Appendix D Preferred Options Consultation Executive Agenda (item 6) Agenda report Agenda minutes News article 13.01.2017 following executive Press Release Notification letter Notification email Notification Letter (Parish Councils) Posters for Parish Councils to display on Notice Boards Consultation email for parishes adjoining Allerdale, & Allerdale NP parishes Letter for Libraries and Customer Service Centres Statement of Representations Procedure (online & with held with consultation material at all deposit locations) Press Advert 27.01.18 - cutting from newspaper Press extract publicising consultation 27.01.17 - online version, but also in print version Document checklist for libraries Posters for libraries/Customer Service Centres Flyers for Libraries/Customer Service Centres Deposit locations for documents and submission forms Public drop-in sessions List of those notified by email and letter (including those who requested hard copies/cds) Preferred Options comments form Preferred Options comments form for single site or issue PO HRA & Sustainability Appraisal Comments Form and Notes Form for submitting additional sites Frequently asked questions Tweets advertising consultation and drop in sessions (two examples, but see below) Aspatria Rural Partnership Meeting Agenda Item 8 (12/01/17) Email notifying Parish Councils & Councillors of locality sessions letter notifying Parish Councils & Councillors of locality sessions List of which parishes & Cllrs in localities & invited to localities sessions List of Parish Locality meetings Webpages extract (screenshots from old website) Display in shop unit in central workington throughout consultation period (Photos) (Say where - Unit S26 Ivison Lane Washington Square Centre, Workington CA14 3DY) The detail of the posters displayed in the shop unit List of presentation dates relating to Local Plan Preferred Options Email notifying Members of Local Plan PO at Informal Executive meeting Email notifying Councillors of briefing and workshop relating to PO Email notifying Councillors of additional workshop session Local Plan Part 2 Powerpoint Presentation Local Plan Part 2 Powerpoint Presentation Consultation Statement to Tuesday 3 January 2017 Executive Will meet on Wednesday 11 January 2017 at 9.00 am in Council Chamber, Allerdale House Membership: Councillor Alan Smith (Chairman) Councillor Barbara Cannon Councillor Mark Fryer Councillor Konrad Hansen Councillor Michael Heaslip Councillor William Jefferson Councillor Carni McCarron-Holmes Councillor Philip Tibble Members of the public are welcome to attend the meeting. If you have any questions or queries contact Dean Devine on 01900 702502. Agenda 1. Minutes (Pages 1 - 6) To sign as a correct record the minutes of the meeting held on 14 December 2016. 2. Apologies for absence 3. Declaration of Interest Councillors/Staff to give notice of any disclosable pecuniary interest, other registrable interest or any other interest and the nature of that interest relating to any item on the agenda in accordance with the adopted Code of Conduct. 4. Questions To answer questions from members of the public – submitted in writing or by electronic mail no later than 5.00pm, 2 working days before the meeting. 5. Members Announcements 6. Local Plan (part 2) Preferred Options Consultation (Pages 7 - 472) Approval to publish the consultation documents for the preferred options for site allocations which will form the Local Plan (part 2). 7. Residents Survey Results 2016 (Pages 473 - 558) To provide Members with the results of the 2016 survey of residents. 8. Youth Unemployment Review report of Scrutiny (Pages 559 - 596) To allow Executive Members to consider the report and recommendations from the Community Overview and Scrutiny Sub-Committee on Youth Unemployment. Corporate Director Date of Next Meeting Wednesday 15 February 2017 at 9.00 am Council Chamber, Allerdale House Allerdale Borough Council Executive – 11 January 2017 Local Plan (part 2) Preferred Options Consultation The Reason for the Decision To seek Member approval to commence consultation on the Local Plan (part 2) preferred options. Summary of options considered A detailed options assessment has been carried out across all sites and policies before arriving at the preferred options. Details of the options considered are set out in the attached documents. Recommendations That the documents appended to this report are approved for consultation. Financial / Resource Implications none Legal / Governance Implications This consultation is one of several stages required by legislation and regulation. Community Safety Implications N/A Health and Safety and Risk N/A Management Implications Equality Duty considered / Impact Yes Assessment completed Wards Affected All outside the National Park The contribution this decision would Tackling Inequality- by delivering affordable make to the Council’s priorities housing Strengthening our local economy- ensuring an adequate land supply for housing and businesses, supporting tourism development and identifying areas suitable for renewable energy development. The local plan is supported by an infrastructure delivery plan. Enhancing our towns- ensuring sufficient land is available for retail and town centre uses while safeguarding the town centres. Improving health and wellbeing- protection of green spaces and networks Is this a Key Decision no Portfolio Holder Councillor Mark Fryer Lead Officer Kevin Kerrigan Head of Development Services [email protected] 01900 702799 Report Implications (Please delete where applicable). Community Safety N Employment (external to the Council) Y Financial N Employment (internal) Y/N Legal N Partnership Y Social Inclusion N Asset Management N Equality Duty N Health and Safety N Background papers: Preferred Options Document, Discarded Sites Document and the Settlement Boundary Review Document. 1.0 Introduction 1.1 The Allerdale Local Plan is the statutory development plan for the area of the Borough outside the National Park. Its principal role is to support the delivery of the Council Plan objectives and the housing and business growth strategies, while providing the policy framework to guide the determination of planning applications. 1.2 The Local Plan is in two parts. The Local Plan (part 1), which was adopted in July 2014 following an Examination in Public, sets out a housing target of at least 5471 dwellings and 54 hectares of employment land to be delivered by 2029. Part 1 of the Plan also sets out a spatial strategy which outlines in broad terms how the level of growth will be distributed across the plan area. The second part of the local plan is mainly focussed on identifying individual sites to deliver the strategy and level of growth set out in the Local Plan (part1) 1.3 The Local Plan (part 2) has reached the preferred options consultation stage. This report provides an overview of the main proposals in the consultation documents contained in the appendix of this report. Members approval is sought to publish the preferred options documents for a eight week consultation period. 2.0 Background 2.1 The work on the Local Plan (part 2) started with a call for sites. This exercise was open to all and established a long list of sites which has formed the basis for the site allocation assessment. The range of sites submitted included land for housing, employment,retail, open space and wildlife areas. The results of the call for sites were published for comment as part of an Issues and Options consultation. At this stage no assessment had been undertaken. The sites were published as submitted by the landowner or developer with their preferred choice of use. 2.2 The submitted sites have been through an individual assessment which included a site visit, constraint and infrastructure check, policy compliance check, viability assessment, initial habitat regulation assessment and sustainabilty appraisal. This has resulted in the sites being split into two categories; preferred sites and discarded sites. The preferred sites are those that are considered suitable for allocation in the local plan. Both the discarded sites and preferred option site documents are appended to this report. 3.0 Housing 3.1 Affordable Housing Policy Policy S 8 of the Local Plan (part 1) currently sets out the Council’s requirements for on site provision of affordable housing as part of a housing development. Given the recent changes in national planning guidance and Court of Appeal decision it is considered that a review of the current policy is required. The changes at national level relate to the size of development that will be expected to provide an element of affordable housing. The national policy is for developments of 10 or less dwellings not to be required to include affordable housing. At present the Local Plan policy has a site threshold of 10 dwellings in the main towns and 5 dwellings every where else. It is proposed to amend the current local plan policy to be in line with national policy and therefore a single threshold of 11 dwellings across the plan area is suggested as the preferred option. In addition to reflect the recent evidence for the housing study (2016) it is proposed to adjust the tenure split to 60% social rent 40% intermediate units, as opposed to the current position of 75% social rent and 25% intermediate units. Intermediate units can include discounted sale properties, shared ownership, starter homes. Custom and Self Build Housing As part of the preferred options it is proposed to include a policy specifically