Flintshire Local Development Plan Deposit Draft September 2019 Flintshire County Council
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Flintshire Local Development Plan 2015 - 2030 Deposit Plan September 2019 Flintshire Local Development Plan Deposit Draft September 2019 Flintshire County Council Mynegai Policy Index 1. Policy Index 5 Foreword 2. Foreword 11 3. Introduction 12 How to View and Comment on the 12 Deposit Local Development Plan How Have We Arrived at the Deposit 13 Plan? How to Use/Navigate and Interpret 14 the Plan Strategic Context 16 County Profile / Overview 19 Key Issues and Drivers for Change 20 Forming the Plan’s Strategy from 23 This Context The Growth Strategy of the Plan 26 Employment Growth 26 Housing Growth and its Sustainable 28 Location The Preferred Strategy 32 Strategic Policies 4. Strategic Policies 38 5. Strategic Policies - Creating Sustainable Places and 41 Communities 6. Strategic Policies - Supporting 70 a Prosperous Economy Flintshire County Council Flintshire Local Development Plan Deposit Draft September 2019 Mynegai 7. Strategic Policies - Meeting 87 Housing Needs 8. Strategic Policies - Valuing the 99 Environment Development Management Policies (Topic, Criteria and Area Based Policies) 9. Development Management Policies - Creating 115 Sustainable Places and Communities 10. Development Management Policies - Supporting a 129 Prosperous Economy 11. Development Management Policies - Meeting Housing 150 Needs 12. Development Management Policies - Valuing the 169 Environment Monitoring 13. Monitoring 210 Appendices 14. Appendix 1 - Housing 226 Commitments Flintshire Local Development Plan Deposit Draft September 2019 Flintshire County Council Mynegai Technical Terms and Glossary 15. Technical Terms and Glossary 231 Flintshire Local Development Plan Deposit Draft September 2019 Flintshire County Council 4 Policy Index 1 Flintshire Local Development Plan Deposit Draft September 2019 Flintshire County Council 5 Policy Index 1 Table 1 Page Strategic Policies Creating Sustainable Places and Communities Policy STR1: Strategic Growth 43 Policy STR2: The Location of Development 46 Policy STR3: Strategic Sites 52 Policy STR4: Principles of Sustainable Development, 56 Design and Placemaking Policy STR5: Transport and Accessibility 60 Policy STR6: Services, Facilities and Infrastructure 65 Supporting a Prosperous Economy Policy STR7: Economic Development, Enterprise and 72 Employment Policy STR8: Employment Land Provision 76 Policy STR9: Retail Centres and Development 79 Policy STR10: Tourism, Culture, and Leisure 83 Meeting Housing Needs Policy STR11: Provision of Sustainable Housing Sites 89 Policy STR12: Provision for Gypsies and Travellers 95 Valuing the Environment Policy STR13: Natural and Built Environment, Green 101 Networks and Infrastructure Policy STR14: Climate Change and Environmental 105 Protection Policy STR15: Waste Management 109 6 Flintshire County Council Flintshire Local Development Plan Deposit Draft September 2019 1 Policy Index Policy STR16: Strategic Planning for Minerals 112 Development Management Policies (Topic, Criteria and Area Based Policies) Creating Sustainable Places and Communities Policy PC1: The Relationship of Development to 115 Settlement Boundaries Policy PC2: General Requirements for Development 116 Policy PC3: Design 117 Policy PC4: Sustainability and Resilience of New 118 Development Policy PC5: Transport and Accessibility 119 Policy PC6: Active Travel 121 Policy PC7: Passenger Transport 122 Policy PC8: Airport Safeguarding Zone 123 Policy PC9: Protection of Disused Railway Lines 123 Policy PC10: New Transport Schemes 124 Policy PC11: Mostyn Docks 126 Policy PC12: Community Facilities 126 Supporting a Prosperous Economy Policy PE1: General Employment Land Allocations 129 Policy PE2: Principal Employment Areas 131 Policy PE3: Employment Development Outside Allocated 134 Sites and Principal Employment Areas Policy PE4: Farm Diversification 135 Policy PE5: Expansion of Existing Employment Uses 137 Policy PE6: Protection of Employment Land 137 Policy PE7: Retail Hierarchy 139 Policy PE8: Development within Primary Shopping Areas 140 Flintshire Local Development Plan Deposit Draft September 2019 Flintshire County Council 7 Policy Index 1 Policy PE9: Development outside Primary Shopping 141 Areas Policy PE10: District and Local Centres 142 Policy PE11: Edge and Out of Town Retail Development 143 Policy PE12: Tourist Accommodation, Facilities and 145 Attractions Policy PE13: Caravan Development in the Open 147 Countryside Policy PE14: Greenfield Valley 148 Meeting Housing Needs Policy HN1: New Housing Development Proposals 150 Policy HN2: Density and Mix of Development 153 Policy HN3: Affordable Housing 154 Policy HN4: Housing in the Countryside 155 Policy HN4-A: Replacement Dwellings 156 Policy HN4-B: Residential Conversion of Rural Buildings 157 Policy HN4-C: Infill Development in Groups of Houses 158 Policy HN4-D: Affordable Housing Exceptions Schemes 160 Policy HN5: House Extensions and Alterations 161 Policy HN6: Annex Accommodation 162 Policy HN7: Houses in Multiple Occupation 163 Policy HN8: Gypsy and Traveller Sites 165 Policy HN9: Gypsy and Traveller Accommodation 167 Valuing the Environment Policy EN1: Sports, Recreation and Cultural Facilities 169 Policy EN2: Green Infrastructure 170 8 Flintshire County Council Flintshire Local Development Plan Deposit Draft September 2019 1 Policy Index Policy EN3: Undeveloped Coast and Dee Estuary 175 Corridor Policy EN4: Landscape Character 176 Policy EN5: Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty 177 Policy EN6: Sites of Biodiversity Importance 178 Policy EN7: Development Affecting Trees, Woodland 179 and Hedgerows Policy EN8: Built Historic Environment and Listed 181 Buildings Policy EN9: Development In or Adjacent to Conservation 182 Areas Policy EN10: Buildings of Local Interest 183 Policy EN11: Green Barriers 185 Policy EN12: New Development and Renewable and 187 Low Carbon Energy Technology Policy EN13: Renewable and Low Carbon Energy 188 Development Policy EN14: Flood Risk 190 Policy EN15: Water Resources 191 Policy EN16: Development on or near Landfill Sites or 193 Derelict and Contaminated Land Policy EN17: Development of Unstable Land 194 Policy EN18: Pollution and Nuisance 195 Policy EN19: Managing Waste Sustainably 196 Policy EN20: Landfill Buffer Zone 197 Policy EN21: Locations for Waste Management Facilities 198 Policy EN22: Criteria for Waste Management Facilities 199 and Operations Policy EN23: Minerals Safeguarding 200 Policy EN24: Minerals Buffer Zones 202 Flintshire Local Development Plan Deposit Draft September 2019 Flintshire County Council 9 Policy Index 1 Policy EN25: Sustainable Minerals Development 205 Policy EN26: Criteria for Minerals Development 207 Policy EN27: Secondary and Recycled Aggregate 208 Flintshire Local Development Plan Deposit Draft September 2019 Flintshire County Council 10 Foreword 2 Flintshire Local Development Plan Deposit Draft September 2019 Flintshire County Council 11 Foreword 2 2.1 I am very pleased to publish this deposit Local Development Plan (LDP) in order to seek the views of the communities in Flintshire, key stakeholders, land owners and developers and other interested parties. 2.2 This plan, together with relevant supporting documents and evidence, sets out the planning strategy for Flintshire up to 2030, along with the policy framework that will be used to guide how this strategy will be followed and achieved. 2.3 This is an important plan for a number of reasons. Whilst clearly fulfilling a statutory duty to meet the requirement for a plan led system in Wales, it is also a response to the vulnerable position Flintshire’s communities are placed in by the lack of an adopted development plan, and the pressure for speculative development that comes from the national policy encouragement of this. Thankfully this position is currently under review, allowing the Council to invest more of the available resources in producing this plan. 2.4 I and the Council as a whole, fully recognises the need for new houses and to facilitate the creation of new jobs, but this must be done in a balanced, controlled and sustainable manner, in order to ensure that in striving to achieve the aims of the Well-Being Act, this does not happen (as has been experienced in Flintshire) in a manner that causes harm to communities. In contrast, in developing this plan the Council has been careful to plan for growth at the right level, in support of a clear sub-regional Growth Vision, and in the most sustainable locations thereby promoting positive placemaking, something that speculative piecemeal development cannot do. 2.5 It is my view that in achieving this balance, this plan represents a sensible, positive and sound expression of the way growth should be planned for in Flintshire. The Council would like to know what you think about the policies and proposals contained within this plan, before it is then submitted to the Welsh Government and Planning Inspectorate for examination. 2.6 Please remember it is important to submit your views within the time allowed for consultation and by the closing deadline of 5pm on Monday 11th November 2019. Councillor Chris Bithell, Portfolio Holder for Planning & Public Protection 12 Flintshire County Council Flintshire Local Development Plan Deposit Draft September 2019 3 Introduction How to View and Comment on the Deposit Local Development Plan 3.1 The Deposit LDP consultation presents an opportunity for all interested parties to read and understand and comment on how the plan’s policies and proposals will help deliver growth over the plan period. Whilst the plan is also broader ranging in its