5. 1 Chapter Five Places available and achievable within the Plan period Introduction based on the best available information. 5.1 This section sets out the vision and policies for settlements, Town and Small District Centres Town and District Centres within the District. The District’s settlements are listed in Table 5.1, in line with the Settlement 5.5 The Council has identified two Town Centres Hierarchy Technical Paper (2015). The Town and four Small District Centres within the Centres are as identified in the Town Centre District. The Local Plan sets out the defined Review (2016). Town Centre boundaries, Primary Shopping Areas, and Primary and Secondary Retail Table 5.1: Settlements in Epping Forest District Frontages. Category Settlement 5.6 The District’s town centre hierarchy, in accordance with Policy E 2 is set out in Table Town Ongar, Epping, Loughton/Loughton 5.2. Broadway, Waltham Abbey Table 5.2 Town Centre hierarchy Large Village Buckhurst Hill, Chigwell, North Weald Bassett, Theydon Bois Category Settlement Small Village Abridge, Chigwell Row, Coopersale, Town Centre Epping, Loughton High Road Fyfield, High Ongar, Nazeing, “Matching” (incorporating Matching Small District Buckhurst Hill, Ongar, Loughton Green, Matching Tye and Matching), Centre Broadway, Waltham Abbey Roydon, Lower Sheering, Sheering, Stapleford Abbotts, Thornwood Key Evidence 5.2 This section does not consider the strategic sites around Harlow, which are set out in Policy SP 3. 5.7 Key evidence which informed the Council’s A number of the District’s settlements are in the approach to settlements in the District are: process of developing Neighbourhood Plans. • Settlement Hierarchy Technical Paper The Council will support the preparation and (EFDC, 2015); production of Neighbourhood Plans as set out in • Site Selection Report (Arup, 2017); Policy D 6. • Town Centres Review (Arup, September Overview of the Site Selection 2016); • Green Belt Review (Land Use Consultants, Process 2016); 5.3 The National Planning Policy Framework states • Employment Land Supply Assessment that a Local Plan must allocate sufficient land in (Arup, 2017); appropriate locations to ensure supply for the • Employment Review (Hardisty Jones Plan period. This includes sites for residential Associates, 2017); development, Traveller Accommodation and • Infrastructure Delivery Plan (Arup, 2017); employment land (B Use Class). and 5.4 The Council has selected its allocated sites in • Epping Forest District Council: Gypsy, line with the two site selection methodologies Traveller and Travelling Showpeople (residential and employment, and traveller). Accommodation Assessment Need Sites identified for allocation have been selected Summary Report (ORS, 2017). following a rigorous application of the relevant site selection methodology, and represent those sites the Council considers to be suitable, The Local Plan should be read as a whole. Proposals will be judged against all relevant policies. Epping Forest District Local Plan 114 | Submission Version December 2017 .