South Gloucestershire Council Draft Policies, Sites & Places Development Plan Document June 2014 Draft Policies, Sites & Places Plan Part 1 - June 2014 Contents Page(s) 1. Introduction 1-3 2. Part One 4-5 Development Management Policies 6-85 Oldbury New Nuclear Build 86-96 Consultation Questions 97 3. Part Two 98-101 Sites and Places 102-293 4. Site Allocations 294-297 5. Glossary 298-306 Appendices: 1. Review of Saved Local Plan Policies and Policies Map Changes 1A. Review of Saved Local Plan Policies Policies Map Changes: 1B. Review of Policy Designations 1C. Review of Policy Allocations 1D. Proposed New Allocations and Designations 2. List of Proposed Local Green Spaces 3. Supporting Document on Minerals Site Options 1. Introduction The South Gloucestershire Local Plan 1.1 The Policies, Sites and Places Plan (PSP Plan) is the final document being prepared by the Council in completing its Local Plan. The Local Plan is a set of documents (currently comprising the Joint Waste Core Strategy and Core Strategy) which will update and replace the previous South Gloucestershire Local Plan (adopted 2006) and Minerals & Waste Local Plan (adopted 2002) and will guide future planning decisions in the district. 1.2 The Local Plan ‘lead’ document is the Core Strategy. This sets out the overall development strategy for South Gloucestershire and contains the strategic planning policies to deliver that strategy. As the strategic component of the Local Plan, the Core Strategy sets out 9 strategic objectives. These establish the basis for the policies contained in the Plan and how the Council expresses and responds to the challenge of delivering sustainable development. Six of these objectives form the basis of the main chapters of the Core Strategy, whilst the other three comprise the over-arching and cross-cutting objectives that are reflected in all Core Strategy policies – delivering sustainable communities, improving health and well-being, and mitigating and adapting to the impacts of climate change. The same approach is also followed in this Plan with the development management policies contained in Part 1, grouped under each of the six Core Strategy strategic objectives which include where appropriate embedded references to the three cross-cutting objectives relating to delivering sustainable communities, improving health and well-being, and mitigating and adapting to the impacts of climate change as these permeate and run through the majority of all policies contained in the Plan given they are intrinsically linked to sustainable development. 1.3 To support the delivery of the Core Strategy, the PSP Plan will set out and comprise: Part 1 - Development Management Policies: • These policies will replace those in the South Gloucestershire Local Plan and the Minerals and Waste Local Plan, as well as introduce new policies. This suite of development management policies has been drawn up to accord with the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) and National Planning Policy Guidance (NPPG), as well as reflecting comments received from Parish/Town Councils, developers, environmental organisations and other stakeholders. These development management policies will sit alongside the Core Strategy (adopted 2013) and Joint 1 Draft Policies, Sites & Places Plan Part 1 - June 2014 Waste Core Strategy (adopted 2011) and form the Development Plan for South Gloucestershire which will be used by the council when assessing planning applications. The final policy in Part 1 relates the potential New Nuclear Build near to Oldbury-on-Severn. Part 2 – Sites and Places: • This part of the Plan brings together community led aspirations for how local communities want to see their areas grow and respond to pressures and challenges over the plan period (2013-2027). At the time the Core Strategy was prepared, the Council gave an undertaking to local communities that through the PSP Plan it would address non-strategic matters, including the ambitions for some villages to have limited housing growth, to review site designations and allocations, and to capture local community aspirations as they relate to the use and management of land. This section of the Plan, presents this work to date. • This section contains 46 parish chapters and one chapter covering the unparished area. Each chapter contains a map showing the extent of the area and for information, the settlement boundaries are displayed. • It then sets out proposed allocations of a range of land uses required to support sustainable communities, for example, retail boundaries and mineral safeguarding areas. At this stage, rural parishes which have expressed a local need for limited additional housing have been identified and the policy options available to them to meet this need are set out. The final Plan will give policy expression to this for example, through extensions to settlement boundaries. The intention for this is to provide clarity to applicants and the community regarding land uses that, in principle, are acceptable to the council on specific sites. • There are two allocations policies presented in Part 2, which set out those allocations highlighted in the area chapters of Plan 2 and where relevant cross reference to the policies contained in Part 1. Local Plan Policies Map 1.3 The Local Plan Policies Map was updated following adoption of the Core Strategy in December 2013. The PSP Plan when adopted will show designations defined by other processes, including the Enterprise Areas, Sites of Special Scientific Interest and Conservation Areas. 1.4 Designations and allocations arising from Part 1 or Part 2 of the PSP Plan, for example, local green space, rural housing sites and retail frontages will need to be shown on the Policies Map which accompanies the Local Plan. At this stage no map changes are set out but a schedule of amendments that the draft PSP Plan will make to the current Policies Map is presented at Appendix 1. Consultation Undertaken 1.5 Work on the PSP Plan commenced in May 2013. The draft Plan brings together all work undertaken to date as part of the initial identification of issues and preferred options. 1.6 The draft Plan has been prepared through working together with our Local Councillors, Parishes and other relevant stakeholders as well as informed by information provided through the early engagement process. This informal stage of consultation is in accordance with Regulation 18 of the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) 2 Draft Policies, Sites & Places Plan Part 1 - June 2014 (England) Regulations 2012 which specifies the consultation a local planning authority must undertake on a Local Plan before it can proceed to publish a proposed submission version of the plan. 1.7 A statement of engagement has also been prepared alongside this document, which explains who has been consulted so far during the preparation of the PSP Plan, how this was carried out and how comments are being taken into account in preparing the Plan. Status of this Document 1.8 This draft Plan is intended to provide an early, informal opportunity to comment and contribute to the final version of the Plan. It should not be considered that this represents the final version, as the Council wishes to receive, reflect upon and amend the Plan to ensure it addresses, as far as possible, the wishes of the communities it will affect before proceeding to publish and formally consult on a proposed submission version of the Plan (Regulation 19). Accompanying Documents 1.9 A Sustainability Appraisal report and Equalities Impact Assessment have been published to accompany this document. Timetable and Next Steps 1.10 The future programme for the production, submission and examination of the PSP Plan is: • Summer 2014 - Full, informal public consultation on draft Plan including individual consultation events in specific parishes. • Autumn 2014 - Follow up consultation with communities and key stakeholders as appropriate and necessary. • December 2014 - Presentation of Proposed Submission version of the Plan taking account of consultation responses. • January 2015 - Public Consultation on the proposed Submission Plan (Regulation 19). • March 2015 - Submission of Plan and consultation responses for examination spring 2015. 1.11 Comments are invited on this draft Plan until 28th August 2014. Comments received will help to inform the further preparation of the Plan. 1.12 It is envisaged that the proposed submission Plan will be published in January 2015 for formal public consultation (Regulation 19). ……………………………………………… 3 Part One Part One: Development Management Policies And Oldbury New Nuclear Build 4 Draft Policies, Sites & Places Plan Part 1 - June 2014 2. Part One of the PSP Plan Introduction to the Development Management Policies 2.1 This section relates to development management policies. These policies will replace those in the South Gloucestershire Local Plan and the Minerals and Waste Local Plan, as well as introduce new policies. This suite of development management policies has been drawn up to accord with the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) and national planning policy guidance (NPPG), as well as reflect comments received from parish/town councils, developers, environmental organisations and other stakeholders. 2.2 These development management policies will sit alongside the Core Strategy (adopted 2013) and Joint Waste Core Strategy (adopted 2011) and form the Development Plan for South Gloucestershire. 2.3 The policies are set out in templates which identify the local plan policies being