New Wycombe District Local Plan Draft Consultation Document
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New Wycombe District Local Plan Draft Consultation Document June 2016 This page is left intentionally blank Consultation on the draft New Local Plan– June - August 2016 Wycombe District Council is consulting on the draft New Local Plan (this document) from Monday 27 June until Monday 8 August 2016. Commenting on the draft New Local Plan To make comments to the plan you can: Online respond to our online survey at www.wycombe.gov.uk/haveyoursay download a response form at the same web address send us an email to [email protected] By mail pick a response form at the Council Offices, your local library of information centre send us a letter at Planning Policy, Wycombe District Council, Council offices, Queen Victoria Road, High Wycombe, Bucks, HP11 1BB Anyone can comment – please quote the paragraph or policy you are referring to where possible. The deadline for comments is Monday 8 August 2016, midnight. Find out more To find out more about the consultation you can: Come along to one of our events (see the consultation leaflet for details) visit the website at www.wycombe.gov.uk/newlocalplan Email the Planning Policy Team at [email protected] Phone 01494 421158. Alternative formats If you would like this document in another format please contact Wycombe District Council at the Council offices in High Wycombe. If you require the information supplied in a different language please come into the Wycombe District Council offices where we can arrange a translation or interpretation as appropriate. i Due to cost implications we will not be able to translate this document in its entirety. However, it is possible for the required parts to be translated, or interpreted as appropriate. Please come into the Wycombe District Council offices. 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Zapraszamy do biura Rady Okręgowej Wycombe. ii Contents Consultation on the draft New Local Plan– June - August 2016 ................................. i Contents ................................................................................................................. iii Table of figures ....................................................................................................... v List of Policies and Proposals ................................................................................. vi Foreword .................................................................................................................... x Executive Summary .................................................................................................. xii 1.0 Introduction and Context ...................................................................................... 1 2.0 Wycombe District – The Big Challenge .............................................................. 11 Wycombe District today .................................................................................... 11 The Big Challenge ............................................................................................. 13 Addressing the Challenges ............................................................................... 15 3.0 Our Vision and Strategic Objectives ................................................................... 16 4.0 The Strategy ....................................................................................................... 20 Sustainable Development ..................................................................................... 20 The Spatial Strategy ............................................................................................. 21 Settlement Hierarchy ............................................................................................ 25 Delivering Homes ................................................................................................. 28 Delivering Economic Prosperity ............................................................................ 34 Delivering new infrastructure ................................................................................ 42 Sense of Place ..................................................................................................... 47 Protecting the Green Belt ..................................................................................... 49 5. What is proposed in Specific Areas ...................................................................... 52 5.0 Introduction ..................................................................................................... 52 5.1 High Wycombe area ....................................................................................... 54 Main proposals .................................................................................................. 57 Housing or Mixed Use Sites including Housing ................................................. 58 Land for Economic Development ...................................................................... 86 Other development ............................................................................................ 92 5.2 Marlow ............................................................................................................ 94 iii Main proposals .................................................................................................. 95 Housing or Mixed Use Sites including Housing ................................................. 96 Land for Business ............................................................................................. 99 5.3 Princes Risborough ...................................................................................... 101 5.4 Bourne End and Wooburn ............................................................................ 103 Housing or Mixed Use Sites including Housing ............................................... 105 5.5 Rural Areas ................................................................................................... 113 Lane End ......................................................................................................... 117 Little Marlow .................................................................................................... 124 Longwick ......................................................................................................... 126 Walters Ash and Naphill .................................................................................. 133 Bledlow-cum-Saunderton ................................................................................ 136 Stokenchurch .................................................................................................. 136 Other sites in the Rural Areas ......................................................................... 141 6.0 Delivering the Strategy, Managing Development ............................................. 143 How this section works ....................................................................................... 143 Matters to be determined in accordance with the NPPF ..................................... 145 Delivering Housing .............................................................................................. 146 Fostering economic growth and supporting local communities ........................... 162 Placemaking ....................................................................................................... 164 Technical Housing Standards ............................................................................. 175 Managing Development in the Green Belt and our Rural Areas ......................... 178 7.0 Monitoring and Delivery .................................................................................... 185 Appendices ............................................................................................................ 186 Appendix A. Settlement Hierarchy ...................................................................... 187 Appendix B. List of Housing Allocations (or mixed use with Housing) ................ 188 Appendix C. Travellers sites being considered for allocation .............................. 190 Appendix D. List of Business Parks and Industrial Areas ................................... 195 Appendix E. Glossary ......................................................................................... 197 Appendix F. Summary Draft Infrastructure Schedule .......................................... 201 Appendix G. Schedule of policies replaced by this Local Plan ........................... 211 Appendix H. Schedule of changes to the Policies Map ....................................... 215 Appendix I. Maps ................................................................................................ 217 iv Table of figures Figure 1 Relationship between different plans in Wycombe District in 2018. ............. 3 Figure 2 Housing Market Area/ FEMA........................................................................ 5 Figure 3 Plan of the District in strategic context ......................................................... 8 Figure 4 Map of the District showing key characteristics .......................................... 12 Figure 5 The spatial strategy