DRONFIELD Neighbourhood Plan 2018 Draft Version 14c Dronfield Town Council ii Contents Dronfield: Neighbourhood Plan Table of Contents ■ WHAT IS A NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN? 5 TRANSPORT & ACCESS 25 4. PROTECTION OF IMPORTANT 41 COMMUNITY ASSETS HOW DOES A NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN THE PLAN AIMS 26 5 FIT INTO THE PLANNING SYSTEM? BACKGROUND 26 5. LISTED BUILDINGS 42 HOW IS THE PLAN STRUCTURED? 5 Traffic Management and Congestion 26 6. DRONFIELD CHARACTER BUILIDINGS ABOUT DRONFIELD 6 Sustainable Transport 27 AND STRUCTURES OF LOCAL HERITAGE INTEREST IDENTIFICATION CRITERIA HISTORY OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN 7 Cycling and Walking 27 Appendix 6 can be viewed online at THE PLAN’S AIMS & OBJECTIVES 8 Car Parking 28 www.dronfield.gov.uk/neighbourhood-plan 7. PROPOSED DRONFIELD CHARACTER COMMUNITY ASSETS 9 ECONOMY 29 BUILIDINGS AND STRUCTURES OF LOCAL OBJECTIVES 10 THE PLAN AIMS 30 HERITAGE INTEREST. 44 BACKGROUND 10 BACKGROUND 30 8. PROPOSED GREEN SPACES Health 10 Town Centre 30 OF PARTICULAR IMPORTANCE 49 Education 10 Shop Frontages in the Town Centre 31 9. EVIDENCE BASE 51 Services 10 Litter in the Town 32 Assets of Community Value 12 Shopping Hubs 32 GLOSSARY 51 Hot Food Takeaways 33 MAPS NATURAL ENVIRONMENT 13 Businesses and Employment 33 MAP 1 GREEN BELT 52 THE PLAN AIMS 14 MAP 2 TRAFFIC ACCIDENT DATA 53 BACKGROUND 14 HERITAGE 35 MAP 3 PUBLIC TRANSPORT NETWORK. 54 Green Belt 14 THE PLAN AIMS 35 MAP 4 TOWN CENTRE 55 Landscape Character 14 BACKGROUND 35 MAP 5 CONSERVATION AREAS 56 Green and Blue Infrastructure 16 Historic Buildings 35 MAP 6 LISTED BUILDINGS 57 Local Green Spaces 17 Dronfield Character Buildings and MAP 7 PROPOSED LOCAL GREEN SPACES & Structures of Local Heritage Interest 36 Trees and Woodlands 18 LEA BROOK VALLEY GREEN CORRIDOR 58 Conservation Areas 38 MAP 8 DRONFIELD NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSING & INFRASTRUCTURE 19 Design 39 PLAN AREA 59 THE PLAN AIMS 20 BACKGROUND 20 APPENDICES 41 Housing Allocation 20 1. COMMUNITY CONSULTATION SUMMARY OF RESPONSES Windfall Housing Development 20 Appendix 1 can be viewed online at Housing Mix. 22 www.dronfield.gov.uk/neighbourhood-plan Housing Affordability 23 2. SPECIALIST CONSULTEES 41 Infrastructure Needs 23 3. ASSETS OF COMMUNITY VALUE 41 Developer Contributions 24 Dronfield: Neighbourhood Plan Foreword iii FOREWORD would like to welcome you the Draft Any comments received during this stage will be Neighbourhood Plan for Dronfield Town. considered by the Steering Group, and the draft It reflects the hard work of the Dronfield Plan amended appropriately. ITown Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group, and the commitment of the Town Council to make We expect that a final version of the Plan will be Dronfield a better place to live, work and visit. published in late 2018. It will then be ‘Submitted’ to North East Derbyshire where it will undergo A neighbourhood plan is a document written by a further six-week period of consultation prior to the community that sets out planning policies independent examination. If it successfully passes for an area. It is used to determine planning this stage, a referendum will be held in which all applications and other planning decisions residents in the town will be asked whether or affecting that area. Through it we will seek to not they support the adoption of the Plan. ensure that Dronfield gets the right amount and type of development and in the right place. I would like to thank everyone who attended the numerous Steering Group meetings and The Plan is now at the draft stage. This means consultation events during the preparation of the that the Steering Group and Town Council is Draft Plan as well as the funding bodies Locality satisfied that it has a sound draft Plan, and and Awards for All, without whose help, input and now invites residents, landowners, businesses, support, this Plan could not have been developed agencies and others to give their views on it. or reflect the views of the community. This is in accordance with rules and regulations covering the preparation of a neighbourhood plan. Councillor Angelique Foster Details on how to comment can be found at Chairman of the Neighbourhood Plan http:www.dronfield.gov.uk/neighbourhood-plan.html Steering Group 4 What is it? Dronfield: Neighbourhood Plan Dronfield: Neighbourhood Plan What is it? 5 4 What is it? Dronfield: Neighbourhood Plan Dronfield: Neighbourhood Plan What is it? 5 What is a Neighbourhood Plan? 1. A neighbourhood plan is a planning document. It is part of the Government’s approach to planning to THE PLAN give local people influence in how their area develops How does a 2005 Adopted North East Derbyshire 2 – for example, the location neighbourhood plan District Local Plan. A revised North East Derbyshire Local Plan, which will of new housing, shops fit into the planning and employment related replace the saved policies of the 2005 development. system? Plan, is being developed; the evidence base and the policies contained within 2. The Dronfield 4. Although the Government’s this emerging District Local Plan has Neighbourhood Plan (“The intention is for local people to been considered in preparing the Plan”) provides a set of have a greater say in how their Dronfield Neighbourhood Plan. objectives for the future area develops, in preparing a • Not breach, and be otherwise of the town and sets out neighbourhood plan there are compatible with, European Union and certain defined planning regulations which must be taken into the European Convention on Human policies and proposals account. All neighbourhood plans Rights obligations; and to achieve these aims. It must meet the ’basic conditions’. • Not have a significant effect on also sets out a vision with These include: a European Site (as defined in the suggested plans for how Take account of national policies • Conservation of Habitats and Species the town* may develop in and advice contained in guidance Regulations 20123) either alone or ways that meet identified issued by the Secretary of State, in in combination with other plans or local need and ensure particular, in the National Planning projects. Dronfield remains a great Policy Framework1 (more commonly place to live, work and visit. known as the NPPF). 5. Crucially, it is important to 3. It covers the whole of • Contribute to the achievement of understand that while a neighbour- Dronfield as shown on sustainable development. hood plan can provide for more Be in general conformity with the Map 8. • development than has been set out *The terms ‘Dronfield, ‘The Town’ and strategic policies of the development in an approved District Local Plan, (in Dronfield Parish as used interchangeable. plan for the District of North East this instance North East Derbyshire They all refer to the area covered by the parish of Dronfield unless specifically Derbyshire. In the case of Dronfield, Local Plan), for the District, it does not stated otherwise. these are the ‘saved’ policies from the allow it to plan for less development. How is the plan structured? 6. The Plan is divided into the and do not form part of the • Policies and proposals to following sections: support the overall aims in each formal approved Dronfield • ‘About Dronfield’: details topic area Neighbourhood Plan. how the Neighbourhood Plan specifically relates to Dronfield 8. A large amount of background • ‘Delivering the Plan’: sets out and how it has been developed some of the main ways in which information has helped in • ‘Dronfield Town the policies and proposals in the producing the plan. Neighbourhood Plan Themes Plan may be implemented. What is known as ‘the evidence and Policies’ set out by topic: base’ includes a large number • A brief summary of the key 7. There is also a series of of documents that have been findings from consultation with appendices, including a glossary used to prepare the plan. residents and stakeholders of terms explaining the more The main documents can be • The key objectives of the Plan technical terms the Plan refers found at : in each topic area to. The Appendices contain www.dronfield.gov.uk/ • The brief introduction to the topic background information only neighbourhood-plan.html 6 The Area Dronfield:Dronfield: Neighbourhood bgfbgbgb Plan Dronfield: Neighbourhood Plan History and Objectives 7 gfbgbgb Neighbourhood Plan sdc- sxc- sdc- About Dronfield Ancient origins and a popular place to live 9. The town is situated within derivation of the name suggests have the largest privately owned North East Derbyshire District and that they perhaps also found open housing estate in Europe (“Gosforth comprises the three communities land which was infested by drones Valley”), when it was first built in of Dronfield, Dronfield Woodhouse and, for this reason, called the the 1970s. At the time of the 2011 and Coal Aston; it is surrounded place Dranfield, or, more familiarly, census, it had 9,388 dwellings and by large areas of open countryside Dronfield. Dronfield was recorded in a population of 21,261, of whom designated as Green Belt. It is the Domesday Book. 10,333 were male and 10,928 female. located in the valley of the River In total, 25.1% of the population was Drone, and lies between the town of 11. Evidence of the Town’s medieval aged 65 or over and 16.1% was Chesterfield and the city of Sheffield. origins can be found in the surviving under the age of 16. The majority The town covers an area of 3,457 cruck buildings, the parish church of the population is in good health, acres (13.99 km2) and is surrounded and the historic meandering educated and economically active. by the neighbouring villages and street pattern of the town centre. hamlets of Unstone, Holmesfield, Dronfield’s population increased 12. It is a popular place to live.