Charlbury Street Fair by Maureen Sparling © Charlbury Neighbourhood Plan 2031 CONSULTATION DRAFT - Dated 15/09/2019 CHARLBURY TOWN COUNCIL CONTENTS Foreword ................................................................................................................... 4 Overview ................................................................................................................... 5 Section 1: Introduction & Context ............................................................................... 8 1.1 Structure of the Plan ............................................................................................... 8 1.2 Planning Framework ............................................................................................... 9 1.3 Policy Context ....................................................................................................... 10 1.4 Submitting Body .................................................................................................... 10 1.5 Neighbourhood Area ............................................................................................. 10 1.6 Plan Period, Monitoring and Review ..................................................................... 11 Section 2: The Town of Charlbury ............................................................................ 12 2.1 Charlbury Today ................................................................................................... 12 2.2 Charlbury in the Future ......................................................................................... 16 2.3 Key Challenges ..................................................................................................... 16 Section 3: Aims & Objectives .................................................................................... 18 3.1 Aims ..................................................................................................................... 18 3.2 Objectives ............................................................................................................. 18 Section 4: Process Summary .................................................................................... 21 4.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................... 21 4.2 Strategic Plans for Charlbury ................................................................................ 21 4.3 Charlbury Town Survey ........................................................................................ 22 4.4 Charlbury Neighbourhood Plan ............................................................................. 22 4.5 Community Action Plan (CAP) .............................................................................. 23 4.6 Community Engagement....................................................................................... 23 Section 5: Housing .................................................................................................... 24 5.1 Background........................................................................................................... 24 5.2 Housing Objectives & Approach ............................................................................ 25 5.3 Housing Policies ................................................................................................... 26 Section 6: Economy, Community, Transport and Movement .................................... 31 6.1 Overview ............................................................................................................... 31 6.2 Economy ............................................................................................................... 32 6.3 Sport, Recreation and Community Facilities .......................................................... 36 6.4 Parking ................................................................................................................. 37 6.5 Walking and Cycling ............................................................................................. 39 6.6 Public Transport .................................................................................................... 40 6.7 Electric Vehicles ................................................................................................... 41 6.8 Sturt Road, The Slade & Charlbury Primary School .............................................. 41 6.9 Enstone Road Crossroads .................................................................................... 43 Section 7: Natural Environment and Green Space ................................................... 44 7.1 Overview ............................................................................................................... 44 7.2 Landscape Character ............................................................................................ 46 7.3 Biodiversity and Green Space ............................................................................... 48 7.4 Local Green Spaces ............................................................................................. 51 7.5 Flood Risk ............................................................................................................. 54 Charlbury Neighbourhood Plan 2031 2 CONSULTATION DRAFT 15/09/2019 7.6 Environmental Design Standards .......................................................................... 55 Section 8: Historic Environment and Locally Appropriate Design ............................. 56 8.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................... 56 8.2 Outline Historical Development ............................................................................. 56 8.3 Statutorily Designated Historic Assets................................................................... 57 8.4 Archaeological Finds and Sites ............................................................................. 57 8.5 The Charlbury Parish Character Assessment ....................................................... 58 8.6 Historic Environment Policies ................................................................................ 60 8.7 Exploring the Scope for an Article 4 Direction ....................................................... 63 Appendix A Housing Need and Policy Analysis .................................................... 65 A.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................... 65 A.2 Policy Context ....................................................................................................... 65 A.3 Charlbury’s Housing Needs .................................................................................. 67 A.4 What sort of Housing? .......................................................................................... 71 Appendix B Infrastructure Delivery Plan ............................................................... 74 Appendix C Charlbury Design Guidance .............................................................. 77 C.1 Part 1: Development in the historic areas of the town and affecting outlying historic buildings .......................................................................................................................... 78 C.2 Part 2: Development in the post 1900 suburbs ...................................................... 80 C.3 Part 3: Development beyond the existing settlement ............................................. 83 Appendix D Proposed Local List ........................................................................... 85 D.1 Criteria .................................................................................................................. 85 D.2 Local List Proposals .............................................................................................. 85 Appendix E Additional Buildings for Article 4 Direction Consideration .................. 90 Appendix F Local Green Space ............................................................................ 92 F.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................... 92 F.2 Sites Designated as Green Space ........................................................................ 92 F.3 Sites Assessed but not chosen for LGS Designation .......................................... 115 Appendix G Glossary of Terms ........................................................................... 116 Appendix H Acknowledgements ......................................................................... 120 Charlbury Neighbourhood Plan 2031 3 CONSULTATION DRAFT 15/09/2019 Foreword There are too many people that contributed to this plan to be thanked individually so we hope that you will forgive us for not naming each of you. We are immensely grateful to all the volunteers who gave of their time and energy to this exercise to ensure Charlbury remains a great place to live. This includes all those that either ran or participated in the various workshops, contributed to the Charlbury Neighbourhood Forum (particularly during a time when there was a great deal of scepticism as to whether a plan was required), created, distributed and analysed the Town Survey, communicated progress via the Chronicle etc., and all those volunteers that worked on the Charlbury Character Assessment. Latterly this includes all those that worked with us in and with the Neighbourhood