Fosse Villages Neighbourhood Submission 2018-2029 Fosse Villages Neighbourhood Plan: Submission View from Croft Hill Fosse Villages Neighbourhood Plan: Submission Table of Contents ................................................................................................................................................................ Introduction .......................................................................................................................................... 1 Neighbourhood Plans ...................................................................................................................... 1 The Leicestershire Fosse Villages Neighbourhood Plan area ........................................................ 1 Parish Councils............................................................................................................................. 1 Parish Meetings ........................................................................................................................... 1 What we have done so far ............................................................................................................... 1 Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) ................................................................................... 2 What happens next? ........................................................................................................................ 4 Sustainable Development ............................................................................................................... 4 Key Issues ........................................................................................................................................ 4 Road Traffic and Congestion (69%) ............................................................................................ 5 Protecting Village Identity (65%) ................................................................................................. 5 How much development and where? (61%) ............................................................................... 5 Improved Services and Facilities (35%) ...................................................................................... 5 Improved public transport (30%) ................................................................................................. 5 Meeting Local Housing Needs (16%) .......................................................................................... 5 Providing Jobs for Local People (10%) ........................................................................................ 5 Opportunities for Renewable Energy (5%) .................................................................................. 5 Gypsies and Travellers (5%) ........................................................................................................ 5 Vision ................................................................................................................................................ 6 Implementation ................................................................................................................................ 6 Leicester and Leicestershire 2050: Vision for Growth .................................................................. 7 Transport .............................................................................................................................................. 8 Highways .......................................................................................................................................... 8 Sharnford ..................................................................................................................................... 8 South West Leicestershire ........................................................................................................... 9 Midlands Connect ........................................................................................................................ 9 Rail .................................................................................................................................................. 10 Buses .............................................................................................................................................. 11 Footways and Cycleways ............................................................................................................... 12 Other transport matters ................................................................................................................. 12 Village Identity .................................................................................................................................... 13 Landscape ...................................................................................................................................... 13 i Fosse Villages Neighbourhood Plan: Submission Croft Hill ...................................................................................................................................... 13 Woodland ................................................................................................................................... 13 Countryside ................................................................................................................................ 13 Areas of Separation ....................................................................................................................... 15 Geodiversity, Ecology and Biodiversity .......................................................................................... 15 Local Green Space ......................................................................................................................... 16 Historic Environment ..................................................................................................................... 18 Features of Local Heritage Interest ........................................................................................... 18 Design............................................................................................................................................. 18 How much development and where? ............................................................................................... 20 Housing Provision .......................................................................................................................... 20 Windfall Housing ........................................................................................................................ 22 Employment ................................................................................................................................... 22 Services and Facilities ....................................................................................................................... 23 Healthcare ...................................................................................................................................... 24 Sharnford Allotments ..................................................................................................................... 24 Stoney Stanton Cemetery .............................................................................................................. 24 Infrastructure ................................................................................................................................. 25 Housing Needs ................................................................................................................................... 26 Provision for older households ...................................................................................................... 26 Provision for single and smaller households (one and two-bedroom units) ............................... 26 Affordable Housing ........................................................................................................................ 27 Affordable Housing in the Fosse Villages .................................................................................. 27 Rural Exception Sites ................................................................................................................. 27 Jobs .................................................................................................................................................... 29 Employment and Occupations ...................................................................................................... 29 Croft Quarry .................................................................................................................................... 29 Renewable Energy ............................................................................................................................. 32 Wind Energy ................................................................................................................................... 32 Solar Farms .................................................................................................................................... 32 Biomass .......................................................................................................................................... 32 Microgeneration Technologies ...................................................................................................... 32 Gypsies and Travellers ......................................................................................................................