The Carlisle District Local Plan Proposed Submission Draft – February 2015 2015-2030 Contents The Carlisle District Local Plan 2015-2030 Proposed Submission Draft – February 2015 1. Introduction 7 2. Vision and Objectives 15 Spatial Vision 16 Strategic Objectives 18 Spatial Portrait 21 Key Diagram 30 3. Spatial Strategy and Strategic Policies 31 Policy SP 1: Sustainable Development 32 Policy SP 2: Strategic Growth and Distribution 34 Policy SP 3: Broad Location for Growth: Carlisle South 43 Policy SP 4: Carlisle City Centre and Caldew Riverside 46 Policy SP 5: Strategic Connectivity 51 Policy SP 6: Securing Good Design 54 Policy SP 7: Valuing our Heritage and Cultural Identity 56 Policy SP 8: Green and Blue Infrastructure 59 Policy SP 9: Healthy and Thriving Communities 62 Policy SP 10: Supporting Skilled Communities 66 1 4. Economy 69 Policy EC 1: Employment Land Allocations 70 Policy EC 2: Primary Employment Areas 73 Policy EC 3: Primary Shopping Areas and Frontages 76 Policy EC 4: Morton District Centre 78 Policy EC 5: District and Local Centres 79 Policy EC 6: Retail and Main Town Centre Uses Outside Defined Centres 81 Policy EC 7: Shop Fronts 82 Policy EC 8: Food and Drink 84 Policy EC 9: Arts, Culture, Tourism and Leisure Development 86 Policy EC 10: Caravan, Camping and Chalet Sites 88 Policy EC 11: Rural Diversification 89 Policy EC 12: Agricultural Buildings 91 Policy EC 13: Equestrian Development 93 2 5. Housing 95 Policy HO 1: Housing Strategy and Delivery 96 Policy HO 2: Windfall Housing Development 102 Policy HO 3: Housing in Residential Gardens 105 Policy HO 4: Affordable Housing 107 Policy HO 5: Rural Exception Sites 111 Policy HO 6: Other Housing in the Open Countryside 113 Policy HO 7: Housing as Enabling Development 116 Policy HO 8: House Extensions 118 Policy HO 9: Large Houses in Multiple Occupation and the Subdivision of Dwellings 120 Policy HO 10: Housing to Meet Specific Needs 122 Policy HO 11: Gypsy, Traveller and Travelling Showpeople Provision 124 Policy HO 12: Other Uses in Primary Residential Areas 126 6. Infrastructure 129 Policy IP 1: Delivering Infrastructure 130 Policy IP 2: Transport and Development 132 Policy IP 3: Parking Provision 135 Policy IP 4: Broadband Access 137 Policy IP 5: Waste Minimisation and the Recycling of Waste 139 Policy IP 6: Foul Water Drainage on Development Sites 141 Policy IP 7: Carlisle Airport 142 Policy IP 8: Planning Obligations 144 3 7. Climate Change and Flood Risk 147 Policy CC 1: Renewable Energy 148 Policy CC 2: Energy from Wind 152 Policy CC 3: Energy Conservation, Efficiency and Resilience 157 Policy CC 4: Flood Risk and Development 159 Policy CC 5: Surface Water Management and Sustainable Drainage Systems 163 8. Health, Education and Community 167 Policy CM 1: Health Care Provision 168 Policy CM 2: Educational Needs 169 Policy CM 3: Sustaining Community Facilities and Services 171 Policy CM 4: Planning Out Crime 173 Policy CM 5: Environmental and Amenity Protection 175 Policy CM 6: Cemetery and Burial Grounds Provision 179 9. Historic Environment 181 Policy HE 1: Hadrian’s Wall World Heritage Site 182 Policy HE 2: Scheduled Ancient Monuments and Non-Designated Archaeological Assets 184 Policy HE 3: Listed Buildings 186 Policy HE 4: Historic Parks and Gardens 187 Policy HE 5: Historic Battlefields 187 Policy HE 6: Locally Important Heritage Assets 189 Policy HE 7: Conservation Areas 191 4 10. Green Infastructure 193 Policy GI 1: Landscapes 194 Policy GI 2: Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty 196 Policy GI 3: Biodiversity and Geodiversity 198 Policy GI 4: Public Open Space 202 Policy GI 5: Public Rights of Way 205 Policy GI 6: Trees and Hedgerows 206 11. Monitoring and Implementation 209 12. Glossary 213 Appendix 1: Sites Allocated within Policy HO 1 229 Appendix 2: Local Plan Monitoring Framework 239 Appendix 3: Schedule of Superseded Policies 259 5 6 1 Introduction 7 Introduction 1.1 The new Carlisle District Local Plan will be at the forefront of determine what will be regarded as constituting sustainable shaping how the District, its many settlements and vast rural development. Policies should not be taken out of context and area will develop between now and 2030. The Plan sets out will not be applied in isolation. a long-term spatial vision and strategic objectives to support 1.4 The Local Plan operates alongside a Policies Map, which the development of a thriving District through the identification illustrates the policies in the Local Plan which have an area of land to accommodate new development, and policies to or place specific implication, including those sites that achieve this growth in a positive, managed and sympathetic are allocated for development and, where appropriate, way, whilst ensuring the timely delivery of the infrastructure committed sites that have been granted planning permission. necessary to support growth. Designations include existing land uses such as areas of 1.2 The publication of this Proposed Submission Draft of the Local housing, employment and the City and other retail centres, and Plan represents a further step in the course of plan preparation areas of protected land such as the two Areas of Outstanding enabling anyone who wishes to help shape Carlisle’s future Natural Beauty and Hadrian’s Wall World Heritage Site and to once again engage in the process. The Council intends to its buffer zone, nature conservation areas, parks and playing formally submit the new Local Plan to the Government for pitches, amenity open space and conservation areas. independent examination later in 2015. Once adopted the new 1.5 New allocations identified on the Policies Map should be read Local Plan will replace the existing Carlisle District Local Plan in conjunction with the relevant policy in the Local Plan which 2001-2016 (adopted 2008). will set out criteria that any planning applications will need to 1.3 The policies and proposals within the Local Plan, and any comply with. By setting out specific land allocations in this other Development Plans in operation, will be those against way, the Plan will provide local communities, land owners, which future planning applications within the District will be developers and infrastructure providers with a clear indication assessed. Ultimately the aim of the Local Plan is to facilitate of the future pattern of development across the District. sustainable development. It is therefore important to read the Inclusion as an allocated site within the Plan indicates that the Plan as a ‘whole’ i.e. with reference to all the policies that may principle of development on such sites is acceptable. be relevant, as it is these policies taken collectively which 8 1.6 It is important to acknowledge at the outset that the Local 2012 and 2014). This provides the enabling powers for Local Plan will operate alongside the Cumbria Minerals and Waste Authorities to apply CIL to development proposals to support Local Plan (MWLP) which contains mineral and waste specific infrastructure delivery which in turn will support delivery of policies for use in determining planning applications for waste this Development Plan. The Council is yet to make a decision or quarry developments across Cumbria. Once the MWLP is as to whether a CIL should be adopted. Any final decisions adopted it may be necessary to update the adopted Local will be subject to viability studies being undertaken and an Plan Policies Map to illustrate Mineral Safeguarding Areas and Examination in Public. other relevant designations and/or allocations. 1.9 Monitoring is an integral part of the plan making and review 1.7 The Local Plan will also operate alongside any neighbourhood process. A series of indicators have been identified to assess plans brought forward. The concept of Neighbourhood the relative effectiveness of the Local Plan with regards to Development Planning (NDP) was introduced by the Localism achieving its desired outcomes. The Annual Monitoring Report Act 2011. NDPs allow communities to develop a vision of what (AMR) reports on an annual basis the performance of the Local their area should be like and make decisions on where certain Plan, and in doing so, plays a leading role in identifying the types of development should go. They go through a formal need to review existing policies and proposals. preparation process but importantly need to be in line with the strategic policies within the Carlisle District Local Plan. One such plan is currently being progressed in Dalston. The Council will continue to work with and support those pursuing neighbourhood development plans. 1.8 Section 206 of the Planning Act 2008 (The Act) confers the power to charge Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) on certain bodies known as charging authorities. This came into force on 6 April 2010 through the CIL Regulations 2010 (now amended by the CIL (Amendment) Regulations 2011, 9 How the Local Plan has Emerged 1.10 The Local Plan has been prepared under the Planning and District 2011-2016” which was itself informed by extensive Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (as amended) and the Town public consultation. and Country Planning (Local Plan) Regulations 2012. 1.13 The Local Plan has been supported by a comprehensive and 1.11 The Plan has to date evolved through extensive research robust evidence base proportionate to the key issues it is and consultation to identify the key issues it needs to seeking to address. The majority of these studies focus on address and help in determining the best approaches to Carlisle District specifically, however there are some studies various challenges and in responding to opportunities. Active that have been jointly prepared with other Cumbrian authorities community involvement at each key stage of plan preparation or produced by Cumbria County Council.