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Contents Chapter Page 1. Introduction and background Introduction ...................................................................................................................................................1 Background ...................................................................................................................................................2 PART ONE 2. Strategy and Part One policies Introduction ...................................................................................................................................................5 Development .................................................................................................................................................5 Environment ................................................................................................................................................ 10 Transport ..................................................................................................................................................... 13 PART TWO 3. Development Economic development ............................................................................................................................... 15 Population and housing ............................................................................................................................. 25 Retailing ......................................................................................................................................................34 Tourism, leisure and community uses........................................................................................................ 40 4. Environment Sustainable development ........................................................................................................................... 43 Built form and landscape ........................................................................................................................... 48 Open space and recreation........................................................................................................................ 56 Green Belt and the countryside ................................................................................................................. 73 Nature conservation ................................................................................................................................... 77 Conservation of historic environments ....................................................................................................... 83 Mineral extraction and unstable land ......................................................................................................... 91 Waste disposal ........................................................................................................................................... 95 Pollution and other hazards ........................................................................................................................97 5. Transport Introduction ...............................................................................................................................................103 Public transport .........................................................................................................................................105 Traffic management ................................................................................................................................... 110 Parking ...................................................................................................................................................... 118 Pedestrians and cyclist ............................................................................................................................. 122 Highway improvements ............................................................................................................................. 126 Provision of transport infrastructure .......................................................................................................... 131 6. Implementation Introduction ............................................................................................................................................... 138 Resources ................................................................................................................................................. 138 Development control ................................................................................................................................. 140 Preparation of master plans and development briefs ............................................................................... 142 Environmental considerations ................................................................................................................... 144 Infrastructure, planning obligations and developer contributions .............................................................. 145 Equal opportunities ................................................................................................................................... 148 Monitoring and evaluating the plan ........................................................................................................... 149 7 . Development Control Policy Statements Development control policy statements..................................................................................................... 151 Newcastle upon Tyne Unitary Development Plan Schedule of maps Map Opposite page 1. Main approaches and major movement corridors......................................................................... 52 2. Area subject to aircraft noise .......................................................................................................102 3. City Centre road heirachy ............................................................................................................ 114 4. Citywide cycle route network ....................................................................................................... 124 5. City Centre defined town centre .................................................................................................. 190 6. Gosforth High Street defined town centre.................................................................................... 190 7 . Shields Road defined town centre ...............................................................................................190 Newcastle upon Tyne Unitary Development Plan 1. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND INTRODUCTION Preparing Newcastle’s Unitary Development Plan 1.1 The Unitary Development Plan will guide land use and transportation planning in Newcastle to the year 2006. It will help to shape public and private sector efforts to regenerate the City, and provide a regulatory framework to safeguard and improve the environment. 1.2 The UDP has completed the following stages: Strategic Guidance In April 1989 the Secretary of State for the Environment issued Strategic Guidance as a framework for UDPs being prepared by the five Tyne and Wear Metropolitan District Councils. During the preparation of this Guidance, the Department of the Environment consulted a wide range of organisations within the Region and nationally. Public Consultation on the Draft UDP Newcastle’s Draft UDP was published in May 1991. Between June and the end of October 1991 wide ranging consultation was undertaken, which resulted in many responses to the Draft Plan. Preparation of the Deposit UDP Following public consultation the City Council examined the response and reconsidered the contents of the Draft Plan. On 10th May 1993 the City Council approved the Deposit UDP. Public Inquiry A Public Inquiry into the Deposit UDP was held between November 1994 and June 1995. The report of the Inquiry Inspector was published in December 1996. Adoption The Plan was formally adopted by the City Council on 28th January 1998. Format of this Plan 1.3 In redrafting the Plan following consultation on the Draft, a simplified structure was adopted. This fulfils the Government’s requirement that the Plan should have three main elements: Part One This sets out the City Council’s aims, objectives and strategic policies. The structure of Part One is provided by three themes - Development, Environment and Transport, within which the City Council’s eight aims are set out. Part Two This sets out detailed policies and specific proposals. Policies included in Part One are repeated and then amplified in certain cases. The reasoned justification for the Plan is within Part Two. Detailed development control policy statements are set out in the final chapter of the Plan. In some cases these statements are complemented by supplementary planning guidance notes, which have been approved by the City Council’s Development Control Sub-Committee. While supplementary guidance does not form part of this Plan it will be a material consideration in determining certain planning applications. Proposals Map This shows the Plan’s proposals on an Ordnance Survey base. An inset map shows proposals for the City Centre at a larger scale. Newcastle upon Tyne Unitary Development Plan Introduction 1 BACKGROUND Background facts 1.4 The factual background to the City’s UDP Strategy is as follows: Economy and jobs 1.5 During the 1980’s growth in the service sector of the City’s economy helped to compensate for some of the employment lost in the manufacturing industries