Ripon City Plan Submission Draft - B Growth and Regenerating the City
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Ripon City Plan Submission Draft - B Growth and Regenerating the City Ripon City Plan Submission Draft Supporting Document: Growth and Regenerating the City March 2018 Ripon City Plan Submission Draft - B Growth and Regenerating the City Contents 1 Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 1 2 National Planning Policy ..................................................................................................... 1 2.1 National Planning Policy Framework 2012 ....................................................................... 1 2.2 Planning Practice Guidance 2014 ...................................................................................... 2 3 Local Plan and Supplementary Planning Documents ............................................................ 3 3.1 Harrogate District Local Plan (Augmented Composite - July 2009) .................................. 3 3.2 Harrogate District Core Strategy – February 2009 ........................................................... 3 3.3 Harrogate Borough Council – Heritage Management SPD – November 2014 ................. 4 3.4 Harrogate Borough Council – Green Infrastructure SPD – November 2014 .................... 4 3.5 Harrogate District Sites & Policies DPD “Outdoor Sports Provision: An Assessment for Harrogate, Knaresborough and Ripon”, May 2013 .................................................................... 7 3.6 Harrogate District Draft Local Plan, November 2016 ....................................................... 7 4 Ripon Vision and Objectives ................................................................................................ 7 4.1 Extract from Vision ............................................................................................................ 7 4.2 Relevant Objectives ........................................................................................................... 8 5 Reports and information from public, practitioner and industry bodies ............................... 8 5.1 “Neighbourhood Planning and the Historic Environment” 2014 (Appendix B.a) ............. 8 5.2 Yorkshire & Humberside Association of Civic Societies – Buildings at Risk Project 2013 (Appendix B.b) ............................................................................................................................ 9 5.3 York, North Yorkshire & East Riding LEP – Strategic Economic Plan, January 2014 ......... 9 5.4 Sport England – Planning for Sport, Aims & Objectives.................................................. 10 5.5 National Mapping Programme, Historic England - “Yorkshire Henges and their Environs Air Photo Mapping Project” (Alison Deegan, March 2013) (Appendix B.c) ............................. 10 5.6 Ripon Civic Society – Application for Spot-Listing – Deverell Barracks WW1 Wooden Huts (Appendix B.d) .................................................................................................................. 11 6 Harrogate Borough Council reports and commissioned evidence ....................................... 11 6.1 Harrogate Borough Council - “Ripon Conservation Area Character Appraisal” 2009 .... 11 6.2 Harrogate Borough Council – Employment Land Review 2015 ...................................... 12 6.3 Harrogate District Local Plan – Visitor Accommodation Study Nov. 2015 ..................... 12 6.4 Closure of Claro Barracks – Review of Economic Implications, Final Report – January 2014 (Genecon) ........................................................................................................................ 12 7 Ripon City Plan Reports & Studies ..................................................................................... 16 7.1 Ripon City Plan - “Vision & Objectives” Drop In Session - December 2013 .................... 16 7.2 Ripon City Plan – Response to HBC Sites & Policies DPD on Employment Land ............ 16 7.3 Ripon City Plan – Focus Group Meeting – April 2014 ..................................................... 17 7.4 Placecheck Assessments (App B.e) ................................................................................. 17 7.5 Ripon City Plan – Supporting Document: Providing New Homes ................................... 18 7.6 Ripon City Plan – Development Limit Review (App B.f) .................................................. 18 7.7 Ripon City Plan – Preliminary Draft Consultation Responses ......................................... 18 Ripon City Plan Submission Draft - B Growth and Regenerating the City 7.8 Ripon City Plan - Mallorie Park Drive / Studley Road...................................................... 19 8 Analysis and Commentary ................................................................................................. 20 8.1 Introduction .................................................................................................................... 20 8.2 Appraisal of Bondgate Green .......................................................................................... 22 8.3 Appraisal of Ure Bank ...................................................................................................... 24 8.4 Appraisal of Clotherholme .............................................................................................. 26 8.5 Mallorie Park Drive/Studley Road ................................................................................... 30 8.6 Defining the Development Limit: .................................................................................... 31 8.7 Conclusion ....................................................................................................................... 32 9 Policy Wording ................................................................................................................. 33 9.1 Policy B.1 – Bondgate Green ........................................................................................... 33 9.2 Policy B.2 – Ure bank....................................................................................................... 33 9.3 Policy B.3 – Clotherholme ............................................................................................... 34 9.4 Policy B.4 – Clotherholme Development Strategy .......................................................... 34 9.5 Policy B.5 – Mallorie Park Drive / Studley Road.............................................................. 35 9.6 Policy B.6 – Development Limit ...................................................................................... 36 9.7 Extract from Policies map ............................................................................................... 37 10 Complementary Projects ................................................................................................... 38 11 Appendices ....................................................................................................................... 39 Ripon City Plan Submission Draft - B Growth and Regenerating the City 1 Introduction 1.1.1 This supporting document explains the approach taken to identifying those parts of the city that would contribute most to growth and regeneration. 1.1.2 The Ripon development limit introduced in the 2001 Harrogate District Local Plan is addressed also in this document. 2 National Planning Policy 2.1 National Planning Policy Framework 2012 2.1.1 The NPPF gives strong emphasis to the role of communities in shaping their environments. It seeks to: 2.1.2 Para. 17 “...proactively drive and support sustainable economic development to deliver the homes, business and industrial units, infrastructure and thriving local places that the country needs...to always seek to secure high quality design and a good standard of amenity for all existing and future occupants of land and buildings...to take account of the different roles and characters of different areas...[and to ] and to encourage the effective use of land by re-using land that has been previously developed (brownfield land), provided that it is not of high environmental value...promote mixed use developments, encouraging multiple benefits from the use of land in urban and rural areas, recognising that some open land can perform many functions (such as for wildlife, recreation, flood risk mitigation, carbon storage, or food production)...”. 2.1.3 All new development is required to: Para. 58 “...function well and to add to the overall quality of the area...establish a strong sense of place [and] to respond to local character and history, and reflect the identity of local surroundings...”. Para. 17 The 12 Core Planning Principles Page 1 Ripon City Plan Submission Draft - B Growth and Regenerating the City Para. 70. “...To deliver the social, recreational and cultural services the community needs planning policies...should...guard against the unnecessary loss of valued facilities and services, particularly where this would reduce the community's ability to meet its day-to-day needs...”. Para. 74. “...Existing open space, sport and recreational buildings and land, including playing fields should not be built on unless: an assessment has been undertaken which has clearly shown the open space, buildings or land to be surplus to requirements; or the loss resulting from the proposed development would be replaced by equivalent 9or better provision in terms of quantity and quality in a suitable location; or • the development is for alternative sports and recreational provision, the needs for