Appendix 2: Summary of Responses to 2013 Consultation Derby City Local Plan - Part 1: Draft Core Strategy Regulation 22 Statement of Consultation and Publicity August 2014 This page is left intentionally blank Contents Introduction 1 Public events and community involvement 2 How was the consultation carried out? 3 Summary of Responses 5 The Consultation Strategy 5 Document Format 6 Key diagram 7 1. Introduction 9 2. Derby in Context 11 3. What will Derby be like in 2028? 15 4. The Strategy for Derby 21 Policy CP1: Presumption in favour of sustainable development 34 and cross boundary development Policy CP2: Responding to climate change 37 Policy CP3: Placemaking principles 43 Policy CP4: Character and context 50 Policy CP5: Regeneration priorities 52 Policy CP6: Housing delivery 54 Policy CP7: Affordable and specialist housing 65 Policy CP8: Gypsies and travellers 71 Policy CP9: Delivering a sustainable economy 72 Policy CP10: Employment locations 74 Policy CP11: Office development 78 Policy CP12: Centres 78 Policy CP13: Retail and leisure outside of defined centres 81 Policy CP14: Tourism, culture and leisure 87 Policy CP15: Food, drink and the evening economy 89 Policy CP16: Green Infrastructure 90 Policy CP17: Public green space 97 Policy CP18: Green wedges 100 Policy CP19: Biodiversity 104 Policy CP20: Historic environment 107 Policy CP21: Community facilities 108 Policy CP22: Derby University and further education 110 Policy CP23: Delivering a sustainable transport network 111 Policy CP24: Strategic implementation 121 Policy AC1: City Centre strategy 128 Policy AC2: Delivering a City Centre renaissance 129 Policy AC3: Frontages 131 Policy AC4: City Centre transport and accessibility 132 Policy AC5: City Centre environment 132 Policy AC6: Castleward and the former Derby Royal Infirmary 135 Policy AC7: The River Derwent corridor 135 Policy AC8: Our City Our River 138 Policy AC9: Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site 140 Policy AC10: Darley Abbey Mills 141 Policy AC11: The Derwent Triangle, Chaddesden 141 Policy AC12: Derby Commercial Park, Raynesway 145 Policy AC13: Former Celanese Acetate Site, Spondon 148 Policy AC14: Osmaston Regeneration Area 151 Policy AC15: Land south of Wilmore Road, Sinfin (Infinity Park) 153 Policy AC16: Rolls_Royce Campus 157 Policy AC17: Sinfin Lane 158 Policy AC18: Wragley Way 161 Littleover, Mackworth and Mickleover 167 Policy AC19: Manor Kingsway 174 Policy AC20: Rykneld Road 177 Policy AC21: Hackwood Farm 180 Policy AC22: Mickleover and Mackworth 185 Boulton and Chellaston 191 Policy AC23: Boulton Moor 192 Policy AC24: South of Chellaston 200 Policy AC25: Brook Farm 204 Policy AC26: Land south of Mansfield Road, Oakwood 209 Policy MH1: Making it happen 216 Monitoring how we are doing 218 Appendix A: Status of City of Derby Local Plan Review 220 Appendix B: Parking Standards 221 Appendix C: Open Space Standards 221 Policy Omissions 222 Miscellaneous Comments 225 Sustainability Appraisal 225 Habitat Regulations Assessment 229 Derby HMA Strategic Viability Assessment 228 Infrastructure Delivery Plan 230 Appendix 1: Consultation and publicity material 237 Appendix 2: Persons and bodies invited to make representations 278 under regulation 18 This page is left intentionally blank Introduction The City Council produced the following documents as part of the Regulation 18 consultation that ran for eight weeks, starting on Friday 25 October 2013 and ending on Friday 20 December 2013. The Derby City Local Plan Part 1: Draft Core Strategy Draft Sustainability Appraisal and Technical Appendix Draft Infrastructure Delivery Plan Habitat Regulations Assessment The Local Plan Part 1 Pre-Submission Core Strategy sets out the strategic planning policies for the City along with the preferred locations for strategic growth sites and indicates which of the adopted Local Plan (2006) policies will be saved and incorporated into Part 2 of the new Local Plan. The Sustainability Appraisal (SA) is a mechanism for considering and communicating the likely effects of a draft plan, and alternatives, in terms of sustainability issues, with a view to avoiding and mitigating adverse effects and maximising the positives. An SA of Local Plan Part 1 - The Core Strategy is a legal requirement. The Infrastructure Delivery Plan is a key supporting document for the Local Plan Part 1: The Core Strategy. It sets out the transport, physical, social and green infrastructure required to support the Borough’s future growth up to 2028. The Derby City Local Plan Part 1: Draft Core Strategy1 consultation ran for eight weeks, starting on Friday 25 October 2013 and ending on Friday 20 December 2013. In total 185 respondents made 726 comments about the Local Plan and the supporting documents. This statement has been prepared in accordance with Regulation 17 and 19 of the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2012, which requires a statement setting out: i. which bodies and persons were invited to make representations under Regulation 18; ii. how these bodies and persons were invited to make representations; iii. a summary of the main issues raised by those representations; and iv. how those main issues have been addressed in the DPD The bodies and persons who were invited to make representations can be found in Appendix 2. These include all bodies and persons who have previously made representations in respect of previous consultation exercises and/or those whose 1 http://www.derby.gov.uk/environment-and-planning/planning/local-development-framework/#Draft- Core-Strategy Regulation 19 Statement of Consultation and Publicity Page 1 details were collected when previous public consultation exercises took place by entering their details on attendance sheets. All of these bodies and persons were contacted individually by email. Those who do not have an email address were sent a letter in the post. Public Events and Community Involvement Previous consultation exercises undertaken were: Date Consultation Stage Outline of content 2 March to 31 May Issues and Ideas The document set out our thoughts 2009 on the issues that the Core Strategy needed to address. Sought Duration: 13 weeks comments on these issues, welcomed any new ones and welcomed people’s ideas on how they might be addressed. 15 January to 28 Core Strategy Options The public’s views were sought on May 2010 Paper the following subjects: The Spatial Portrait of Derby Duration: 20 weeks The key challenges and issues for the Core Strategy The emerging Housing Market Area spatial vision The emerging spatial vision for Derby City Options for where new development could go Topic based options 16 February to 31 Your Neighbourhood Prompted people to think about their May 2011 neighbourhood and sought comments on Neighbourhood Duration: 15 weeks Overview Summaries and the Townscape Character Assessments. Friday 24 February The Three Topic Presented a number of options to Monday 26 Consultation which would help in the March 2012 development of three topic areas – Retailing, City Centre parking and Duration: 5 weeks the provision of open space. 12 July to 30 Options for Housing The consultation document provided September 2012 Growth a number of scenarios for location of development across the Housing Duration: 11 weeks Market Area and various population projections. 1 October to 21 Preferred Growth The consultation set out the aligned Regulation 19 Statement of Consultation and Publicity Page 2 Date Consultation Stage Outline of content December 2012 Strategy approach for the delivery of housing across the Derby Urban Area. Duration: 12 weeks How was the consultation carried out? Appendix 1 contains copies of all of the publicity material produced and press articles published during the consultation. The following is a brief description of the methods used to engage with interested parties during the Derby City Local Plan Part 1: Draft Core Strategy consultation. Mailshot to interested parties Before the consultation started a letter or email to everyone on our LDF consultation database. The database contains the contact details of the specific consultation bodies, businesses and members of the local community. The consultation was also publicised by utilising the City Council’s Neighbourhood Partnership and the Council’s Diversity Forums. Currently the Partnership has a distribution list of around 1,606 people which includes residents, local businesses, faith groups, Councillors and Officers. The consultation was publicised through the Council’s ‘Your City, Your Say’. Internal Publicity Emails were sent to Chief Officers and Councillors informing them that the consultation had started. The consultation was publicised through the City Council’s “In-Touch” magazine. An article publicising the consultation was included in the e-shot on the 28 October 2013, 25 November 2013, 2 December 2013 and the 9 December 2013. The internal AV screens were used for the duration of the consultation, reminding staff that the consultation was underway and that the Core Strategy may have an impact on the delivery of their service Press releases and articles A press release was issued prior to the start of the consultation on the 25 October 2013 and a further one was issued half way through the consultation on the 29 November 2013. The press releases and articles are contained in Appendix 1. Posters Regulation 19 Statement of Consultation and Publicity Page 3 Posters were put up in local libraries and