Stroud District Local Plan Review Draft Plan | Additional housing options Public Consultation - October 2020 Development Services Stroud District Council Ebley Mill Stroud Gloucestershire GL5 4UB The Planning Strategy Team [email protected] #stroud2040 visit www.stroud.gov.uk/localplanreview Local Plan Review | Why an extra consultation? The Local Plan Review intention now is for the final Draft Local Plan to taken into consideration and a report of The District Council is producing a new Stroud be approved in February 2021, with the final consultation will accompany the final Draft Local District Local Plan . When finalised, it will identify formal 6 weeks’ public consultation commencing Plan when it is considered in 2021. the housing, employment and community shortly afterwards, and the Plan submitted to Government for examination by May 2021. development that is required within Stroud Future housing requirements District to meet needs over the next 20 years. Focused consultation In August 2020, the Government published a The Council started the process in 2017 and consultation document which proposed changes consulted on a Draft Local Plan in November Whilst work on the Local Plan continues, the to the way the Government calculates the 2019, which set out the council’s preferred Council would like to seek views on one particular minimum housing requirement for each local strategy and sites for distributing development issue which will help inform the final Plan. We are authority area in the country. This revised within the District, alongside policies for shaping therefore launching an eight week public standard method has proposed increasing the future development and protecting and consultation on the contents of this document. requirement for Stroud District from the level set conserving the natural and built environment. out in the 2019 Draft Local Plan of 638 homes per This consultation is intended to have a narrow Since January 2020, the Council has been annum, to 786 homes per annum. If this new focus on the spatial and site options set out in this analysing the responses we received to the Draft revised method is confirmed, a revised Draft Local document. Local Plan public consultation, developing further Plan may have to identify further land within the evidence to inform the Plan and considering the Whilst we encourage responses to this District for housing. Current monitoring indicates contents of the final Draft Plan. consultation, please do not repeat comments that that we may have to find land for an additional Unfortunately, the Covid-19 pandemic has you may have made previously on other policies or 1,050 – 2,400 homes between now and 2040. sites which formed part of the Draft Local Plan , resulted in a delay to the current published Table 1 , over the page, shows how we have but which do not form part of this focussed timetable, and the longer term effects of the reached this figure. pandemic need further consideration. The consultation . These previous comments will be STROUD DISTRICT LOCAL PLAN REVIEW | DRAFT PLAN | ADDITIONAL HOUSING OPTIONS CONSULTATION 2020 Page | 1 A reserve housing supply supply should be identified, in the event that we A Number of houses with 4,595 need it in the future. We invite comments on four In addition to the above, in the Emerging permission minus undeliverable possible options that we have identified, plus Strategy we published in 2018, we identified that sites, as at 1 April 2020 suggestions for any further alternative options. B Minimum requirement using 15,720 Government requirements would mean the Government revised standard delivery of housing at a rate well beyond method (786 homes per annum x anything seen in Stroud District’s living memory. 20 years) The figures shown in Table 1 will increase this C Minimum residual housing 11,125 requirement to 2040 (= B - A) challenge. Delivery rates are vulnerable to What do we want to know? changes in economic cycles, brownfield sites can The purpose of this extra consultation is to D Allocated sites in Draft Local Plan 8,725 be complex and expensive to develop and the (2019) understand: - creation of new settlements is an ambitious E Small sites (windfall) allowance 1,350 undertaking. We may need to identify additional (75 homes per annum x 20 years) What is the best strategy for identifying reserve sites, to ensure that the portfolio of sites F Total housing supply in Draft 10,075 where to accommodate additional Local Plan (= D + E) in the Local Plan guarantees housing at the housing, if necessary? delivery rates required. If we don’t identify a Potential shortfall in planned 1,050 - reserve supply, an undersupply may result in Whether and where a reserve housing housing supply (minimum = C – F) 2,400 speculative planning applications for housing supply should be identified, in the event that we need it in the future Table 1 … calculating Stroud District’s residual development elsewhere and would trigger the housing requirement up to 2040 need for an immediate plan review. Are there issues or constraints associated with some specific sites, which our Furthermore, if the Council decides to remove assessments suggest may have future or reduce the numbers at any of the proposed Spatial options potential, depending upon which strategy site allocations that were set out in the 2019 We would therefore like your views on where option we go for? Draft Local Plan , further land to replace this additional housing land could be found, if it supply will also be required, as the Government proves necessary for us to identify it in the Local Are there any other sites that may have requires the Council to meet the nationally Plan; and whether and where a reserve housing future potential? determined minimum housing levels. STROUD DISTRICT LOCAL PLAN REVIEW | DRAFT PLAN | ADDITIONAL HOUSING OPTIONS CONSULTATION 2020 Page | 2 How can I get involved? Due to the risks associated with the ongoing Don’t have internet access? Covid-19 pandemic, this consultation will be carried out primarily online. We have a limited number of printed How to make comments copies of this document, available to Visit our webpage: We would be very grateful if you are able to anyone who is genuinely unable to access this www.stroud.gov.uk/localplanreview submit your views to us via the online consultation online. If you know someone who questionnaire , particularly given the logistics does not have access to the internet but who You will be able to find the following: associated with current workplace restrictions. would like to comment, you may be able to help You can attach / upload documents via the This consultation paper them complete an online questionnaire. Or use questionnaire, if this helps you to provide your An online questionnaire (for making your our Local Plan hotline or email address to response online. response) provide us with contact details (address) so we Alternatively, you can email us: Background documents can send them a hard copy of this document. @ [email protected] Audio visual presentation email us at: [email protected] @ We will also be publicising the consultation via Or send your response to: social media, newspapers and local posters phone 01453 754143 Local Plan Review, (this is a dedicated hotline for contact The Planning Strategy Team, In addition, we will be holding the following details / document requests only) Stroud District Council, events: Ebley Mill, GL5 4UB An online event with town and parish We will be asking Town and Parish Councils to councils help us publicise this service locally. However, Please respond by the closing date of we regret that due to resources we will be th We will be happy to attend online parish Wednesday 16 December 2020. unable to offer this service to those who can council meetings in those locations where access the online material. the new sites are being consulted upon. #stroud2040 STROUD DISTRICT LOCAL PLAN REVIEW | DRAFT PLAN | ADDITIONAL HOUSING OPTIONS CONSULTATION 2020 Page | 3 1. Additional housing options | Spatial options Settlements... We would like your views on where additional Option B – Towns and villages… housing land could be found, if it proves necessary Look for further housing sites at the smaller Tier 1 – Main settlements for us to identify it in the Local Plan, and whether towns and larger villages in the District, thereby Stroud, Cam and Dursley, Stonehouse and where a reserve housing supply should be distributing a greater proportion of the housing identified, in the event that we need it in the required to Tier 2 and Tier 3 settlements. Tier 2 – Local Service Centres future. Berkeley, Minchinhampton, Nailsworth, Painswick, Wotton-Under-Edge; Hunts Grove (anticipated) Four broad spatial options have been identified in Option C – Additional growth point… Tier 3a – Accessible Settlements with Local Facilities consultation with our Sustainability Appraisal A new growth point, potentially located along Hardwicke, Chalford, Manor Village (Bussage), consultants. Depending upon the final housing Brimscombe & Thrupp, Eastington, Kings Stanley, one of the main movement corridors within the numbers that may be required, they all have the Leonard Stanley, Frampton-on-Severn, Newtown & District (A38, A419, A4135), where most future Sharpness, Kingswood, Whitminster, North potential to meet some or all of the additional transport improvements will be located. Woodchester requirements. We would like your views on which of these would be the most sustainable option. Tier 3b – Settlements with Local Facilities Whiteshill & Ruscombe, Upton St Leonards, Uley, You may also wish to suggest a combination of Option D – Wider dispersal… Slimbridge, Bisley, Coaley, North Nibley, Oakridge these options, or you can suggest an alternative Lynch, Amberley, Horsley, Miserden Identify a range of additional housing sites, not option if it is not set out here.