EAST AYRSHIRE LOCAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN DEVELOPMENT PLAN SCHEME FEBRUARY 2018 CONTENTS 1.0 Introduction 2.0 Local Development Plan 3.0 Local Development Plan 2 4.0 Minerals Local Development Plan 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Every planning authority must prepare a Development Plan Scheme on at least an annual basis. This sets out the authority’s timetable for preparing and reviewing their Strategic Development Plan or Local Development Plan and outlines how this will be done. The Development Plan Scheme must also contain a Participation Statement which sets out how people can get involved in the plan preparation process. 1.2 East Ayrshire Council does not need to prepare a Strategic Development Plan; instead it is required only to prepare Local Development Plan(s) (LDP). As there is no strategic level development plan for East Ayrshire, the local development plan sets out a strategic vision for the area. 1.3 In April 2017, East Ayrshire Council adopted the East Ayrshire Local Development Plan (2017). This replaced the East Ayrshire Local Plan (2010) for all matters excluding minerals. As stated in previous Development Plan Schemes, the Councils Cabinet decided in August 2013 that a separate Minerals Local Development Plan that would cover all mineral extraction matters should be prepared, in addition to the East Ayrshire Local Development Plan. A separate Minerals Local Development Plan is therefore under preparation. The existing development plan for East Ayrshire now currently comprises the following: East Ayrshire Local Development Plan 2017 Ayrshire Joint Structure Plan – approved November 2007 Minerals East Ayrshire Local Plan 2010 – adopted October 2010 matters only East Ayrshire Opencast Coal Subject Plan – adopted March 2003 In addition to the above mentioned documents, the Council has approved a number of statutory Supplementary Guidance and non-statutory Planning Guidance. The statutory Supplementary Guidance forms part of the Local Development Plan (see section 2 below). 1.4 Both the East Ayrshire LDP and the East Ayrshire Minerals LDP will cover the whole of the East Ayrshire area as shown on the map below: 2. EAST AYRSHIRE LOCAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2017 2.1 The East Ayrshire Local Development Plan was adopted on 3 April 2017. To get to this stage, the Plan met all the legislative requirements of the plan making process, as fully reported in previous Development Plan Schemes. 2.2 The proposed plan underwent Examination by the Department of Planning and Environmental Appeals (DPEA) between November 2015 and November 2016. East Ayrshire Council on 23 February 2017 agreed to adopt the Plan as modified, allowing for the Plan to be adopted on 3 April 2017. This was in line with the 2017 Development Plan Scheme, which stated that the Plan would be adopted in March/April 2017. 2.3 The Action Programme was approved by Cabinet on 28 June 2017, within the 3 month timescale set out in legislation. This was again in accordance with the 2017 Development Plan Scheme, which programmed the publication of the Action Programme for June/July 2017. 2.4 The Local Development Plan 2017 was subject to a full and robust Strategic Environmental Assessment, ensuring that environmental considerations were taken on board at an early stage and throughout the plan preparation process. The Environmental Report was consulted on, both at the Main Issues Report Stage and Proposed Plan stage. Following the Examination of the LDP, appropriate amendments were made to the Environmental Report to reflect the finalised position of the plan. Mitigation measures identified in the Environmental Report have been carried forward into the LDP. Following adoption of the Plan and coinciding with the adoption of the final pieces of Supplementary Guidance, a Post-Adoption SEA statement has been prepared and will be published and submitted to the SEA Gateway in March 2018. 2.5 The LDP 2017 refers to several pieces of Supplementary Guidance that require to be produced to support the policies of the Plan. These documents that are clearly linked to policies within the Plan, are therefore statutory and form part of the Development Plan. As per table 1 below, these have all now been produced and adopted, with the exception of the final four, which are subject to final approval by the Scottish Government. In addition, several non- statutory pieces of planning guidance have been produced. One outstanding piece of non- statutory planning guidance remains; a conservation area appraisal for Waterside in the Doon Valley. Preparation of this is underway and it is anticipated that it will be completed during 2018. Table 1: Supplementary Guidance and Planning Guidance Statutory Supplementary Guidance Non-statutory planning guidance Developer Contributions (2017) Community benefits from wind energy development (2017) Affordable Housing (2017) Ayrshire and Arran Forestry and Woodland Strategy (2014) Financial Guarantees (2017) Knockroon Design code (2010) Planning for Wind Energy (2017) Ayrshire Landscape Wind Capacity Study (2013) Heat Generation (2017) Bank Street / John Finnie Street Conservation Area Management Plan (2007) Dark Sky Park Lighting (2017) Catrine Conservation Area appraisals (2005) Public and private green infrastructure / open Galston Conservation Area appraisal (2014) space standards (2017) Shop front design guidance (2017) Cumnock Conservation Area appraisal (2009) Display of Advertisements design guidance Dalmellington Conservation Area appraisal (2017) (2017) Production of Masterplans (2017) Green infrastructure strategy (2015) Housing Market Areas (send to Scottish Govt Waterside (Doon Valley) Conservation Area for approval, March 2018) appraisal (underway) Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas (send to Scottish Govt for approval, March 2018) Housing in the Countryside (send to Scottish Govt for approval, March 2018) Householder design guidance (send to Scottish Govt for approval, March 2018) 2.6 The LDP 2017 contains placemaking maps for Kilmarnock, Cumnock, Galston, Stewarton and Dalmellington, which set out the projects and proposals to make the settlements as successful as they can be. Within the LDP, the Council makes a commitment to prepare placemaking maps for the rest of East Ayrshire’s settlements and sets out a timetable for this in the Action Programme. The placemaking maps will be adopted as supplementary guidance and will become part of the LDP. The production of the placemaking maps will complete the outstanding work that remains in relation to the LDP. 2.7 Table 2 below shows the indicative timetable for the production of placemaking maps. The timetable is subject to change; it is dependent on both the willingness of communities to get involved and the work of the Council’s Vibrant Communities team, which is working with communities to prepare Community-led Action Plans. The Action Plans will be used to inform the more spatially focussed placemaking maps. Table 2: Indicative programme for placemaking maps Year Settlement 2017 Newmilns and Greenholm Catrine (In progress) Ochiltree and Skares Dalrymple, Hollybush and Skeldon Dalmellington, Waterside and Mills Bellsbank Galston Moscow and Waterside North West Kilmarnock Logan, Lugar and Cronberry 2018 Kilmaurs New Cumnock Gatehead Burnside, Leggate, Connel Park and Bank Glen Mauchline Darvel and Priestland Fenwick, Laigh Fenwick and Drongan, Rankinston, Stair, Waterside Hayhill, Sinclairston and Coalhall Sorn and Auchencloigh Patna and Polnessan 2019 Crosshouse Knockentiber Netherthird, Craigens and Skerrington Kilmarnock town centre Hurlford and Crookedholm Shortlees Stewarton Cumnock 2020 Dunlop and Lugton Auchinleck Muirkirk 3. EAST AYRSHIRE LOCAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2 3.1 Following the adoption of the Local Development Plan 2017 work has now commenced on the preparation of East Ayrshire Local Development Plan 2. The key statutory stages are outlined below. Main Issues Report and Monitoring Statement 3.2 In advance of the preparation of the local development plan itself, the Council is required to prepare and consult widely on a Main Issues Report (MIR). Given the very recent adoption of LDP1, the MIR for LDP2 will concentrate very much on the real key issues, with the intention that it will form a succinct and focussed document. It will contain one or more reasonable sets of alternatives to allow people to make meaningful comments and to assist the Council in reaching a view on the final content of the local development plan. A Monitoring Statement will be published alongside the MIR which will look at the impact that existing development plans have had on the area and wider development and demographic trends that LDP2 will need to have cognisance of. The Proposed Plan for East Ayrshire 3.3 Taking into account representations received on the MIR, the Council will prepare and publish the Proposed Plan. This will give the Council’s settled view as to future development of the area. It will contain a Vision Statement which will give a broad view of what East Ayrshire could look like in 20 years. The Spatial Strategy details how the Council proposes to move toward achievement of the Vision and will include a detailed statement of the policies and proposals as to the development and use of land which will guide decisions on planning applications. The Proposed Plan will contain a set of maps of the area and will show the locations for new development for the first 10 years of the plan as well as a broad indication of the scale and location of development for the following 10 years. 3.4 Alongside the