LISKEARD 2030 LISKEARD NEIGHBOURHOOD DEVELOPMENT PLAN August 2018 FOREWORD THIS IS OUR NEIGHBOURHOOD DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR LISKEARD It sets out our ambition, the priorities for change and Foreword from the Mayor of Liskeard: the approach that will guide Planning decisions in I would like to thank and congratulate all those who Liskeard. It represents a shared agenda developed have committed their time and expertise in bringing by the public and private sectors. this plan forward. We are indebted to the volunteers, who are all residents from within our community, for The plan has been developed under the leadership their hard work in delivering a workable document of the Liskeard Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group, that will provide a sound framework for the a community-based group commissioned and continuing development of Liskeard. supported by Liskeard Town Council, the formal Qualifying Body for neighbourhood planning in The public engagements have definitely got people the area. talking together and have already indicated, and in some cases instigated, ideas and projects that I Right from the start, the Liskeard Neighbourhood hope can be built on in the future for the good of our Development Plan has been created in a way that town and the next generation. recognizes the fundamental principle that growth is part of sustainable development and that it must and from the Neighbourhood Plan Team Chair: address the key concerns of: I would really like to thank everybody who has given so much of their time as volunteers to help this plan • Achieving a sustainable economy stay on track and reach a successful conclusion. • Living within our environmental limits I hope all members of our community feel it will keep • Ensuring a strong, healthy and just society Liskeard heading in a positive direction up to 2030 and beyond. The Liskeard Neighbourhood Development Plan focuses on the key planning issues facing Liskeard, setting out both the short term and longer term priorities for action to enable sustainable growth and increase prosperity. It aims to encourage and develop inclusive local partnership working around those priorities and to be a plan of action. It is also aimed at attracting public and private sector investment, and will form the land use policy basis of comprehensive funding bids to grant aiding bodies. The priorities we have agreed focus around the concept of Liskeard as a thriving, modern market town acting as the sustainable social and economic heart of the wider community of South East Cornwall. 3 KEY INFORMATION Point of Contact Town Clerk, Liskeard Town Council, 3-5 West Street, Liskeard, Cornwall, PL14 6BW Tel: 01579 345407 Steering Group and Working Group Membership Name Status/Representing Steering Group Steve Besford-Foster Community Volunteer Rachel Brooks Liskeard Town Council Jeff Butel Community Volunteer Lynne Butel Community Volunteer Sally Hawken Liskeard Town Council John Hesketh Community Volunteer Roger Holmes Liskeard Town Council David Orr Community Volunteer Jane Pascoe Liskeard Town Council Susan Pike Liskeard Town Council James Shrubsole Liskeard Town Council Lorna Shrubsole Liskeard Town Council Sue Shand Community Volunteer Stephen Vinson Liskeard Town Clerk Working Group Volunteers Funmi Ahmed Community Volunteer Tristram Besterman Community Volunteer Steve Clark Community Volunteer Jenny Foster Community Volunteer Alan Groves Community Volunteer Julie Groves Community Volunteer Malcolm Halloway Community Volunteer Bruce Hawken Community Volunteer Stuart Johnston Community Volunteer Denise Larner Community Volunteer Lizzie Lay Community Volunteer Wendy Lindesay Community Volunteer Alison Livingstone Community Volunteer David Lloyd Community Volunteer Ray Meadows Community Volunteer James Moon Community Volunteer Malcolm Mort Community Volunteer Peter Murnaghan Community Volunteer Mary Westlake Community Volunteer Jasmine Williams Community Volunteer Supporting Documentation All the supporting evidence and documentation backing this Neighbourhood Plan, including the Working Group Reports and many of the background studies referred to, are available via the Liskeard Neighbourhood Plan website at www.planliskeard.co.uk in the form of Portable Document Format (.pdf) files. 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Data used in this document are based on figures given in the adopted CLP November 2016. 4 CONTENTS Foreword 3 A PLACE TO WORK AND LEARN 26 Key Information 4 Aims 27 Supporting Documentation 4 Strategic Approach 27 Introduction 7 Detailed Objectives and Policies 27-35 Sustainable Development 8 A PLACE TO LIVE 36 The Role of Neighbourhood Plans 7 Aims 37 Sustainable Development 8 Strategic Approach 37 A Community Led Plan 8 Detailed Objectives and Policies 37-47 How this Plan is Organised 10 A PLACE TO MEET AND SHOP AND The Plan Preparation Process 11 DO BUSINESS 48 The Stages Involved 11 Aims 49 The Designated Area 9 Strategic Approach 49 Preparing the Neighbourhood Plan 12 Detailed Objectives and Policies 49-61 Independent check, Community A PLACE TO RELAX AND ENJOY 62 Referendum and Making the Plan 12 Aims 63 The Planning Framework 13 Strategic Approach 63 The National Planning Policy Detailed Objectives and Policies 63-79 Framework 13 A PLACE WITH A SUSTAINABLE Cornwall Local Plan 15 FUTURE 80 Liskeard Community Strategic Plan 15 Overview 81 The To w n Framework 2012 16 Strategic Approach 81 Caradon Local Plan 16 Detailed Objectives and Policies 81-83 Infrastructure: The physical ability DELIVERY PLAN 84 of the town to accept growth 16 Detailed Objectives and Policies 85-90 Setting the Scene: A Profile of Glossary Liskeard and its Community 17 What the jargon words mean 91 Employment 18 Maps Town Centre 19 Connectivity Map 92 Housing 20 Housing and Employment Map 93 Open Space and Leisure 20 Green Spaces Map 93 Liskeard’s Advantages and Challenges 21 Landscape, Heritage, Biodiversity Map 94 An Overview of Community Town Centre Heritage Map 94 Engagement Feedback 22 The Plan Vision 23 Aims 24 Policies, Suggestions & Projects 24 Development Boundary 25 5 6 LISKEARD NEIGHBOURHOOD 2030 DEVELOPMENT PLAN INTRODUCTION The Liskeard Neighbourhood Plan is being prepared in accordance with the Neighbourhood Planning Regulations 2012, the Localism Act 2011, the Planning & Compulsory Purchase Act 2004, the European Directive 2001/42 on Strategic Environmental Assessment and the EU Directive 92/43 on Habitats Regulations Assessment. The National Planning Policy Guidance says that ‘Neighbourhood planning gives communities direct power to develop a shared vision for their neighbourhood and shape the development and growth of their local area. They are able to choose where they want new homes, shops and offices to be built, have their say on what those new buildings should look like and what infrastructure should be provided, and grant planning permission for the new buildings they want to see go ahead. Neighbourhood planning provides a powerful set of tools for local people to ensure that they get the right types of development for their community where the ambition of the neighbourhood is aligned with the strategic needs and priorities of the wider local area.’ The Role of Neighbourhood Plans The National Planning Policy Framework says that: • Neighbourhoods should develop plans that support the strategic development needs set out in Local Plans (NPPF para. 16) • Policies in Neighbourhood plans can be used to determine decisions on planning applications. (NPPF para. 183) • Neighbourhood plans must be in general conformity with the strategic policies of the Local Plan • Neighbourhood plans... should not promote less development than set out in the Local Plan or undermine its strategic policies. (para. 184) SUSTAINABILITY PRINCIPLES SET OUT IN NATIONAL PLANNING POLICY FRAMEWORK • Building a strong, competitive economy • Ensuring the vitality of town centres • Supporting a prosperous rural economy • Promoting sustainable transport • Supporting high quality communications infrastructure • Delivering a wide choice of high quality homes • Requiring good design • Promoting healthy communities • Meeting the challenge of climate change, flooding and coastal change • Conserving and enhancing the natural environment • Conserving and enhancing the historic environment 7 Sustainable Development and future generations; and by creating a high The NPPF includes a ‘presumption in favour of quality built environment, with accessible local sustainabledevelopment’ which is often services that reflect the community’s needs and misunderstood and controversial. For our support its health, social and culturalwell-being. Neighbourhood DevelopmentPlan it means that it must support the principles of sustainable • an environmental role – contributing to development andthe strategic development needs set protecting and enhancing our natural, built and out inthe Cornwall LocalPlan, including policies for historic environment; and, as part of this, helping housing and economic development, but can also plan to improve biodiversity, use natural resources positively to supportlocaldevelopment, shaping and prudently, minimise waste and pollution, and directing developmentin our area thatis outside the mitigate and adapt to climate change including strategicelements of the LocalPlan (NPPF Para 16). moving to a low carbon economy. This gives us the opportunity to give a local dimension