LONGHOPE PARISH Neighbourhood Development Plan 2016 - 2026
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LONGHOPE PARISH Neighbourhood Development Plan 2016 - 2026 0ur village. 0ur vision. DOCUMENT 1 of 6 Contents page 1. Introduction 1.1 What is a Neighbourhood Development Plan (NDP)? 3 1.2 The designated ‘Neighbourhood Area’ 3 1.3 Duration of the NDP 5 1.4 Process undertaken to produce the NDP 5 1.5 What is the scope of an NDP? 5 1.6 The strategic context for this NDP 5 2. The Parish of Longhope 7 3. Vision and objectives 3.1 Sustainable development 10 3.2 Main issues affecting the parish 10 4. Policies A Protecting and enhancing the environment 12 B Housing 15 C Economy 20 D Access and movement 23 E Community 26 F Infrastructure 28 5. Monitoring progress 29 Glossary 30 Acknowledgements The Longhope NDP Steering Committee (Chairman Mike Phelps, Roger Acland, Frank James, Peter Johnson, John McCrone, Richard Pett, Chris Phelps and Bill Reay) thanks for their help in the production of this Plan: the parishioners of Longhope; Locality for funding the process; FoDDC for professional planning input and help with the maps; Kate Baugh of GRCC; Dave Thorp for design work; our Parish Clerk; and the independent examiner. 2 Section 1 Introduction 1.1 What is a 1.2 The Neighbourhood designated Development ‘Neighbourhood Plan? Area’ 1.1.1 The Localism Act of 2011 the local planning authority is the 1.2.1 The Forest of Dean District empowered a parish council to Forest of Dean District Council Council gave notice that on 2 July produce a development plan for (FoDDC) and the NDP would take 2013 it validated an application the parish. These plans are known precedence over non-strategic from Longhope Parish Council to as ‘Neighbourhood Development policy prepared by district planners designate the Parish of Longhope Plans’ (NDPs) and are intended to when making planning decisions. as a Neighbourhood Area within guide development in a parish over the meaning of Section 61G of the the next decade or so. NDPs are 1.1.3 In addition to reflecting the Town and Country Planning Act intended to reflect the views of views of local people, an NDP 1990 as amended. local people on a range of planning must also conform to strategic matters that will affect the way planning policies at both national 1.2.2 It should be noted that, their parish develops, such as and district level. National while Longhope Parish includes how many new houses are built or planning policies are set out in the much of May Hill itself, it only where new employment sites might Government’s National Planning includes a small part of May be located. Policy Framework (NPPF). District Hill village (most of which lies planning policies (which must also in the Parish of Taynton). The 1.1.2 NDPs are drawn up by a conform to the NPPF) are set out in map overleaf shows the area steering committee on behalf of the FoDDC’s Core Strategy, Local covered by this NDP. a parish council, based on the Plan and Allocations Plan. views of local people. If passed by an independent examination and by a local referendum, an NDP becomes a legal document and is incorporated into the local planning authority’s statutory planning policy framework. For Longhope, 3 Longhope Parish © Crown copyright and database rights 2013 Ordnance Survey 100019102 07 February 2014 4 See Document 5 See Document 6 Map 1 Map 2 POLICIES MAP PARISH BOUNDARY for a larger version for a larger version of this map of this map 1.3 Duration 1.5 What is the 1.6 The strategic of the NDP scope of an NDP? context for this NDP 1.3.1 The Longhope NDP will 1.5.1 An NDP addresses 1.6.1 The FoDDC plan for cover the period 2016 to 2026, important planning, land use and development in the Forest of or until such time that the environmental concerns within Dean district is set out in the FoDDC formulates a new Core a parish, as identified during 2012 Core Strategy document. Strategy (CS) document. consultation with local people. Core Strategy Policy (CSP) 16 n It sets out a vision for the future designates Longhope as a ‘service of the parish. village‘ and states that new housing 1.4 Process n It lists the issues to be and employment development considered over the NDP period. opportunities in service villages will undertaken to n It contains policies to maintain tend to be ‘small in scale (e.g. single produce the NDP the distinctiveness and character plots, or pairs, small workshops or of a parish. changes of use of existing buildings 1.4.1 The basic process involved in n It plans for sustainable plus reuse of agricultural buildings)’. producing this NDP is set out in the development, to meet local need Longhope is, therefore, a suitable flow chart below. A key element for houses, jobs and infrastructure. location for some small-scale in the process is consultation growth to sustain its vitality, but with local people. The local views major developments would not be expressed on a range of planning appropriate. This is due in part to and development matters are central limited infrastructure (no medical to creating NDP policies and local centre and only one shop/post people must approve the final NDP office), the local topography (steep- through a referendum. sided valleys) and the rural setting. Process instigated by Parish Council 1.6.2 Although only suitable for small-scale growth, the need to plan for future sustainable Steering Committee formed development in Longhope was identified as a key issue when Extensive community engagement residents were consulted during the Longhope Parish Plan review Plan prepared by Steering Committee in 2011. This NDP is intended to meet that need and to address the with Council advice development issues that are of Pre-submission assessment concern to the local community. 1.6.3 In August 2015 the FoDDC Independent examination submitted a new Allocations Plan (AP) to the Secretary of State for Proceed to referendum independent examination by a Planning Inspector. The Inspector issued his Interim Findings in Referendum June 2016. Subsequently, the FoDDC forwarded a schedule of Neighbourhood Plan adopted by proposed Main Modifications (MMs) Forest of Dean District Council with supporting evidence to the Inspector for his consideration. 5 1.6.4 In reply (November 2016), the 1.6.5 None of the revised and new 1.6.6 The proposed Allocations Inspector outlined the need for the housing allocations to accompany Plan Publication Version 2015 does FoDDC to review and undertake the September 2016 proposed include three development sites a focused public consultation Main Modifications to the AP affect relating to Longhope on housing requirements and the Parish of Longhope. Parish namely: proposed new allocations before final proposed MMs can be settled. AP 91 Longhope Industrial Estate The area presently comprising Longhope Industrial Estate as AP 90 shown on the proposals map Transport is allocated to enable it to be redeveloped for a mixture of Depot A4136 employment generating uses AP 89 and housing. No more than Land off Church An area of approximately 4.3ha 30% of the 0.8ha site should be is allocated for employment occupied by housing and should be Road, Longhope generating uses. This includes an concentrated in the northern part existing site of 2.2ha which may of the site. About 1.34ha of land off Church be redeveloped for this purpose Road is allocated for about 28 and an additional 2.1ha presently In addition, the AP also proposes dwellings. Development must be undeveloped. All development will changes to the defined settlement able to demonstrate that it will need to be considered in terms of boundary. not have an adverse effect on the potential impact and the proposed integrity of the Wye Valley and extension of the site will need to be The policies in this NDP are aligned Forest of Dean bat Special Area the subject of careful design and to the strategic policies in the of Conservation (SAC). additional landscaping. proposed FoDDC Allocations Plan. © Crown copyright and database rights Ordnance 2013 Survey 100019102 6 Section 2 The Parish of Longhope 2.1 Longhope is a rural parish 2.2 The A4136 corridor and the 2.4 In addition to dwellings there lying on the Gloucestershire/ area to the south (Mill Lane/ are a number of commercial Herefordshire border, close to Velthouse Lane/Hopes Hill/ enterprises in this area of the the Forest of Dean. The name Old Hill/Little London/The parish, mainly located along the ‘Longhope’ comes from Old English Slad) comprises linear ‘ribbon’ A4136 corridor. These include and means a long, enclosed valley. settlement along the main road Harts Barn Craft Centre, the Yew Longhope is mentioned in the itself, with a scattering of dwellings Tree public house, Richard Read Doomsday Book, which records situated down small (often ‘cul- Commercials, the Dick Whittington that there was a mill by a stream. de-sac’) lanes. The land bordering Farm Park and an alpaca farm. The The parish topography is typified the A4136 comprises undulating Severn Trent Water sewage works by long valleys enclosed by steep- and often very steep open fields is sited off Velthouse Lane, as are sided, wooded hills. The highest and wooded areas. Away from the the empty sheds of John Smith’s point in the parish is May Hill, main road the buildings are often former chicken business and the which rises to around 972 feet separated by large distances. The buildings of a former piggery. (296 metres) and is a significant Slad and some parts of Old Hill are landmark with its distinctive crown extremely steep.