Revised Deposit Plan - Wychavon District Council

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een excluded where the potential for development will have an adverse impact on its surroundings. Farm buildings on the edges of villages have also been excluded in order to facilitate the accommodation of local employment facilities. POLICY GD2 GENERAL DEVELOPMENT CONTROL Proposals for development which are in accordance with Policy GD1 will be permitted where the scheme, including the design, ancillary areas, and access, mitigating measures, type of use and level of activity either individually or cumulatively would not have unacceptable effects in terms of: a) the appearance or character of the building, the locality and/or the wider landscape and townscape; b) public and private amenity, health and safety; c) the operation of surrounding land uses; d) the impact on nature conservation and cultural heritage resources, public rights of way and environmental resources; e) the ability of the means of access and transportation network to accommodate it, without detriment to the character of the area, residential amenity or highway safety, or the efficient operation of the trunk road network; f) the capacity of existing utility services and social infrastructure to accommodate it. 2.3.5. This Policy provides a set of criteria against which all development in the District must comply before planning permission is granted. It is cross referenced in a number of Policies where there are specific issues to be addressed. As the Plan is to be read as a whole, there is no requirement to repeat these criteria within other Plan policies. The Policy aims to ensure that development is carried out without reducing the quality of life of residents of the District and without undermining the quality of the District’s environment. Development proposals will be assessed both in terms of their individual impact and their impact when considered cumulatively with the activities of other uses affecting the area - whether permitted, established or otherwise tolerated.The Policy avoids the unnecessary duplication of “Development Control” criteria throughout the Plan. POLICY GD3 PLANNING OBLIGATIONS Planning obligations will be sought: a) to ensure that development proposals meet sustainable development objectives and objectives of the Plan’s Strategy; and b) to ensure that development can be accommodated with an acceptable impact on the community and the environment. 2.3.6. It is important that development caters for its own impact and can be accommodated by providing infrastructure, community facilities and other elements which are necessary to maintain and enhance the quality of life of residents and the District’s environment. Planning obligations are agreements Wychavon District Local Plan Revised Deposit (July 2003) Page 30 013 014 015 016 017 018
etween developers and the Council who will ensure that the future development of land provides this. 2.3.7. Obligations may seek provision or contributions for necessary service infrastructure proportionate to the development. This could include transportation, housing, regeneration, education, health, liveability and public open space, recreation and other community benefits. They may also be used to restrict the use of land to specified uses. Obligations usually take the form of a legal agreement and are crucial to achieving the objectives of the Plan. In negotiating obligations, the Council will seek to ensure that they are reasonably related in scale and directly related to the proposed development. 2.3.8. The Council is currently preparing Supplementary Planning Guidance (Developer Contributions to Service Infrastructure) which will outline its position with regard to planning obligations and will be used to assist the decision making process. 2.4. Strategic Requirements Housing 2.4.1. The Worcestershire County Structure Plan 1996-2011 (CSP) provides the strategic framework for establishing the amount of housing and employment land to be provided in Wychavon during the Plan period. The Local Plan provides more detailed Policies and identifies site specific proposals to meet the housing and employment requirements. 2.5.2. The WCSP sets out a number of principles to guide land use and development decisions in Wychavon. The objectives of the WCSP are based on national and regional planning policy. They require that the majority of development in the County is directed to the Central Crescent – a zone of influence around the West Midlands conurbation. There is no detailed strategic definition to the Central Crescent. However, within the WCSP it is defined broadly as extending “to and beyond Worcester City and Kidderminster/ Stourport. It includes Redditch, Droitwich Spa and Bromsgrove”. Broadly speaking, it can be considered to include all of the District Authorities of Bromsgrove, Redditch, Wyre Forest and the City of Worcester and parts of Wychavon and Malvern Hills. From this definition, the Council considers that about 77% of the WCSP’s 28,100 housing requirement will be met within the Central Crescent. As such, the main objective of the WCSP has been met. 2.5.3. The key objective with respect to influencing future patterns of development is that most new development required during the Plan period should be directed towards the main towns in the District. Wychavon has considered this objective in developing its own development strategy and has adopted an urban focussed sequential approach – focussing the search for housing land on urban brownfield land in Droitwich Spa, Evesham and Pershore and then urban greenfield land which has no amenity value in the same towns. The Council estimates that the majority of its residual urban housing requirement can be met in this way with the remainder accommodated on a relatively small urban extension on greenfield land to the east of Evesham. This is a selfcontained site within the bypass, well related to the urban form and in a strong position to support the regeneration of Port Street and riverside areas. 2.5.4. The strategy also identifies a need to focus on rural regeneration in accordance with WCSP Policies SD8 and D14, PPG3, PPG7 and PPG13. Villages with rural regeneration allocations have been selected on the basis of Wychavon District Local Plan Revised Deposit (July 2003) Page 31 019 020
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Page 3 and 4: Foreword This Plan sets out policie
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Page 23 and 24: financial contribution for the prov
Page 25 and 26: allowing development which is essen
Page 27 and 28: • restructuring of the local econ
Page 29: POLICY GD1 LOCATION STRATEGY New de
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Page 35 and 36: POLICY SR2 PHASING ON ALLOCATED SIT
Page 37 and 38: POLICY SR2 PHASING OF HOUSING DEVEL
Page 39 and 40: 2.5.3. The balance of 19.87 ha will
Page 41 and 42: order centres, in particular Chelte
Page 43 and 44: County Council and other organisati
Page 45 and 46: POLICY SR6 SAFEGUARDED LAND FOR TRA
Page 47 and 48: Broadway Railway Society. The forme
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Page 51 and 52: 3.2.2. The best and most versatile
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Page 55 and 56: measures will be incorporated into
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Page 73 and 74: POLICY ENV9A SITES OF ARCHAEOLOGICA
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POLICY ENV16 SETTINGS OF LISTED BUI
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4.3. Avoiding Hazards POLICY ENV17
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4.3.5. The functional floodplain is
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control agency and will, in appropr
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4.3.24. Potentially contaminated la
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5.1. Introduction Section 5 - Socia
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POLICY COM2 DWELLING MIX Proposals
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5.2.9. The level of housing need de
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POLICY COM4 RURAL EXCEPTION SITES I
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5.2.32. The designation acknowledge
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development may be justified in the
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• a standard “occupancy” cond
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communities need access to a range
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facilities in its widest sense. Pub
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Toddler play area within 200m (1/8
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facilities as part of a larger mixe
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fall within the definition of “pr
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however, can generate significant l
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POLICY COM18 WATERWAYS Proposals to
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choice in how they make their journ
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more. This interaction gives each s
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?does not compromise the safety and
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passive surveillance. Where they ar
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and main habitable rooms) front the
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occupants can adapt them to their o
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a)privacy and overlooking of reside
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POLICY SUR7 SHOPFRONTS AND SIGNS Ap
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housing use for its storage can hav
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POLICY SUR8 ADVERTISEMENTS Consent
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e dependants of the occupants of th
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6.1. Introduction Section 6 - Econo
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ecognised that not all businesses,
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POLICY ECON4 B8 RELOCATION Four hec
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Diversification) and ECON6 (New Emp
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6.4.9. In this respect, new buildin
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POLICY ECON9 PACKHOUSES Outside of
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uildings, it is considered that lim
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POLICY ECON13 TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN
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Council employed the services of Ch
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POLICY ECON15 PRIMARY SHOPPING FRON
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6.5.16. The uses are part of the en
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POLICY ECON20 VISITOR ATTRACTIONS P
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the large numbers of visitors contr
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7.2.3. Sustainability Indicators fo
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7.3. Review 7.3.1. The Council will
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VILLAGE ACCESSIBILITY Wychavon Dist
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Ancient Monuments Cont’d... Paris
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Conservation Areas Wychavon Distric
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Supplementary Planning Guidance Wyc
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Supplementary Planning Guidance con
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Glossary Affordable Housing - for t
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Local Area for Play (LAP) - unsuper
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Site of Special Scientific Interest
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