HAMPTON BISHOP SUBMISSION NEIGHBOURHOOD DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2018 - 2031 (AUTUMN 2018) 1 HAMPTON BISHOP SUBMISSION NEIGHBOURHOOD DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2018 - 2031 (AUTUMN 2018) 2 HAMPTON BISHOP SUBMISSION NEIGHBOURHOOD DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2018 - 2031 (AUTUMN 2018) Map 1 Hampton Bishop Designated Neighbourhood Area Hampton Bishop Parish Council Licensee Licence No. 100057935 3 HAMPTON BISHOP SUBMISSION NEIGHBOURHOOD DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2018 - 2031 (AUTUMN 2018) Contents 1.0 Introduction and Background .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 5 2.0 Planning Policy Context........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 8 3.0 Key Issues for Hampton Bishop ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 11 4.0 Vision and Objectives ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 13 5.0 Neighbourhood Plan Policies ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 16 5.1 Reducing Flood Risk and Improving Flood Resilience ........................................................................................................................................................ 16 5.2 Protection of the Historic and Natural Environment ......................................................................................................................................................... 29 5.3 Improving Accessibility and Traffic Management .............................................................................................................................................................. 44 6.0 Next Steps .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 46 Appendices ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 47 4 HAMPTON BISHOP SUBMISSION NEIGHBOURHOOD DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2018 - 2031 (AUTUMN 2018) 1.2 The Parish area has 178 dwellings but the majority (101) of these 1.0 Introduction and Background houses are located in the main settlement area in two main clusters within the village of Hampton Bishop; the western cluster lies to the south of Court Farm, and the eastern cluster is focussed around the church. The majority of Parish residents therefore live in the village of Hampton Bishop itself, with the wider Parish area more sparsely populated. 1.3 The level of car ownership is higher than the County average (92.4% compared to 83.6% in Herefordshire). Very few people who live in the Parish are employed in the Parish and the majority travel to Hereford or further afield. There are several substantial farming businesses and a number of smaller varied enterprises. There are also two residential homes within the Parish which require 24 hour access. Parish Notice Board 1.4 There is no village shop, post office, school or medical practice in the village and Parishioners have to travel to Hereford or 1.1 Hampton Bishop is a small, rural Parish adjoining the western edge Fownhope to access these facilities. The village hall is a registered of the built up area of Hereford. The Parish covers an area of 838 Charitable Trust. hectares and has a population of 505 (2011 Census)1, of whom 184 were over 65 years at the time of the Census and 81 were under 1.5 There are a number of historic farms and farmsteads scattered 18 years of age. There are approximately 170 households in the across a traditional rural landscape of orchards, pasture and arable Parish and the level of home ownership is high at approximately fields. Three rivers flow through the Parish; the Wye flows south 83% compared with a County average of 70%. There are no eastwards from Hereford along the southern boundary and then households living in shared ownership or socially rented northwards where it is joined by the River Lugg at Mordiford accommodation, and about 13% of households live in private Bridge. The River Frome flows south from the north east to join rented housing. the River Lugg north of the village. The rivers provide an attractive riparian landscape setting for the Parish and the intrinsic issues associated with these watercourses and poor surface water 1 See Nomis - https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/reports/localarea 5 HAMPTON BISHOP SUBMISSION NEIGHBOURHOOD DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2018 - 2031 (AUTUMN 2018) drainage are highly significant to the preparation of this A Neighbourhood Plan for Hampton Bishop Neighbourhood Plan. A large portion of the Parish is in the flood 1.8 The Localism Act 2011 gives Parish Councils and other relevant plain with an extensive area lying within Flood Zone 3. The north bodies new powers to prepare statutory Neighbourhood and western area of Hampton Bishop Parish are subject to Development Plans (NDPs) to help guide development in their local significant development pressures associated with the location on areas. These powers give local people the opportunity to shape the eastern edge of the urban area. Developments in this area are new development, as planning applications are determined in upstream of the village, and the local residents and the Parish accordance with the local plan and any other material Council are very concerned that any future development does not considerations including national planning policy set out in the exacerbate existing flooding problems in the village. NPPF. Once made (adopted) by the local authority, neighbourhood 1.6 The Parish includes a conservation area covering part of Hampton plans form part of the Local Plan framework. Other new powers Bishop village2 and there are 36 statutory Listed Buildings and include Community Right to Build Orders, whereby local Scheduled Monuments including the Grade I Listed Church of St communities have the ability to grant planning permission for new Andrew.3 The village has a well-used village hall and the public buildings. house, “The Bunch of Carrots” is located within the conservation 1.9 In 2012 the Parish Council made the decision to prepare a area. A second public house, the Cock of Tupsley lies on the north neighbourhood development plan for the Parish and early western edge of the Parish, and whilst technically lying within the preparatory work commenced. The area was formally designated Parish this public house has strong associations with Hereford City. by Herefordshire Council on 7th May 2013 and this area is shown in Hampton Bishop’s location on the periphery of Hereford allows Map 1 above. access to the range of facilities associated with a large town. 1.10 A First Draft Neighbourhood Plan (Issues and Options) was 1.7 A local bus service runs on the B4224 connecting to Hereford prepared in 2014 building on earlier work including the (when the road is not flooded). The Parish Plan of 20064 preparation of the Parish Plan in 2006. A Steering Group of Parish indicated that the service is used by only a limited number of Councillors and interested local residents was established in late residents but it is highly valued. 2013 and regular meetings were held to discuss and agree the scope and content of the First Draft Neighbourhood Plan. 2 3 https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/ https://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/downloads/file/1380/hampton_bishop_cons ervation_area 4 Hampton Bishop Parish Plan, Hampton Bishop Parish Council 2006 6 HAMPTON BISHOP SUBMISSION NEIGHBOURHOOD DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2018 - 2031 (AUTUMN 2018) 1.11 The First Draft Neighbourhood Plan considered the key planning of the Plan has been further amended in response to many of the Issues for Hampton Bishop and Policy Options for addressing these consultation responses. Issues. The document was subjected to a screening exercise 1.14 The Parish Council is committed to keeping residents and undertaken by Herefordshire Council as part of the Environmental interested groups informed about the preparation of the Plan. Assessment process required by European legislation. The Plan Updates are provided in the Parish Newsletter which is distributed was published for informal consultation in the winter of 2014 and 3-4 times annually, depending upon events. A Parish website is then the Parish Council agreed that work on the Plan should pause maintained and regularly updated. Three noticeboards are until the Herefordshire Local Plan Core Strategy 2011- 2031 was present at strategic sites in the Parish. Email addresses are held by adopted. The Local Plan Core Strategy was adopted by the Parish Clerk and Parishioners are invited to supply one. Efforts Herefordshire Council in October 2016 and the Neighbourhood will be made at open days to publicise this. Extraordinary meetings Plan has been updated and revised to be in conformity with this of the Parish