1 2 Contents 1.0 FOREWORD ...................................................................................................................................... 5 2.0 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................ 6 2.1 Background ..................................................................................................................................... 6 2.2 Joint Local Plan Process ................................................................................................................. 9 2.3 How to Comment .......................................................................................................................... 12 2.4 Next Steps .................................................................................................................................... 13 2.5 Spatial Portrait and Key Challenges .............................................................................................. 13 3.0 VISION, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ................................................................................................... 38 3.1 Key Diagram ................................................................................................................................. 40 4.0 OVERARCHING STRATEGY AND POLICIES ................................................................................. 41 4.1 Policy S1 - Delivering Sustainable Development ........................................................................... 44 4.2 Policy S2 - Sustainable Healthy Communities ............................................................................... 46 5.0 ECONOMY ....................................................................................................................................... 52 5.1 Policy SE1 - Quantity Employment Development .......................................................................... 52 5.2 Policy SE2 - Distribution of Employment Development ................................................................. 54 5.3 Policy E3 - Employment Uses and the Rural Economy ................................................................. 58 5.4 Policy E4 - Existing Employment Sites .......................................................................................... 60 5.5 Policy E5 - Communications ......................................................................................................... 61 5.6 Policy E6 - Tourism and Culture .................................................................................................... 62 5.7 Policy E7 - Development in and around Stoke-on-Trent Railway Station ....................................... 64 5.8 Policy E8 - Keele University Growth Corridor ................................................................................ 67 6.0 HOUSING ......................................................................................................................................... 72 6.1 Policy SHO1 - Housing Numbers .................................................................................................. 72 6.2 Policy SHO2 - Distribution of Housing ........................................................................................... 74 6.3 Policy SHO3 - Rural Settlement Hierarchy .................................................................................... 77 6.4 Policy HO4 - Affordable Housing ................................................................................................... 79 6.5 Policy HO5 - Mix of Housing ......................................................................................................... 82 6.6 Policy HO6 - Windfall Development .............................................................................................. 87 6.7 Policy HO7 - Gypsy and Traveller Accommodation ....................................................................... 89 6.8 Policy HO8 - Rural Worker Dwellings ............................................................................................ 92 7.0 TRANSPORT ................................................................................................................................... 96 7.1 Policy ST1 - Sustainable Transport and Travel ............................................................................. 97 7.2 Policy T2 - Highway Network ...................................................................................................... 103 7.3 Policy T3 - Parking ...................................................................................................................... 105 7.4 Policy T4 - Keele Community Smart Transport Demonstrator Initiative (CSTD) .......................... 108 8.0 CENTRES ...................................................................................................................................... 114 3 8.1 Policy SC1 - Hierarchy of Centres ............................................................................................... 114 8.2 Policy SC2 - Stoke-on-Trent City Centre (Hanley) ....................................................................... 117 8.3 Policy SC3 - Newcastle-under-Lyme Town Centre ...................................................................... 120 8.4 Policy C4 - Retail and Leisure Development ............................................................................... 123 8.5 Policy C5 - Supporting Local Centres and Villages ..................................................................... 126 8.6 Policy C6 - Leisure and Night Time Economy ............................................................................. 128 8.7 Policy C7 - Hot Food Takeaways ................................................................................................ 129 9.0 DESIGN AND HERITAGE .............................................................................................................. 134 9.1 Policy DH1 - Design .................................................................................................................... 134 9.2 Policy DH2 - Landscape Design .................................................................................................. 136 9.3 Policy DH3 - Historic Environment .............................................................................................. 139 9.4 Policy DH4 - Archaeology ........................................................................................................... 142 10.0 NATURAL AND RURAL ENVIRONMENT .................................................................................... 147 10.1 Policy SNR1 - Green and Blue Infrastructure ............................................................................ 147 10.2 Policy NR2 - Open Space, Outdoor Sport and Recreation Provision ......................................... 152 10.3 Policy NR3 - Biodiversity and Geodiversity................................................................................ 159 10.4 Policy NR4 - Trees and Woodland ............................................................................................ 162 10.5 Policy NR5 - Green Belt ............................................................................................................ 164 11.0 CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES ....................................................... 168 11.1 Policy ER1 - Renewable and Low Carbon Energy..................................................................... 168 11.2 Policy ER2 - Wind Development ............................................................................................... 172 11.3 Policy ER3 - Flood Risk and Water Management ...................................................................... 175 11.4 Policy ER4 - Minerals within Stoke-on-Trent ............................................................................. 178 12.0 INFRASTRUCTURE ..................................................................................................................... 182 12.1 Policy SI1 - Infrastructure Provision .......................................................................................... 182 13.0 APPENDICES .............................................................................................................................. 187 13.1 Policies Map.............................................................................................................................. 187 13.2 Monitoring ................................................................................................................................. 187 13.3 Parking Standards..................................................................................................................... 193 13.4 List of designated sites .............................................................................................................. 196 13.4.1 Conservation Areas ................................................................................................................ 196 13.4.2 Local Centres ......................................................................................................................... 197 13.4.3 Biodiversity/Geodiversity ........................................................................................................ 199 13.5 Renewable and Low Carbon Energy ......................................................................................... 201 13.5.1 District Heat Network ............................................................................................................