Cornwall site allocations development plan document www.cornwall.gov.uk Contents 1. Introduction 5 2. Preparation of the allocations DPD 9 3. Penzance and Newlyn spatial strategy and allocations 15 Creating healthy, sustainable 4. Hayle spatial strategy and allocations 55 and attractive communities for 5. Camborne-Pool-Illogan-Redruth spatial strategy and allocations 83 our residents represents a core 6. Helston spatial strategy and allocations 113 component of Cornwall Council’s 7. Falmouth and Penryn spatial strategy and allocations 132 strategy to make a positive 8. Newquay spatial strategy and allocations 177 difference for the quality of local 9. St Austell spatial strategy and allocations 199 residents’ lives. 10. Eco-communities strategy and allocations 225 11. Bodmin spatial strategy and allocations 235 12. Launceston spatial strategy and allocations 265 13. Saltash spatial strategy and allocations 297 14. Strategically important employment sites safeguarded 324 outside of the larger towns 15. Implementation and monitoring 333 16. Schedule of superseded policies 339 Adopted November 2019 2 | Cornwall site allocation Development plan document | 3 1. Introduction Background 1.1 Creating healthy, sustainable and attractive 1.5 Future directions of growth are allocated communities for our residents represents a core sites which are not required to meet the levels component of Cornwall Council’s strategy to of development within the plan period as set make a positive difference for the quality of local out in the Cornwall Local Plan: Strategic Polices residents’ lives. document. They are however allocated to 1.2 Enabling a planned approach to the future highlight the longer term strategy for a town, in growth and regeneration of our communities will terms of clarifying certain aspects of provision ensure economic and housing growth is achieved, around strategic infrastructure, and/or, to provide whilst protecting the assets that make Cornwall an element of certainty around place making and so special. Furthermore, by taking a planned masterplan considerations for current plan period approach it will help to facilitate the delivery of site allocations. Specific considerations apply to infrastructure that our residents rely upon to the Future Direction of Growth allocation LAU-H2, make our communities desirable locations to live to be brought forward in the event of a housing and work. land shortfall. 1.3 Cornwall Council’s Local Plan represents a 1.6 Cornwall Council has committed to creating, suite of documents that collectively provide the or supporting the creation, of community based context within which development proposals strategies for its larger settlements, whether this should be developed and assessed. The Cornwall is through the Allocations DPD and/or through Local Plan: Strategic Policies document (Cornwall Neighbourhood Plans. At the forefront are the LP:SP) was adopted in 2016 and represents the 17 towns / conurbations / sites that are listed overarching planning policy context for Cornwall. within the Cornwall LP:SP with their own housing and economic targets. Table 1 sets out these 1.4 This document, the Cornwall Site Allocations communities, together with the method(s) being Development Plan Document (Allocations DPD), utilised to deliver the strategy for each location, sets out the strategy for the future growth of 10 plus where strategic sites are being allocated. towns / conurbations throughout Cornwall, plus sets out policies for the delivery of two Eco- community sites. The housing and economic targets for these locations were set by the Cornwall LP:SP, so the Allocations DPD addresses Enabling a planned how and where these targets will be delivered, whilst setting them within a wider strategy for approach to the future the area. These strategies address issues such as growth and regeneration of economic growth and other aspirations for the town, whilst also setting out principles for the our communities will ensure future delivery of infrastructure that will support both the existing and future residents. The economic and housing growth purpose of this Allocations DPD is to allocate land is achieved for a range of uses to support the spatial vision and objectives of Cornwall and the communities they sit within. Sites included for development relate to housing growth, commercial growth and enabling infrastructure. In addition, this Allocations DPD identifies strategically important employment sites 1 that should be safeguarded in line with Policy 5 of the Cornwall LP:SP document. 1 When the terms ‘employment use’ or ‘employment site’ are used within this document it will relate to the use classes B1, B2 and B8, unless otherwise stated. 4 | Cornwall site allocation Development plan document | 5 Table 1: Town based strategies 1.7 Six of these towns identified within Table 1 do 1.9 As well as the named towns, there are many not have specific sections within this document: other Neighbourhood Development Plans that are Document that will set St Ives and Carbis Bay; Truro and Threemilestone; at various stages of development that will support out the strategic sites Town Based Strategy Wadebridge; Liskeard; Bude-Stratton; and the delivery of the Community Network Area Settlement / policies to deliver the (Correct as at February 2017) Torpoint. Five of these towns informed Cornwall targets within the rural parishes of Cornwall. Cornwall LP:SP housing Council that they which to produce their own and employment targets 1.10 The Allocations DPD will be one of a suite of Neighbourhood Development Plans that will planning documents that make up the Cornwall Neighbourhood Development Plan focusing include allocations and / or policies to address Penzance with Newlyn, Local Plan. When developing proposals for any of on the town centre and waterfront (A how the Cornwall LP:SP targets will be delivered. Heamoor, Gulval and Allocations DPD these communities, it is important to consider the Neighbourhood Plan is also being prepared by The remaining area, Bude-Stratton, will be the Long Rock range of policy documents, including the Cornwall Ludgvan Parish that will cover Long Rock) subject of a separate Site Allocations DPD. LP:SP, NPPF and any relevant Neighbourhood Neighbourhood St Ives and Carbis Bay Neighbourhood Development Plan 1.8 For each of the 10 towns discussed within Plans, to ensure you receive a full picture of the Development Plan this document, a Town Framework and / or requirements and aspirations for the area in Town Framework; plus a Neighbourhood Plan Neighbourhood Development Plan has been question. Hayle (focusing on environmental, heritage and Allocations DPD prepared, which articulates the strategy, or design related issues) elements of the strategy, for the town in more Town Framework detail. Town Frameworks are documents that have Camborne Pool Illogan (Neighbourhood Development Plans are also been prepared by Cornwall Council and form part Allocations DPD Redruth (CPIR) in preparation for Redruth, Illogan Parish, and of the evidence base for the Allocations DPD. Carn Brea Parish) Helston Town Framework Allocations DPD Town Framework; plus a Neighbourhood Development Plan for Falmouth which has Falmouth and Penryn Allocations DPD a focus on student accommodation; and a Penryn Neighbourhood Plan Truro with Neighbourhood Threemilestone and Neighbourhood Plan Development Plan Shortlanesend Newquay Town Framework; plus a Neighbourhood Plan Allocations DPD St Austell Town Framework Allocations DPD Eco-communities - Allocations DPD Bodmin Town Framework Allocations DPD Neighbourhood Wadebridge Neighbourhood Development Plan Development Plan Neighbourhood Liskeard Neighbourhood Development Plan Development Plan Launceston Town Framework Allocations DPD A Bude Allocations DPD Bude with Stratton, Neighbourhood Development Plan (i.e. separate to this Flexbury and Poughill document) Neighbourhood Torpoint Neighbourhood Development Plan Development Plan Saltash Neighbourhood Development Plan Allocations DPD 6 | Cornwall site allocation Development plan document | 7 1.11 Windfall Development - The intention For any proposals to be considered under this of the Site Allocations DPD is to identify the policy context they must either be: strategic sites in the main towns to enable the 1. Existing sites with planning permission: an delivery of the LP:SP housing and commercial 2. Preparation of the assessment should be made why an earlier apportionments; however it is also expected that grant of planning permission for a similar the ongoing delivery of the LP:SP housing target development on the same site did not start. requires delivery on unplanned (windfall) sites in the main towns including the towns named in 2. Small scale rounding off: appropriate proposals Allocations DPD the Site Allocations DPD. To reflect the criteria will provide a symmetry or completion to established within Policies 3 and 21 of the LP:SP a settlement boundary, and not facilitate 2.1 The preparation of the Allocations DPD brings 2.5 Public Engagement – A series of public the windfall development element of the housing continued incremental growth. Proposals will together a large base of evidence, together with a consultations were undertaken during the requirement for towns can be provided through not visually extend development into open significant level of engagement. development of the Allocations DPD: countryside. Proposals must be adjacent Existing sites with planning permission; In January 2012 there was consultation