APPENDIX B Submission Local Plan: Core Strategy showing proposed Main Modifications CHESTERFIELD BOROUGH COUNCIL LOCAL PLAN: CORE STRATEGY 2011 – 2031 Showing proposed Main Modifications Strikethrough = deletion Underlined = addition of new text CONTENTS Foreword 3 List of Policies 4 1 Introduction 5 2 A Picture of our Borough 11 3 Our Vision for the Borough 25 Strategic Objectives 31 4 Spatial Strategy 33 5 Core Strategy Policies 41 • The Spatial Strategy 41 • Key Diagram 44 • A Changing Climate 49 • Homes and Housing 59 • Jobs, Centres and Facilities 64 • Design and the Built Environment 77 • Travel and Transport 82 6 Making Great Places 88 Appendices 106 A Infrastructure Delivery 106 B Monitoring and Review 114 C Implementation 134 D Sustainability Appraisal 137 E Evidence Base 142 F Parking Standards 144 G Glossary 148 2 Chesterfield Borough Submission Local Plan: Core Strategy Showing Main Modifications Foreword by Executive Member for Planning Dear Reader, The Chesterfield Borough Local Plan: Core Strategy sets out our proposals for the development and use of land in Chesterfield for almost 20 years. The Strategy outlines our vision of what the Borough will look like in the future. The document reflects our determination to respond to the current economic situation by creating new opportunities for growth and regeneration. We need to ensure that there is an increase in good quality housing, jobs and training. Derelict land needs to be brought back into use. The Council is equally committed to ensuring the policies and plans will continue to improve our environment and meet the challenge of climate change. Our aspiration is for Chesterfield to become a flagship sustainable community, while retaining what makes our Borough special. From the lively activity of Chesterfield Market and town centre to the tranquillity of Holmebrook and Poolsbrook Country Parks. We want to protect our green spaces and maintain green gaps between our communities to stop them coalescing. Chesterfield can feel proud of its planning achievements over the last 20 years with the construction of the Vicar Lane shopping centre, the building of the Dunston and Tapton Innovation Centres and the major new leisure facilities – Staveley Healthy Living Centre and the Chesterfield Football Club stadium. The broad policy framework established in this Core Strategy will be further developed through the preparation of other Development Plan Documents, Supplementary Planning Documents and Development Briefs for individual sites such as the Staveley and Rother Valley Corridor. Together these documents will provide an effective means of managing development. The Strategy has been subject to extensive consultation of local residents and businesses. I would like to thank everyone who has contributed to the development of the Core Strategy. I am confident that the hopes and aspirations of the local community have been reflected. I believe the Strategy provides a sound basis for the future and will make Chesterfield a place that people wish to live, work and visit. Yours faithfully, Councillor Terry Gilby, Deputy Leader and Executive Member for Planning 3 Chesterfield Borough Submission Local Plan: Core Strategy Showing Main Modifications List of Policies Page Number The Spatial Strategy 41 CS1 Spatial Strategy 41 CS2 Principles for Location of Development 45 CSX Presumption in favour of sustainable development 46 CS3 Infrastructure Delivery 48 A Changing Climate 49 CS4 Renewable Energy 49 CS5 Sustainable Design and Construction 52 CS6 Management of the Water Cycle 54 CS7 Environmental Quality 55 CS8 Green Infrastructure and Biodiversity 57 Homes and Housing 59 CS9 Phasing of Flexibility in delivery of Housing Delivery 60 CS10 Range of Housing 61 CS11 Sites for Travellers 62 Jobs, Centres and Facilities 64 CS12 Economic Growth 65 CS13 Tourism and the Visitor Economy 68 CS14 Vitality and Viability of Centres 72 CS15 Retail 74 CS16 Social Infrastructure 75 Design and the Built Environment 77 CS17 Design 79 CS18 Historic Environment 80 Travel and Transport 82 CS19 Influencing the Demand for Travel 86 CS20 Major Transport Infrastructure 87 Making Great Places 88 PS1 Chesterfield Town Centre 89 PS2 Chatsworth Road 93 PS3 Waterside and the Potteries 96 PS4 Markham Vale 99 PS5 Staveley and Rother Valley Corridor 101 PS6 Neighbourhood Plans 105 4 Chesterfield Borough Submission Local Plan: Core Strategy Showing Main Modifications 1.0 Introduction 1.1 Welcome to the Submission stage Chesterfield Borough Local Plan: Core Strategy. Over the next fifteen to twenty years, the borough will have many challenges to face. This includes providing new housing and jobs, securing infrastructure and facilities for residents and visitors, in a way that helps us adapt to a changing climate. The planning system has a key role in helping to manage these changes and helping to reduce the impact on our borough and its residents. As the local planning authority, the borough council’s main way of doing this is through the production of the Local Development Framework (LDF). What is the Local Development Framework? 1.2 Up to now we have had a local plan covering the period up to 2016 to guide the development of the borough. We are now required by government to produce a Local Development Framework (LDF) which is broader than the local plan. This means that we must look at wider social, environmental and economic considerations when planning for the future. The LDF policies, together with national policy guidance, will form the basis for planning decisions in the borough to 2031. Most of the policies within the 2006 Local Plan have been saved to continue to provide the basis for planning decisions until replaced by new policies and documents within the LDF. 1.3 A Local Development Framework is a ‘folder’ of documents that outlines how spatial planning will be implemented, managed and monitored within the local area. 1.4 The Chesterfield Borough LDF will contain: - Local Plan: Core Strategy - Local Plan: Sites and Boundaries - Statement of Community Involvement - Staveley and Rother Valley Corridor Area Action Plan - Supplementary Planning Documents 1.5 The LDF will be used to shape decision-making by the borough council both in terms of investment and in the determination of planning applications. It will also influence other public sector bodies and private organisations in their decision making and investment plans for the borough. What is the Local Plan: Core Strategy? 1.6 The Local Plan: Core Strategy (referred to hereafter as the Core Strategy) provides the overall spatial strategy for the LDF. It sets out why change is needed; what should be done; and where, when and how it is going to happen, including the provision of supporting infrastructure. It provides the basic principles and policies that will steer development and the use of land. It establishes the overall general scale and location of development, and the 5 Chesterfield Borough Submission Local Plan: Core Strategy Showing Main Modifications approach to the key issues facing the Borough. The Core Strategy covers the period from its adoption to 2031. 1.7 The Core Strategy is the foremost Development Plan Document (DPD) within the Local Development Framework. All other DPD’s must be in line with the Core Strategy. How has it been prepared? 1.8 The Core Strategy has been developed by the Council over the past four years. We did not start with a blank canvas, we took account of government guidance, as well as the outcomes of engagement activity that has taken place so far to shape the Core Strategy. We have also carried out and commissioned technical background work to help inform the process. The Localism Act 2011 introduced a duty for local authorities to consult and engage with its neighbouring councils. Chesterfield Borough has worked closely with its neighbouring authorities and other stakeholders to assist the production of its Local Development Framework. It has worked with the other members of its housing market area to produce its Strategic Housing Market Assessment 2007 and a methodology to guide the production of its Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment. It has worked with other authorities in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire to produce the East Midlands Northern Sub- region Employment Land Review 2008 and scenarios to estimate dwelling requirements for 2008 household projections. Officers of the local authorities in the housing market area meet regularly to discuss issues arising from the progress on individual LDF documents. Chesterfield Borough has also developed consultation and engagement with the Sheffield City Region as it has developed . It is essential that key issues like housing and employment are discussed jointly in the future, to find solutions that are compatible with and not exclusive of the development strategies of adjoining councils, particularly in respect of strategic issues such as development along the A61 corridor south of Chesterfield and Markham Vale. The Policy Context 1.9 The Core Strategy has been prepared within the strategic policy context of the East Midlands Regional Plan (2009) and is in general conformity with it. Whilst the government’s intention to abolish Regional Plans was formalised in the Localism Act 2011, at the time of publication the East Midlands Regional Plan remains in place pending further legislation, and is therefore still relevant. If and when the Regional Plan is abolished the strategic context will be replaced by a Local Strategic Statement (LSS) prepared by Chesterfield Borough Council following consultation with neighbouring authorities within the East Midlands Northern Housing Market Area. The Core Strategy is consistent with the evidence base of the East Midlands Regional Plan (2009) which will continue to be relevant, and national planning policy, as expressed within the National Planning Policy Framework, Circulars and Ministerial Statements. 6 Chesterfield Borough Submission Local Plan: Core Strategy Showing Main Modifications The full range of national planning guidance can be found at www.communities.gov.uk/planningandbuilding.