Mid Suffolk District Council - Schedule of Proposed Changes to the Core Strategy Submission Document ANNEXE A Mid Suffolk District Council Core Strategy Consolidated Schedule of Schedule of Changes to the Mid Suffolk Core Strategy Submission Document Mid Suffolk Core Strategy – Final Consolidated Schedule of Changes This schedule lists all the changes required to the Core Strategy in the interests of soundness as well as minor changes that clarify, correct and update the text. It is based on the Schedule of Proposed Changes prepared by the Council [CD B.11] The schedule of is presented in the following format: Section 1 • Minor changes are listed in blue text. • Suggested changes put forward by the Council during the course of the Examination are listed in shaded text. • Additional changes required by the Inspector are listed in red text. Section 2 • ‘Possible’ changes suggested for the Inspector’s consideration put forward by the Council during the course of the Examination (Note: Each Section runs in Core Strategy paragraph and policy order. Changes indicated by underlined text and deletions by strikethrough text, unless stated otherwise) 22 August 2008 1 Mid Suffolk District Council - Schedule of Proposed Changes to the Core Strategy Submission Document Section 1 Recommendation Change Policy/ Description of Change Proposed Final Text No. (Where relevant) No. Paragraph C1 Page 1 Introduction and Background Getting Invloved Information Replace with: Typographical error – Getting Involved C2 Para. 1.28 Insert at the start of paragraph 31 of Mid Suffolk’s settlements contain Conservation Areas and there are in 1.28: excess of 4,000 listed buildings, more than any other district in the County. Spatial Portrait The 'High Suffolk' traditional building materials include black glazed and red pantiles for domestic buildings, timber and plaster, red and white brick, and thatched roofs. The presence of abundant suitable clays and general absence of local stone meant that very often bricks were fired on site. Common soft reds are made from a sandy iron-rich clay, and whites from a less common chalky clay best known from Woolpit. Red bricks are generally found in buildings from Tudor times onwards, whilst whites became very fashionable in the early nineteenth century when many timber framed buildings were refronted in brickwork. C3 Paragraph 2.2 Insert Bramford into paragraph The Parishes of Great Blakenham, Whitton, Claydon, Bramford, Ackenham and amend typographical error: and Barham lie within the Ipswich Policy Area (IPA) of the Haven Gateway Mid Suffolk Partnership. Vision box (third paragraph) C4 Core Strategy Typographical error: To support sustainable communities by locating development where it will Objective SO 7 enable people to assess access jobs and key services, such as education, (Page 18) health, recreation and other facilities recognising and respecting the diversity in the function and character of Mid Suffolk’s towns, key service centres and primary and secondary villages and countryside. 22 August 2008 2 Mid Suffolk District Council - Schedule of Proposed Changes to the Core Strategy Submission Document C5 Core Strategy Insert new start to paragraph: To meet the requirement set by the Regional Spatial Strategy for new housing Objective SO 8 while maintaining the special character of Mid Suffolk’s town, villages and (Page 18) countryside, new development will be of a high standard of design and layout and will address the need for energy and resource conservation. R5 C6 Paragraph 2.4 Amend paragraph 2.4 page 19 The key diagram shows the major transport links, landscape features, together (Page 20) by adding an additional sentence with the location of towns and areas of search for future growth in the district. so as to read: It is an indicative diagram showing the broad locations for housing and employment locations and is not intended to indicate all areas with development potential. The selection of the most appropriate development sites is a matter for the Site Specific Allocation DPD and the Stowmarket AAP. C7 Key Diagram National Rail symbol is the wrong Replace national rail symbol with letters “STN”. (Page 20) way round and is a copyrighted logo. R5 C8 Paragraph 2.9 Amend paragraph 2.9 and add Taking account of these considerations the main areas of opportunity for large (Page 21) the word ‘large’ as follows: extensions to Stowmarket on greenfield land, as indicated on the Key Diagram, are likely to be on the northern and north western side of town. R1 C9 Page 24 Add appendix B reference to end The Countryside open countryside and villages located in the countryside of paragraph starting The only specified types of development will be permitted in accordance with Policy Paragraph below Countryside… CS2 (See Appendix B for Local Plan Policies superseded by adopted Core para. 2.36 Strategy Policies). C10 Policy CS 1 From Key Service Centres list Key Service Centres insert the following: Settlement Bacton (excluding Station Road) Hierarchy Mendlesham (excluding Mendlesham Green) (Page 21) C11 Policy CS 1 Secondary Villages Settlement Delete 2nd ‘Mendham’ from list Secondary Villages Hierarchy and inset map number from Bedfield Palgrave Creeting St Mary. Beyton Redgrave Coddenham Ringshall Combs Stoke Ash Creeting St. Mary 22a Stonham Aspal Felsham Thorndon Henley Tostock Horham Wattisfield 22 August 2008 3 Mid Suffolk District Council - Schedule of Proposed Changes to the Core Strategy Submission Document Mellis Wetheringsett Mendham Wilby Metfield Wortham Mendham Worlingworth Occold Yaxley Onehouse R12 C12 Para. 2.37 Add to the start of this ‘The Countryside that surrounds Mid Suffolk settlements is attractive and will (Page 26) paragraph: be protected for its own sake’. Villages other than those listed as key service centres, primary and secondary villages will lose their settlement boundaries preventing infill so that development will only be permitted in exceptional circumstances. Such exceptions might be for affordable housing where a local need is identified or small scale employment that can be operationally justified and where these developments cannot be met in a more sustainable location. Criteria to be applied to planning applications for such developments will be set out in future Development Plan Documents. R13 C13 Policy CS2 Delete introductory sentence and Development in the Countryside and Countryside Villages replace with: In the countryside development will be restricted to the following categories in accordance with other Core Strategy policies: Replace with: “In the countryside development will be restricted to defined categories in accordance with other Core Strategy policies. These will include:” C14 Policy CS2 Deletion from policy: rural exception housing as described in the ‘Housing in the Countryside section’ to include: - R2 C15 Policy CS4 Within policy paragraph - This will involve a risk based sequential approach to determining the suitability replacement of “flood risk zone of land for development. All new development, wherever possible must be Adapting to 1” with ‘Dry Island’ located in Flood Zone 1. Developments proposed on flood risk zone 1 ‘dry Climate islands’* which are situated in the middle of flood risk zones 2 and 3 will be Change treated in the same way as developments in flood zone 2 or 3 for the purposes of the sequential test. 22 August 2008 4 Mid Suffolk District Council - Schedule of Proposed Changes to the Core Strategy Submission Document R2 C16 Policy CS4 Add a footnote below CS4 policy • = ‘The town of Eye in Mid Suffolk is entirely surrounded by flood zone box; 2 but in discussions with the Environment Agency it is agreed that it should not be classified as a ‘dry island’. The SFRA maps show that access/egress from Eye could be possible along Lambseth Street in a flood event. In addition, in the event of a 1000yr flood, Eye town centre is large enough to sustain the population within the dry centre for a short period, if access/egress is not possible’. C17 3.20 Typographical error: Replace ‘oil’ with soil C18 Table 1 Designation Designation (Page 33) RIG should be RIGS RIGS C19 3.25 Typographical error: “Pleistoncene………” should be “Pleistocene………” (Page 34) C20 3.27 Insert new paragraph below Historic Built Environment paragraph 3.27 with a sub Mid Suffolk’s heading of Historic Environment As well as the important natural assets, there are 31 Conservation Areas in Environment Mid Suffolk, 4,062 Listed Buildings (the highest in Suffolk) and 21 Scheduled Ancient Monuments. The collective extent of these designations is fairly far reaching covering a high proportion of the existing building stock. This presents both challenges and opportunities in bringing forward new development through intensification and redevelopment that respects the built 22 August 2008 5 Mid Suffolk District Council - Schedule of Proposed Changes to the Core Strategy Submission Document heritage of the district and enhances the appearance and character of an area. Detailed Development Control Policies pertaining to development in Conservation Areas, the alteration of Listed Buildings and development affecting the setting of a Listed Building will be set out in the Development Control Policies DPD. C21 Policy CS 5 Mid Suffolk Environment Mid Suffolk’s Environment Mid Suffolk Add sentence to end of starting All development will seek to maintain and enhance the environment, including Environment paragraph and amend the historic environment, and retain the local distinctiveness of the area… grammatical error to title. C22 Policy CS 5 Change ‘maintaining’ to Landscape The Council will protect and conserve landscape qualities taking ‘conserving’ following rep 2255 into account the natural environment and the historical dimension of the Mid Suffolk and grammatical error to district landscape as a whole rather than concentrating solely on the selected areas, Environment as follows: protecting the dDistrict’s most important components and encourage development that is consistent with maintaining conserving its overall character. C23 Policy CS 5 Add the local distinctiveness and Design to Design paragraph .