Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment: Volume 2 – Appendices to Main Report
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North Northamptonshire Joint Planning Unit STRATEGIC HOUSING LAND AVAILABILITY ASSESSMENT: VOLUME 2 – APPENDICES TO MAIN REPORT February 2009 ROGER TYM & PARTNERS 3 Museum Square Leicester LE1 6UF t 0116 249 3970 f 0116 249 3971 e [email protected] w www.tymconsult.com This document is formatted for double-sided printing. CONTENTS Appendix 1 Call for Sites Invitation Letter Appendix 2 Criteria for Selecting Settlements and SUEs, and Plans showing the Agreed Settlement/Broad Locations Appendix 3 Site Assessment Criteria Appendix 4 Schedule of Category 1 Sites Appendix 5 Schedule of Category 2 Sites Appendix 6 Schedule of Category 3 Sites Appendix 7 Spatial Distribution of C1, C2 & C3 Sites Appendix 8 Plan Showing the Location of the Sustainable Urban Extensions APPENDIX 1 TO MAIN REPORT Call for Sites Invitation Letter Our Ref: XXXX 29 February 2008 Dear Sir/Madam NORTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STRATEGIC HOUSING LAND AVAILABILITY ASSESSMENT – CALL FOR SITES WITH DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL Roger Tym & Partners (RTP) has been appointed by the North Northamptonshire Joint Planning Unit (NNJPU) to carry out a Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (SHLAA) study across North Northamptonshire, which is the area covered by East Northamptonshire, Corby, Kettering and Wellingborough Councils. The purpose of the SHLAA study is to provide up-to-date information on the future housing potential in the study area, by identifying the amount of land that is available (or likely to become available) for housing in the foreseeable future. The study methodology will be consistent with the SHLAA Practice Guidance published by CLG in July 2007. The study outputs can be used by the four Councils to inform their various Local Development Documents (LDDs) and assist in annual monitoring. RTP is now in the early stages of the SHLAA study process, which involves gathering information on potential housing sites within and around the main study area settlements, as well as several potential Sustainable Urban Extensions (SUEs) and other non-strategic settlement extensions. This includes collecting information from sources such as the National Land Use Database, Housing Land Monitors and information that has already been put forward on potential housing sites. To ensure that RTP has details of all possible opportunities for housing development in the areas being examined we are also inviting the submission of information on possible housing opportunities not previously brought to the attention of the NNJPU or the four Councils. Therefore, this letter has been sent to you as an agent/landowner/developer/land user/member or representative of the local community who may have interests in the area. A total of 40 existing settlements have been identified for the purposes of the study (this methodology can be viewed on the NNJPU web site www.nnjpu.org.uk ), i.e. those with the best provision of community facilities and local services. RTP will also consider the potential for additional housing at the five potential SUEs as identified in the emerging North Northamptonshire Core Spatial Strategy (CSS), as well as re-assessing alternative sites that were put forward during the consultation process. You are invited to submit details for any site that you consider capable of supporting housing development within/adjacent to any of the 40 study area settlements (including the potential SUEs). It is worth emphasising that a key objective of the CSS is to locate development in the main urban areas, particularly the Growth towns of Corby, Kettering and Wellingborough, so as to support urban renaissance, regeneration, recycling of land and sustainable patterns of travel. The CSS makes clear that there is only limited potential for housing elsewhere, which is necessary for meeting local needs in existing villages. Accordingly, for some of the smaller settlements, RTP will only consider sites if they are within the defined village boundaries. For the remaining study area settlements, sites will be considered both within and adjoining their development boundaries. 29 February 2008 Page 2 Existing Study Area Settlements Aldwincle Earls Barton King's Cliffe Stanion Barnwell Easton on the Hill Little Addington Stanwick Bozeat Finedon Mawsley Thrapston Brigstock Geddington Nassington Titchmarsh Broughton Great Doddington Oundle Warmington Bulwick Gretton Pytchley Weldon Burton Latimer Higham Ferrers Raunds Wellingborough Corby Irchester Ringstead Wilbarston/Stoke Albany Cottingham/Middleton Irthlingborough Rothwell Wollaston Desborough Kettering Rushden Woodford Potential SUEs (named in the Core Spatial Strategy) North east of Corby ('Priors Hall') Wellingborough East ('WEAST') Corby Western Urban Extension North west of Wellingborough East of Kettering There is a minimum site size threshold for this study of 0.25 hectares (0.62 acres), and RTP will not be able to consider any sites that are smaller than this. RTP does not need information on sites that already benefit from an unimplemented planning permission (RTP has already been supplied with details of these sites). If you wish to participate, you should send details of any potential housing sites that satisfy the above criteria to RTP using the enclosed pro-forma, together with any other material you may wish to include. Please note that you are requested to complete the pro-forma in as much detail as possible within the time period available. Substantial, detailed surveys are not required at this stage. Whilst we would prefer you to use the pro-forma, your submission should include the following as a minimum: written description of the site’s location; a detailed plan at 1:2500 or 1:1250 scale (preferably on an Ordnance Survey base map) clearly showing the site’s boundaries; your reasons for believing the site to be suitable for housing development; how the site is consistent with the strategy set out in the CSS; your opinion of when the site could be developed for housing; the number of dwelling units that you think the site is capable of accommodating, with reasons; any constraints to development you are aware of, and what needs to be done to overcome such constraints; and any other information that you feel is relevant. To be able to consider each submission, RTP will need to receive your response by Friday 21st March 2008. Late submissions will only be considered at the NNJPU’s discretion, so please notify the NNJPU well in advance if you anticipate any problems in meeting the submission date. Please note that this exercise in identifying potential housing sites will not prejudice decisions by the local planning authority on any subsequent planning application or DPD. If you have already submitted suggestions for sites in response to a previous LDD consultation exercise there is no need to resubmit these sites. You only need to respond in this instance if the details of the site(s) have changed, or if you have a new suggestion that you would also like to be considered. 29 February 2008 Page 3 If you have any points you wish to discuss, please call me on tel: 01536 463188 (Mondays) or 01536 274979 (Wednesday to Friday), or contact me by email: [email protected] . Alternatively, you may contact Tim Coleby or Bernard Greep at Roger Tym & Partners (tel: 0116 249 3970, email: [email protected] or [email protected] ). Yours sincerely Paul Woods Paul Woods Planning Officer E APPENDIX 2 TO MAIN REPORT Criteria for Selecting Settlements and SUEs North Northamptonshire Joint Planning Unit (NNJPU) STRATEGIC HOUSING LAND AVAILABILITY ASSESSMENT Stage 1(b) Note on Criteria Used to Identify Settlements and Broad Locations for Conducting a ‘Search for Sites’ February 2008 ROGER TYM & PARTNERS 3 Museum Square Leicester LE1 6UF t 0116 249 3970 f 0116 249 3971 e [email protected] w www.tymconsult.com This document is formatted for double-sided printing. CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................... 1 2 RATIONALE AND CRITERIA USED TO DEFINE THE LIST OF STUDY AREA SETTLEMENTS ........................................................................................................... 3 Regional/Core Strategy ‘Growth Towns’.........................................................................3 North Northamptonshire Core Spatial Strategy Settlement Hierarchy ............................3 Other Settlements...........................................................................................................3 Summary ........................................................................................................................5 North Northamptonshire Joint Planning Unit SHLAA – Note on Criteria Used to Identify Settlements 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 This note sets out the rationale and criteria that we have employed to identify suitable study area settlements and other broad locations for conducting a ‘search for sites’ as part of the North Northamptonshire Strategic Housing Land Availability (SHLAA) study. 1.2 The SHLAA study covers the entire area within North Northamptonshire, comprising the administrative areas of Corby, Kettering and Wellingborough Borough Councils and East Northamptonshire District Council1. Unimplemented/outstanding residential planning permissions will be considered as a potential source of supply, irrespective of where the sites are located in the four LPA areas. Similarly, existing/unimplemented housing allocations anywhere in the four LPA areas will be reviewed and may be considered