Lewes District Local Plan Part 2 Site Allocations and Development Management Policies Submission Document Sustainability Appraisal (Incorporating a Strategic Environmental Assessment) December 2018 Lewes District Council Submission Lewes District Local Plan Part 2 Site Allocations and Development Managements Policies Document Sustainability Appraisal (Incorporating a Strategic Environmental Assessment) December 2018 This document can be made available in large print, audiotape, disc, or in another language upon specific request. Telephone: 01273 471600 Email: [email protected] 2 Contents List of abbreviations ................................................................................................... 5 1. Introduction ....................................................................................................... 6 2. Non-technical summary .................................................................................. 10 3. Background .................................................................................................... 23 4. Methodology ................................................................................................... 27 5. The Baseline Situation: A portrait of Lewes District ........................................ 32 6. Plans, Programmes and Policies .................................................................... 51 7. Sustainability Issues affecting Lewes District ................................................. 54 8. The Sustainability Framework ........................................................................ 56 9. Appraising the Policy Options ......................................................................... 63 Housing Site Allocation Options ........................................................................... 63 Gypsy and Traveller Accommodation Options ...................................................... 76 Employment Site Allocation Options ..................................................................... 78 Development Management Policy Options ........................................................... 81 10. Appraising the Policies ................................................................................... 92 Housing Site Allocations ....................................................................................... 93 Gypsy and Traveller Accommodation ................................................................... 96 Employment Site Allocations ................................................................................ 96 Development Management Policies ..................................................................... 97 Secondary, Cumulative and Synergetic Effects .................................................. 100 11. Monitoring Framework .................................................................................. 101 3 Appendices A. Baseline Data Maps ..................................................................................... 103 B. List of additional Plans, Policies and Programmes ....................................... 107 C. Local Plan Part 1 Strategic Objectives ......................................................... 110 D. Filtered Housing Sites .................................................................................. 111 E. Assessments of the Housing Site Allocation Options ................................... 112 F. Flood Risk Assessment – Land at the Marina, Newhaven ........................... 140 G. Filtered Gypsy and Traveller Accommodation ...Error! Bookmark not defined. H. Assessment of the Gypsy and Traveller Accommodation Options ............... 145 I. Filtered Employment Sites ............................................................................ 147 J. Assessment of the Employment Site Allocation Options .............................. 148 K. Assessments of Development Management Policy Options ........................ 153 L. Assessment of the Housing Site Allocations ................................................ 190 M. Assessment of the Gypsy and Traveller Accommodation ............................ 209 N. Assessment of the Employment Allocations ................................................. 211 O. Assessment of the Development Management Policies ............................... 214 4 List of abbreviations 2003 LDLP Lewes District Local Plan, March 2003 AQMA Air Quality Management Area CIL Community Infrastructure Levy DCLG Department for Communities and Local Government DECC Department of Energy and Climate Change DEFRA Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs DPD Development Plan Document EA Environment Agency ESCC East Sussex County Council ESIF East Sussex in Figures EU European Union Habitats Directive Council Directive 92/43/EEC on the Conservation of Natural Habitats and of wild fauna and flora IMD Index of Multiple Deprivation LDC Lewes District Council LNR Local Nature Reserve Local Plan Part 1/ Lewes District Local Plan Part 1: Joint Core Strategy 2010- Joint Core Strategy 2030, May 2016 Local Plan Part 2 Local Plan Part 2: Site Allocations and Development Management Policies Development Plan Document NPPF National Planning Policy Framework ONS Office of National Statistics PDL Previously Developed Land PPPs Plans, Programmes and Policies RuSS Rural Settlement Study SA Sustainability Appraisal SAC Special Area of Conservation SDNP South Downs National Park SDNPA South Downs National Park Authority SEA Strategic Environmental Assessment SEP South East Plan SHELAA Strategic Housing and Economic Land Availability Assessment SHLAA Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment SNCI Site of Nature Conservation Interest SOA Super Output Area SPA Special Protection Area SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest Topic Papers Lewes District Local Plan Part 2: Site Allocations and Development Management Policies Issues and Options Topic Papers, November 2013 WTR Wildlife Trust Reserve 5 1. Introduction 1.1. Lewes District Council (LDC) has prepared a Local Plan Part 2: Site Allocations and Development Management Policies Development Plan Document (Local Plan Part 2) for those areas of Lewes District outside the South Down National Park (the Plan Area). When adopted, it will allocate land for different types of development (including housing, employment and Gypsy and Traveller accommodation). This document also contains the detailed development management policies, which will replace the ‘retained’ policies set out in the 2003 Lewes District Local Plan (LDLP). 1.2. Town and parish councils within the Plan Area can also choose to set planning policies through a neighbourhood plan. This includes site allocation policies and settlement specific policies. Once a town or parish has been designated as a neighbourhood area, the neighbourhood plan process can start. 1.3. In neighbourhood areas where a neighbourhood plan has been adopted or is currently being prepared, the Local Plan Part 2 does not identify settlement specific policies. 1.4. Where a neighbourhood plan includes or will include site allocations, the Local Plan Part 2 does not, generally, allocate sites. Neighbourhood Adopted/ emerging Site allocation policies covered by the area neighbourhood plan neighbourhood plan Seaford Newhaven Peacehaven and Telscombe Ringmer Newick Barcombe Plumpton The neighbourhood area includes two settlements with a planned housing growth, Wivelsfield Green and Edge of Burgess Hill. Wivelsfield The Wivelsfield Neighbourhood Plan only covered housing site allocation policies for the settlement of Wivelsfield Green. Hamsey Chailey Ditchling, Streat n/a and Westmeston The settlement is not within the Plan Area 6 1.5. Until the neighbourhood development plan has been approved at referendum, the ‘retained’ policies in the 2003 LDLP that are specifically applicable in these designated areas will continue to form part of the development plan for the area. 1.6. In accordance with European and National legislation, documents prepared to be part of the Local Plan must be subject to a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and a Sustainability Appraisal (SA). Therefore, the SA and SEA requirements apply to the production of the Local Plan Part 2. 1.7. In order to show that SEA requirements have been complied with, this report signposts where those requirements have been met. An example of a signpost is seen below: Compliance with SEA Directive’s Requirements This box will sign post which requirements of the SEA Directive’s Regulations are being met. Purpose of the report 1.8. This SA Report follows on from and updates the Scoping Report, published alongside the Local Plan Part 2: Site Allocations and Development Management Policies Issues and Options Topic Papers (Topic Papers) in November 2013, which was the initial stage of the SA for the Local Plan Part 2. The intention of this report is to test the different policy areas and site specific options for the Local Plan Part 2 as well as the policies taken forward against the sustainability framework. Who prepared this document? 1.9. Part 1 of the Local Plan was jointly prepared by LDC and the South Downs National Park Authority (SDNPA) and covered the whole of the district 1.10. Part 2 of Local Plan has been produced by LDC and only relates to the non- National Park area of Lewes District; The SDNPA is producing a Local Plan that covers the area of the district within the National Park. The Part 2 Local Plan area will be referred to as the Plan Area (Map 1). 7 Structure of the report