Draft Green Infrastructure Strategy

December 2014 | Draft Green Infrastructure Strategy Draft Green Infrastructure Strategy December 2014 www.consult.waveney.gov.uk www.waveney.gov.uk/planningpolicy 1 December 2014 | Draft Green Infrastructure Strategy Contents How to use this document Sub Areas How to use this document ................................................................. 1 The Green Infrastructure Strategy collates the key findings of the Playing Pitch and Outdoor Sports Introduction .................................................................................. 2 Facilities Assessment and the Open Space Needs Objectives of the green infrastructure strategy ................................ 2 Assessment. Policy background .............................................................................. 2 This Green Infrastructure Strategy contains details on: Evidence base key findings: Summary of key findings of each Evidence Base .............................................................................. 3 assessment in the different sub areas of the District. Summary of the assessments that contribute towards the green infrastructure strategy ....................................................................... 3 The Strategy then looks at each sub area in more detail and includes: Summary of key findings: Summary of the key findings in Summary of Key Findings of Evidence Base to support Green each sub area to come out of all the assessments; Infrastructure Strategy ....................................................................... 4 Recommendations: General recommendations for green Allotments .......................................................................................... 4 infrastructure for the sub area; Amenity Green Space......................................................................... 5 Issues and projects for consideration: A list of project recommendations to consider to improve green Biodiversity ........................................................................................ 6 infrastructure provision; Green Corridors.................................................................................. 7 Strategic maps: Maps identifying green infrastructure and Beccles Area Parishes: Beccles, Worlingham general areas where improvements should be considered. Parks and Gardens ............................................................................. 8 Bungay Area Parishes: Bungay Playing Pitch and Outdoors Sports Facilities ...................................... 9 For more detailed information such as quantitative information, maps Halesworth Area Parishes: Halesworth and general discussion about provision in different areas and local Play Spaces ....................................................................................... 10 issues, the evidence base assessments should be visited. These are Kessingland Area Parishes: Kessingland available online at www.waveney.gov.uk/planning. Beccles Area ............................................................................... 11 North Lowestoft Area Wards: Gunton and Corton, Harbour, Normanston, Oulton, Many of the maps contained within the evidence bases are at a size Oulton Broad, St Margaret’s Bungay Area ............................................................................... 17 to be included within the text document. When viewing the map Rural Areas Parishes: All Saints and St. Nicholas South Elmham, Barnby, Barsham, online click on the map to enlarge to a scale which is easier to read Halesworth area ....................................................................... 22 Benacre, Blundeston, Blyford, Brampton with Stoven, Covehithe, Ellough, Flixton, and interpret the detail. Frostenden, Henstead with Hulver Street, Holton, Homersfield, Ilketshall St. Andrew, Kessingland area ....................................................................... 26 Ilketshall St. John, Ilketshall St. Lawrence, Ilketshall St. Margaret, Lound, Mettingham, The list of recommended projects to improve green infrastructure are Mutford, North Cove, Redisham, Ringsfield, Rumburgh, Rushmere, Shadingfield, North Lowestoft area ............................................................. 30 based on the findings of the assessments. This list provides guidance Shipmeadow, Somerleyton, Ashby and Herringfleet, Sotherton, Sotterley, South Cove, Spexhall, St Margaret South Elmham, St Michael South Elmham, St. Cross South about projects that could be considered however this list is not South Lowestoft area ............................................................. 36 Elmham, St. James South Elmham, St. Mary South Elmham, St. Peter South Elmham, exhaustive. Local issues that may not have been included within the Uggeshall, Westhall, Weston, Willingham St. Mary, Wissett, Wrentham Southwold and Reydon area ............................................... 43 Playing Pitch and Outdoors Sports Facilities Assessment or the Open Space Needs Assessment may justify their inclusion within this list South Lowestoft Area Wards: Carlton, Carlton Colville, Kirkley, Pakefield, Whitton Rural areas .................................................................................. 47 and unforeseen issues may arise over time. This list is intended to be Southwold Area Parishes: Reydon, Southwold a ‘live’ document that will be updated as appropriate to reflect the needs and demands for green infrastructure in the community. www.waveney.gov.uk/planningpolicy 1 December 2014 | Draft Green Infrastructure Strategy Introduction Waveney District Council has a diverse environment that Objectives of the green Policy background contains many different kinds of green spaces. These provide infrastructure strategy important roles to support wildlife and places where people Planning policies at the national and local level both have an impact on living in our local communities can access recreational The Green Infrastructure Strategy is an evidence base to support the the provision and management of green infrastructure. A national policy approach to delivering green infrastructure is set out in the National facilities. Local Plan and provide information about open space provision required to meet existing and future demand. The primary aims and objectives Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) and the supporting Planning Practice are: Guidance. The distribution of different forms of green infrastructure is closely assess spatial patterns of overall green infrastructure provision; related the characteristics of an area. The east of the District has Local policies to protect and enhance existing green infrastructure and beaches and cliffs, supporting a wide variety of rare plants and birds. identify linkages between different types of green infrastructure provide new green space when opportunities arise are set out in the Further inland and to the west this gives way to agricultural fields, provision; Waveney Local Plan. Figure 1 sets out how the Green Infrastructure hedges, rivers and small settlements. The built up areas of Lowestoft identify gaps in green infrastructure provision; Strategy relates to the Local Plan to support decision making. and the market towns, and to a lesser degree, the villages in the outlying identify linkages with green infrastructure outside the District; areas of the District, have a network of green spaces that support a identify areas where improvements would enhance green Figure 1 Green Infrastructure Strategy Relationship to Planning greater variety of activities and access. infrastructure and opportunities for new green infrastructure provision; identify action points to improve green infrastructure provision Annual Community National Planning in Waveney; Infrastructure Levy What is green infrastructure? Policy and Guidance provide evidence to support decisions to prioritise the use of Spend Green infrastructure is comprised of an interconnected range of green Community Infrastructure Levy funds to deliver green spaces and corridors. A green infrastructure network can include public Green infrastructure and open space facilities; CIL Charging and private spaces, nature reserves, heritage assets, churchyards, parks, Local Plan prepare an evidence base to support decision making and the Infrastructure playing fields and allotments as well as links between sites in the form of Schedule Review Local Plan. footpaths and cycleways, greenways, trees and hedgerows. Strategy Playing Pitch and Open Space Needs Green spaces and the corridors that link them can perform different Outdoor Sports Assessment roles in the community and the environment. For example, parkland can Facilities Assessment be used for recreational purposes, but it might also aid sustainable drainage and act as a haven for wildlife. Biodiversity Distribution Play Space What is the Green Infrastructure Strategy? Natural Green Space Allotments The Green Infrastructure Strategy is a document to support decision making by summarising key issues related to green spaces, and more Parks and Gardens Cemeteries and Churchyards generally open spaces, in the District. The Strategy distils the findings the Waveney Playing Pitch and Outdoor Sports Facilities Assessment and Greenways, Green Routes and the Waveney Open Space Needs Assessment. Amenity Green Space Lowestoft Green Corridors www.waveney.gov.uk/planningpolicy 2 December 2014 | Draft Green Infrastructure Strategy Evidence Base Summary of the assessments that Parks and gardens Quality and value assessments contribute towards identifying play

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