LOCAL DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK Development Plan Document Allocations Adopted 21 December 2010 Foreword The Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 This plan concerns one of the LDF Documents: the brought in major changes to the development plans Allocations Development Plan Document (DPD). system. The old system of Structure Plans and Local The Allocations DPD provides the site allocations and Plans is replaced by a Regional Spatial Strategy and a details that will help to deliver the LDF’s Core Local Development Framework. This Council is Strategy, which sets out the long-term spatial vision, required to prepare the Local Development Framework and the spatial objectives and strategic policies to (or “LDF”) to replace the Local Plan. deliver that vision. Hambleton District Council welcomes the new system This document should be read together with the two because it will result in quicker, more flexible and adopted DPDs, and two other important documents: transparent plan preparation, and because of the the Allocations DPD Consultation Statement, which potential it offers to plan positively for the area by explains how participation has been undertaken and shaping our District and the places it comprises. The how views have been taken into account; and the Council is committed to providing a high quality and Sustainability Appraisal, which shows how the responsive planning service that meets the needs of sustainability of the Allocations DPD has been the community, and includes full community assessed at each stage in the process, and how the involvement and engagement. It recognises that an findings have been taken into account to ensure that efficient and effective planning service is central to the proposals contribute to achieving a truly delivering the Sustainable Community Plan for sustainable Hambleton. Hambleton and the Council’s vision and corporate priorities. Our aim is to produce a Local Development Framework that is distinctive to Hambleton, which is an effective response to local issues and priorities, and which contributes to our corporate vision of “Making Life Better”. i HAMBLETON LOCAL DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK ALLOCATIONS - December 2010 Contents Foreword ........................................................... i 1. Introduction and context ................................... 1 2. Principles of site allocation ............................... 7 3. Development Limits ........................................ 13 4. Bedale Sub Area ............................................ 15 5. Easingwold Sub Area ...................................... 63 6. Northallerton Sub Area ................................... 95 7. Stokesley Sub Area ...................................... 141 8. Thirsk Sub Area ............................................ 169 9. Summary: scale, distribution and timing of allocations for the whole plan area ............... 203 10. Managing Delivery ........................................ 211 ANNEXES Annex 1: Policies in the Hambleton District Wide Local Plan replaced by the Allocations DPD ..................................... 213 Annex 2: Community views ................................... 215 Annex 3: The approach to site selection ............... 233 Annex 4: Strategic Infrastructure Plan .................. 237 Annex 5: Revised Proposals Map separate document Annex 6: Monitoring and implementation ............. 265 Annex 7: Glossary ................................................ 275 MAP LEGEND ........................................................ 279 ii HAMBLETON LOCAL DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK ALLOCATIONS - December 2010 1. Introduction and Context The Hambleton Local Development Framework (LDF) 1.3 This document – “Allocations” – concerns the site specific allocations that form one of the 1.1 This report forms the final stage in Hambleton “Development Plan Documents” (DPDs) that District Council’s work to replace the old-style makes up the LDF. Annex 1 explains which Hambleton District Wide Local Plan (DWLP) with policies in the Hambleton District Wide Local a new Local Development Framework or LDF. Plan (DWLP) are being replaced by this DPD. The requirement to produce an LDF was There is no intention to carry forward any of the established by the new Planning and DWLP components beyond adoption of the Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (hereafter Allocations DPD – so the adoption of this DPD referred to as the Act), which came into force in means that the DWLP is entirely replaced, and September 2004. the Proposals Map is similarly entirely that derived from the LDF. 1.2 Under this Act the LDF, together with the Regional Spatial Strategy (RSS), was to provide 1.4 The Allocations DPD was submitted to the the new “Development Plan”, replacing the Government on 18 December 2009 for former District Wide Local Plan and County independent examination. Hearing sessions Structure Plan. However on 6th July 2010 the were held between 12 to 27 May 2010 and the Secretary of State announced the revocation of Inspectors’ Report was received on 1 September RSS with immediate effect. This means that the 2010. RSS for Yorkshire and the Humber (May 2008): the Yorkshire & Humber Plan is no longer part of the Statutory Development Plan for Hambleton. The Statutory Development Plan for the District therefore comprises: • Hambleton Local Development Framework Core Strategy (Adopted April 2007); • Hambleton Local Development Framework Development Policies Development Plan Document (Adopted February 2008); and • Hambleton Local Development Framework Allocations Development Plan Document (Adopted December 2010). Throughout the document all mentions of RSS have therefore been replaced by “former RSS” and cross-referenced to this paragraph by asterisk. The LDF can best be viewed as a folder, which contains a number of documents. 1 HAMBLETON LOCAL DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK ALLOCATIONS - December 2010 Other LDF documents The nature of the LDF 1.5 Two other Development Plan Documents within 1.9 As well as its format, the purpose of the new LDF the LDF have now been completed, and formally system is also radically different from the adopted, following Public Examinations. The first preceding development plan system. The LDF is concerns the strategy at the heart of the new intended to be a “spatial” plan. The concept of Plan – the Core Strategy, which was adopted in spatial planning is described fully in the approved April 2007. This sets out the long-term spatial Core Strategy Annex 1 paras. 8 – 9. In essence, vision, and the spatial objectives and strategic spatial planning is concerned with places, how policies to deliver that vision. The Core Strategy they function and relate together – and its should also be consulted for further details about objectives are to manage change to secure the the nature of the LDF system and about the best achievable quality of life for all in the planning context under which it is being prepared community, without wasting scarce resources or – particularly relating to the close relationship of spoiling the environment. This approach goes the LDF with the Hambleton Community Plan beyond the control of development and land uses and the former Regional Spatial Strategy.* of the previous system, and provides an opportunity for all parties and agencies to work 1.6 The second document – the Development together to develop programmes and activities to Policies DPD – was adopted in February 2008, achieve a common vision for Hambleton, within and provides further details to assist the delivery the spatial framework provided by the LDF. The of the Core Strategy. The Development Policies Allocations DPD is concerned with site-based DPD also contains a number of policies that set proposals that will carry forward the objectives of the approach or guide the development that is the LDF, and help deliver the aspirations of all the proposed by the Allocations DPD. partners engaged in delivering this vision. 1.7 Relevant to both the Development Policies and The link with other strategies this document (the Allocations DPD), a revised Proposals Map has been prepared which shows 1.10 The nature of this spatial planning process the site or area specific implications of these two means that it is essential for the relationship DPDs. The implications of the Allocations DPD in between the LDF and other strategies to be fully terms of designations on the LDF Proposals Map taken into account. The LDF must be in are shown in Annex 5, which contains the conformity with the former Regional Spatial revised Proposals Map. Strategy (RSS)*. Most of the implications of former RSS* were addressed in developing the 1.8 The LDF system also provides for the Core Strategy, but a number of former RSS* preparation of Supplementary Planning Policies are relevant to this Allocations DPD (for Documents (SPDs). These are intended to example concerning the sequence for the elaborate components of the adopted selection of land for development). The approved Development Plan Documents. For example, an version of former RSS* for Yorkshire and Humber SPD concerning the provision of Affordable was published in May 2008, and the implications Housing was approved in June 2008. of changes from the preceding draft RSS (within which context the Core Strategy was prepared) are considered in Section 2. * Please see Paragraph 1.2 for the current position regarding the former RSS. 2 HAMBLETON LOCAL DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK ALLOCATIONS - December 2010 1.11 Particularly important, the LDF provides the • Northallerton Allocations and Traffic Model; means of