Appendix C Site Allocations and Policies Development Plan Document Proposed Submission Document April 2013 Site Allocations and Policies DPD – Proposed Submission Document April 2013 Contents 1. Introduction.............................................................................................................. 3 2. The objectives of the plan ....................................................................................... 5 3. Site allocations ........................................................................................................ 7 Sites for residential development and phasing ........................................................... 8 Employment development ....................................................................................... 11 Sites for retail development ..................................................................................... 12 Sites for waste management ................................................................................... 14 4. The location of development ................................................................................ 17 Planned limits of development ................................................................................. 17 Development in the towns and villages .................................................................... 17 Development in the countryside ............................................................................... 20 Housing in the countryside ....................................................................................... 21 Non-residential development in the countryside ....................................................... 24 5 Creating Sustainable Communities ...................................................................... 26 Mobile homes and residential caravans ................................................................... 26 Sites for travellers .................................................................................................... 27 Affordable housing ................................................................................................... 28 Market housing within rural exception sites .............................................................. 30 6 Building our economy and infrastructure ............................................................ 33 Use of military bases and prisons for operational or other purposes ........................ 33 Town centre areas, primary and secondary shopping frontages .............................. 34 Agricultural, horticultural, equestrian and forestry development ............................... 37 Sustainable transport and accessibility .................................................................... 37 7 Sustaining our environment ................................................................................. 39 Design and amenity ................................................................................................. 39 Advertisements ........................................................................................................ 42 Outdoor lighting ....................................................................................................... 43 Wind turbines and low carbon energy developments ............................................... 44 The natural environment .......................................................................................... 46 Historic and cultural environment ............................................................................. 48 Important open spaces and frontages ...................................................................... 53 Provision of new open space ................................................................................... 54 Landscape character in the countryside ................................................................... 56 Caravan and camping sites ..................................................................................... 57 Holiday lets .............................................................................................................. 58 1 Site Allocations and Policies DPD – Proposed Submission Document April 2013 Rutland Water .......................................................................................................... 59 Eyebrook Reservoir ................................................................................................. 60 Waste-related development ..................................................................................... 61 8 Implementation and monitoring framework ......................................................... 63 Appendix 1 – Agricultural, forestry and other occupational dwellings .................................. 64 Appendix 2 – Parking standards ......................................................................................... 68 Appendix 3 – Areas of biodiversity and geodiversity importance ......................................... 75 Appendix 4 – Designated heritage assets in Rutland .......................................................... 81 Appendix 5 – Open space standards .................................................................................. 83 Appendix 6 – Implementation and monitoring framework. ................................................... 86 Appendix 7 - List of existing Local Plan policies replaced. ................................................... 97 Appendix 8 – Glossary ........................................................................................................ 98 Policies Map ..................................................................................................................... 104 2 Site Allocations and Policies DPD – Proposed Submission Document April 2013 1. Introduction 1.1 The Site Allocations and Policies Development Plan Document (DPD) is one of a series of documents that are being prepared as part of Rutland’s Local Plan. 1.2 The Local Plan comprises a folder of documents (see diagram below) that will replace existing policies in the Rutland Local Plan (2001) and the Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Waste Local Plan and provide planning policies for Rutland for the period to 2026 and beyond. 1.3 The Core Strategy DPD was found to be sound following public examination in March 2011 and was adopted by the Council on 11 July 2011. The Minerals Core Strategy and Development Control Policies DPD was adopted by the Council in October 2010. 1.4 The purpose of the Site Allocations and Policies DPD is to allocate specific sites for development and to set out more detailed policies for determining planning applications within the overall strategy provided by the Core Strategy. 1.5 When adopted, the Site Allocations and Policies DPD will become part of the statutory development plan which provides the planning framework for the Council’s decisions on future planning applications in Rutland. 1.6 A list of the existing Local Plan policies that are being replaced by the Site Allocations and Policies DPD is included in Appendix 6. Diagram: The Local Plan 3 Site Allocations and Policies DPD – Proposed Submission Document April 2013 1.7 The DPD has been subject to a sustainability appraisal and Habitats Regulations Assessment which considered the anticipated effects of the proposals on the area’s environmental, economic and social conditions and changes made to the document as a result. 1.8 When using the plan it must be read as a whole as a number of different policies may apply to a particular site or issue. The policies of the plan should not be read in isolation from each other. Uppingham Neighbourhood Plan 1.9 A separate Neighbourhood Plan for Uppingham is being prepared by Uppingham Town Council. This will cover Uppingham town and parts of the surrounding area and will be subject to separate consultation, examination and referendum under the Neighbourhood Planning process. 1.10 The Uppingham Neighbourhood Plan will consider proposals for residential, employment and other land use allocations in its area and allocate sites where appropriate. Consequently no sites are allocated for development in Uppingham in this Site Allocations and Policies DPD although all other policies of the plan will apply in this area. 1.11 Sites for residential and employment development in Uppingham that were previously identified in the Preferred Options version of this Site Allocations and Policies DPD are not carried forward in this version of the plan but will be put forward to Uppingham Town Council together with the responses to consultation that have been received for consideration through the Uppingham Neighbourhood Plan. 1.12 In the event that the Uppingham Neighbourhood Plan does not address the need to allocate residential and employment sites in its area or if the Plan fails to pass the public examination and referendum processes, a review of the Rutland Local Plan (to commence in 2014) will consider the issues and may allocate sites if required. What are we consulting on? 1.13 Following consultation on the “Preferred Options” document in October-November 2012 the Council is now seeking comments on the final version of the document that it intends to submit to the government for public examination. 1.14 The purpose of this consultation is to seek comments on whether the document is “sound” in terms of being positively prepared, justified, effective and consistent with national policy. 1.15 The consultation period runs from 18 April until 4.45 pm