Development Plan The Ryedale Local Plan Strategy Author Head of Planning SMB owner Programme Director for Economic Development, Business and Partnerships Version 1.00 Status Final Version Ratifying committee Date ratified Date policy effective from 5 September 2013 Review cycle 5 Years Post Review Contents Page No 1. Introduction 1 2. Context 4 Local Issues and Challenges 4 Relationship with Other Plans and Strategies 12 3. Aspirations and Strategy 17 Vision, Aims and Objectives 17 Strategy 19 Policy SP1 General Location of Development and Settlement Hierarchy 29 Guiding Development at the Towns 34 Key Diagram 42 4. Housing 43 Policy SP2 Delivery and Distribution of New Housing 51 Policy SP3 Affordable Housing 59 Policy SP4 Type and Mix of New Housing 66 Policy SP5 Sites for Gypsies and Travellers and Travelling Showpeople 70 5. Economy 72 Policy SP6 Delivery and Distributing of Employment Land and Premises 75 Policy SP7 Town Centres and Retailing 86 Contents Page No Policy SP8 Tourism 92 Policy SP9 The Land-Based and Rural Economy 97 6. Physical Infrastructure & Community Facilities 99 Policy SP10 Physical Infrastructure 101 Policy SP11 Community Facilities and Services 112 7. Environment 117 Policy SP12 Heritage 120 Policy SP13 Landscapes 129 Policy SP14 Biodiversity 135 Policy SP15 Green Infrastructure Networks 142 Policy SP16 Design 148 Policy SP17 Managing Air Quality, Land and Water Resources 154 Policy SP18 Renewable and Low Carbon Energy 164 8. Managing and Controlling Development 167 Policy SP19 Presumption in Favour of Sustainable Development 168 Policy SP20 Generic Development Management Issues 169 Policy SP21 Occupancy Restrictions 174 Policy SP22 Planning Obligations, Developer Contributions and the Community Infrastructure Levy 178 SECTION 1 INTRODUCTION Annex 1 – Key Technical Evidence 181 Annex 2 Ryedale Local Plan (2002 and 2004) Policies Superseded by this Plan 183 1 The Ryedale Plan – Local Plan Strategy SECTION 1 INTRODUCTION Introduction Identifies the type of development required to best meet the needs The Ryedale Plan of local communities 1.1 This document forms part of the Ryedale Plan, a planning framework for the area, which is formally called a Local Plan. Outlines the types of changes that will happen at each of the five towns as well as the wider rural area 1.2 The purpose of the Ryedale Plan is to encourage new development and to manage future growth whilst ensuring that change across the Lists some of the projects and investment that will help to support District is based on a presumption in favour of sustainable and deliver the Strategy development. The Ryedale Plan will help to support the delivery of new homes, jobs and shops to address the needs of local Provides a framework to inform development decisions and assist communities and it will look to ensure that these are carefully co- the determination of applications for development ordinated with the services and facilities that communities rely upon and which are essential to well being and quality of life. It will Provides a strategic framework to help local communities deliver influence the location, amount and type of new development in local change through Neighbourhood Plans, Neighbourhood different places, shaping how they will look and feel in years to Development Orders, the Community Right to Build or the come. Vitally, the Plan will also protect those things that are management of local services important in this area and which are highly valued by local people. These include Ryedale’s outstanding landscapes and rich cultural 1.4 It is important to note that this Strategy applies to the area of heritage, as well as the community facilities and services that are Ryedale which lies outside of the North York Moors National Park. essential in supporting rural communities, particularly those in more The National Park Authority has prepared a Core Strategy which isolated locations. covers the area of the District within the National Park. 1.3 This strategy document is at the heart of the Plan. It sets out the 1.5 The Ryedale Plan is made up of a number of other key policy strategic issues facing the District and the challenges of addressing documents which will support the Strategy. These include: them. It includes a Vision and Objectives for the sort of place that Ryedale will be and sets out a Strategy and suite of strategic Local Plan Sites Document – setting out site specific polices and policies to achieve these and to promote and guide private and proposals, including the identification and allocation of land for public sector investment, neighbourhood planning, community and development for land uses such as employment and housing and voluntary sector work and support over the next fifteen years. site specific design guidance and build standards/targets. Specifically it: The Helmsley Plan – to be prepared jointly with the North York Sets out the amount of new housing, retail and employment Moors National Park Authority to ensure a consistent and co- development that will take place in different parts of the District to ordinated approach to the future development of the town and to 2027 1 The Ryedale Plan – Local Plan Strategy SECTION 1 INTRODUCTION identify site specific land allocations, design guidance and build national priorities of delivering an increased supply of housing and standards/targets. economic growth whilst at the same time, addressing the aspirations and opportunities that have arisen throughout a lengthy Proposals Map - an Ordnance Survey based Map defining detailed consultation process with local people and stakeholders. In effect, boundaries within which particular policies apply the Plan acts as a local expression of national policy. It establishes local policies which comply with national policy but which also Neighbourhood Development Plans - prepared by local provide a specific local policy response which reflects the communities to identify land for development and to shape distinctiveness of this District and best integrates local social, and co-ordinate activity in specific local areas economic and environmental issues. Furthermore, the Plan provides a context for more detailed decision making which will be undertaken at a neighbourhood or site specific level through the 1.6 Together these main policy documents have formal statutory status development of Neighbourhood Development Plans and the as the Development Plan. Over time, further Development Plan production of the Local Plan Sites Document. Documents may be prepared if these are required in response to changing local or national circumstances. Supplementary Planning 1.9 Ryedale is influenced by its proximity to two of North Yorkshire’s Documents (SPD) will also be produced to support the main policy most substantial settlements – the city of York and Scarborough. documents. Their role will be to provide guidance on the The District has distinctive travel to work and housing markets as interpretation and delivery of the Ryedale Plan’s objectives and a result. Ryedale also shares significant landscape areas with the policies. For example, the low carbon agenda is a technically East Riding and North York Moors National Park. It is important challenging area which warrants a Supplementary Planning that the Ryedale Plan is consistent with sub-regional plans and Document to further expand on how this can be taken forward. strategies and the Plans of neighbouring authorities. This is Supplementary Planning Documents will not be used to introduce undertaken through a formal Duty to Cooperate which Ryedale is further standards which would result in additional ‘burdens’ on currently developing with its neighbours. However, significant developers. cross-boundary cooperation has already fed into the Ryedale Plan as a result of former regional planning arrangements and the 1.7 The Local Development Scheme sets out a rolling programme for identification and recognition of functional sub-areas, including the the preparation and review of documents that will be prepared as Coastal, Remoter Rural and York Sub-Areas in the former part of the Ryedale Plan. The performance and delivery of the Plan Yorkshire and Humber Plan. will be monitored and reported through the Monitoring Report. 1.10 It is important to note that the Ryedale Plan – this Strategy, the 1.8 Although the Ryedale Plan needs to reflect the Government’s Local Plan Sites Document and supporting supplementary priorities as set out in the National Planning Policy Framework, it is documents need to be read as a whole. The range of documents important that it establishes a local policy approach which reflects which provide a context for planning in Ryedale are outlined in the local issues, needs and requirements. This Strategy aligns with following diagram: 2 The Ryedale Plan – Local Plan Strategy SECTION 1 INTRODUCTION Figure 1: Ryedale’s Planning Framework The Helmsley Proposals The Ryedale Plan Local Plan Local Plan Strategy Sites Plan Map Neighbourhood Plans Supporting Documents Supplementary Infrastructure Delivery Community Infrastructure Planning Documents Plan Levy Charging Schedule Statement of Community Monitoring Report Local Development Involvement Scheme 3 The Ryedale Plan – Local Plan Strategy SECTION 2 CONTEXT Context Local Issues and Challenges 2.1 Ryedale is a large rural District in North Yorkshire, located between the historic city of York and Scarborough on the coast. The North York Moors form the northern border of the District with the Yorkshire Wolds to the south