Friday 8Th January 2021 to Friday 19Th February 2021 Aim of This Exhibition Hello and Thank You for Taking the Time to View This Really Important Exhibition

BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN LOCAL PLAN 2018–2037

Lower Darwen looking west Welcome to this exhibition Friday 8th January 2021 to Friday 19th February 2021 Aim of this exhibition Hello and thank you for taking the time to view this really important exhibition.

The Local Plan maps out key development sites for new homes, employment and other key improvements over the next 17 years. It’s no exaggeration that this Plan will affect every person and every piece of land in the Borough of Blackburn and Darwen, in one way or another.

The Plan is for you and for your future generations and that’s why it’s so important we get it right, together. The exhibition highlights the Council’s continuing ambitious plans for the progression and development of Blackburn with Darwen as an attractive place to live, work and study. It builds upon the first public consultation on the ‘Issues and Options’ held in February 2019. Key Challenges The key challenge for the new Local Plan is balancing the competing needs of providing new homes and jobs with securing and protecting the environment. These exhibition boards provide a summary of the proposed approach, and how the planning system will be used to help shape the future of the area for the better.

The Plan is a long-term strategy. In looking to the future it considers some of the particular challenges that the Covid pandemic has highlighted in terms of living conditions and our environment and how the planning system can help to improve them.

Please do take your time to read these boards and take part in the consultation. Your comments and feedback is really vital to making sure we get the right balance for our future generations to succeed and thrive.

Details of how you can respond are provided on the final board.

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3 3 Every person and every piece of land in the Borough will be affected in one way or another by the new Local Plan. It considers the following range of issues:

• Creating new homes and jobs (around 7,000 new homes and 5,000 new jobs between now and 2037); • The management of the built and natural environment, the climate emergency, and the future vitality of our town centres; • How we move around and access services; and • Improvements in infrastructure (such as roads, schools and health facilities).

3 3 The coronavirus pandemic continues to have a huge impact on how we live our lives. It has highlighted the things that are most important to our health and well-being, many of which relate to the environment in which we live. The new Local Plan seeks to address some of the particular challenges that the pandemic has thrown up, such as:

• Overcrowded housing conditions; • Economic recovery; • Creating improved access to green spaces; • More liveable, walkable neighbourhoods.

The Council wants to ensure that the new Local Plan is the most appropriate and deliverable strategy that it can be. These consultation boards are part of widespread engagement with residents, businesses, developers, landowners, interest groups, statutory consultees and other interested parties.

Now is the time to have your say on the emerging plans. Please make your views to the Council known. Where necessary we can then adapt the plan in response to your valuable feedback.

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A Local Plan should set out a clear, place-based vision for the future of an area. The proposed vision for Blackburn with Darwen has evolved from the previous Local Plan (the Core Strategy of 2011), responses to the Issues and Options consultation in 2019 and other key documents such as the Council’s Corporate Strategy, the Sustainability Appraisal, and the Climate Emergency Action Plan.

The Vision: Blackburn with Darwen 2037

In 2037 Blackburn with Darwen will be a thriving, carbon neutral Borough. It will be recognised as a place of strong leadership and community cohesion. A place that has invested in its communities and infrastructure, has a high quality built and natural environment and is strengthened by the contributions of the different communities who live and work in the Borough. Over the plan period policies and decisions will have consistently demonstrated net gains in social, environmental and economic objectives set out in the Local Plan.

People: By 2037 all residents of the Borough will have significantly improved health, education and well-being outcomes; inequalities relating to the accessibility of services will have been reduced; and suitable homes, services and facilities will be in place to ensure that the needs of all parts of the community are met in full.

Place: In 2037 communities will be better connected through sustainable transport; residents will take pride in the Borough as an attractive, clean and safe place to live, work, visit and move around in; the Borough will demonstrate increased resilience to the impacts of climate change and have enhanced biodiversity and green infrastructure networks; Blackburn will remain a centre of regional importance, providing the widest range of high-order services in Pennine Lancashire; Darwen will have developed in its role as a market town; and rural areas will have remained unspoilt by substantial new development through continued regeneration programmes with development focused primarily in urban areas of the Borough.

Economy: In 2037 the local economy will be strong, resilient and inclusive helping to facilitate social mobility in the Borough; our town centres, businesses and employment areas will be flourishing; the rural economy £ will have strengthened through diversification and there will be an enhanced role for tourism.

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The Plan sets out a number of strategic policies that will guide the pattern, scale and quality of new development in the Borough to 2037. These policies will be central to decision making on future planning applications. Policies are grouped into four categories below:

Core Policies Renewal Area Policies • CP1: A ‘Balanced Growth Strategy’ – • RAP1: Urban/Village Boundaries sets the overarching spatial approach to • RAP2: Town Centres development and key priorities • RAP3: District Centres • CP2: Housing Development • RAP4: Existing Employment Areas • CP3: Economic Development • CP4: Town Centres & Commercial Development Protected Area Policies • CP5: Climate Change & the Natural Environment • PAP1: Green Belt • CP6: Health & Well-being • PAP2: Countryside Area • CP7: Design & Heritage • PAP3: Local Green Space • CP8: Transport & Accessibility • PAP4: Environmental Opportunity Areas • CP9: Infrastructure & Delivery • PAP5: Green Infrastructure Network • PAP6: Blue Infrastructure Growth Area Policies • PAP7: Heritage Assets • GAP1: Housing Growth Sites • PAP8: Areas Suitable for Wind • GAP2: Employment Growth Sites • PAP9: Safeguarded Land • GAP3: Mixed Use Growth Sites • GAP4: Gypsy and Traveller Growth Sites • GAP5: Major Infrastructure

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The Key Diagram gives an overview of the locations where significant future developments, key infrastructure, or policy ideas will be delivered over the plan period. The Policies Maps (boards 13-15) provide further detail.

DIAGRAM KEY Key Housing Sites

Key Employment Sites Strategic Housing Site

Strategic Employment Site

Town Centre Major Development Site

Environmental Opportunity Areas

Growth Axis

BLACKBURN 6 KEY INFRASTRUCTURE Major Road Improvements

New Household Waste Recycling Centre

Primary School Expansion

Junction 5 Motorway Improvements

Pleasington EXISTING LOCAL CONTEXT Royal Blackburn Hospital

Railway Stations 5 M65

A Roads Key B Roads 3 4 Railway M65 Borough Boundary

Blackburn & Darwen Urban Area Tockholes Blackburn & Darwen Town Centre Areas Villages

DARWEN Key Public Parks & Green Spaces

Hoddlesden Reservoirs, Lakes & Canal

Edgworth

Belmont Chapeltown

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The Blackburn Growth Axis 1 - linking strategic growth sites across the Borough and beyond; Darwen Town Investment Plan 2 - potentially delivering a series of wide-ranging improvements for Darwen A New Strategic Housing Site in North East Blackburn 3 – a new neighbourhood on the edge of the town A New Strategic Employment Site in South East Blackburn 4 - to attract jobs and investment at a key motorway location for Darwen Blackburn Town Centre Major Development Sites 5 - a unique opportunity to boost the vitality of the town centre Infrastructure Delivery Plan 6 – important interventions to improve infrastructure including roads, schools & health facilities

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The Blackburn Growth Axis links strategic growth sites within the Borough with the Samlesbury Enterprise Zone (and Preston beyond). A cluster of strategic and local development sites and supporting infrastructure along the growth axis will provide an important framework for delivery of economic recovery and growth in the Borough. The proposed new Strategic Employment Site at the M65 Junction 5 (see board 10), and the Town Centre Major Development Sites (see board 11) will both form a key part of this axis.

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Samlesbury Enterprize Zone PRESTON BLACKBURN Hyndburn BURNLEY

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Accrington SOuth Ribble

LEYLAND Darwen Rossendale Chorley Blackburn With Darwen CHORLEY

LEGEND Motorways BURY A Roads Railways B O LT O N Blackburn & Darwen Borough Boundary Blackburn & Darwen Urban Area Greater Borough BoundariesWIGAN Manchester Samlesbury Enterprize Zone

Growth Axis

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Darwen Town Centre

The Darwen Town Deal is a once in a lifetime opportunity to kick-start the transformation of Darwen. Up to £25 million of Government funding is available for projects which could improve the lives of residents and their life chances. A Darwen Town Deal board has been created – bringing together experts who all have links to the town. They are giving their time and skills to help develop a detailed investment plan that will be submitted to Government to secure as much of the funding as possible.

The investment plan identifies key investment priorities and project proposals and, if approved, it will drive long term economic and productivity growth through investment in connectivity, sports facilities, economic assets, development sites, cultural assets, skills and infrastructure.

The Town Investment Plan, to be submitted to Government in January 2021, will be expressed within a Spatial Plan.

The draft Local Plan and the Darwen Investment Plan are closely aligned, with each document complementing and strengthening the other.

The draft Darwen Town Fund Spatial Plan is illustrated here.

More information regarding the Darwen Town Deal can be found at https://darwentowndeal.co.uk/

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NE Blackburn Strategic Housing Parsonage Site ReservoirPRESTON

Jct 6 Blackburn Accrington Roe Lee Park Jct 5

M65 Jct 4

LEYLAND Darwen Whalley Old Road

Blackburn Cemetery

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Whitebirk Industrial Estate

The North East Blackburn Strategic Housing Site will be a key part of the North East Blackburn DevelopmentWIGAN Framework housing strategy over the plan period. Covering over 97 hectares of land (identified as ‘Land for Development Beyond the Plan Period’ in the current Local Plan) it will provide a significant number of new homes and help to improve and diversify the housing stock in the Borough.

A ‘Development Framework’ document has been prepared, supported by a series of technical and environmental baseline studies. The Development Framework looks at the key opportunities and Roe Lee constraints at the proposed Strategic Park Housing Site. It identifies the potential layout and phased delivery of around A619 Whalley Old Road 1,500 new homes (around half expected to be delivered by 2037) alongside key infrastructure requirements.

Blackburn Due to the scale of the site further Cemetery Whitebirk masterplanning work will be necessary Industrial Estate to resolve detailed matters around housing mix, design, infrastructure costs, LEGEND Masterplan Area Distributor Road and delivery. However the Development Overhead High Voltage Power Lines Local Access Point Framework helps to demonstrate how the Existing Building Intermediate Road Existing Trees and Woodland Local Road site could be delivered to bring forward Existing Watercourse Proposed Public Footpath a new neighbourhood and community in Proposed Development Plot Proposed Bridge / Culvert Main Threshold Point Proposed Surface Water Attenuation Pond this area of Blackburn. Potential Roundabout Entrance

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Due Based on the Natural England methodology set out in An Approach to Landscape Character Assessment (2014), the overall aHighway gateway layout into site to create with X plantingscreen planting along Haslingden and buffer 5 Improve the quality of the Public Rights of Way and ensure routes arethea clearly gateway road defined re-aligned intoand legible site withto screen planting and buffer Basedassessment on the of Natural landscape England sensitivity methodology to future set change out in from An Approach development to Landscape of the site Character is ImproveMedium. 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X Road to limit south to north 2 Careful consideration should be paid to maintain the integrity of the local war memorial on Haslingden Road. avoid direct views of 4 A strong landscape structure should be integrated into the boundary treatment including an appropriate buffer zone 1 32 RetainCareful an considerationappropriate area should to maintain be paid ato setting maintain around the integrity the existing of the farmsteads local war memorial of Blackhill on Farm Haslingden and the Road. cottages on open views across the site Haslingdenaround the Road perimeter and School of woodland, Lane. trees and hedgerows pylons 3 A strong landscape structure should be integrated into the boundary treatment including an appropriate buffer zone 4 around the perimeter of woodland, trees and hedgerows land in-between which would be safeguarded (site 43 Retain,A strong enhance landscape and structure conserve should existing be woodlands,integrated into and the hedgerows boundary and treatment seek to including create a an stronger appropriate landscape buffer structure. zone 2 Carefularound consideration the perimeter should of woodland, be paid treesto maintain and hedgerows the integrity of the local war memorial on Haslingden Road. 4 Retain, enhance and conserve existing woodlands, and hedgerows and seek to create a stronger landscape structure. 5 Improve the quality of the Public Rights of Way and ensure routes are clearlyKey defined and legible 3 4 A Retain,strong landscape enhance and structure conserve should existing be integrated woodlands, into and the hedgerowsboundary treatment and Keyseek including to create an a strongerappropriate landscape buffer zone structure. 5 aroundImprove the the perimeter quality of woodland,the Public Rightstrees and of Way hedgerows and ensure routes are clearly defined and legible 2) for potential future expansion. The Council will 6 Include appropriate soft landscape zone around the perimeter of the location 4 5 Improve the quality of the Public Rights of Way and ensure routes are clearly defined and legible 6 Retain,Include enhance appropriate and conservesoft landscape existing zone woodlands, around the and perimeter hedgerows of the and location seek to create Primarya stronger Vehicular landscape Routes structure. Potential for Road Widening to North of Haslingden Comments 7 Avoid visually intrusive development on more elevated areas of the location in the southPrimary west Vehicularcorner of the Routes site. Road utilising land within identified site boundary under 5 6 Include appropriate soft landscape zone around the perimeter of the location Road utilising land within identified site boundary under • Opportunity for road widening to improve access from M65 junction 5 to serve employment site demonstrate the exceptional circumstances to justify 7 ImproveAvoid visuallythe quality intrusive of the development Public Rights on of moreWay andelevated ensure areas routes of theare location clearly definedin the south and westlegible corner of the site. key ownership in addition to public highway land Secondary/Alternative Vehicular Routes key ownership in addition to public highway land • Location of HV pylons at the extremes of the site do not compromise the internal regrading opportunities 6 7 IncludeAvoid appropriatevisually intrusive soft landscape development zone on around more elevatedthe perimeter areas of of the the location location in the south west corner of the site. • Location of HV pylons at the extremes of the site do not compromise the internal regrading opportunities IIndicative Area of Buffer or Screen Planting within the site. Pedestrian Routes within the site. this amendment to the Green Belt in the Local Plan. 7 Avoid visually intrusive development on more elevated areas of the location in the southPedestrian west corner Routes of the site. • Limited development can be incorporated under the line of the HV pylons, but access roads, SUDS, green links,links, andand parkingparking cancan bebe incorporatedincorporated withinwithin thisthis identifiedidentified easement.easement. New Access to Existing Properties Key • Sloping topography of site (south to north) allows the opportunity for a mix of unit sizes within the LEGENDKey development, with larger units being located to the north of Phase 1 in the lower lying land and smaller, Key Development Parcels development, with larger units being located to the north of Phase 1 in the lower lying land and smaller, Key Development Parcels business park units adjacent to highways in clearer visibility. Primary Vehicular Routes Potential for Road Widening to North of Haslingden Comments business park units adjacent to highways in clearer visibility. Potential for Road Widening to North of Haslingden Comments • Re-grading between parcels allows the opportunity to maximise the amount of level developable area within Key Primary Vehicular Vehicle Routes Route IndicativePotentialRoad utilising structural for Road structuralland landscape/ Wideningwithin identified to landscape/visual North screeningsite of Haslingdenboundary visual under •Comments Opportunity for road widening to improve access from M65 junction• Re-grading 5 to serve between employment parcels allows site the opportunity to maximise the amount of level developable area within IndicativeRoad utilising structural land landscape/ within identified visual screeningsite boundary under Comments Site Area Square Metres Jobs PrimarySecondary/Alternative Vehicular Routes Vehicular Routes buffersRoadPotentialkey ownership (subjectutilising for Road toland in verification addition Wideningwithin identifiedto publicfollowingto North highway site ofLVIA) Haslingdenboundary land under • LocationOpportunity of forHV roadpylons widening at the extremes to improve of the access site fromdo not M65 compromise junctionthe site. the5 to internalserve employment regrading opportunitiessite screeningbuffersRoadkey ownership (subjectutilising bufferslandto in verification addition within identifiedto publicfollowing highway site LVIA) boundary land under the site. 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The Mall A666

Blackburn Bus Cathedral Station S211

Railway Station

S210

The Major Development Sites in Blackburn Town Centre cover an area over 4.5ha within the town centre boundary of Blackburn. They comprise two separate (but adjoining) sites: the former markets site (S211); and the former Thwaites site (S210).

The vitality and viability of the town centre is vital to the future growth and success of the Borough. Over recent years the high street has faced particular challenges, from squeezed incomes, a shift to online shopping, changing tastes and most recently of course the coronavirus pandemic. These sites provide a key LEGEND opportunity to help the recovery and regeneration of Growth Mixed Use (GAP3) Renewal - Blackburn Town Centre (RAP2) the town centre. The Council proposes supporting in Primary Shopping Area Protected - Green Infrastructure (PAP5) principle a mix of different uses on these sites including Open Space including Public Realm residential, commercial, or leisure in line with recent Protected - Blue Infrastructure (PAP6) developments at Cathedral Square and the new Protected - Heritage Assets (PAP7) Conservation Area Blackburn cinema.

Cathedral Square Blackburn Cinema

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The growth in new homes and jobs set out in this Local Plan will of course have INFRASTRUCTURE DELIVERY impacts on infrastructure. The Council has prepared a draft Infrastructure Delivery PLAN

Plan (IDP) alongside the Local Plan setting out how infrastructure provision has been Draft Report December 2020

considered throughout its preparation.

The draft IDP has involved collaborative work between the Council and a range of key

partners involved in delivering a wide variety of infrastructure. It forms the framework

for continued engagement and a final IDP will be published alongside the next version of the Local Plan.

The most significant infrastructure schemes are set out on the draft Policies Map (boards 13-15). The range of infrastructure types considered in the preparation of the 1 IDP include:

Physical

Water Supply Waste Water Treatment Flood Defences

Telecommunications Highways, Rail & Bus Cycle & Digital Connectivity

Household Waste Footpaths Waste Management Recycling Centre

Electricity Gas

Social GPs, Dentists, Pharmacists Nurseries Primary Schools & Hospitals

Secondary Schools Higher Education Cemeteries

999 Police, Ambulance & Fire Community & Cultural Services Services Environment / Green Infrastructure Open spaces /green Outdoor sport facilities Public Realm infrastructure

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LEGEND Growth Renewal Protected Protected Blue Infrastructure Protected - Heritage Assets (PAP7) Protected - Areas Suitable for Wind (PAP8) Housing (GAP1) Urban/Village Boundary Green Belt (PAP1) Floodplain (Flood Zone 3) Conservation Areas

Employment (GAP2) Town Centre (RAP2) Countryside Area (PAP2) Reservoirs Historic Parks and Gardens

Mixed Use (GAP3) Town Centre Blackburn Local Green Space (PAP3) Scheduled Ancient Monuments Protected - Safeguarded Land (PAP9) Gypsy and Traveller (GAP4) Primary Shopping Area (RAP2) District Centre (RAP3) Environmental Improvement Highway Scheme (GAP5) Opportunity Area (PAP4) School Expansion Primary Employment Area Green Infrastructure Network (RAP4) (PAP5) BHS, GHS, LGS, LWS, New School Secondary Employment Area Open Space, SSSI Household Waste (RAP4) Recycling Centre

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Employment (GAP2) Town Centre (RAP2) Countryside Area (PAP2) Reservoirs Historic Parks and Gardens

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Employment (GAP2) Town Centre (RAP2) Countryside Area (PAP2) Reservoirs Historic Parks and Gardens

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Following this public consultation exercise, the key next steps are:

The Council will consider all the comments Spring received during this consultation period and prepare a formal response. This will be 2021 published in a Consultation Statement;

The Council will complete any further necessary evidence base work to support Spring - Summer the plan and ensure that it collaborates with key partners under the ‘duty to co-operate’; 2021

The Council will prepare the final version of the Local Plan (including the Summer - Autumn accompanying Infrastructure Delivery Plan and Sustainability Appraisal) 2021 and undertake a final round of public consultation if necessary;

The Council will submit the Plan to the Autumn - Winter Government for independent examination; 2021

The Planning Inspectorate will undertake Winter 2021 - an ‘Examination in Public’. The Council will adopt the new Local Plan after receipt Winter 2022 (and action of the key findings) of the Inspector’s report.

There remains some uncertainty over the timings of the above due to the Government proposing significant reforms to the planning system. These are set out in the Planning White Paper (August 2020).

If you wish to be kept directly informed of progress with the Local Plan or any significant changes from the above timeline which may be impacted by the reforms then please ensure you respond to this consultation giving your contact details.

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3 3 3 Now 3 is the time3 to have your say on the emerging plans 3 3 3 A hard copy of the Consultation Draft Local Plan document and Policies Maps are available to view in all Council libraries in the Borough and at the Barlow in Edgworth. The documents along with all supporting documentation can be viewed online at blackburn.gov.uk/ localplan 3 3 For details of how 3 to respond online, or to register your contact3 details to be notified of future updates, please go to blackburn.gov.uk/localplan or scan the QR code provided.

Alternatively you may email your comments to [email protected] or send to: Growth Team, Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council, Third Floor, One Cathedral Square, Blackburn, Lancashire, BB1 1FB. Short Resident’s Survey Longer Technical Survey The Council is particularly keen to gain feedback on For those who wish to get involved in the detail, and the proposed ‘Growth Areas’, ‘Renewal Areas’ and for key stakeholders and partners a longer survey is ‘Protected Areas’ as set out on the Policies Maps also available asking questions such as: (boards 13-15). A short ‘resident’s’ survey is available to respond to the following key questions:

• Which area would you like to comment on? • Do you agree with the proposed vision?

• How do you feel about the classification given to • Do you agree with the overarching policy approach this area? Are you happy, undecided, or unhappy? set out in the ‘Balanced Growth Strategy’ (Policy CP1)? • Please tell us the reasons why? • Do you agree with the structure and content of the Core policies? Everyone who responds will be entered into a prize draw, with the chance to win one of five £50 • Do you agree with the content of the ‘Growth Area’, ‘Renewal Area’ and ‘Protected Area’ policies? vouchers to spend at Blackburn or Darwen Markets* * Full terms and conditions can be viewed at • Do you have any comments on the accompanying blackburn.gov.uk/localplan Sustainability Appraisal report?

If you need to discuss translation services available for the Local Plan then please contact the Growth Team for further details ([email protected]) (01254 585 962).

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