Sheepy Parish Neighbourhood Plan: Referendum 2018 to 2036 Sheepy Parish Neighbourhood Plan: Referendum Sheepy Parish Neighbourhood Plan: Referendum Contents 1. Introduction ......................................................................................................................1 Neighbourhood Plans ..........................................................................................................1 The Sheepy Parish Neighbourhood Area ............................................................................1 Basic Conditions ..................................................................................................................4 National Planning Policy Framework ...............................................................................4 Hinckley and Bosworth Local Plan ..................................................................................4 What has been done so far .................................................................................................5 What happens next? ............................................................................................................6 Sustainable Development ...................................................................................................7 Key Issues ............................................................................................................................7 Vision ....................................................................................................................................8 Implementation ...................................................................................................................8 2. Rural Character ............................................................................................................. 10 Countryside ....................................................................................................................... 10 Access to the Countryside ................................................................................................ 11 Important Views ................................................................................................................ 13 Renewable Energy ............................................................................................................ 16 Ecology and Biodiversity ................................................................................................... 17 Flooding............................................................................................................................. 20 3. Heritage and Design ..................................................................................................... 22 Listed Buildings ................................................................................................................ 22 Scheduled Monuments .................................................................................................... 23 Moated site north-west of Pinwall ................................................................................ 23 Great Barn at New House Grange ................................................................................ 23 Battle of Bosworth Field ................................................................................................... 23 Sibson Conservation Area ................................................................................................ 24 Features of Local Heritage Interest ................................................................................. 24 Design ............................................................................................................................... 29 4. Local Green Spaces ...................................................................................................... 30 5. Housing ......................................................................................................................... 33 Hinckley and Bosworth Local Plan ................................................................................... 33 Current Housing Supply .................................................................................................... 33 Housing Development ...................................................................................................... 36 Meeting Local Housing Needs ......................................................................................... 36 Affordable Housing ........................................................................................................... 37 Hornsey Rise Memorial Home.......................................................................................... 38 Sheepy Parish Neighbourhood Plan: Referendum 6. Services, Facilities and Infrastructure ......................................................................... 42 Traffic and Parking ........................................................................................................... 45 Superfast Broadband ....................................................................................................... 45 7. Employment .................................................................................................................. 47 Economic Activity .............................................................................................................. 47 Tourism ............................................................................................................................. 47 Live/Work Units ................................................................................................................ 48 Appendix 1: Non-planning issues ........................................................................................ 50 Street lighting.................................................................................................................... 50 Flood maintenance ........................................................................................................... 50 Sport, recreation and open spaces .................................................................................. 50 Trees ................................................................................................................................. 50 Public rights of way ........................................................................................................... 50 Transport ........................................................................................................................... 51 Services and facilities ....................................................................................................... 51 Appendix 2: Important Views ............................................................................................... 53 Appendix 3: Local Heritage Assets ...................................................................................... 59 Historic Environment Records.......................................................................................... 59 Sibson Conservation Area Appraisal ................................................................................ 59 Properties Nominated for Local Heritage List by Sheepy Historical Society. ................. 59 Interests Nominated by the Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group ................................. 59 Schedule 1: Neighbourhood Plan Analysis for Sibson Conservation Area ..................... 60 Schedule 2: Features of Local Heritage Interest ............................................................. 61 Appendix 4: Local Green Spaces: Summary of Reasons for Designation.......................... 81 Appendix 5: Methodology for defining the settlement boundaries and its application for Sheepy Magna and Sibson .................................................................................................. 82 Background ....................................................................................................................... 82 Methodology ..................................................................................................................... 82 Appendix 6: Glossary ............................................................................................................ 84 Policies Map (West) .............................................................................................................. 89 Policies Map (East) ............................................................................................................... 90 Sheepy Parish Neighbourhood Plan: Referendum 1. Introduction Neighbourhood Plans 1.1 The 2011 Localism Act has given communities the right to draw up a Neighbourhood Plan. This right is aimed at giving local communities genuine opportunities to influence the future of the places where they live. 1.2 The Sheepy Parish Neighbourhood Plan will allow people, who live, work and have a business in the Parish to have a say where they think new houses, businesses and shops should be located and what they should look like. A Neighbourhood Plan can also identify and protect important Local Green Spaces, conserve local heritage and protect areas of nature conservation interest. The Sheepy Parish Neighbourhood Plan will be a statutory plan which means that once it has been finalised, it will be used to determine planning applications in the Parish. The Sheepy Parish Neighbourhood Area 1.3 The Sheepy Parish Neighbourhood Area comprises the Parish of Sheepy which is located within