GOVERNMENT OFFICE FOR THE EAST MIDLANDS Regional Spatial Strategy For The East Midlands (RSS8) March 2005 GOVERNMENT OFFICE FOR THE EAST MIDLANDS Regional Spatial Strategy For The East Midlands (RSS8) March 2005 London: TSO Published by TSO (The Stationery Office) and available from: Online www.tso.co.uk/bookshop Mail, Telephone, Fax & E-mail TSO PO Box 29, Norwich NR3 1GN Telephone orders/General enquiries: 0870 600 5522 Fax orders: 0870 600 5533 Email: [email protected] Textphone 0870 240 3701 TSO Shops 123 Kingsway, London WC2B 6PQ 020 7242 6393 Fax 020 7242 6394 68-69 Bull Street, Birmingham B4 6AD 0121 236 9696 Fax 0121 236 9699 9-21 Princess Street, Manchester M60 8AS 0161 834 7201 Fax 0161 833 0634 16 Arthur Street, Belfast BT1 4GD 028 9023 8451 Fax 028 9023 5401 18-19 High Street, Cardiff CF10 1PT 029 2039 5548 Fax 029 2038 4347 71 Lothian Road, Edinburgh EH3 9AZ 0870 606 5566 Fax 0870 606 5588 TSO Accredited Agents (See Yellow Pages) and through good booksellers © Crown copyright 2005 Copyright in the typographical arrangements rests with the Crown. This publication, excluding logos, may be reproduced free of charge in any format or medium for research, private study or for internal circulation within an organisation. This is subject to it being reproduced accurately and not used in a misleading context. The material must be acknowledged as Crown copyright and the title of the publication specified. For any other use of this material, please write to HMSO Licensing, St Clements House, 2-16 Colegate, Norwich NR3 1BQ Fax: 01603 723000 or e-mail: [email protected] Further copies of this document are available on the website of the Government Office for the East Midlands (www.go-em.gov.uk) ISBN 0 11 753941 4 Printed in Great Britain on material containing 75% post-consumer waste and 25% ECF pulp N177455 C19 19585 03/05 301825 REGIONAL SPATIAL STRATEGY FOR THE EAST MIDLANDS (RSS8) 5 Foreword Following the enactment of the Planning & Compulsory have also been made for clarification or updating of fact. Purchase Act 2004 Regional Planning Guidance (RPG) Next Review became part of the statutory development plan and has been re-named as a Regional Spatial Strategy (RSS). RPG8 This revision has not reviewed all parts of the previous therefore becomes RSS8 and this replaces the RPG8 RPG8 and the key parts not revised include: published in January 2002. Following the provisions of the • Housing provision figures new Act all statutory planning documents must now be in • general conformity with its policies. The percentage of housing to be built on previously- developed land This revised RSS8 has taken into account the independent • The Sequential Approach to encourage sustainable Panel’s recommendations following the Public Examination development held in Nottingham in November—December 2003 and also • incorporates changes made by the First Secretary of State Affordable housing following public consultation on proposed changes on the These matters will be re-examined in the next major review revised RPG8. Further changes, relating to which will be conducted under the Regional Spatial Northamptonshire, have also been made following the Strategy principles established by the Planning & Public Examination (March—April 2004) and subsequent Compulsory Purchase Act 2004. This review, covering the public consultation on proposed changes related to the period up to 2026, will be launched in spring/summer 2005 Milton Keynes and South Midlands Sub-Regional Strategy. and following the process laid out in Planning Policy In some cases changes have responded to representations Statement 11 Regional Spatial Strategies (PPS11) is expected where these do not involve changes in policy. Changes to be published in its final form early in 2008. Yorkshire and the Humber North West Huddersfield Oldham Barnsley Key Diagram Doncaster Manchester Rotherham Key: Stockport Sheffield Principal Urban Areas (Policies 5, 21, 32, 51) Growth Towns Worksop (Policies 5, 13, 21, 32, 51 and section 6) PeakPeak Sub-AreaSub-Area ChesterfieldChesterfield Sub-Regional Centres (Policies 7, 21, 32, 51) NorthernNorthern Sub-AreaSub-Area Sub-Area Boundaries MMansfieldansfield (Policies 7–16) Green Belt (Policies 14, 16) Peak District National Park Stoke (Policies 10, 11, 12, 30) NNOTTINGHAMOTTINGHAM Lincolnshire Wolds AONB DERBY (Policies 7, 30) Strategic River Corridors TThreehree CCitiesities (Policy 34) SSub-Areaub-Area Lincolnshire Coast Loughborough Mel (Policy 35) Coalville Northern Sub-Area Regeneration Priority (Policies 9, 21) LLEICESTEREICESTER Lincoln Policy Area (Policy 7) Hinckley Other Regeneration Priorities (Policies 7, 13, 21) Nuneaton Market Proposed Sub-Regional Spatial Strategies Harborough (Policies 7, 9, 16 and section 6) Ketteri Coventry Airports Birmingham Rugby (Policies 15, 16, 55) Southern SSub-Area National Forest Wellingbor (Policy 29) Daventry NORTHAMPTON Regional Highway Priorities West Midlands (Policy 52) Regional Rail Priorities (Policy 49) Multi-Modal Studies Ports Banbury Areas Outside the East Midlands South East Hull REGIONAL SPATIAL STRATEGY FOR THE EAST MIDLANDS (RSS8) 7 N Contents Immingham Scunthorpe Executive Summary 8 Grimsby 1. Background 9 2. Core Strategy 13 3. Spatial Strategy 15 Gainsborough 3.1 A Sequential Approach to Development Form 15 Mablethorpe 3.2 Promoting Better Design 15 3.3 Regional Priorities for Urban Communities 16 3.4 Regional Priorities for Rural Communities 17 3.5 Sub-area Priorities 18 LINCOLN Eastern 19 Skegness Northern 20 Peak 22 Newark-on-Trent Southern 23 Eastern Sub-Area Three Cities 24 Boston 4. Topic Based Priorities 27 4.1 Regional Priorities for Housing 27 Grantham 4.2 Regional Priorities for the Economy and for Regeneration 29 4.3 Regional Priorities for Natural and Cultural Sutton Bridge Resources 34 ton Mowbray 4.4 Regional Transport Strategy (RTS) 47 5. Regional Priorities for Monitoring and Review 55 6. Milton Keynes and South Midlands Sub-Regional Strategy 56 Part A (Sub-Regional Statement) 58 Peterborough Part B (Statement for Northamptonshire) 70 Appendices 78 Corby 1. List of PPGs, PPSs and MPGs 78 2. RSS National Core Indicators 79 3. Implementation of Policies, ng Measures and Targets 82 Southern SSub-Areaub-Area East of England 4. Regional Housing Provision 91 rough 5. Regional Biodiversity Habitat Management and Recreation Targets 93 6. Regional Renewable Energy Targets 96 7. Regional Car Parking Standards 97 Bedford 8. Regional and Sub-area Transport Investment Priorities 100 Milton Keynes Luton 03010 20 Kilometres 0 10 20 Miles 8 REGIONAL SPATIAL STRATEGY FOR THE EAST MIDLANDS (RSS8) Executive Summary This Regional Spatial Strategy (RSS) provides a broad Milton Keynes and South Midlands Sub-Regional development strategy for the East Midlands up to 2021. It Spatial Strategy (MKSM), which proposes new also represents the spatial element of the East Midlands growth and sustainable patterns of development in Integrated Regional Strategy (IRS). several locations in Northamptonshire as well as in areas outside the region, around Milton Keynes and It is divided into three main sections: in Bedfordshire. This has been subject to a separate • Core Strategy consultation exercise and a Public Examination, • Spatial Strategy which took place 23 March—29 April 2004. • Topic Based Priorities 3. Topic Based Priorities 1. Core Strategy This is split into 5 main topic areas: The Core Strategy sets the Regional Planning Housing: Apart from Northamptonshire, which has Guidance firmly within the framework of the been reviewed as part of the MKSM Spatial Strategy, region’s Integrated Regional Strategy and outlines housing provision remains unchanged from RPG8 in Policy 1 the 10 Regional Core Objectives. These issued in 2002. Targets for affordable housing and establish the context for development plans and development on brownfield land remain unchanged. local development frameworks. Economy and Regeneration: Based on the revised 2. Spatial Strategy Regional Economic Strategy produced by the East The Spatial Strategy is based on the Sequential Midlands Development Agency (emda), this also Approach to Development Form which remains includes new policies on employment land and town unchanged from RPG8 issued in January 2002. This centres which have been informed by regional provides the framework for meeting the region’s studies jointly funded with Government. development needs in a way that promotes a more Natural and Cultural Resources: Based on the sustainable pattern of development. Regional Environment Strategy produced by the The Spatial Strategy also outlines regional priorities Regional Assembly, this includes new targets for for both urban and rural communities. It defines the biodiversity, waste reduction and management, new designations of Principal Urban Area (PUA) and renewable energy and energy efficiency. A new Sub-Regional Centre (SRC), and outlines priorities approach to managing flood risk has also been for their development. The Strategy also contains developed. more detailed policies in respect of the region’s 5 Regional Transport Strategy (RTS): Contains Sub-areas. These are: policies and proposals to help deliver the Spatial • Eastern Sub-area Strategy, and contribute to other RSS priorities. The • Northern Sub-area RTS aims to reduce the need to travel and the rate • Peak Sub-area of traffic growth, promote a step change in the quantity and quality of public transport, and only • Southern Sub-area promotes additional highway capacity when all other • Three Cities Sub-area