Bude, Stratton, Flexbury and Poughill Framework Plan Potential Housing

Bude, Stratton, Flexbury and Poughill Framework Plan

Potential Housing Sites Assessment – Working Draft

September 2011 Revision

Planning Delivery Team (East)

Contents Page No.

1 Introduction 1

2 Housing in Bude, Stratton, Flexbury & Poughill: Background Statistics 1

3 SHLAA Information 2

4 Framework Plan Housing Capacity – Assumptions 2

5 Results – Bude, Stratton, Flexbury and Poughill: Potential

Housing Capacity in Urban Areas 3

6 Conclusion 3

Appendix 1: Sites included in the Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (SHLAA) for the Bude, Stratton, Flexbury and Poughill Areas 4

Appendix 2: Bude, Stratton, Flexbury and Poughill Areas – Existing Urban Capacity 5

Appendix 3: Locations of Sites in Bude, Stratton, Flexbury and Poughill Urban Areas, either identified in the SHLAA or with Planning Permission for over 10 dwellings. 6

2 1 Introduction

This short paper sets out an assessment and assumptions regarding potential housing capacity within the urban areas1 of Bude Stratton, Flexbury and Poughill, as of September 2011. This paper has been prepared as part of work to develop a Town Framework Plan for these areas. The Town Framework Plan is supporting evidence for Cornwall’s Core Strategy, which will cover the period 2010 to 2030.

The paper contains two tables (Appendices 1 & 2) showing potential housing sites within the urban areas of Bude, Stratton, Flexbury and Poughill. A map illustrating sites which have been identified within the Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (SHLAA); and, sites with planning permission for over 10 dwellings is contained within this report as Appendix 3.

The purpose of this assessment is to clarify the following:

• How many dwellings have been built (1st April 2010 – 31st March 2011); • The number of dwellings under construction (1st April 2011); • The number of dwellings permitted by existing planning permissions but not yet started (1st April 2011); • The number of dwellings on potential sites of over 10 dwellings included in Cornwall Council’s Housing Trajectory but not yet with permission (1st April 2011); and, • Urban (infill) sites that may be suitable for development as identified through the SHLAA, and not included above.

This data will inform the development of the Bude, Stratton, Flexbury and Poughill Town Framework Plan and can be deducted from the level of growth that this needs to plan for over the period of the Core Strategy (2010-2030). At the time of writing it must be noted that the level of growth is yet to be determined.

Work on the Core Strategy and Town Framework will develop scenarios and options for growth, in the form of urban extensions, which can be tested through the plan making process. This paper provides a starting point for assessments to determine the most sustainable location(s), around the urban areas of Bude, Stratton, Flexbury and Poughill, for potential urban extension(s), should these be required.

2 Housing in Bude, Stratton, Flexbury and Poughill: Background Statistics.

Some facts that help to put any level of future housing growth into perspective are as follows:

• In 2010 there were approximately 4,939 dwellings in the urban areas of Bude, Stratton, Flexbury and Poughill and 8,335 within the Community Network Area overall.

• Bude, Stratton, Flexbury and Poughill accommodated 1,084 new dwellings, between 1991-2010, 465 of these were developed between 2001-2010.

1 The term Urban Area refers to the area within the Development Boundary, as set out in North Cornwall District Local Plan (Adopted – April 1999).

1 • In Bude, Stratton, Flexbury and Poughill, on average 62 new dwellings were completed per year (1991-2001), this decreased to an average rate of completions of 52 dwellings per year (2001-2010).

• The wider Community Network Area (including the urban areas of Bude, Stratton, Flexbury and Poughill) accommodated 1,563 new dwellings, between 1991-2010, 694 of these were developed between 2001-2010.

• In the wider Community Network Area (including Bude, Stratton, Flexbury and Poughill), on average 87 new dwellings were completed per year (1991- 2001), this decreased to an average rate of completions of 77 dwellings per year (2001-2010).

• The Homechoice register identified an affordable housing need of 720 dwellings as of March 2011. The figures in Table 1 below indicates the number of dwellings that would be required to be delivered, under various affordable housing contributions, to serve this need.

Table 1. The number of dwellings that would be required to deliver the Community Network Area affordable housing target

Total affordable Level of affordable housing provision housing need over plan period 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45% 50% 720 3,598 2,8792,399 2,056 1,799 1,599 1,439

3 SHLAA Information

Appendix 1 presents all sites that have been identified through Cornwall’s SHLAA. The SHLAA gives a theoretical assumption of the development capacity in and around Bude, Stratton, Flexbury and Poughill. Due to the nature, purpose and process of the SHLAA there are a number of sites identified (particularly those outside of the urban area on Greenfield sites) that will not be suitable to be included within the Framework Plan process as suitable for development. A subsequent table/trajectory (Appendix 2) has therefore been prepared omitting any such sites and incorporating further information that has become available as a result of the annual review of Cornwall Council’s Housing Trajectory (review undertaken in April of each year).

4 Framework Plan Housing Capacity - Assumptions

Appendix 2 is a starting point of a potential housing trajectory for the Bude, Stratton, Flexbury and Poughill Framework Plan. It includes the following:

As noted in Section 3, this assessment (and consequently Appendix 2) does not include any Greenfield sites that surround either Bude, Stratton, Flexbury or Poughill. Greenfield sites have been left out at this stage as an urban extension(s) study will be carried out for the area which will determine the most sustainable location(s) and capacity for an urban extension(s). The urban extension study will incorporate a landscape assessment, accessibility mapping and other assessments including the SHLAA.

5 Results – Bude, Stratton, Flexbury and Poughill: Potential Housing Capacity in the Urban Areas

The figures presented in Appendix 1 & 2 demonstrate that there is a potential capacity to develop in the region of 605 dwellings within the urban areas of Bude, Stratton, Flexbury and Poughill. Appendix 3 presents a map of sites with planning approval for over 10 dwellings which are not yet fully built.

At the time of writing (September 2011), 566 of these 605 have approved planning permissions: this follows the recent approval for 428 dwellings as part of a mixed use development at an area known locally as Binhamy Farm. 39 of the 605 remain as either undetermined or potential planning applications that are included within Cornwall Council’s Housing Trajectory.

605 dwellings can therefore be deducted from the level of growth that the Bude, Stratton, Flexbury and Poughill Framework Plan needs to plan for over the period of the Core Strategy (2010-2030). NB: At the time of writing it must be noted that the level of growth is yet to be determined.

6 Conclusion

The initial assessment set out above has given a broad indication of potential housing capacity within the urban areas of Bude, Stratton, Flexbury and Poughill.

These assumptions can act as the starting point for further work within the Framework Plan process.

There is potential for 605 dwellings within the existing urban area of Bude, Stratton, Flexbury and Poughill.

This paper will continue to be updated to reflect the available evidence as assessments continue within the Framework Plan process.

3 Appendix 1: Sites included in the Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (SHLAA) for the Bude, Stratton, Flexbury and Poughill Areas

Plng App Net Total UPRN Ref Bude, Stratton, Flexbury and Poughill Capacity Source Ref Area Units Permission 212 BUD33 Stratton Manor, Diddies Road Planning Permission 2007/1958 0.21 11 213 BUD34 Marshalls Garage Planning Permission 2003/01445 0.11 5 214 BUD35 Well Hill, Poughill Road Planning Permission 2008/01337 0.31 5 215 BUD36 Land at Flexbury Park Planning Permission 2007/01927 0.08 11 216 BUD37 Land to south of Meadow Drive Planning Permission 2008/00993 0.48 3 217 BUD38 4/6 Summerlease Crescent Planning Permission 2005/00348 0.10 12 218 BUD39 Octagon Stores Planning Permission 2004/01306 0.08 5 219 BUD40 46 Kings Hill Planning Permission 2004/01288 0.08 7 220 BUD41 Land adj Pentire Court, Higher Wharf Planning Permission 2007/00072 0.13 14 Sub Total: 1.58 73

Urban/Rural

Sub Total: 0.00 0

Greenfield 116 BUD4 Site west of A39, adjoining Kings Hill Industrial Estate Existing employment site 6.3 250 118 BUD6 Binhamy Farm, Stratton Road Call for Sites 23.58 5 119 BUD7 Site west of A39, south of Kings Hill Industrial Estate Call for Sites 4.6 188 120 BUD8 The Pump Field, Lynstone Meadows Call for Sites 1.85 122 121 BUD9 Site north of Upton Meadow, South West of Bude Call for Sites 1.87 77 123 BUD11 Site west of The Villa, Poughill Call for Sites 0.469 19 124 BUD12 Site north east of Flexbury Call for Sites 5.03 291 125 BUD13 Broadclose Hill Call for Sites 0.253 10 126 BUD14 Site south of Barn Park, North East of Bude Call for Sites 5.81 251 127 BUD15 Site north of Stratton Road, adjoining Stratton & Bude Call for Sites 16.96 748 128 BUD16 Site south east of Stratton at Howells Bridge Call for Sites 3.56 210 129 BUD17 Site adjoining A39 south of Stratton Call for Sites 2.7 104 130 BUD18 Site west of Bagbury Road Call for Sites 3.04 123 131 BUD19 Site west of Upton Meadows Call for Sites 4.59 217 133 BUD21 Site south west of Poughill Call for Sites 0.2 7 134 BUD22 Site north of Flexbury, off Poughill Road Call for Sites 3.03 132 135 BUD23 Site north west of Pethericks Mill Call for Sites 0.13 300 180 BUD27 Land adjacent 2 Maer Rise, Maer Lane Call for Sites 2.4 30 181 BUD28 Land South East of Stratton at Howells Bridge, Stratton Call for Sites 1.45 210 182 BUD29 Land adjacent Pollards Farm, Stratton Call for Sites 0.77 31 186 BUD30 Trelowarth, Cleavelands Call for Sites 0.64 25 187 BUD31 Road off Howard Lane, Opposite Howards Farm Call for Sites 0.28 45 Sub Total: 83.212 3395 SHLAA Sites Total: 84.792 3468

4 Appendix 2: Bude, Stratton, Flexbury and Poughill Areas – Existing Urban Capacity

No of Bude, Stratton, Flexbury and Poughill Urban Areas Dwellings a Dwellings Built (1st April 2010 - 31st March 2011) 51 b Dwellings under construction (1st April 2011) 24 c Dwellings permitted but not yet started (1st April 2011) 63 d Total Built and Permitted (a + b + c) 138 e SHLAA Sites (from sources other than existing Planning Permissions) 0 f New planning applications/pre-applications (not determined) (on sites >10) 467 g Potential Total (d + e + f) 605

5 Appendix 3: Locations of Sites in Bude, Stratton, Flexbury and Poughill Urban Areas either identified in the SHLAA or with Planning Permission for over 10 dwellings.