2017 Fosse Villages Neighbourhood Plan: Issues and Options View from Croft Hill 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 What happens next? ........................................................................................................................ 2 Croft .............................................................................................................................................. 2 Huncote ........................................................................................................................................ 2 Potters Marston ........................................................................................................................... 2 Sapcote ........................................................................................................................................ 2 Sharnford ..................................................................................................................................... 3 Stoney Stanton ............................................................................................................................. 3 Thurlaston .................................................................................................................................... 3 Wigston Parva .............................................................................................................................. 3 Sustainable Development ............................................................................................................... 4 Key Issues ........................................................................................................................................ 6 Village Identity .............................................................................................................................. 6 How much development and where?.......................................................................................... 6 Services and Facilities ................................................................................................................. 6 Housing Needs ............................................................................................................................. 6 Jobs............................................................................................................................................... 6 Transport ...................................................................................................................................... 6 Gypsies and Travellers ................................................................................................................. 6 Renewable Energy ....................................................................................................................... 6 Vision ................................................................................................................................................ 6 Implementation ................................................................................................................................ 7 Village Identity ...................................................................................................................................... 8 Landscape ........................................................................................................................................ 8 Floodplain ..................................................................................................................................... 8 Gently Rolling Farmland............................................................................................................... 8 Agricultural Parkland.................................................................................................................... 8 Hills ............................................................................................................................................... 8 Wooded Farmland ........................................................................................................................ 8 Area of Local Landscape Value ................................................................................................... 8 Woodland ..................................................................................................................................... 8 Protecting the Countryside between Villages ................................................................................. 8 Areas of Separation ..................................................................................................................... 8 Countryside .................................................................................................................................. 9 Local Green Space ........................................................................................................................... 9 Historic Environment ....................................................................................................................... 9 Locally Listed Buildings ............................................................................................................. 10 Local Heritage Areas .................................................................................................................. 10 Geodiversity, Ecology and Biodiversity .......................................................................................... 10 Burbage Wood and Aston Firs ................................................................................................... 10 Croft Hill ...................................................................................................................................... 10 Croft Pasture .............................................................................................................................. 10 Croft and Huncote Quarries ....................................................................................................... 10 Green Infrastructure ...................................................................................................................... 11 Design............................................................................................................................................. 11 How much development and where? ............................................................................................... 12 Housing Supply .............................................................................................................................. 12 Identifying potential housing sites ................................................................................................ 13 Employment ................................................................................................................................... 13 Services and Facilities ....................................................................................................................... 14 GP Surgeries .................................................................................................................................. 14 Housing Needs ................................................................................................................................... 15 Provision for older households ...................................................................................................... 15 Provision for single and couple households (one bedroom units) ............................................... 15 Affordable Housing ........................................................................................................................ 15 Social Rented Affordable Housing............................................................................................. 15 Intermediate Affordable Housing .............................................................................................. 15 Affordable Rent Housing ............................................................................................................ 16 Affordable Housing in the Fosse Villages .................................................................................. 16 Rural Exception Sites ................................................................................................................. 16 Jobs .................................................................................................................................................... 18 Employment and Occupations ...................................................................................................... 18 Economic Growth ..........................................................................................................................