north lanarkshire local plan policy document service and people first Contents INTRODUCTION POLICY APPENDICES GETTING STARTED page DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY page page Welcome 4 1 Introduction 14 1 Delivering the Community Plan 71 Relationship with the Community Plan 5 2 Survey Context 15 2 Glossary of Planning Terms 76 Index of policies 7 3 Policy Context 19 3 Schedules 78 4 Issues 23 NAVIGATING THE LOCAL PLAN 5 Policy 25 1 What the Local Plan is 9 2 What the Local Plan contains 10 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE 3 How to use the Local Plan 11 1 Introduction 29 4 The Local Plan Process 13 2 Survey Context 30 3 Policy Context 32 4 Issues 35 5 Policy 36 RETAIL AND TOWN CENTRES 1 Introduction 41 2 Survey Context 42 3 Policy Context 43 4 Issues 44 5 Policy 45 HOUSING AND COMMUNITY FACILITIES 1 Introduction 48 2 Survey Context 49 3 Policy Context 50 4 Issues 52 5 Policy 53 Certified and true copy of the North Lanarkshire Local Plan adopted by North Lanarskhire Council 28 September 2012 NATURAL AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT 1 Introduction 56 Signed 2 Survey Context 57 3 Policy Context 59 4 Issues 61 Executive Director of Environmental Services 5 Policy 62 North Lanarkshire Council local plan policy document 3 local plan policy document Getting started Welcome The Local Plan sets out the Policies and Proposals to achieve North Lanarkshire’s development needs over the next 5-10 years. North Lanarkshire is already a successful place and we want that to continue. We have the land resource available and we want it put to good use. That is Councillor J. Coyle what this Local Plan is about. Planning and Transportation Committee Convenor North Lanarkshire Council A more successful and sustainable North We do not need to settle for poor quality Lanarkshire needs economic growth, but not at the development. The people of North Lanarkshire expense of communities or the environment. That is deserve better than that. We think this Local Plan why this Local Plan has policies identifying the will deliver the results we are looking for. It sets out development sites we need for economic growth. It a clear vision for North Lanarkshire’s physical is also why this Local Plan has policies ensuring the development. It aims to achieve sustainable growth development of sites will benefit our communities through making sure we have the right amount of and safeguard our environment. development in the right places, developed to the right quality, and for the benefit of the communities they affect. 4 Getting started Relationship with the Community Plan The Community Plan and Land Use The Council works in partnership in the community interest through the North Lanarkshire Community Plan. Scottish Planning Policy states planning’s role in this is to be the main means of delivering those aspects of community planning that impact on the development and use of land. The Local Plan is, therefore, to promote land use change in the community interest for a North Lanarkshire that is a more successful and a better place to live. The Community Plan Vision The Community Plan (2011-2014) sets out the North Lanarkshire Partnership’s vision for the area as a place where: • people want to live because of the range, • people choose to do business because support • particularly our children and young people quality, and affordability of housing; the safety of for new and existing businesses, business are safe, nurtured, healthy, achieving, active, communities; the quality and accessibility of the sites, the transport network, and the quality of respected, responsible, and included natural environment; and the quality of amenities workforce are second to none in Scotland and services in the area • people participate in learning at all ages and • people live well because health, well-being, and stages of life to achieve their full potential life chances are as good as those elsewhere in • people have a fair chance in life and where Scotland factors that limit opportunities are overcome local plan policy document 5 local plan policy document Getting started How the Local Plan Contributes The use, development and improvement of land and the means of transportation between buildings, uses and activities will make a substantial contribution to realising the Community Plan vision. The Local Plan is the spatial strategy in pursuit of the vision. Therefore, it needs to have the same values and principles that guide the Community Plan. The Community Plan’s principles are also those that underpin the Structure Plan and national planning guidance. They each seek economic growth, social integration, and environmental protection. These are principles that shape the Local Plan’s Strategy. The overall aim of the Local Plan is the regeneration and sustainable growth of our communities. This balances a range of fundamental economic, environmental and social aspirations: • providing appropriate land supplies to meet expected demands • encouraging enterprise, initiative and diversity • making efficient use of resources and infrastructure • safeguarding and improving environmental assets • seeking to minimise environmental impact • promoting high quality design • taking account of safety, health and well-being • promoting social and environmental justice • ensuring the preparation and implementation of the Plan are inclusive For further details of how the Local Plan connects with the Community Plan, please see Appendix 1 Delivering the Community Plan. 6 Getting started Index of Policies The Development Strategy: page • sets out an over-arching Development Strategy AIM Aim for the plan DSA Development Strategy Aim 25 • lists four Development Strategy Area Priorities AREA PRIORITIES where the greatest degree of change is planned DSAP Development Strategy Area Priorities 25 • applies four Development Strategy Policies to all POLICIES applications for planning permission regardless DSP1 Development Strategy Policy 1 Amount of Development 26 of the type, scale or location of proposed DSP2 Development Strategy Policy 2 Location of Development 27 development DSP3 Development Strategy Policy 3 Impact of Development 27 DSP4 Development Strategy Policy 4 Quality of Development 28 local plan policy document 7 local plan policy document Getting started Index of Policies The Topics: page • set out Policies that apply to specific land uses: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE EDI1 Protecting Economic Development Areas and Infrastructure 36 Protecting policies protect existing areas from EDI2 Promoting Economic Development and Infrastructure 38 inappropriate development EDI3 Assessing Economic Development and Infrastructure Proposals 39 Promoting policies identify development sites for RETAIL AND TOWN CENTRES specific land uses RTC1 Protecting the North Lanarkshire Centre Network 45 RTC2 Promoting Town Centre Action 46 Assessing policies deal with planning applications RTC3 Assessing Retail and Commercial Leisure Development 46 for specific land uses HOUSING AND COMMUNITY FACILITIES • Protecting and Promoting policies are HCF1 Protecting Residential Amenity and Community Facilities 53 site specific HCF2 Promoting Housing Development and Community Facilities 54 HCF3 Assessing Affordable Housing Development 55 • Assessing policies are about types of development NATURAL AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT NBE1 Protecting the Natural and Built Environment 62 NBE2 Promoting the Natural and Built Environment 66 NBE3 Assessing Development in the Green Belt and Rural Investment Area 68 8 Navigating the Local Plan Section 1 What the Local Plan is 1.1 North Lanarkshire’s Land Use Plan 1.2 Its Part in the Development Plan North Lanarkshire Local Plan (the Local Plan) is a Making sure the right developments take place in The Glasgow and the Clyde Valley Joint Structure land use plan. Land use refers to the ways land the right locations to meet an area’s needs is too Plan 2006 Third Alteration (the Structure Plan) gives or buildings are used. Houses, offices, shops, important to leave to chance. It is the Council’s task a longer-term vision for development of the wider recreational open space, and agriculture are as the Planning Authority for North Lanarkshire to Clyde Valley region. examples of different kinds of land use. Land use produce a Local Plan to do this. planning is about making sure that: The Local Plan’s detailed Policies need to be The Local Plan assesses what kinds of development consistent with the Structure Plan’s general vision. • there is enough of the different land uses in an the area needs over the next 5-10 years. It sets out Together, the Local Plan and the Structure Plan form area for it to be a successful place Policies and Proposals for the development and use the Development Plan for North Lanarkshire. • facilities are in the right locations for people to of land. These guide day-to-day decisions on access them planning applications, identify effective Where the Structure Plan generally looks 20 years • development does not harm the environment opportunities for development, and encourage ahead, the Local Plan addresses the next 5-10 years. investment. Within that period, there will be annual monitoring of the effectiveness of Policies on land for business and industry, housing, and retail development. There will be a 5-yearly cycle of formal review of the Plan. local plan policy document 9 local plan policy document Navigating the Local Plan Section 2 What the Local Plan contains 2.1 The Local Plan’s Two Elements 2.2 Other Related Documents The Policy Document (known formally as the Environmental Report CD-ROM Written Statement) has: The Environmental Report covers environmental The CD-ROM contains the Policy Document, matters in the detail required by the European Proposals Maps, Environmental Report and • an Introduction section explaining what the Directive on Strategic Environmental Assessment. Technical Reports. Local Plan is, what it contains, how to use it, and It assesses the plan against environmental factors. the process leading to the plan’s adoption These meet the legal requirement to have a • a Development Strategy section setting out an Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) of the Supplementary Planning Guidance overall vision for the physical development of Local Plan.