Preferred Strategy 2018-2033
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July 2019 This document is available to view and download on the Council’s web-site at: www.conwy.gov.uk/rldp . Copies are also available to view at main libraries and Council offices and can be obtained from the Strategic Planning Policy Service, Coed Pella, Conway Road, Colwyn Bay LL29 7AZ or by telephoning (01492) 575461. If you would like to talk to a planning officer working on the Local Development Plan about any aspect of this document please contact the Strategic Planning Policy Service on (01492) 575181 / 575445 / 575124 / 574232. This document can be provided on CD, electronically or in large-print and can be translated into other languages. Contact the Planning Policy Service on (01492) 575461. You are granted a non-exclusive, royalty free, revocable licence solely to view the Licensed Data for non-commercial purposes for the period during which Conwy County Borough Council makes it available; You are not permitted to copy, sub-license, distribute, sell or otherwise make available the Licensed Data to third parties in any form; and Third party rights to enforce the terms of this licence shall be reserved to Ordnance Survey Conwy – yr amgylchedd iawn i fyw, gweithio ac ymweld Conwy – the right environment to live, work and visit Foreword I am proud to introduce the Conwy County Council Replacement Local Development Plan (RLDP) - Preferred Strategy 2018-2033. The message is clear in this Plan. Together, we want to contribute positively to sustainable development by improving the economic, social, environmental and cultural well-being of Conwy by 2033. The RLDP Preferred Strategy sets out the development framework to determine planning applications, manage the use and development of land and ultimately seeks to create sustainable places within Conwy. The Plan embraces sustainable development and the concept of placemaking and embeds the spirit of the Well-being of Future Generations Act in order to take positive steps to creating sustainable places, social inclusion and improved Well-being for all in Conwy. It puts in place a new Vision, Objectives, Spatial Strategy and Strategic Polices to meet future growth, promote prosperity, health and protect our wonderful historic and natural assets. Over the last year I have been involved in a range of engagements with communities, councillors and stakeholders. At these events we have discussed the important topics and challenges facing Conwy now and in the future, and I have listened to a variety of views on how we can tackle these issues. Conwy faces some difficult challenges, but I’m confident that the Preferred Strategy sets the framework going forward to tackle these issues and promote sustainable places in Conwy. Cllr Charlie McCoubrey – Portfolio Holder for Housing and Regulatory . 5 Strategic Section 3: Natural and Cultural Places in Conwy .... 114 Contents 5.1 Introduction .................................................................. 114 5.2 Landscape ................................................................... 115 Foreword ...............................................................................................3 5.3 Coastal Areas .............................................................. 117 1 Executive Summary .......................................................................5 5.4 Historic Environment .................................................... 120 2 Overarching Strategic Approach ..................................................9 5.5 Culturally Led Regeneration ......................................... 123 3 Strategic Section 1: Sustainable Placemaking in Conwy .........56 5.6 Green Infrastructure ..................................................... 125 3.1 Introduction ....................................................................56 5.7 Biodiversity .................................................................. 127 3.2 Sustainable Placemaking ...............................................57 5.8 Water, Air, Soundscape and Light ................................ 131 3.3 Levels of Housing Growth ..............................................60 5.9 Flooding ....................................................................... 135 3.4 Levels of Jobs Growth ....................................................62 6 Strategic Section 4: Prosperous Places in Conwy .................. 137 3.5 Growth Distribution and Hierarchy of Settlements ..........63 6.1 Introduction .................................................................. 137 3.6 Placemaking and Good Design ......................................66 6.2 Economic Development ............................................... 138 3.7 Promoting Healthier Places ............................................68 6.3 Tourism ........................................................................ 143 3.8 The Welsh Language .....................................................70 6.4 The Rural Economy ..................................................... 148 3.9 Sustainable Management of Natural Resources ............71 6.5 Transportation Infrastructure ........................................ 149 3.10 Placemaking in Rural Areas ...........................................72 6.6 Telecommunications .................................................... 153 3.11 Place Plans ....................................................................73 6.7 Energy ......................................................................... 155 3.12 Strategic Sites ................................................................74 6.8 Minerals and Waste ..................................................... 164 3.13 Infrastructure and New Development .............................77 Appendix 1: List of retained, amended and new policies .............. 169 3.14 Managing Settlement Form ............................................80 Appendix 2: Policy Assessment and Links .................................... 176 4 Strategic Section 2: Healthy & Social Places in Conwy ............82 Appendix 3: Supplementary Planning Guidance to be produced . 178 4.1 Introduction ....................................................................82 Appendix 4: Maps of Strategic Sites ............................................... 179 4.2 Sustainable Transport and Accessibility .........................83 Appendix 5: Topic Papers and Background Papers ...................... 185 4.3 Housing..........................................................................90 4.4 Retail and Commercial Centres ................................... 101 4.5 Community Facilities .................................................... 107 4.6 Recreational Spaces .................................................... 111 Executive Summary planning and design of development and spaces results in positive 1 Executive Summary outcomes in urban and rural areas. It will draw on Conwy’s potential to create high quality development and public spaces that promote people’s prosperity, health, happiness, and well-being. Conwy are now preparing a Replacement Local Development Plan Sustainable Placemaking (RLDP) to cover the period 2018 - 2033. Together, we want to contribute The preferred Strategy is formulated having had consideration of the positively to sustainable development by improving the economic, social, strategic placemaking issues impacting on Conwy. This section of the environmental and cultural well-being of Conwy by 2033 and ultimately PS focuses on those strategic polices that will have the greatest impact ‘Creating Greater Opportunities to Live, Work and Visit’ on the type of development which is ultimately delivered and its This will be achieved by preparing a focussed, succinct and relevant contribution to sustainable development and the environmental, social, Replacement Local Development Plan (RLDP) which embraces the cultural and economic well-being of Conwy. This section promotes sustainable development principles and the concept of placemaking. By integrated polices that should not be considered in isolation during the taking such action it will ensure that the RLDP embeds the spirit of the development process. This includes considering the design of a Well-being of Future Generations Act and seeks to take positive steps to development and its impacts upon everyday lives as well as thinking creating sustainable places, social inclusion and improved Well-being for holistically about where people might live and work and which areas all in Conwy. should be protected. This section provides the strategic and locally distinctive placemaking vision for delivering sustainable placemaking, The Preferred Strategy is the first statutory stage in preparing the RLDP. which is supported by strategic polices on Sustainable Placemaking It sets out the broad approach that the RLDP intends to take in order to Principles, Levels of Housing Growth, Levels of Jobs Growth, Growth ensure that development in Conwy is sustainable. The Preferred Distribution and Hierarchy of Settlements, Placemaking and Good Strategy (PS) is supported by four supporting sections designed to Design, Promoting Healthier Places, The Welsh Language, Sustainable contribute individually to placemaking and sustainable development in Management of Natural Resources, Placemaking in Rural Areas, Place Conwy: Plans, Strategic Sites, Infrastructure and New Development and Placemaking in Conwy Managing Settlement Form. Informed by the Key Planning Principles and the National Sustainable Prosperous Places in Conwy Placemaking Outcomes in Wales, the concept of placemaking will be