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EB/035 A PLAN FOR TENDRING COLCHESTER BORDERS GARDEN COMMUNITY Concept FrameworkIssues and Options Report November 2017 2 CONTENTS Have your say . 4 SECTION 6 ....................................... 42 SECTION 1 NEXT STEPS .......................................42 Introduction The purpose of this consultation. 5 GLOSSARY ........................................43 Why is a Development Plan needed? ...................5 APPENDIX A: Draft Local Plan Policy SP8 .........51 Why are your views important? .........................7 What status will the Plan Document have? ...............7 APPENDIX B: Evidence Documents ...............52 About this Issues and Options Report 8Steps to preparing a Plan (DPD) ...........................................9 Policy Context .......................................10 National Planning Policy ..............................10 A National Agenda for Garden Communities ...........10 Local Planning Policy ................................. 11 SECTION 2 Background and evidence The North Essex Garden Communities Charter .........12 Evidence Documents ................................12 SECTION 3 Vision and Principles A Vision for Tendring Colchester Borders ...............13 Taking forward the North Essex Garden Communities Charter Principles? ..................................15 SECTION 4 Issues What are Issues? ....................................16 How will the issues help identify the right option? .......16 SECTION 5 Current Development Concept Establishing a boundary for development ..............34 What is a Concept Framework? .......................34 Development Potential at TCBGC .....................34 Development Phasing at TCBGC ......................37 Layout of development ..............................38 Landscape and Open Space Framework ...............38 Mobility and Access Framework .......................39 Employment Framework .............................39 Density Strategy/ Typologies. .40 Community Infrastructure ............................41 3 Have your say There is no requirement for you to comment on every issue HERE’S HOW YOU CAN GET INVOLVED or to answer every question; we would like you to submit comments on any areas that you wish to. The Councils have set up a dedicated online portal in order to make responding to the consultation as Additionally, if you believe some issues have been missed simple as possible. Following a simple registration out or not accorded the weight they deserve, please raise process you will be able to respond to the questions this in your response. posed in this document and comment on other areas you think are relevant to the planning of the Your feedback to this consultation will directly influence the Garden Community. The online portal also has strategies, policies and proposals in the final Development a facility for respondents to upload documents Plan for the Tendring Colchester Borders Garden relevant to their submissions and you are particularly Community. encouraged to submit documents which may assist the understanding of issues raised in your responses, This consultation represents the first stage in the including for example, maps, plans and photographs planning process of preparing a Development Plan PERIOD OF CONSULTATION which help illustrate points that cannot be explained Document (DPD)for the Tendring Colchester Borders as well through a written response. Garden Community . The Issues and Options consultation will be held between To respond online visit the Councils’ dedicated online 13th November 2017 to 22nd January 2018 . Unfortunately, The plan once prepared, will include the required strategies, submissions received after 5pm on 22nd January will not be consultation portal: policies and proposals to guide the delivery of the Garden able to be considered by the Councils so early submission of braintree-consult .objective .co .uk/portal/negc/ Community. Public consultation is a fundamental part your responses is encouraged. of preparing the Plan and the Councils recognise the To respond via email send your comments to importance of early and meaningful engagement with After the consultation ends all of the responses received planning .policy@tendringdc .gov .uk or planning . stakeholders to not only ensure that the Garden Community will be validated and published on the online portal for policy@colchester .gov .uk is a successful place to live, work and visit, but that it is also public viewing to ensure the process is transparent. All locally-led, accountable and transparent in its planning. responses will then be read and analysed by the Councils If you would prefer to respond by letter, post your and collated into a consultation report. This report will collate comments to: As a stakeholder in this process we welcome your views responses into themes if common issues are raised and be Tendring Colchester Borders Garden on the Issues and Options related to the planning of the accompanied by a formal response from the Councils on all Community Consultation new Garden Community and ask you to respond to the issues raised. Planning Policy questions set out at the end of each section within the Colchester Borough Council document . For more information of what happens next in the planning Rowan House process, please see Section 1. Sheepen Road CO3 3WG 4 SECTION 1. Introduction THE PURPOSE OF THIS CONSULTATION WHY IS A DEVELOPMENT PLAN NEEDED? The purpose of this Issues and Options consultation is The delivery of a Garden Community represents a step- Due to the new Garden Community covering land in both to gather your views on the development of the Tendring change in the traditional approach to delivery of large- authorities the plan will be adopted by both Tendring District Colchester Borders Garden Community (TCBGC). The scale development and is a collective response by three Council and Colchester Borough Council. The Councils have responses to this consultation will directly feed into the local authorities to the need to plan, long-term, for the included the principle of development of a new Garden emerging planning strategies, policies and proposals economic and housing development needs across North Community in the location proposed in this consultation, which will guide future phases of the Garden Community’s Essex in a comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable within their respective draft Local Plans. development. way. Tendring District Council, Colchester Borough Council and Braintree District Council together with Essex County The Plan will have to take the principle of development As the planning process progresses these emerging policies Council (collectively known as the North Essex Authorities), further and include specific proposals, strategies and will be refined through further public consultation and are committed to delivery of development at scale, of detailed policies to inform the delivery of the Garden stakeholder engagement to ensure that as many views as high quality, and with all necessary infrastructure (roads Community. The plan will provide certainty for stakeholders possible are taken account of in the preparation of the plan and transport choices, jobs, schools, open spaces, and on the type, scale and location of specific land uses including for the TCBGC. Eventually the plan will be adopted by both community facilities). the infrastructure required to accommodate them. Tendring District Council and Colchester Borough Council and will sit alongside their respective Local Plans. Development at TCBGC is identified in the joint Strategic The Plan will build on Local Plan policy, including cross Section 1 of the Tendring District, Colchester Borough boundary issues identified and addressed through joint and Braintree District Councils’ Draft Local Plans. Draft Strategic Section 1 of the draft Local Plans. Local Plan Policy SP8 specifically refers to development of a Garden Community at Tendring Colchester Borders This Issues and Options consultation is the first stage in the and requires the preparation of a Strategic Growth preparation of the Plan. Development Plan Document (The Plan) that will provide a framework for the subsequent preparation of more detailed masterplans and other design and planning guidance for the site. The Proposed Strategic Development Area is shown in Figure 1 .1. 5 6 Figure 1.1 Proposed Strategic Development Area - as defined in the draft local plan WHY ARE YOUR VIEWS IMPORTANT? WHAT STATUS WILL THE DEVELOPMENT PLAN In addition to strong local authority involvement and DOCUMENT (THE PLAN) HAVE? leadership, the delivery of Garden Communities will also rely A Development Plan is required to guide the development of on active and sustained engagement with local communities the Garden Community, rather than a lesser Supplementary and stakeholders and with the residents and businesses of Planning document (SPD), because of the scale of the the new community once development starts, including, development proposed; its cross-boundary nature; the for example, opportunities for direct local stewardship of associated land assembly required to accommodate the community assets and facilities. proposal; and the use of a local delivery vehicle which will put proposals into practice. All of these qualities depart from It is important that future residents and businesses, existing traditional forms of development and consequently require surrounding communities, and local and public bodies and a higher-level document, subject to a greater degree of key stakeholders should be confident