Cyngor Bwrdeistref Sirol r gw O r a t n o b - y - Bridgend Local Development Plan n e P BRIDGEND 2006-2021 County Borough Council Adopted Plan September 2013 Cyngor Bwrdeistref Sirol r gw O r a t n o b b - - y y - - n CONTENTS n e CONTENTS e P P BRIDGEND County Borough Council BridgendBridgend LocalLocal DevelopmentDevelopment 1. INTRODUCTION & BACKGROUND Page... 3. PRODUCING HIGH QUALITY SUSTAINABLE PLACES (continued) Page...PlanPlan 2006-20212006-2021 1.1 Introduction 1 3.3 Transport Planning 24 1.2 Format of the Document 1 - SP3 Strategic Transport Planning Principles 24 1.3 Local Development Plan Process 2 - PLA5 Development in Transport Corridors 25 1.4 The Area Covered by the LDP 2 - PLA6 Development West of the Railway Line, Pencoed 25 1.5 The National, Regional and Local Policy Context 3 - PLA7 Transportation Proposals 26 1.6 Key Issues in Bridgend County Borough 3 - PLA8 Development Led Improvements to the Transportation Network 28 1.7 Translating the Issues - Strategy Development 4 - PLA9 Development affecting Public Rights of Way 29 - PLA10 Safeguarding of Disused Railway Infrastructure 29 2. BRIDGEND LOCAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN STRATEGY Page... - PLA11 Parking Standards 29 2.1 Local Development Plan Vision 5 2.2 Local Development Plan Objectives 6 4. PROTECTING AND ENHANCING THE ENVIRONMENT Page...DEPOSIT 2.3 The LDP Strategy 8 4.1 Natural Environment 31 PLAN - What is the Regeneration-Led Spatial Strategy? 8 - SP4 Conservation and Enhancement of the Natural Environment 31 - Focused Regeneration 9 - ENV1 Development in the Countryside 32 - Benefits of Growth 10 - ENV2 Development in Green Wedges 33WRITTEN - Regeneration-Led Spatial Strategy on the Ground 10 33 - ENV3 Special Landscape Areas STATEMENT Bridgend and Pencoed 10 - ENV4 Local/Regional Nature Conservation Sites 34 Focused Regeneration - Bridgend SRGA 11 - ENV5 Green Infrastructure 34 Porthcawl and Pyle / North Cornelly / Kenfig Hill 11 - ENV6 Nature Conservation 35 Focused Regeneration - Porthcawl SRGA 12 - ENV7 Natural Resource Protection and Public Health 36 Maesteg and the Llynfi Valley 12 4.2 Built and Historic Environment 36 Focused Regeneration - Maesteg and the Llynfi Valley SRGA 13 - SP5 Conservation of the Built and Historic Environment 36 The Valleys Gateway and the Ogmore & Garw Valleys 14 - ENV8 Heritage Assets and Regeneration 37 Focused Regeneration - The Valleys Gateway SRGA 14 4.3 Minerals 38 - Strategic Employment Sites 15 - SP6 Minerals 38 Brocastle, Waterton, Bridgend 16 - ENV9 Development in Mineral Safeguarding Areas 39 Island Farm, Bridgend 16 - ENV10 Development within Mineral Buffer Zones 39 Pencoed Technology Park, Pencoed 16 - ENV11 Mineral Development 39 Ty Draw Farm, North Cornelly 16 - ENV12 Coal Extraction Operations 40 - What is the Underlying Level of Growth? 16 4.4 Unstable Land 40 - LDP Strategy Components and Actions 17 - ENV13 Unstable Land 40 Strategic Diagram 18 4.5 Waste Management 41 - SP7 Waste Management 41 3. PRODUCING HIGH QUALITY SUSTAINABLE PLACES Page... - ENV14 Inert Waste 41 - ENV15 Waste Management in New Development 42 3.1 Regeneration-Led Sustainable Development Distribution Strategy 19 - ENV16 Commercial and Industrial Waste 42 - SP1 Regeneration-Led Development 19 Chapter 4.6 Energy Generation, Efficiency and Conservation 42 - Spatial distribution of Growth 20 - SP8 Renewable Energy 42 - PLA1 Settlement Hierarchy and Urban Management 21 - ENV17 Renewable Energy and Low/Zero Carbon Technology 43 - PLA2 Implementation of Regeneration Strategies 21 - ENV18 Renewable Energy Developments 43 - PLA3 Regeneration and Mixed Use Development Schemes 22 3.2 Design and Sustainable Place Making 22 (continued over) Page - SP2 Design and Sustainable Place Making 22 - PLA4 Climate Change and Peak Oil 23 103 Cyngor Bwrdeistref Sirol r gw O r a t n o b b - - y y - - n n e e CONTENTS P P BRIDGEND County Borough Council BridgendBridgend LocalLocal DevelopmentDevelopment PlanPlan 2006-20212006-20215. TO SPREAD PROSPERITY & OPPORTUNITY THROUGH REGENERATION Page... 7. MONITORING & REVIEW Pages 69-78 5.1 Employment and the Economy 45 - SP9 Employment and the Economy 45 8. SUPPLEMENTARY PLANNING GUIDANCE Pages 79-80 - REG1 Employment Sites 46 - REG2 Protection of Identified Employment Sites 47 - REG3 D2 Class Uses on Employment Sites 47 9. DELIVERY & IMPLEMENTATION Pages 81-82 - REG4 Former Stormy Down Airfield 48 5.2 Commercial and Retailing Developments 48 - SP10 Retail and Commercial Hierarchy 48 APPENDICES Page... - REG5 Local Retailing and Commercial Development 49 - REG6 Primary Shopping Frontages 50 Appendix 1 - Descriptions of Regeneration and Mixed Use Development Schemes DEPOSIT - REG7 Non A1, A2 and A3 Uses Outside of Primary Shopping Frontages 51 allocated under Policy PLA3 83 89 PLAN - REG8 Control and Exclusion of Uses in Retailing and Commercial Centres 51 Appendix 2 - Details of the Transport Corridors Identified in PLA5 - REG9 Development Sites in Retail and Commercial Development Centres 51 Appendix 3 - Employment Land Schedule 93 - REG10 Existing Retail Development Outside of Retailing and Commercial Centres 52 Appendix 4 - Housing Sub Markets in Bridgend County Borough 96 - REG11 New Bulky Goods Retail Development Out of Centre Retail Development 53 Appendix 5 - Site Delivery 97 WRITTEN Sites STATEMENT5.3 Tourism 54 GLOSSARY OF TERMS & ABBREVIATIONS Pages 113-118 - SP11 Tourism 54 - REG12 New or Extended Tourist Facilities,Accommodation and Attractions 54 - REG13 Protection of Existing Tourist Accommodation 55 6. TO CREATE SAFE, HEALTHY & INCLUSIVE COMMUNITIES Page... PROPOSALS MAP Page... 6.1 Housing 57 - SP12 Housing 57 Proposals Map Index Map Index - COM1 Residential Allocations in the Strategic Regeneration Growth Areas 58 Proposals Map Key Map Key - COM2 Residential Allocations Outside the Strategic Regeneration Growth Areas 59 Proposals Map 1-31 - COM3 Residential Re-Use of a Building or Land 60 Maesteg Town Centre Inset Map 32-33 - COM4 Residential Density 60 Bridgend Town Centre Inset Map 34-35 - COM5 Affordable Housing 61 Porthcawl Town Centre Inset Map 36-37 - COM6 Gypsy and Traveller Sites 62 6.2 Social and Community Facilities 63 - SP13 Social and Community Facilities 63 - COM7 Protection of Social and Community Facilities 63 - COM8 Provision of Health and Well-Being Facilities 63 - COM9 Provision of Community Buildings 63 Chapter - COM10 Provision of Educational and Training Facilities 64 - COM11 Provision of Outdoor Recreation Facilities 64 - COM12 Provision of Playing Fields 65 - COM13 Provision of Accessible Natural Greenspace (including public open space) 65 - COM14 Provision of Allotments and Community Food Networks 66 Page - COM15 Provision of Cemeteries 66 6.3 Infrastructure 67 104 - SP14 Infrastrucure 67 Cyngor Bwrdeistref Sirol r gw O r a t n o b b - - y y - - n INTRODUCTION & BACKGROUND n e INTRODUCTION & BACKGROUND e P P BRIDGEND County Borough Council BridgendBridgend LocalLocal Introduction & Background DevelopmentDevelopment PlanPlan 2006-20212006-2021 1.1 Introduction 1.1.1 The Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 requires Bridgend County Borough Council (the Council) to prepare a Local Development Plan (LDP) setting out its objectives for the development and use of land in Bridgend County Borough over the plan period to 2021, and its policies to implement them. The Plan, which should be read as a whole, will be used by the Council to guide and manage development, providing a basis for consistent and appropriate decision-making. ADOPTED 1.1.2 The LDP should: PLAN deliver sustainable development; build upon, and add value to the Wales Spatial Plan, and have regard to the national planning policies and guidance produced WRITTEN by the Welsh Government; STATEMENT reflect local aspirations for the County Borough, based on a vision agreed by the local community and other stakeholders; provide a basis for rational and consistent development management decisions; guide growth and change, while protecting local diversity, character, and sensitive environments; and show why, how and where change will occur over the plan period. 1.1.3 The LDP is one of four key strategies that Local Authorities in Wales have to prepare. The other three are: The Community Strategy The Children and Young People’s Plan The Health, Social Care and Wellbeing Strategy 1.1.4 The LDP is a key means of delivering the land use elements of these and other strategies. 1.2 Format of the Document Chapter 1.2.1 Chapter 1 sets out the role and purpose of the LDP 1 together with a brief summary of the Plan preparation process. It also outlines the processes of Sustainability Appraisal (SA)/ Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and Habitats Page Regulations Assessment (HRA) which underpin the LDP. It highlights and summarises the Plan’s relationship with other martinphillipsstudio.com policies, plans and programmes. 1031 Cyngor Bwrdeistref Sirol r gw O r a t n o b b - - y y - - n n INTRODUCTION & BACKGROUND e e INTRODUCTION & BACKGROUND P P BRIDGEND County Borough Council BridgendBridgend LocalLocal 1.2.2 The chapter also identifies the key environmental, social 1.2.9 Chapter 9 focuses on the delivery and implementation of approach to appraisal and assessment in which economic and DevelopmentDevelopment and economic issues for the County Borough that have been the land use allocations contained in the plan and explains how social issues have been considered alongside environmental PlanPlan 2006-20212006-2021 identified through consultation and the analysis of the evidence the Council will monitor site activity through an online database. elements. base. Only those issues that are capable of being influenced or addressed through the LDP have been included. 1.2.10 The Proposals Map shows, on an Ordinance Survey Map 1.3.5 The SA incorporating the SEA has been an iterative process base, the geographical location and extent of the various land use throughout the Plan preparation process and policies and 1.2.3 Chapter 2 sets out the Vision together with four strategic allocations and designations in the Plan. proposals in the LDP reflects this. objectives that have been identified for Bridgend County Borough to provide an expression of the priorities for the LDP.