Charlbury Street Fair by Maureen Sparling © Charlbury Neighbourhood Plan 2031 SUBMISSION DRAFT - Dated 06/08/2020 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 Climate Emergency ............................................................................................... 17 2.4 Key Challenges ..................................................................................................... 17 Section 3: Aims & Objectives .................................................................................... 19 3.1 Aims ..................................................................................................................... 19 3.2 Objectives ............................................................................................................. 19 Section 4: Process Summary .................................................................................... 22 4.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................... 22 4.2 Strategic Plans for Charlbury ................................................................................ 22 4.3 Charlbury Town Survey ........................................................................................ 23 4.4 Charlbury Neighbourhood Plan ............................................................................. 23 4.5 Community Action Plan (CAP) .............................................................................. 24 4.6 Community Engagement....................................................................................... 24 Section 5: Housing .................................................................................................... 26 5.1 Background........................................................................................................... 26 5.2 Housing Objectives & Approach ............................................................................ 28 5.3 Housing Policies - Meeting Charlbury’s Needs ...................................................... 29 Section 6: Economy, Community, Transport and Movement .................................... 35 6.1 Overview ............................................................................................................... 35 6.2 Economy ............................................................................................................... 36 6.3 Sport, Recreation and Community Facilities .......................................................... 40 6.4 Parking ................................................................................................................. 43 6.5 Walking and Cycling ............................................................................................. 45 6.6 Public Transport .................................................................................................... 46 6.7 Electric Vehicles ................................................................................................... 47 6.8 Road Safety .......................................................................................................... 48 Section 7: Natural Environment and Green Space ................................................... 51 7.1 Overview ............................................................................................................... 51 7.2 Landscape Character ............................................................................................ 52 7.3 Biodiversity and Blue/Green Infrastructure ............................................................ 54 7.4 Local Green Spaces ............................................................................................. 62 7.5 Flood Risk & Water Quality ................................................................................... 65 Charlbury Neighbourhood Plan 2031 2 SUBMISSION DRAFT 06/08/2020 7.6 Environmental Design Standards .......................................................................... 66 Section 8: Historic Environment and Locally Appropriate Design ............................. 67 8.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................... 67 8.2 Outline Historical Development ............................................................................. 67 8.3 Statutorily Designated Historic Assets................................................................... 68 8.4 Archaeological Finds and Sites ............................................................................. 69 8.5 The Charlbury Parish Character Assessment ....................................................... 69 8.6 Historic Environment Policies ................................................................................ 71 Appendix A Housing Need and Policy Analysis .................................................... 75 A.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................... 75 A.2 Policy Context ....................................................................................................... 75 A.3 Charlbury’s Housing Needs .................................................................................. 77 A.4 What sort of Housing? .......................................................................................... 81 Appendix B Infrastructure Delivery Plan ............................................................... 84 Appendix C Charlbury Design Guidance .............................................................. 87 C.1 Part 1: Development in the historic areas of the town and affecting outlying historic buildings .......................................................................................................................... 88 C.2 Part 2: Development in the post 1900 suburbs ...................................................... 90 C.3 Part 3: Development beyond the existing settlement ............................................. 93 C.4 Part 4: Streetscape design .................................................................................... 94 Appendix D Proposed Local List ........................................................................... 97 D.1 Criteria .................................................................................................................. 97 D.2 Local List Proposals .............................................................................................. 97 D.3 Local List Descriptions ........................................................................................ 101 Appendix E Local Green Space .......................................................................... 109 E.1 Introduction ......................................................................................................... 109 E.2 Sites Designated as Green Space ...................................................................... 109 E.3 Sites Assessed but not chosen for LGS Designation .......................................... 127 Appendix F Glossary of Terms ........................................................................... 132 Appendix G Acknowledgements ......................................................................... 136 Charlbury Neighbourhood Plan 2031 3 SUBMISSION DRAFT 06/08/2020 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