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Roecliffe & Westwick Parish Neighbourhood Plan 2019-2032 Pre-submission Draft March 2019 ROECLIFFE & WESTWICK PARISH COUNCIL CONTENTS 1. Foreword 4 2. Introduction 6 3. The Preparation Process 7 4. Community Consultation 9 5. Roecliffe & Westwick’s Rural Landscape 11 6. The Development Of Roecliffe and Westwick 15 7. Roecliffe & Westwick Today 18 8. Vision And Objectives For Roecliffe & Westwick 19 9. Planning Policies For Roecliffe & Westwick 21 A: Preservation and Enhancement of the Built Environment 22 9.1 Design and Development 22 9.2 Design of Extensions 27 9.3 Community Involvement 28 9.4 Key Views 28 B: New Housing Development 32 9.5 Future Housing Development 32 Vicarage Farmhouse, Roecliffe 9.6 Development criteria: Highways 35 C: Village Facilities and Services 41 9.7 Village Facilities and Services 41 9.8 Non Designated Local Heritage Assets 44 D: Footpaths, Cycleways and Bridleways 47 9.9 Footpaths, Cycleways and Bridleways 47 E: Green Space 51 9.10 Local Green Space 51 9.11 Green Infrastructure 52 F: Local Economy 60 9.12 Local Business Support 60 9.13 Broadband/Connectivity 62 9.14 Industrial Zone 63 9.15 Policies Map 64 10 Delivering the Plan 67 10.1 Community Infrastructure Levy 67 10.2 Projects for Roecliffe & Westwick 68 10.3 Delivery Committee 69 Appendices 70 The document colour scheme identifies Objectives, Policies and Projects through the use of background colour. ROECLIFFE & WESTWICK PARISH NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN 2019-2032 3 1 FOREWORD Your Plan for Roecliffe & Westwick The Neighbourhood Plan will ensure that Roecliffe and Westwick continues to thrive as a distinct village community, proud of its long history and its tradition of offering the advantages of rural living in the heart of the countryside along with easy access to the amenities of nearby market towns and the rich cultural heritage of North Yorkshire. The Neighbourhood Plan will preserve and improve the much cherished character and qualities of the village, both physical and social, and secure its long term identity, sustainability and vitality through planned and structured growth. The Neighbourhood Plan will seek • Identifying valuable community and to achieve this by: heritage assets within the village, especially those which make major • Encouraging proportionate housing contributions to the character of Roecliffe development which is appropriate to and Westwick, with a view to ensuring the needs and wishes of residents in their sustainability in the long term. terms of volume, size and architectural design, commensurate with living in • Encouraging appropriate business and a conservation Village. The priorities commercial activity. This includes not identified in the Housing Needs Survey only sectors of traditional importance are provision within the village for older (notably agriculture), but also support for residents wishing to downsize, and of the increasing numbers who wish to work The east end of The Green affordable homes for younger residents from home, and proportionate additional wishing to establish independent commercial and retail activity where it can The Roecliffe & Westwick Neighbourhood Plan sets out: households. add to both the economy and the social fabric of the village. • The Vision and Objectives for Roecliffe & Westwick • Preserving the green spaces, and the • The Planning Policies Village Conservation Area, consistent • Encouraging healthy and active lifestyles, • How the Plan will be delivered with the needs of the community and the and strengthening the social fabric of the • Projects for Roecliffe & Westwick environment, as well as the Village Green community, by developing and improving and the Roecliffe Common leisure provision. • Maintaining and improving the quality and • Improving pedestrian and cycle access character of the built environment. throughout the Parish by maintaining, extending and further connecting the • Maintaining and improving the network of footpaths and bridleways, to sustainability, quality and biodiversity of enhance and secure its position as an ideal the natural environment. location for walking, cycling and equestrian activities. • Improving public highway safety and amenity, through better traffic management. 4 ROECLIFFE & WESTWICK PARISH NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN 2019-2032 ROECLIFFE & WESTWICK PARISH NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN 2019-2032 5 2 INTRODUCTION 3 THE PREPARATION PROCESS This Pre-submission Draft Roecliffe & Harrogate Borough Council issued for The designated body with responsibility them being set up to fulfil this function. This Westwick Neighbourhood Plan has consultation purposes, the publication to produce the Neighbourhood Plan is proposal was approved unanimously. The been prepared as a consequence of The draft of its Core Strategy in December Roecliffe & Westwick Parish Council (Parish members of the steering committee was a Localism Act 2011, which was part of the 2016. Following amendments from this Council). This document relates to the area mix of Parish Councillors and Local residents. Government’s approach to planning and consultation, Harrogate Borough Council within the Parish boundary to the west of It also included the Managing Director of gives the right to local people to shape future anticipates that its Core Strategy will be finally Boroughbridge, comprising the village of Roecliffe’s largest employer. The members development in their community through approved by the Inspector in Autumn 2018. Roecliffe, and the individual houses and were Andrew Baldwin, Jim Bolland, Richard Neighbourhood Plans. This is the key part of the Harrogate Borough farms which are outside the Roecliffe village Booth, Kerry Dalton, Scott Green, Jo Mitchell, Council Local Plan boundary but within the Parish boundary (the John Newberry, Keith Pettitt, Joyce Reeve, Local communities can now set out their Neighbourhood Area). (See Map 1 following). Paul Say, Dave Siswick, Stuart Varley, and vision for an area and shape planning policies Adrian Webster. for the use and development of land. It is At a Parish Council meeting on 8th September about local rather than strategic issues. This 2014, a decision was taken to look into the Neighbourhood Plan must be compatible production of a Neighbourhood Plan for the with National and European Policies and the Parishes of Roecliffe and Westwick and to Roecliffe & Westwick NDP strategic elements of Harrogate Borough work with the guidance of Harrogate Borough Committee Council Local Development Framework (Local Council (HBC). Consult/research/prepare proposals Plan). for Parish Council approval Although there is no legal requirement to Prepare draft Roecliffe & In March 2012 the Government published the produce such a plan, it is a right conferred by Westwick NDP National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF, The village pond on The Common the present government. By creating such a updated in July 2018) and when introducing plan, our own community will be able to play it, the Minister for Planning stated that Thee Cor Strategy identified a hierarchy a much stronger role in shaping our area, the purpose of planning is to help achieve of settlements and directs development and influencing Harrogate Borough Council, sustainable development. That development sequentially to the different levels in the and North Yorkshire Borough Council over Roecliffe and Westwick NDP Committee is intended to be change for the better, not hierarchy. Roecliffe & Westwick is not defined the coming years, especially in the area of consults all parish residents and only in relation to buildings but also other in the hierarchy and is recognised to be a Planning. stakeholders (Regulation 14). aspects of the environment. “village/rural” settlement. Upon application by the Parish Council and following thorough assessment and advertising, as required by the Regulations, Roecliffe and Westwick Parish Council area was formally designated as a Neighbourhood Roecliffe and Westwick NDP Area by Harrogate Borough Council in a letter Committee produces Submission draft dated 4th September 2015. (See Map 1 for Plan for approval by Parish Council. Area Designation). A steering committee made up of local people including councillors was set up and at a Parish Council meeting on 30th Submission to Harrogate Borough November 2015. It was formally proposed Council for Regulation 16 by the Chairman of the Parish Council that consultation and Examination. the Steering Group was to operate on behalf of the Parish Council, and that the Roecliffe Fig 1: Plan production framework and Westwick Parish Council approved of 6 ROECLIFFE & WESTWICK PARISH NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN 2019-2032 ROECLIFFE & WESTWICK PARISH NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN 2019-2032 7 8 435000.000000 436000.000000 437000.000000 438000.000000 439000.000000 Grey Oa S SD W tation GP Th k House 10a LB he 1 RH st Barley e Orchard Lodge Northgate 8 ones at Cr Y Vi Drain 1.14m 10 Beech o 16 Granary ew Croft Liane Rosedale rk 17.5m Mu lwith Wood 1 b Sta 24.0m ie Su 2 se 5 Mulwith 19.6m End oft Cottage 17.3m E S Monument Fie ldhead West House OLME rpe Hou ST mme La ng b y Lodge Riv er Pump yc Track Fox ho Tho r pe Lodge A App GAR TI Orchards amo MP s Tanks ys Langt ON TERR U ENH r The Bot hy 25.6m Pump Brampton Pond 2 1 e Manor r E 29 wa le Newby 17.2m da Brae DENS Ridings La ng thorpe er House re Cottage L El Sub 3 The Grange View by Cott Sta ED & on le GR rn 16.6m The Maltings ACE Pond Sto ne gme 15.5m Roecliffe & Westwick NeighbourhoodSD Area Cherry si War Clo se Co Cottages Pinela nd s 2 1 ag de Nursery Ure BankHouse 5 Allot G dn s 2 4 d Bdy ad DE Tunnel e