Waverley Borough Council Authority Monitoring Report (AMR) 2019-2020
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Waverley Borough Council Authority Monitoring Report (AMR) 2019-2020 Published July 2021 Contents Introduction ........................................................................................................................... 4 Part 1: Progress of the new Local Plan ................................................................................. 5 Update on the Progress of the Local Plan ......................................................................... 5 Evidence Documents ......................................................................................................... 6 Unused Local Plan Policies and Saved Policies ................................................................ 6 Duty to Cooperate ............................................................................................................. 7 Neighbourhood Development Plans .................................................................................. 9 Part 2: Monitoring of Local Plan Part 1 ................................................................................ 10 Policy SP2: Spatial Strategy and Policy ALH1: The Amount and Location of Housing ..... 10 Policy ST1: Sustainable Transport ................................................................................... 13 Policy ICS1: Infrastructure and Community Facilities ....................................................... 15 Policy AHN1: Affordable Housing on Development Sites ................................................. 17 Policy AHN2: Rural Exception Sites ................................................................................ 18 Policy AHN3: Housing Types and Size ............................................................................ 19 Policy AHN4: Gypsies, Travellers and Travelling Showpeople ........................................ 20 Policy EE1: New Economic Development ........................................................................ 22 Policy EE2: Protecting Existing Employment Land .......................................................... 22 Policy TCS1: Town Centres ............................................................................................. 26 Policy TCS2: Local Centres ............................................................................................. 30 Policy TCS3: Neighbourhood and Village Shops ............................................................. 30 Policy LRC1: Leisure, Recreation and Culture ................................................................. 31 Policy RE1: Countryside beyond the Green Belt .............................................................. 33 Policy RE2: Green Belt .................................................................................................... 34 Policy RE3: Landscape Character ................................................................................... 36 Policy TD1: Townscape and Design ................................................................................ 38 Policy HA1: Protection of Heritage Assets ....................................................................... 39 Policy NE1: Biodiversity and Geological Conservation and Policy NE2: Green and Blue Infrastructure ................................................................................................................... 40 Policy NE3: Thames Basin Heaths Special Protection Area (TBH SPA) .......................... 41 Policy CC1: Climate Change, Policy CC2: Sustainable Design and Construction and Policy CC3: Renewable Energy Development ................................................................. 44 Policy CC4: Flood Risk Management .............................................................................. 45 Strategic Sites Policies SS1-SS9 ..................................................................................... 46 Part 3: Other Monitoring ...................................................................................................... 48 Self-Build and Custom Housebuilding Register ............................................................... 48 Part 4: Future monitoring and AMRs ................................................................................... 50 For further information or queries relating to the Authority Monitoring Report please contact the Planning Policy team by email at [email protected] or by telephone on 01483 523291. Introduction 1. This report monitors the period from 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020. 2. This Authority Monitoring Report (AMR) is prepared in accordance with the requirements of the legislation (the Localism Act 2011 and the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004). There are specific topics the Council must report on, while others are discretionary. 3. The AMR provides information on: • Progress with the Local Plan preparation • Any supplementary planning documents that have been prepared or adopted during the reporting period • Information on any local plan policies that are not being used, and the reasons for this • An indication of net additional dwellings or net additional affordable dwellings that have been permitted and completed during the reporting period • Any activity on duty to cooperate • How implementation of local plan policies is progressing • Information on the progress of neighbourhood plans • Any other information collected for monitoring purposes Page | 4 Part 1: Progress of the new Local Plan Update on the Progress of the Local Plan 4. This section of the Monitoring Report looks at Waverley’s progress in preparing a new Local Plan. The new Local Plan positively seeks opportunities to meet the development needs of the area. 5. The Local Plan for Waverley is being produced in two parts. The Waverley Borough Local Plan Part 1 (LPP1): Strategic Policies and Sites sets out the strategic policies relating to the development and use of land in Waverley and development proposals for the strategic sites identified within it, for the period up to 2032. It covers a range of issues, including the Council's overall strategy for where development should be located as well as tackling issues that are of particular importance locally, such as the Council's policies for delivering affordable housing and the preservation of a healthy and attractive environment. 6. LPP1 was adopted at a meeting of the full Council on 20 February 2018 and can be viewed at www.waverley.gov.uk/lpp1. 7. LPP1 includes a monitoring framework and the indicators within this will be used to assess whether the policies are working effectively, with the outcomes reported in AMRs. 8. Local Plan Part 2 (LPP2): Site Allocations and Development Management Policies will form the second stage of Waverley’s new Local Plan. This plan will provide the more detailed ‘Development Management’ policies and will allocate sites needed for housing alongside the Neighbourhood Plans in the Borough and gypsy and traveller accommodation in the Borough. LPP2 will also review the boundaries of the town centres, existing settlement boundaries and important local landscape designations. 9. The Council held the first of three public consultations for LPP2, called the ‘Issues and Options’ consultation, in June 2017. The comments received were then used to inform the next consultation stage, the ‘Preferred Options’. The Council ran the Preferred Options consultation from May-July 2018. The Council started its Regulation 19 ‘pre-submission’ consultation on LPP2 on 27 November 2020 which concluded on 29 January 2021. 10. The timetable for the remaining stages of the preparation of LPP2 are set out in the Council’s Local Development Scheme. Page | 5 Evidence Documents 11. The Council regularly publishes evidence documents, some of which are commissioned and carried out by external consultants. Some documents have been published since the end of the monitoring period, these are included for completeness. Documents published in the monitoring period between 1 April 2019 and 31 March 2020 • Five Year Housing Land Supply (1 April 2019) – July 2019 [SUPERSEDED] • Waverley Borough Council Brownfield Land Register (Update) – December 2019 [SUPERSEDED] Documents published after the monitoring period from 1 April 2020 to 31 December 2020 • Five Year Housing Land Supply (1 April 2020) – October 2020 • Land Availability Assessment (base date 1 April 2020) – November 2020 • Sustainability Appraisal and Appendices for Local Plan Part 2 – November 2020 • Habitats Regulations Assessment for Local Plan Part 2 – November 2020 • Flood Risk and Sequential Test Assessment for Local Plan Part 2 – November 2020 • Viability Report for Local Plan Part 2 – November 2020 • Green Belt Site Appraisals for Local Plan Part 2 – November 2020 • Landscape Study and Landscape Study Addendum for Local Plan Part 2 – November 2020 • Waverley Borough Council Brownfield Land Register (Update) – December 2020 • Housing Delivery Action Plan – December 2020 In addition, a number of topic papers and other documents were produced to support the Pre-Submission Local Plan Part 2 consultation. Unused Local Plan Policies and Saved Policies 12. From 28 September 2007, some of the policies in the 2002 Local Plan ceased to have effect. The remaining policies continued to be part of the development plan and are known as 'Saved Policies'. View the schedule of saved polices and the list of policies which have been removed from the plan. Of the saved policies, the Council has no evidence to show which, if any, are unused. 13. On the adoption of Local Plan Part 1 (LPP1)