PROPOSED LOCAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN CLACKMANNANSHIRECLACKMANNANSHIRE PROPOSEDPROPOSED LOCALLOCAL DEVELOPMENTDEVELOPMENT PLANPLAN November 2013 Clackmannanshire C ouncil www.clacksweb .org.uk 55 PROPOSED LOCAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN 56 PROPOSED LOCAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN PROPOSED LOCAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN CONTENTS SC7 Energy Efficiency and Low Carbon Development 40 SC8 Domestic Developments 41 1. Introduction 4 Social Infrastructure ¶ Context 5 SC9 Developer Contributions 42 ¶ How to Use the Local Development Plan 6 SC10 Education, Community Facilities and Open Spaces 42 Services 2. Vision and Objectives 7 SC11 Transport Networks 51 ¶ The Vision Statement 7 SC12 Development Proposals - Access and Transport Requirements 51 ¶ Strategic Objectives 9 SC13 Decentralised Energy 52 SC14 Renewable Energy 53 3. Spatial Context 12 SC15 Wind Energy Development 53 SC16 Hydro-electricity Development 54 SC17 Biomass 54 4. Area Statements 16 SC18 Large Solar Arrays 55 ¶ Area Statements Introduction 16 SC19 Deep Geothermal 55 ¶ Forth Area Statement 21 SC20 Water and Drainage Infrastructure and Capacity 56 SC21 Pipeline and Hazard Consultation Zones 56 ¶ West Ochils Area Statement 25 SC22 Hazardous Substances Consent 57 ¶ East Ochils Area Statement 28 Development in the Countryside and the Rural Economy 5. Creating Sustainable Communities 32 SC23 Development in the Countryside - General Principles 58 SC24 Residential Development in the Countryside 59 Housing SC25 Business Development in the Countryside 59 SC1 Maintaining a Housing Land Supply 37 SC26 Enabling Development in the Countryside 59 SC2 Affordable Housing 38 SC3 Gypsies and Travellers and Travelling Showpeople 38 SC4 Residential Care Facilities 39 SC5 Layout and Design Principles 39 SC6 Additional Design Information 40 1 PROPOSED LOCAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN 6. Employment and Prosperity 60 EP19 Siting of Mobile Snack Bars 78 EP20 Motor Vehicle Sales and Service Areas 78 EP21 Local Shops 79 Business and Employment EP22 Shop Front Design, Advertising and External Security Measures 79 EP1 Strategic Land for Business 61 EP2 Existing Business Sites 61 7. Environmental Assets 80 EP3 Business and Industrial Uses Outwith Existing or Allocated Business Sites 62 EP4 Non-Employment Generating Uses on Existing or Allocated Business Sites 62 EP5 Home Working 63 Clackmannanshire Green Network EP6 Green Business 63 EA1 Clackmannanshire Green Network 82 Telecoms Infrastructure and Integrating Technology The Natural Environment into New Development EA2 Habitat Networks and Biodiversity 86 EP7 Telecommunications Development Criteria 65 EA3 Protection of Designated Sites and Protected Species 87 EP8 Telecommunications Development - Additional Information 65 EA4 Landscape Quality 88 EA5 Geological Conservation Review Sites 88 Minerals EA6 Woodlands and Forestry 88 EP9 Protection of Minerals Resources 69 EA7 Hedgerows, Trees and Tree Preservation Orders 89 EP10 Minerals - General Principles 70 EA8 Green Belt 89 EP11 Opencast Coal Extraction 71 EA9 Managing Flood Risk 90 EP12 Aggregate Minerals 72 EA10 Coastal Planning 91 EP13 Coal Bed Methane 72 Protecting Environmental Resources Retail and Town Centres EA11 Environmental Quality 95 EP14 Retail Network Centre and Hierarchy 74 EA12 Water Environment 95 EP15 Promoting Town Centre Regeneration 76 EA13 Significant Soil Resources 96 EP16 New Retail and Commercial Leisure Development 76 EA14 Supporting the Delivery of Community Growing Spaces 97 EP17 Supermarket and Superstore Development 77 EA15 Classification of Land that has been used for Community Growing 97 EP18 Food and Drink 78 EA16 Waste Management Facilities 98 EA17 Energy from Waste Facilities 99 EA18 Minimising Waste in New Development 99 2 PROPOSED LOCAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN The Built Environment West Ochils Proposals and Opportunities Map EA19 Scheduled Monuments 101 - Menstrie, Alva, Tillicoultry - Coalsnaughton - Devonside EA20 Other Archaeological Resources 101 East Ochils Proposals and Opportunities Map EA21 Historic Gardens and Designed Landscapes 101 - Pool of Muckhart, Dollar, Forestmill EA22 Listed Buildings 102 Countryside Proposals and Opportunities Map EA23 Conservation Areas 102 Designated Sites Map EA24 Buildings at Risk and Non-Designated Heritage Assets 103 Green Network Map EA25 The Development of Brownfield and Contaminated Land 103 Appendices 164 8. SCHEDULE OF SITES (Proposals and Opportunities) 104 ¶ 1: Schedule of Land Ownership 164 Alloa 104 ¶ EA1: Special Landscape Areas - Statement of Importance 167 Sauchie 121 Tullibody, Cambus and Glenochil 127 Glossary 172 Clackmannan 130 Devon Village 132 Forth - Rural and Area Wide 133 Supplementary Guidance (Separate Documents) Menstrie 140 ¶ 1: Developer Contributions Alva 143 ¶ 2: Onshore Wind Energy Tillicoultry and Coalsnaughton 151 ¶ 3: Placemaking West Ochils - Rural and Area Wide 155 ¶ 4: Water Dollar 156 ¶ 5: Affordable Housing Muckhart 159 ¶ 6: Green Infrastructure East Ochils - Rural and Area Wide 160 ¶ 7: Energy Efficiency and Low Carbon Development Maps ¶ 8: Woodlands and Forestry - Due 2014 ¶ 9: Minerals - Due 2014 Forth Area Proposals and Opportunities Map ¶ 10: Domestic Developments - Due 2014 - Alloa and Sauchie Forth Area Proposals and Opportunities Map - Fishcross and Devon Village, Tullibody - Cambus & Glenochil, Clackmannan & Kennet 3 PROPOSED LOCAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN 1. Introduction an impact in Clackmannanshire, and we are now experiencing 1 5 However, this growth will not be achieved at any cost One greater challenges in attracting new employers and jobs, and of the main drivers in Clackmannanshire’s success is its clean and 1 1 The planning system plays a key role in the delivery of housing development has slowed However, a key aim of the LDP attractive environment Lying on the Ochils Fault, the dramatic the Scottish Government’s overall purpose of creating a more is to rise to this challenge and ensure that the area can continue escarpment of the Ochil Hills provides a scenic backdrop to the successful country, with opportunities for all of Scotland to to compete effectively to attract investment in the future and carseland extending south to the River Forth Clackmannanshire flourish, through increasing sustainable economic growth The to capitalise on future increases in economic activity nationally experiences a high quality of life and one of the aims of the Clackmannanshire Local Development Plan (LDP) seeks to place The Local Development Plan (LDP) contains a set of policies LDP is that future development ensures that this continues sustainable development at the heart of its vision, strategy and which are intended to ensure that Clackmannanshire achieves Clackmannanshire is affected by the same environmental policies The goal of sustainable development is to enable all high quality business, residential and other development in challenges affecting other parts of Scotland – including the people throughout the world to satisfy their basic needs and appropriate locations, with the services and infrastructure need to adapt to climate change, tackle biodiversity decline, enjoy a better quality of life without compromising the quality required to support them accommodate the growth in renewable energy development, of life of future generations and improve the water quality of our watercourses The policies and proposals in the Plan have been developed not simply to 1 2 Within this context, the LDP provides strategic direction deliver the growth we need, but to do it in the context of the and a set of policies and proposals which guide the future challenge to improve quality of life and improve our natural and development of the area It provides the basis for stakeholders, built environment developers and investors to contribute to shaping the future of the area The LDP will provide the framework against which 1 6 The Post-War period in Scotland has experienced many planning applications will be determined examples of poor layout, design and construction The LDP seeks to achieve a marked improvement in design and layout of new 1 3 Once adopted, the LDP and its associated Supplementary development, and a move towards the principles of placemaking Guidance will replace the existing Clackmannanshire & Stirling – the creation of distinctive, high quality places that make a Structure Plan (2002) and Clackmannanshire Local Plan (2004) major contribution to the social, environmental and economic and their alterations success of our communities The Plan sets out policies, along 1 4 The primary objective of the LDP is to create the conditions with associated Supplementary Guidance, aimed at delivering within which sustainable economic and population growth improved placemaking can take place We want to reverse the population decline that Clackmannanshire experienced in the past as old industries declined and job opportunities in traditional industries were lost During the first decade of this century, remarkable progress was made in regenerating the area and enabling it to become one of the fastest growing communities in Scotland The reduction in the pace of economic growth since 2008 has had 4 PROPOSED LOCAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN Context 1 9 The National Planning Framework 2 (NPF2) sets out and promoting an improved quality of life A number of Scotland’s strategic development priorities and takes forward considerations, which may either constrain or prevent 1 7 The LDP has been prepared within the context of national the spatial aspects of the Government’s Economic Strategy At development, or be positive opportunities which could planning policy