Wooburn and Bourne End Parish Council Neighbourhood Development Plan Draft for submission to Buckinghamshire Planning Department for public consultation dated 2 September 2021 Aerial Photo of Wooburn looking North-East. Aerial Photo of Bourne End looking South-West. Page ii Wooburn and Bourne End Parish Council Neighbourhood Development Plan Contents Section Heading Page Executive Summary 1 Foreword 5 1. Introduction to the draft Neighbourhood Development Plan 7 1.1. Why an NDP is necessary and its purpose 7 1.2. The process so far 8 1.3. The next steps 8 1.4. Plan Period 9 1.5. Qualifying Body and Neighbourhood Area 9 1.6. Differences between the designated area of Wooburn and Bourne End NDP and the settlement strategy in the Wycombe Local Plan 12 1.7. Location of Wooburn and Bourne End Parish 12 1.8. Wooburn and Bourne End Parish Council Neighbourhood Development Plan (NDP) structure 13 2. Local context 13 2.1. History 13 2.2. The Parish Today 16 2.3. Parish Profile and Statistics 16 3. Vision and Objectives 17 3.1. Review of Community Led Plans and recommendations 17 3.2 Challenges & Issues facing Wooburn and Bourne End Parish 17 3.3. Vision for Wooburn and Bourne End Parish 18 4. Planning context for the Neighbourhood Area 18 4.1. Wycombe District Local Plan - Strategic Policy Context 19 4.2. Wycombe Local Plan Objectives 19 4.3. WDLP Principles & Policies for Wooburn and Bourne End 21 4.4. National Planning references 25 4.5 Historic considerations 25 5. Introduction to Neighbourhood Development Plan (NDP) policies 26 6. Housing, Character and Heritage 27 7. Residential infill and Quality Design 30 8. Policy for Access 33 9. Parking and Transport 33 9.1. Parking 33 9.2 Electric vehicle charge points for on street parking in new developments 37 Page iii Section Heading Page 9.3. Road Network – Road Safety and Traffic flow 37 10. Flooding & Drainage 38 10.1. Context 38 10.2. Government Guidelines on Flood Risk 38 10.3. WDLP Policy DM17 Planning for Flood Risk Management 39 10.4. Environment Agency explanation of Flood Zone Risks 39 10.5. Slate Meadow development 40 11. Environment & Biodiversity 41 11.1. Duties and Responsibilities 41 11.2. Habitats of principal importance in Wooburn and Bourne End Parish (The Neighbourhood Area) 44 11.3. Air Quality 44 11.4. Environmental and Biodiversity Policy 44 12. Community Amenities 45 12.1. Community Facilities mapped 47 12.2. Safeguarding Community Facilities 51 13. Green Belt, Settlement Boundary and Coalescence 52 13.1. Protecting the Green Belt and Green Infrastructure 52 13.2. Settlement Boundaries and Coalescence 54 14. Green infrastructure - designation of new Local Green Spaces 58 14.1. What is already protected in the WDLP 59 14.2. What is not protected in the WDLP that we would wish to protect 64 14.3. Overall provision of green space - review of Wycombe’s Open Spaces Framework Assessment 73 14.4. Protecting already designated Local Green Spaces 74 14.5. Other Green Infrastructure of importance within the Neighbourhood Area 75 15. Site and Area specific policies 75 15.1. Hollands Farm development 76 15.1.1. The draft Hollands Farm Development Brief (HFDB) 77 15.1.2. Implementation of the Hollands Farm Development Brief 77 15.1.3. Bus Service and Routes on New Link Road 79 15.1.4. Creation of new Open Space 80 15.1.5. Transport Assessment 80 15.1.6. Convenience Store 82 15.2. Hawks Hill/Harvest Hill area 83 15.3. Policies for Slate Meadow development 85 Page iv Section Heading Page 15.3.1. Implementation of Slate Meadow Development Brief 85 15.3.2. Slate Meadow site entrance 85 15.3.3. Pedestrian crossing on Brookbank next to Stratford Drive 86 15.3.4. Implement clearway on Brookbank section of A4094 87 16. The Community Infrastructure Levy and Potential Projects 88 16.1. What is the Community Infrastructure Levy? 88 16.2. Potential Projects 89 17. Supporting Evidence for NDP assertions 90 18. Monitoring and Delivery of the Neighbourhood Plan 92 19. Acknowledgements 96 20. Glossary of Terms 98 List of Appendices Appendix A Wooburn and Bourne End Parish Council Authorisation as a Qualifying Body. Appendix B NDP Working Party Terms of reference and budget. Appendix C Government Guidance on Neighbourhood Planning and Referendum. Appendix D WDLP Core and Development Management Policies Appendix E Delivery & Monitoring table Appendix F Listed Buildings Appendix 1 Comparison of Community Led Plans, Actions and Recommendations Appendix 2 Parish Statistics (incl. Conservation Area maps.) Appendix 3 Photos of Parish Parking issues Appendix 4 Green Spaces Audit Appendix 5 Green Spaces Assessment Appendix 6 West Waddy Report 1. Local Infrastructure Appendix 7 West Waddy Report 2. Local Green Space Appendix 8 West Waddy Report 3. Proposed policy relating to the Development Brief for Hollands Farm Appendix 9 West Waddy Report 4. Proposed Policy for Hawks Hill/Harvest Hill Appendix 10 Motion Report – Transport Feasibility Study Appendix 11 Survey (July-August 2021) Results Analysis Appendix 12 Supporting Evidence for NDP assertions Appendix 13 Extract of Policy C16 from the Wycombe Local Plan 2008 Page v List of Statements of Intent WBE/OBJ/1 Proactive Engagement of Buckinghamshire Council in Local Plan update 93 WBE/OBJ/2 Monitoring Planning Applications in Flood Zones 2 & 3 94 WBE/OBJ/3 Monitoring Air Quality 94 WBE/OBJ/4 Protect and enhance Green Spaces in the Neighbourhood Area 94 WBE/OBJ/5 Transport Assessment 95 WBE/OBJ/6 Slate Meadow Cycle Path 95 List of Figures Map 1.1. The Parish of Wooburn and Bourne End “The Neighbourhood Area” 10 Map 1.2. Wycombe District Council’s Map of the Parish of Wooburn & Bourne End “The Neighbourhood Area” 11 Map 1.3. Location Map 12 Photo St. Paul’s Church and several buildings around it in Wooburn Town 28 Map A1 7 Bourne End Facilities 48 Map A2. 8 Wooburn and 1 Bourne End Facilities 49 Map A3. Wooburn and Bourne End Pubs and Clubs and their locations 50 Map GB1: Buckinghamshire Boundaries Map defining the Green Belt within the Parish. 53 Map S1: Wooburn & Bourne End Parish - The original 10 Settlements 54 Map S2: Wooburn Green and Wooburn Town separation 56 Map S3: Wooburn Town and Cores End separation 56 Map S4: From the Hollands Farm Development Brief Showing remaining Settlement separation 57 DSA Map 17 Green Spaces in the northern areas of the Parish 62 DSA Map 18 Green Spaces in the southern areas of the Parish 63 Maps Green Spaces to be designated – Nos. 1 to 19 66-73 Map Policy WBE/HH1 – Hawks Hill/Harvest Hill 84 Map Policy WBE/SM3 - Access to/from Stratford Drive 87 Map Policy WBE/SM4 – Clearway A4094 88 Page vi List of Tables WDLP New Dwellings in the Parish 19 BCC Table 6 Residential car parking standards 35 Table 12.1. Community Facilities to be protected 46 Table 12.2. Pubs and Clubs in the Parish 50 Table 14.1. WDLP already Designated Green Spaces – D1 to D43 59 Table 14.2. Local Green Spaces designated in this NDP 64 Table 14.3. Protected Ancient Woodlands & Conservation Areas 74 List of Policies WBE/PD1 HERITAGE ASSETS 30 WBE/PD2 RESIDENTIAL INFILL AND QUALITY DESIGN 32 WBE/PD3 ACCESS AND LAYOUT OF NEW INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENTS 33 WBE/PD4 PARKING STANDARDS FOR ALL PLANNING APPLICATIONS FOR NEW DEVELOPMENTS AND EXISTING PROPERTIES 36 WBE/E1 ENVIRONMENTAL AND BIODIVERSITY POLICY FOR WOOBURN AND BOURNE END PARISH 45 WBE/A1 SAFEGUARDING COMMUNITY FACILITIES AND PUBLIC HOUSES 46 WBE/A2 MAINTAIN SEPARATION BETWEEN SETTLEMENTS IN WOOBURN & BOURNE END PARISH 55 WBE/A3 LOCAL GREEN SPACES DESIGNATED IN THE PARISH OF WOOBURN AND BOURNE END (THE “NEIGHBOURHOOD AREA”) 64 WBE/A4 WDLP DESIGNATED LOCAL GREEN SPACES 74 WBE/HF1 DEVELOPMENT BRIEF FOR HOLLANDS FARM 78 WBE/HF2 NEW LINK ROAD WIDTH AND BUS SERVICE 79 WBE/HF3 DELIVERY OF FORMER ORCHARD 80 WBE/HF4 TRANSPORT ASSESSMENT BY BUCKINGHAMSHIRE COUNCIL’S HIGHWAYS DEPARTMENT TO IDENTIFY OPTIONS TO IMPROVE THE ROAD NETWORK SURROUNDING HOLLANDS FARM 81 WBE/HF5 CONVENIENCE STORE FOR HOLLANDS FARM 82 WBE/HH1 PRESERVING THE CHARACTER OF HAWKS HILL AND HARVEST HILL AREA 84 WBE/SM1 IMPLEMENTATION OF SLATE MEADOW DEVELOPMENT BRIEF 85 WBE/SM2 SLATE MEADOW SITE ENTRANCE 86 Page vii WBE/SM3 UPGRADE THE ACCESS TO AND FROM STRATFORD DRIVE AND BROOKBANK TO SIGNAL CONTROLLED TRAFFIC LIGHTS 86 WBE/SM4 IMPLEMENT A CLEARWAY (DOUBLE RED LINES) ON A4094 BETWEEN CORES END ROUNDABOUT AND WOOBURN TOWN 87 Note: Accessibility This document has been produced using Microsoft Word 365 with imported figures and charts from Buckinghamshire Council websites, Excel 365 and Pagemaker. Large 14pt Calibri font has been used in most of the document and maps and figures have Alternative Text where appropriate to facilitate reading by those with disabilities. “Read out loud” tests have been successful, including where images or objects are advised by Word’s Accessibility Checker to be “not inline”. Page 1 Executive Summary This Neighbourhood Development Plan (NDP) has been written in the context that the Wycombe District Local Plan (WDLP) has been adopted (August 2019) and that the NDP cannot change the strategic policies which it contains. The WDLP set Policies covering a reserve site: Slate Meadow, and a strategic site: Hollands Farm. Despite legal challenges from Keep Bourne End Green (KBEG), Hollands Farm was removed from the greenbelt and, at the date of the release of this draft NDP, a Development Brief has been produced by Buckinghamshire Council, which they are reviewing before it is formally considered and adopted.