Havant Borough Core Strategy March 2011 ii Havant Borough Core Strategy March 2011 Havant Borough Core Strategy Foreword The Havant Borough Core Strategy is a very important document. It sets the planning framework for our communities until 2026. In preparing this strategy the council has sought to address local needs, especially for housing and economic development, with an emphasis on high quality design and stewardship of the borough’s high quality natural and built environment. The Core Strategy has been prepared working closely with partner organisations, including the Havant Local Strategic Partnership, the Partnership for Urban South Hampshire (PUSH), local communities and agencies. There have been three major public consultations – Issues and Options consultation in 2006, the Preferred Options consultation in 2008 and consultation on the Draft Core Strategy in 2009. The Submitted Core Strategy was then subject to a Public Examination in September 2010. The council would like to thank all those who have responded to these consultations, giving their ideas and opinions which have helped the council in shaping the Core Strategy. Planning often presents a difficult balance between national and regional policy and local need and aspirations. We trust that local residents, employees and employers will find that we are fulfilling our task of setting out a vision for the future of our borough with policies that reflect their own aspirations whilst delivering on national and regional requirements. Councillor David Guest Havant Borough Council Deputy Leader and Planning and Development Portfolio Holder Adopted by Havant Borough Council 1 March 2011 iii Havant Borough Core Strategy March 2011 iv Havant Borough Core Strategy March 2011 Havant Borough Core Strategy Contents Foreword Chapter Page 1. Introduction and Vision 1 2. Health and Wellbeing 23 3. Promoting Havant Borough’s Economy 32 4. Regeneration and Community Support 48 5. Community Safety 54 6. Housing 56 7. Caring for our Borough 65 8. Spatial Distribution and Strategic Sites 86 9. Infrastructure, Implementation and Monitoring 106 10. Development Management Policies 122 Appendices 1. Evidence Based Studies 149 2. Housing Trajectory (2009) 151 3. Havant Borough Nature Designations – Policy CS11 153 4. Havant Borough Flood Risk Projections for 2115 – Policy CS15 154 5. Non Residential Parking Standards – Policy DM4 155 6. List of Saved Local Plan Policies that are Superseded by the Core Strategy 168 Glossary 171 This document is available in many other formats such as Braille, large print and on CD or tape. Other languages are also available. To request any of these formats please contact 023 9244 6609. v Havant Borough Core Strategy March 2011 Index of Strategic Core Strategy Policies Page CS1 Health and Wellbeing 24 CS2 Employment 33 CS3 Skills and Employability 39 CS4 Town, District and Local Centres 41 CS5 Tourism 45 CS6 Regeneration of the Borough 49 CS7 Community Support and Inclusion 52 CS8 Community Safety 54 CS9 Housing 57 CS10 Gypsies, Travellers and Travelling Showpeople 64 CS11 Protecting and Enhancing the Special Environment and Heritage of Havant Borough 66 CS12 Chichester Harbour Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) 69 CS13 Green Infrastructure 72 CS14 Efficient Use of Resources 74 CS15 Flood and Erosion Risk 77 CS16 High Quality Design 80 CS17 Concentration and Distribution of Development within the Urban Areas 86 CS18 Strategic Site Delivery 87 CS19 Effective Provision of Infrastructure 108 CS20 Transport and Access Strategy 109 CS21 Developer Requirements 113 Signposting The Local Development Framework relies on the principle that national, regional and other strategies and plans are not repeated. To help readers find their way to the relevant national, regional and other local documents hyperlinks have been provided throughout the document. The links are grouped together around the ‘signpost’ symbol. These links were correct at the date of publication, but may be subject to change by individual organisations. Strategic Sites Information regarding the strategic sites, Policy CS18, can be found on the following pages: Page 1. Havant Public Service Village 89 2. Havant Thicket Reservoir 92 3. Dunsbury Hill Farm 95 4. Major Development Area and Waterlooville Town Centre Integration 99 5. Woodcroft Farm 104 vi Havant Borough Core Strategy March 2011 Index of Development Management Policies Page Health and Wellbeing - Community Facilities, Recreation and Open Space DM1 Recreation and Open Space 122 DM2 Protection of Existing Community Facilities and Shops 123 Promoting Havant Borough’s Economy DM3 Protection of Existing Employment and Tourism Sites 125 DM4 Static Holiday Caravan Development 127 DM5 Control of Class A3, A4 and A5 Food, Drink and Entertainment Uses 128 DM6 Coordination of Development 129 Housing DM7 Elderly and Specialist Housing Provision 130 Caring for Our Borough DM8 Conservation, Protection and Enhancement of Existing Natural Features 134 DM9 Development in the Coastal Zone 135 DM10 Pollution 137 Infrastructure - Transport DM11 Planning for More Sustainable Travel 145 DM12 Mitigating the Impacts of Travel 145 DM13 Car and Cycle Parking on Residential Development 146 DM14 Car and Cycle Parking on Development (excluding residential) 146 DM15 Safeguarding Transport Infrastructure 146 DM16 Freight Transport 146 Please contact the Planning Policy Team about the Core Strategy and other LDF queries at: Havant Borough Council Civic Offices Havant Hampshire PO9 2AX Email: [email protected] Telephone: 023 92446539 vii Havant Borough Core Strategy March 2011 viii Havant Borough Core Strategy March 2011 1. Introduction and Vision What is the Core Strategy? 1.01 Havant Borough Council is working with the local community and its partners to produce the Havant Borough Local Development Framework (HBLDF). The HBLDF will guide the future development of the borough up to 2026. This will affect everyone who lives, works or visits the borough. 1.02 The Havant Borough Core Strategy is one of the documents within the HBLDF. The HBLDF is made up of a collection of planning documents and the Core Strategy is the principal document setting out the broad detail and direction of development in the borough. 1.03 The Core Strategy will be followed by a Development Delivery (Allocations) Plan that will detail where development will occur. In addition, a number of supplementary planning documents will provide more information on how policy is to be applied in particular circumstances or on particular issues/sites. However, the Core Strategy itself, taken as a whole, is the over-arching document which sets the overall policy framework for all other local development documents. All other local development documents must be consistent with the Core Strategy. What the Core Strategy Seeks to Achieve 1.04 The Core Strategy describes the council’s long term vision and objectives for what the borough will be like as a place in 2026. It closely aligns with the Sustainable Community Strategy, Forward Together, produced by the Havant Local Strategic Partnership. 1.05 The Core Strategy sets out how the council believes the borough should develop. The Core Strategy identifies the strategic sites that are considered fundamental to achieving the overall vision and further details on these sites are provided in the document. The Core Strategy also identifies the required physical and social infrastructure (including green infrastructure) necessary to support new development and meet future needs. 1.06 The document contains strategic policies and some detailed development management policies against which individual planning applications will be assessed. When considering planning applications the council will consider all the policies contained in the Core Strategy that are relevant to the proposal. It is therefore essential that the Core Strategy is always read as a whole. 1.07 Where possible the Core Strategy has been designed to address risks and allow for flexibility in order to ensure the vision and objectives are met. Regular monitoring will be undertaken as part of the council’s Annual Monitoring Report and if appropriate, a review or partial review of the document will be undertaken to ensure it is responsive to any changes in circumstances. The Statutory Requirement of the Core Strategy 1.08 Government guidance identifies a number of principles that must be adhered to so that core strategies and other development plan documents can be considered legally compliant and sound. 1.09 Legal Compliance – the document must have been prepared in accordance with the Local Development Scheme; have regard to the Sustainable Community Strategy, Forward Together; be compliant with the Statement of Community Involvement; be subject to a sustainability appraisal; have regard to national policy and associated regulations relating to publication, advertisement and consultation. 1.10 Soundness – a Core Strategy must be justified, effective and have regard to national policy. 1 Havant Borough Core Strategy March 2011 1.11 To be ‘justified’ it must be founded on a robust and credible evidence base that has included participation of the local community and others that have a stake in the area and evidence that research is robust so that any choices in the plan are backed up by facts. It must also be evident that it is the most appropriate strategy when considered against reasonable alternatives. A continuous Sustainability Appraisal of the Core Strategy has been undertaken