat to officers working on the Local Plan review you can come along to th th confirmed Tuesday 18 Dec. Wednesdayconfirmed 28 Nov. exhibitions elsewhere. confirmed Nailsworth Library. Wednesday and find out more about the draft plan, sites and 2.30pm – 6.30pm 2.30pm – 6.30pm th Arlingham, Fretherne-with-Saul, 5 Dec. 2.30pm – 6.30pm issues. Frampton on Severn, Whitminster, Hardwicke, Haresfield, Painswick, Bisley-with-Lypiatt, Miserden, Cranham, Minchinhampton Youth Hub, Moreton Valence, Longney, Elmore Harescombe, Brookthorpe- th with-Whaddon, Upton St Pitchcombe Tobacconist Rd. Wednesday 12 Copies of all the documents we have published Leonards Dec. 2.30pm – 6pm in connection with this consultation will be Cam & Dursley Stroud, Whiteshill & Ruscombe, Randwick, available to view alongside exhibition boards. Cainscross, Rodborough, Brimscombe & CamDates Par andish venues Council of anyOffice. th Thrupp, Chalford, Woodchester, Saturdayexhibitions 8 toDec. be Minchinhampton, Horsley, Nailsworth There will be exhibitions at XX venues, 10.30amconfirmed– 1.30pm focusing on sites and proposals for Dursley Methodist surrounding parishes. You can come along to Church, Castle Street. Stonehouse cluster Tuesday 11th Dec. any one of these, but we are hoping that this Stonehouse Town Hall, 2.30pm – 6.30pm Dates and venues of Highany exhibitionsStreet to be ‘clustering’ will help us to build up a picture th Dursley, Cam, Coaley, Stinchcombe, Thursdayconfirmed 13 Dec. of the particular proposals that most Uley, Nympsfield, Owlpen 2.30pm – 6.30pm concern different parts of the District. Stonehouse, Standish, Eastington, Frocester, Leonard Stanley, Kings Stanley “Parish clusters” Berkeley cluster SharpnessDates and venues Village of Hall, any Oldminster Lane. The current Local Plan is built around exhibitions tost be confirmed Wotton Cluster Saturday 1 Dec. KingswoodDates and venues Village of Hall, any Wickwar a series of eight ‘mini visions’ for 10.30am – 1.30pm th Road.exhibitions Monday to be 26 confiNov.rmed eight distinctive parts of the District.
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