NORTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE JOINT CORE STRATEGY 2011-2031 ADOPTED JULY 2016 NORTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE JOINT CORE STRATEGY 2011–2031 CONTENTS OF THE JOINT CORE STRATEGY 1. INTRODUCTION 4 SECTION B – SPATIAL POLICIES 70 2. VISION & OUTCOMES 11 1. THE NETWORK OF URBAN AND 72 RURAL AREAS KEY DIAGRAM 34 Policy 11 The Network of Urban and Rural Areas 78 Policy 12 Town Centres and Town Centre Uses 85 Policy 13 Rural Exceptions 88 SECTION A – CORE POLICIES 36 Policy 14 Deenethorpe Airfield Area of Opportunity 91 Policy 1 Presumption in favour of Sustainable Development 38 2. CONNECTIONS WITHIN AND BEYOND I. PROTECTING AND ENHANCING ASSETS 39 NORTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 93 Policy 2 Historic Environment 41 Policy 15 Well-connected Towns, Villages and 96 Policy 3 Landscape Character 45 Neighbourhoods Policy 4 Biodiversity and Geodiversity 50 Policy 16 Connecting the Network of Settlements 99 Policy 5 Water Environment, Resources and Policy 17 North Northamptonshire’s Strategic Connections 102 Flood Risk Management 54 Policy 18 HGV Parking 104 Policy 6 Development on Brownfield Land and Land affected by contamination 56 3. THE GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE FRAMEWORK 105 Policy 7 Community Services and Facilities 60 Policy 19 The Delivery of Green Infrastructure 107 Special policy areas II. ENSURING HIGH QUALITY DEVELOPMENT 61 Policy 20 Nene and Ise Valleys 109 Policy 8 North Northamptonshire Place Shaping Principles 64 Policy 21 Rockingham Forest 111 Policy 9 Sustainable Buildings 66 4. DELIVERING ECONOMIC PROSPERITY 112 III. SECURING INFRASTRUCTURE AND SERVICES 67 Policy 22 Delivering Economic Prosperity 115 Policy 10 Provision of Infrastructure 69 Policy 23 Distribution of New Jobs 117 Policy 24 Logistics 119 Policy 25 Rural Economic Development and Diversification 121 Policy 26 Renewable and Low Carbon Energy 125 Policy 27 Rockingham MRC Enterprise Area 129 5. DELIVERING HOMES 130 Policy 28 Housing Requirements 132 Policy 29 Distribution of new homes 136 Policy 30 Housing Mix and Tenure 144 Policy 31 Gypsies and Travellers and Travelling Show People 146 2 ADOPTED JULY 2016 NORTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE NORTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE JOINT CORE STRATEGY 2011–2031 JOINT CORE STRATEGY 2011–2031 CONTENTS OF THE JOINT CORE STRATEGY SECTION C – DEVELOPMENT PRINCIPLES LIST OF TABLES FOR STRATEGIC SITES 147 Table 1 Spatial Roles 76 Policy 32 West Corby Sustainable Urban Extension 151 Table 2 Place Shaping Principles 80 Policy 33 Rushden East Sustainable Urban Extension 156 Table 3 Job Creation Targets 117 Policy 34 Land at Cockerell Road, Corby 159 Table 4 Share of objectively assessed needs in the Policy 35 Land at Nene Valley Farm, Northampton Road, 162 Housing Market Area 132 Rushden Table 5 Housing delivery in named settlements 137 Policy 36 Land at Kettering North 167 Table 6 Required tenure as percentage of new housing 140 Policy 37 Land at Kettering South 172 Table 7 Pitch Provision 2011-2022 145 Policy 38 Rothwell North Sustainable Urban Extension 176 Table 8 Key Strategic Infrastructure Requirements 178 Table 9 Performance Indicators and Targets for Monitoring the Implementation of JCS Policies 181 SECTION D – MONITORING AND IMPLEMENTATION FRAMEWORK 177 LIST OF FIGURES Key Strategic Infrastructure Projects 178 Figure 1 Plan making in North Northamptonshire 4 Performance Indicators and Targets for Monitoring 181 Figure 2 The review of the Joint Core Strategy 5 Figure 3 Plan Area and adjoining Local Planning Authorities 10 Figure 4 National Context 12 Figure 5 Network of settlements in North Northamptonshire APPENDIX 1 – POLICIES MAP 200 with populations of main towns 13 Figure 6 Environmental Designations 16 APPENDIX 2 – GLOSSARY OF TERMS Figure 7 Projected percentage growth in population AND ABBREVIATIONS 205 2012 – 31 17 Figure 8 Forecast change in age structure of North APPENDIX 3 – SCHEDULE OF EXTANT Northamptonshire population 2011-31 18 POLICIES REPLACED BY POLICIES IN THE Figure 9 Commuting flows to and from North ADOPTED NORTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE Northamptonshire 21 JOINT CORE STRATEGY 211 Figure 10 The spatial scales relevant to Place Shaping 32 Figure 11 Components of the North Northamptonshire APPENDIX 4 – THE ASSESSMENT OF Spatial Strategy 33 HOUSING LAND SUPPLY RELATIVE TO THE Figure 12 North Northamptonshire Key Diagram 34 REQUIREMENTS OF JOINT CORE STRATEGY Figure 13 Landscape Character Types 43 POLICY 28 214 Figure 15 Functional sub-areas of North Northamptonshire 73 Figure 16 Principal Sustainable Urban Extensions 74 Figure 17 Green Infrastructure Corridors 106 Figure 19 Planned growth in dwelling stock 2011-31 131 ANNEX A – NORTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE Figure 20 Planned distribution of new housing 2011-31 HOUSING LAND SUPPLY 218 compared to recent pattern of development (2001-11) 133 ANNEX B – PROJECTED HOUSING LAND Figure 21 Forecast sources of Housing, 2011-31 133 SUPPLY FOR NORTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE Figure 22 West Corby Sustainable Urban Extension Site 148 HOUSING MARKET AREA 220 Figure 23 Rushden East Sustainable Urban Extension Site 153 Figure 24 Cockerell Road Site, Corby 157 Figure 25 Nene Valley Farm Site, Rushden 160 Figure 26 Kettering North Site 164 Figure 27 Kettering South Site 169 Figure 28 Rothwell North Sustainable Urban Extension 173 ADOPTED JULY 2016 3 NORTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE JOINT CORE STRATEGY 2011–2031 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 The North Northamptonshire Joint Core Strategy (JCS) is the strategic Part 1 Local Plan for Corby, East Northamptonshire, Kettering and Wellingborough. It outlines a big picture to be developed in more detail through the Part 2 Local Plans prepared by the District and Borough Councils and by Neighbourhood Plans prepared by Neighbourhood Planning Groups. The JCS is prepared by the Joint Planning Unit (JPU), reporting to the North Northamptonshire Joint Committee (JC) made up of elected representatives from the District, Borough and County Councils. Northamptonshire County Council is the minerals and waste planning authority. The Minerals and Waste Local Plan (adopted October 2014) forms part of the development plan. Figure 1: Plan making in North Northamptonshire 1.2 The first Core Spatial Strategy (CSS) prepared by the JC was adopted in 2008 and covered the period to 2021. It has been reviewed to take account of progress and to plan forward to 2031. The review has also responded to the Government’s reforms to the planning system, including the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) and the revocation of Regional Plans. These have given greater scope for the JCS to respond to local needs and aspirations, although it must still be based on sound evidence and meet objectively assessed development needs and infrastructure requirements. The adopted JCS supersedes the 2008 CSS in its entirety. 4 ADOPTED JULY 2016 NORTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE NORTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE JOINT CORE STRATEGY 2011–2031 JOINT CORE STRATEGY 2011–2031 Early engagement & options development (consultation on scope of Plan) September 2009 – March 2010 Consult on Issues February – March 2011 Consult on emerging draft policies July – October 2012 Consult on Strategic Sites and August – October 2013 elements of evidence Consultation on January – March 2015 Pre-Submission Plan Submit Plan Summer 2015 Examination Summer 2015 – Summer 2016 Monitoring & Review Adoption Summer 2016 Figure 2: The review of the Joint Core Strategy 1.3 The review started in 2009. Early work involved a series of stakeholder workshops run in conjunction with the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) and a Rural Workshop and Small Towns Workshop run with Action for Communities in Rural England (ACRE). Wider engagement included consultation on an Issues Paper, which involved events in each of the towns and activities aimed at engaging young people. This included a Youth Conference organised with Groundwork North Northamptonshire. 1.4 A 10 week consultation was undertaken between August and October 2012 on an Emerging Plan which included draft policies and the strategic sites to deliver these. Further consultation was undertaken on strategic housing and employment sites and the development principles for these between August and October 2013. The Pre-Submission JCS was consulted on for 6 weeks in January-March 2015. Focused Changes were made to the Plan as a result of the consultation feedback and these were consulted on for 6 weeks during June-July 2015, following which, the Plan was submitted for examination. As part of the examination of the JCS, examination hearings took place in November 2015. Proposed main modifications to the JCS arising from the examination were consulted on for 6 weeks (February – March 2016), with the consultation feedback assisting the Inspector in finalising his report into the JCS. Reports on all previous consultation are available on the JPU web- site www.nnjpu.org.uk. 1.5 Extensive technical work has been completed to ensure that the JCS is based on 1 To view the evidence robust evidence1 that justifies the choices made. As well as the evidence base prepared for base, see the 2008 CSS (much of which remains relevant) further studies have been completed on http://www.nnjpu.org.uk matters including population, transport, employment, housing, retailing, flood risk, strategic sites and the urban structure of settlements. The policies have also been subject to plan wide viability testing to ensure that the proposals are viable across the area. An Infrastructure Delivery Plan (IDP) has informed the Plan and has been published. This, together with reports on technical work undertaken by or for the JPU, is available on the JPU web-site (in the Publications section under Evidence Base). Links to other relevant studies are provided throughout this Plan. ADOPTED JULY 2016 5 NORTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE JOINT CORE STRATEGY 2011–2031 1.6 A number of the strategic sites and Sustainable Urban Extensions (SUEs) identified in Policies 23 and 29 (and on the Key Diagram) already have planning permission or have been identified in adopted plans. 1.7 The Plan takes forward many aspects of the 2008 CSS, including the emphasis on securing better infrastructure and services; the concentration of new development within the Growth Towns and connected settlements forming the urban spine of the area; and the vision for an enhanced framework of Green Infrastructure.