Rutland County Council Local Plan 2018 –2036 2 RUTLAND LOCAL PLAN 2018 – 2036 Contents 1. INTRODUCTION 5 Market mousing within rural exception sites 62 Gypsies and travellers 63 2. SPATIAL PORTRAIT 11 Spatial characteristics 12 6. EMPLOYMENT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 65 Sustainable and vibrant communities 12 Sites for employment 68 Economy and infrastructure 14 The rural economy 70 Environment 15 Tourism 72 Waste management 15 Rutland Water 73 Minerals 15 Eyebrook reservoir 75 Issues to be addressed 16 Caravan and camping sites, lodges, log cabins, Minerals development 19 chalets and similar forms of self-serviced holiday accommodation 76 Development in neighbouring areas 19 Town centres and retailing 77 Duty to co-operate 20 7. SUSTAINING OUR ENVIRONMENT 83 3. VISION AND OBJECTIVES 21 Landscape character in the countryside 84 The vision 22 Place shaping 85 Strategic objectives 24 Delivering good design 86 Sustainable building and construction 90 4. SPATIAL STRATEGY AND LOCATION OF DEVELOPMENT 27 The water environment and reducing the risk of flooding 92 Sustainable development principles 28 Pollution control 95 The spatial strategy for development 29 Low carbon energy generation 96 Planned limits of development 33 The natural environment 98 Development in the countryside 35 Blue and green infrastructure 100 Military bases and prisons 40 Protecting agricultural land 102 5. DELIVERING QUALITY NEW HOMES 43 Important open spaces and frontages 102 Meeting housing needs 44 Local green spaces 103 Identifying a housing buffer 44 Provision of new open space 104 Housing windfalls 45 The historic and cultural environment 107 Housing allocations 46 Advertisements 111 Meeting cross boundary housing need 53 Outdoor lighting 112 Housing density 54 8. SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES 113 Housing mix 55 Delivering healthy, safe and inclusive communities 114 Adaptable and accessible homes 57 Transport and accessibility 115 Self-build and custom housebuilding 58 Telecommunications and high speed broadband 118 Affordable housing 59 Infrastructure for growth 120 Demonstrating viability 60 Community infrastructure levy and developer Commuted sum in lieu of on-site provision 60 contributions 120 Rural exceptions housing 63 REGULATION 19 CONSULTATION FEBRUARY 2020 3 9. MINERALS AND WASTE 123 Appendices Minerals development 124 APPENDIX 1 – STRATEGIC POLICIES 194 Spatial strategy for minerals development in Rutland 127 APPENDIX 2 – LIST OF REPLACED LOCAL PLAN Safeguarding Rutland’s mineral resources 132 POLICIES 197 Minerals development 135 APPENDIX 3 – AGRICULTURAL, FORESTRY AND Other forms of minerals development 140 OTHER OCCUPATIONAL DWELLINGS 199 Spatial strategy for waste management and Permanent agricultural dwellings 199 disposal 140 Temporary agricultural dwellings 200 Waste-related development 145 Forestry dwellings 201 Sites for waste management 146 Other occupational dwellings 201 Land use conflict affecting minerals and waste development 148 Occupancy conditions 201 Restoration and aftercare 148 Information and appraisals 201 APPENDIX 4 – PARKING STANDARDS 202 10. IMPLEMENTATION AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK 135 Residential parking standards 202 Implementing the plan 152 Non-residential parking standards 202 Monitoring framework 171 Exception to minimum parking standards 204 Design and layout of car parking spaces 205 Disabled parking standards 206 Cycle parking standards 207 Powered two wheeler parking standards 207 Electric vehicle charging 208 APPENDIX 5 – DESIGNATED HERITAGE ASSETS IN RUTLAND 209 APPENDIX 6 – OPEN SPACE STANDARDS 211 Types of provision 211 Minimum size of new open spaces 212 APPENDIX 7 – PERMITTED SITES FOR MINERAL EXTRACTION AND RECYCLING AGGREGATES 214 APPENDIX 8 – WASTE MANAGEMENT NEEDS 215 GLOSSARY 219 POLICIES MAPS 231 4 RUTLAND LOCAL PLAN 2018 – 2036 REGULATION 19 CONSULTATION FEBRUARY 2020 5 Rutland Local Plan 1. INTRODUCTION 6 RUTLAND LOCAL PLAN 2018 – 2036 1. Introduction What is the Local Plan? 1.1 The Local Plan is a statutory planning document prepared by the Rutland County Council. It sets out planning policies that will help to determine the future location, scale, type and design of new development in Rutland. 1.2 The Local Plan, together with any neighbourhood plan prepared by Town and Parish Councils or other appropriate bodies, make up the “statutory development plan” which has important status in determining future planning applications in the area. 1.3 The Local Plan in Rutland currently comprises three separate “Development Plan Documents”. Which documents are being reviewed? 1.4 The following Development Plan Documents (DPDs) are being reviewed and it is intended that they will be replaced by this single local plan: • Minerals Core Strategy and Development Control Policies DPD (October 2010); • Core Strategy DPD (July 2011) • Site Allocations and Policies DPD (October 2014) 1.5 A list of the existing policies that will be replaced and the policies that it is intended will replace them is shown in Appendix 2. Why is the Local Plan being reviewed? 1.6 Rutland County Council is reviewing it's Local Plan in order to: • produce a single Local Plan document as recommended by government planning policy in the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) • reflect changes to national planning policy and guidance, particularly the new National Planning Policy Framework introduced in February 2019; • extend the plan period to 2036 in order to ensure that there will a 15 year time horizon from adoption for strategic policies as recommended in the NPPF in order to anticipate and respond to long term requirements and opportunities, such as those arising from major improvements in infrastructure; • provide for additional new housing, employment and other development that will be required to meet future needs over the extended plan period; 1.7 A glossary of the terms used in this document is shown at the end of the document. What is the plan period? 1.8 The plan period is from 2018 until 2036. This will provide an additional 10 years horizon beyond the current plan period (2026) and will ensure that there is at least a 15 year time horizon after the plan is finally adopted by the Council. REGULATION 19 CONSULTATION FEBRUARY 2020 7 What are we now consulting on? 1.9 This document has been produced for public consultation under Regulation 19 of the Local Plan Regulations in advance of submission to the Secretary of State under Regulation 22 of the Local Plan regulations. This consultation seeks representations as to legal compliance and soundness of the Local Plan only. The Pre-Submission Local Plan sets out the strategic vision, objectives and spatial strategy for the County, as well as the planning policies which will guide future development. The Plan looks ahead to 2036 and identifies the main areas throughout Rutland where development should take place, along with areas of the County that will be protected from change. It establishes policies and guidance, to ensure local development is built in accordance with the principles of sustainable development as set out in the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). The Plan also includes site allocations to meet the vision and objectives of the plan. 1.10 Local Plans are considered to be sound if they are: • positively prepared – providing a strategy which, as a minimum, seeks to meet the area’s objectively assessed needs and is informed by agreements with other authorities, so that unmet need from neighbouring areas is accommodated where it is practical to do so and is consistent with achieving sustainable development; • justified – an appropriate strategy, taking account of reasonable alternatives, and based on proportionate evidence; • effective – deliverable over the plan period, and based on effective joint working on cross-boundary strategic matters that have been dealt with rather than deferred, as evidenced by the statement of common ground; • consistent with national policy – enabling the delivery of sustainable development in accordance with the policies set out in the NPPF. 1.11 This consultation follows previous community engagement and consultation has been undertaken under Regulation 18 of the Local Plan Regulations: • Call for sites Sept 2015-Jan 2016 • Issues and Options Jan-Feb 2016 • Consultation Draft Local Plan Jul-Sept 2017 • Focussed Changes and Additional sites consultation Aug-Sept 2018. How do Neighbourhood Plans fit in? 1.12 Neighbourhood Plans are community-led and provide a powerful spatial planning tool for local communities to shape and influence where development will go and what it will look like in their local area. Introduced by government through the Localism Act 2011, the process provides the opportunity for local communities to exercise greater influence through plans, policies and orders that meet the needs of the local community. 1.13 Local Planning Authorities have a general duty to support communities producing Neighbourhood Plans. The Council has developed a step by step Neighbourhood Planning Toolkit to assist groups and provides support and guidance throughout the process from scoping the Plan and building the evidence base, to ensuring the Plan is in general conformity with strategic planning policy. A successful Plan also depends on local participation, leadership and ownership and also empowers communities and supports local capacity building. The Council therefore recognises the importance of good governance, inclusion and wide engagement in the process of developing Neighbourhood Plans. 1.14 When adopted by the Council,