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Neighbourhood Plan 2020–2026 Neighbourhood Plan 2020–2026 ABBOTS LEIGH, HAM GREEN, PILL, EASTON-IN-GORDANO The Abbots Leigh, Ham Green, Pill & Easton-in-Gordano Neighbourhood Plan was prepared on behalf of the two Parish Councils of Abbots Leigh and Pill & Easton-in-Gordano by a Steering Group drawn from the parish councils, the local community and Alliance Homes. The Steering Group was representative of all parts of the area and brought a range of knowledge and expertise to the task. Membership Sue Adamson Jo Tuckwell (Easton-in-Gordano), Parish Councillor) (Pill; local employer) Jill Coleman Peter Stanley (Easton-in-Gordano, Board member Pill and (Pill, Parish Councillor) District Community Land Trust) Murray Stewart Don Davies (Abbots Leigh; Parish Councillor, Pill and District (Pill, North Somerset Councillor for Pill/Abbots Leigh Community Land Trust) wards, Pill and District Community Land Trust) Cathryn Vallender Lucy Byrne (Alliance Homes) (Ham Green, Climate Change and Environment Group) Martin Walker (Abbots Leigh: Parish Councillor) Bob Langton (Pill, Pill and Easton Parish Councillor) Trevor Wraith (Easton-in-Gordano, Parish Councillor) Rob Harvey (Pill, Environment) Lin Matthews The Steering Group is grateful for the (Pill, Chair Pill and Easton Community Forum) engagement and support of many local individuals and organisations. A Peter Milner full list is included in the Consultation (Pill, Community) Paper submitted with the Plan. Alison Needler (Ham Green, Community) Special thanks go to Celia Dring our liaison from North Somerset Council Stephen Robertson who, over three years, has been full of (Abbots Leigh, Business West) constructive support and advice. Simon Talbot-Ponsonby October 2020 (Abbots Leigh, Chair Parish Council, Pill and District Community Land Trust) The Neighbourhood Plan was available for local consultation from April 6th 2020. As a consequence of COVID-19 the consultation period has been extended to 12th September. Comments should be sent to [email protected] Contents Volume 1 The Neighbourhood Plan 1 Introduction .................................................................................................................................................................4 2 Strategic Planning Framework ........................................................................................................................ 5 3 The Neighbourhood Area and its History ..................................................................................................6 4 Vision, Principles, Objectives and Policies ...............................................................................................8 5 Housing ...........................................................................................................................................................................9 6 Transport and Movement .................................................................................................................................. 19 7 Landscape, Environment and Biodiversity ............................................................................................ 28 8 Heritage ........................................................................................................................................................................32 9 Economy and Employment ...............................................................................................................................35 10 Climate Emergency ............................................................................................................................................... 38 11 Community Assets and Facilities ................................................................................................................. 42 Postscript ......................................................................................................................................................................51 Volume 2 Background Papers Maps Housing Map 1 Neighbourhood Plan Area Transport and Movement Map 2 Pill Settlement Area Environment Map 3 Community Land Trust: Heritage Search for sites Economy and Employment Map 4 Ham Green Climate Change Map 5 Orchard View Community Map 6 Chapel Pill Lane Map 7 Rights of Way Map 8 Pill Railway Station Copies of Volume 2 are to be found on the Neighbourhood Plan page Map 9 Landscape Features of the Neighbourhood Plan website Map 10 Abbots Leigh Heritage Area www.pillanddistrictplan.org Map 11 Open Spaces: Pill Map 12 Open Spaces: Abbots Leigh Map 13 Pill Precinct Neighbourhood Plan 2020-2026 | Abbots Leigh, Ham Green, Pill and Easton-in-Gordano 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 What is the Neighbourhood Plan? A Neighbourhood Plan is prepared in order • A concern about urban sprawl from the to guide the long-term development edge of Bristol down to the M5 motorway of an area. Set within the broader should development be allowed to spread context of national and local planning along the A369. policies and housing targets, the Plan • A related concern over risks to the Green reflects the community’s wishes about Belt with valuable open space, together the appropriate location and nature of with environmental and heritage assets local development. Underpinning all at threat of loss. aspects of the Plan is sustainability, with • A recognition that the A369 is, and will community engagement also crucial to increasingly be, overloaded with related the preparation of the plan. The Plan is concerns about speed, safety, noise and only approved after a local referendum. pollution. • Appreciation that the Avon Gorge, the The Localism Act 2011 encourages local Avon itself and the longshore towards the communities to draw up a Neighbourhood Severn represented an asset valuable to Development Plan. In areas where there the whole neighbourhood area. is a Parish Council it takes the lead in neighbourhood planning. Abbots Leigh, In July 2016, therefore, the Parish Councils of Ham Green, Pill & Easton-in-Gordano are all Abbots Leigh and Pill & Easton-in-Gordano distinct settlements, but have a number of agreed to undertake a joint Neighbourhood important planning and development issues Plan, with Pill & Easton-in-Gordano Parish in common, including: Council having formal lead responsibility. 1.2 Preparing the Plan A request to North Somerset Council in May Through late 2018 and the first half of 2019 2016 for a Neighbourhood Area covering the Background Papers were finalised and whole of the two parishes was approved in consultation moved ahead with a range August 2016. Throughout 2017, effort was put of events, meetings, interviews and mini- into explaining to local communities what questionnaires (details in the Consultation the Plan involved, what were the challenges Statement). A website was created and a facing the area, and how preparation of Steering Group established, drawn from the the Plan would proceed. Initial consultation two parish councils together with additional revealed the key issues. In 2018 work was community members with relevant skills moving forward in the collection of data and experience. about the main themes of the Plan – housing, transport, environment, heritage, economy, From spring 2019 the outlines and structure climate change and community. In the of a plan emerged and in the autumn 2019 autumn of 2018 and again in autumn 2019 exhibitions of findings and proposals to be grant funding was obtained from Locality, included in the Plan were presented in three and three consultants were commissioned exhibitions across the Neighbourhood Area to provide background analysis on transport, in Abbots Leigh, Pill, and Easton-in-Gordano. environment and energy. In November the Steering Group brought this material together and a first full draft plan 4 | Neighbourhood Plan 2020-2026 was finalised and agreed in January 2020. Planning Policies which have a direct The Plan was submitted to North Somerset impact on plan-making and planning Council for HRA/SEA screening in March 2020 applications (coloured in red). and local consultation undertaken in a period extended as a consequence of COVID-19 Community Action Policies which can from mid-April to mid-September. be taken forward by the parish councils, community organisations or other agencies Background Papers were prepared to assist the but are not explicitly planning focussed community in understanding and responding (coloured in blue). to the key issues facing the neighbourhood. They provide much of the information and In order to assist both the local consultation evidence on which the Plan is based but have process and the subsequent North been overtaken by further local consultation Somerset Consultation (also six weeks), and do not address recommendations for and also to assure local residents that policy. The main Plan text draws on, and appropriate policies do exist, the policy summarises, these Background Papers but is a sections at the end of each chapter include complete and free-standing document. a list of those North Somerset Council Core Strategy Policies and Development Policy issues are addressed in the main plan Management policies which apply, but are and are divided into two categories: not repeated in this Plan. 2 STRATEGIC PLANNING FRAMEWORK For much of the time while this The strategic framework for this Neighbourhood Plan was being assembled, Neighbourhood Plan, however, remains North the West of England Joint Spatial Plan (JSP) Somerset’s current Development Plan which was being prepared, and successive drafts consists
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