Chapters 1 Introduction 5 1.1 Rotherham's Local Plan 5 1.2 Site Allocations for New Development 6 1.3 Development Management Policies 7 1.4 Designations 7 2 Where are we now? 8 2.1 Rotherham's Local Plan: Previous Stages of Preparation 8 3 How have we Identified Site Allocations? 10 4 Integrated Impact Assessment 13 5 Designations 15 5.1 Local Wildlife Sites 15 5.2 Regionally Important Geological Sites 15 5.3 Conservation Areas 15 5.4 Strategic Green Infrastructure Assets 16 6 Policies Map 18 7 Draft Development Management Policies 19 7.1 Delivering development in sustainable locations 20 7.2 Creating mixed and attractive places to live 25 7.3 Supporting a dynamic economy 30 7.4 Movement and accessibility 42 7.5 Managing the natural and historic environment 46 7.6 Creating safe and sustainable communities 84 Appendices : Proposed Sites 1 Proposed Development Sites in Rotherham Urban Area 104 Sites and Policies Draft 2013 1.1 Settlement Targets (from Core Strategy) 104 1.2 Settlement Profile 105 1.3 Bassingthorpe Farm (Core Strategy Broad Location for Growth) 108 1.4 Location Maps of Rotherham Urban Area 112 1.4.1 North West Rotherham 112 1.4.2 Rawmarsh / Parkgate 115 1.4.3 Aldwarke 117 1.4.4 Thrybergh 119 1.4.5 East Rotherham 121 1.4.6 Lower Don and Rother Valley 123 1.4.7 Rotherham Town Centre 125 1.5 Schedule of Sites 127 2 Proposed Development Sites in Dinnington, Anston and Laughton Common 132 2.1 Settlement Targets (from Core Strategy) 132 2.2 Settlement Profile 133 2.3 Location Map of Sites 134 2.4 Schedule of Sites 136 3 Proposed Development Sites in Wickersley, Bramley and Ravenfield Common 140 3.1 Settlement Targets (from Core Strategy) 140 3.2 Settlement Profile 141 3.3 Location Map of Sites 141 3.4 Schedule of Sites 144 4 Proposed Development Sites in Wath-upon-Dearne, Brampton and West Melton 146 4.1 Settlement Targets (from Core Strategy) 146 4.2 Settlement Profile 147 4.3 Location Map of Sites 148 4.4 Schedule of Sites 150 5 Proposed Development Sites in Kiveton Park and Wales 152 Sites and Policies Draft 2013 5.1 Settlement Targets (from Core Strategy) 152 5.2 Settlement Profile 153 5.3 Location Map of Sites 153 5.4 Schedule of Sites 156 6 Proposed Development Sites in Maltby and Hellaby 157 6.1 Settlement Targets (from Core Strategy) 157 6.2 Settlement Profile 158 6.3 Location Map of Sites 159 6.4 Schedule of Sites 161 7 Proposed Development Sites in Aston, Aughton and Swallownest 163 7.1 Settlement Targets (from Core Strategy) 163 7.2 Settlement Profile 164 7.3 Location Map of Sites 165 7.4 Schedule of Sites 167 8 Proposed Development Sites in Swinton and Kilnhurst 169 8.1 Settlement Targets (from Core Strategy) 169 8.2 Settlement Profile 170 8.3 Location Map of Sites 171 8.4 Schedule of Sites 173 9 Proposed Development Sites in Catcliffe, Orgreave, Treeton and Waverley 174 9.1 Settlement Targets (from Core Strategy) 174 9.2 Settlement Profile 175 9.3 Location Map of Sites 176 9.4 Schedule of Sites 178 10 Proposed Development Sites in Thurcroft 179 10.1 Settlement Targets (from Core Strategy) 179 10.2 Settlement Profile 179 10.3 Location Map of Sites 180 Sites and Policies Draft 2013 10.4 Schedule of Sites 183 11 Proposed Development Sites in Non-Green Belt Villages : Thorpe Hesley, Todwick, Harthill, Woodsetts and Laughton-en-le-Morthern 184 11.1 Settlement Targets (from Core Strategy) 184 11.2 Settlement Profiles 185 11.3 Location Map of Sites 187 11.4 Schedule of Sites 195 12 Methodology: Identification of Site Allocations 197 13 Glossary 216 Sites and Policies Draft 2013 1 Introduction 1.1 Rotherham's Local Plan 1.1 Rotherham’s Local Plan will guide future development in the Borough until 2028. It will progressively replace Rotherham's existing Unitary Development Plan (UDP). 1.2 The Council is preparing two key parts that form the basis of its Local Plan these are the Core Strategy and this, the Sites and Policies document. Core Strategy 1.3 The Core Strategy sets the vision, objectives and strategic policies for the Borough up to 2028. The Core Strategy sets out, in broad terms, where new homes and jobs should be provided in the Borough. In doing so it sets targets for new housing and employment land for each of the Borough's settlements. The Council will submit its Core Strategy to government in June 2013. It will then be subject to examination in public by an independent planning inspector appointed by government. 1.4 The target for any given settlement depends on its position in the Core Strategy's 'settlement hierarchy'. This position is influenced by, amongst other factors, its relative size, role, availability of services and access to public transport and employment. 1.5 All other Local Plan documents must conform with the Core Strategy. Sites and Policies Document 1.6 The role of the Sites and Policies document is to identify specific sites - the site allocations for each settlement to meet the Core Strategy targets, for new housing and employment land. In doing so, it will define the precise policy boundary for Rotherham's Green Belt. Chapter 6 includes draft development management policies that will guide determination of planning applications and implementation of the site allocations. These decisions will be informed by a series of environmental designations, such as local nature conservation sites. 1.7 The Council is also promoting changes to current Unitary Development Plan residential and employment allocations; specifically at Greenlands Plantation at Maltby known as the Muddies, (site reference LDF0276) where it is proposed to change the residential allocation to an environmental or Urban Greenspace designation to reflect the value of the site for Great Crested Newts. It is hoped that if this approach to its proposed allocation is successful, in the future consideration will be given to designating the site as a Local Nature Reserve. The Council is also seeking to change the residential allocation of a site at Keeton Hall Road, Kiveton Park (site reference LDF0469) from a residential allocation to an environmental designation to reflect its Local Wildlife Site status. 1.8 The Council is promoting a change in the residential allocation of land at Thorpe Hesley to an environmental designation or Urban Greenspace. In the future consideration will be given to including this land at Thorpe Hesley: site references LDF0542, LDF0776, LDF0517 within the Green Belt. Whilst these proposals are not included on the allocations maps, in the appendices to this Document, they are included on the draft Policies Map that has been prepared to accompany the Sites and Policies Document - available to down load from the Local Plan web pages. Sites and Policies Draft 2013 5 1 1.9 Finally the Council is also seeking to change the current employment designation at Centenary Riverside Nature Park to an environmental or Urban Greenspace designation to reflect its recent development as a wetlands nature park and to assist in providing a flood alleviation scheme designed to assist in the protection of Rotherham Town Centre from any potential future flooding event. 1.10 This consultation is seeking your views on: the proposed site allocations mainly for new homes and jobs at this stage of consultation. Sites for retail and other uses and changes that are required to the land use designations in the Unitary Development Plan will be consulted on in due course. (Sites are shown by settlement groupings in the Appendices); the proposed environmental designations used to influence planning decisions (see Chapter 4); and the draft development management policies (see Chapter 6). 1.2 Site Allocations for New Development 1.11 As already noted this stage of the Sites and Policies document invites comments on sites identified for new housing and employment development. There are also some sites that have been identified for open space. 1.12 The Council in preparing this document has undertaken a thorough Borough-wide survey of all possible site allocations. This has included: an invitation for the submission of potential sites to landowners and other interested parties (a "call for sites"); a thorough Employment Land Review (including all existing, former and potentially future industrial and employment areas and other brownfield sites); a Study, in partnership with the house building industry, called the ‘Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment’, to identify housing sites which have been market tested for their likelihood of being developed; and a Borough-wide survey and sustainability appraisal of all potential sites. Core Strategy Broad Locations for Growth 1.13 Policy CS1 of the Core Strategy identifies two broad locations for growth at Bassingthorpe Farm and Dinnington East. Planning permission has also been granted for a new community at Waverley near to Catcliffe and Orgreave. Significant growth is proposed both at Bassingthorpe Farm and Waverley. These areas are essential to delivering the Borough's strategy for new development. They are essential to meeting local housing needs. It is considered that Rotherham and Dinnington town centres provide a level of social and community infrastructure and a range of jobs and local employment opportunities that will support future growth in these communities. The new community at Waverley is adjacent to a strategic regeneration area that will provide significant and high quality employment opportunities and it will meet its own social and community infrastructure requirements as evidenced by the recent grant of planning permission. 6 Sites and Policies Draft 2013 1.3 Development Management Policies 1.14 The current document also invites comments on the detailed development management policies.