Knowsley Replacement Unitary Development Plan - Knowsley Council

CORE POLICIES
CORE POLICIES
POLICY CP1:
REGENERATION AND DEVELOPMENT
PRIORITY AREAS
1. New development and regeneration activities
shall be guided principally towards the
following locations (shown on the
Key Diagram):
• Existing residential areas;
• The town centres of Kirkby, Prescot and
Huyton, together with the smaller district
and local shopping centres; and
• The Strategic Employment Locations.
2. Within the residential areas priority will be
given to securing a better choice of housing
and improved schools, health and other
community infrastructure. Particular emphasis
will be given to securing regeneration and
improved levels of social inclusion within the
residential regeneration areas shown on the
Key Diagram.
3. The town centres of Kirkby, Prescot, and
Huyton, together with the smaller district and
local centres shall be the preferred location for
new shopping and leisure development. These
centres shall also be appropriate locations for
a range of other uses appropriate to a town
centre such as the uses listed in appendix 7.
Development of these uses must be of a scale
and nature which is appropriate to the role and
function of the centre concerned.
4. Within the Strategic Employment Locations
shown on the Key Diagram the main priority
will be the provision of new industrial or
business uses which will safeguard or provide
jobs (including but not solely limited to those
within target economic sectors), or which will
make these areas more attractive to potential
new development for these purposes.
5. The following areas shall be designated as
Action Areas, where the Council will (in
partnership with others) seek to
comprehensively redevelop or improve the area
in accordance with policies set out elsewhere
in this Plan:
North Huyton
Tower Hill, Kirkby
South Prescot
Kirkby Town Centre
Ravens Court (Halewood)
This is a part 1 policy
EXPLANATION CP1
4.3
Policy CP1 identifies the broad priorities for the
location of new development over the period to 2016.
EXISTING RESIDENTIAL AREAS
4.4
The majority of new residential development over the
Plan period will take place within the existing
residential areas of Kirkby, Huyton, Stockbridge
Village, Prescot, Whiston, and Halewood. Other
priorities within these areas will include the provision
of new and improved schools, sporting, recreational,
health and other community facilities to meet local
needs. Outside these areas, for example within the
smaller villages of Knowsley Village and Cronton,
development will be of a much smaller scale.
RESIDENTIAL REGENERATION AREAS
4.5
The most deprived of Knowsley’s residential areas
suffer from levels of social and economic deprivation
which are amongst the highest in the country. They
include North Huyton, Huyton Quarry, South East
Huyton, parts of Kirkby, Stockbridge Village, the
Lickers Lane area of Whiston and South Halewood.
These areas, which are indicated on the Key Diagram,
coincide with the areas which are covered by the
existing Objective 1 Pathways, and the North Huyton
New Deal for Communities programmes (see chapter
2 “Key Issues and Influences”) and will be priority
areas for regeneration.
KIRKBY, PRESCOT AND HUYTON
TOWN CENTRES
4.6
Within Knowsley’s three town centres (at Kirkby,
Prescot and Huyton) the main land use priorities (set
out in chapter 7 “Town Centres and Shopping”) will
be the provision of:
• New retail uses which are of a scale and nature
which is appropriate to the centre concerned; and
• A wider range of other town centre uses, such as
leisure uses (including cinemas etc.), health
facilities, and financial and professional services.
STRATEGIC EMPLOYMENT LOCATIONS
4.7
The Strategic Employment Locations provide jobs for
Knowsley residents and for Merseyside as a whole.
They each fall within Strategic Investment Areas in
the current Merseyside Objective 1 programme, and
are located at Huyton Business Park, South Prescot,
Halewood, Knowsley Business Park, Knowsley
Industrial Park and Kings Business Park. They are
suitable areas for new job creation which will
enhance their important role in the Merseyside
economy. Specific priorities for these areas are
identified in chapter 6 “Economic Development”.
ACTION AREAS
4.8
The UDP identifies 5 areas as Action Areas, which are
suitable for comprehensive development,
redevelopment or improvement. These are at:
• North Huyton
• Tower Hill, Kirkby
• South Prescot
• Kirkby Town Centre
• Ravenscourt (Halewood)
POLICY CP2:
ENVIRONMENTAL ASSETS
1. All development should seek to either preserve
or where possible enhance (both quantitatively
and qualitatively) the following environmental
assets within Knowsley:
• The openness and character of areas
designated as Green Belt;
• The network of greenspaces within and
adjacent to Knowsley’s urban areas;
• Knowsley’s stock of Sites of Biological
Interest, Nature Reserves, Sites of Local
Geological Interest, and other sites,
habitats and species which are identified as
being of importance in the North
Merseyside Biodiversity Action Plan;
• Knowsley’s stock of trees, woodland,
hedges, rivers, streams, lakes and
ponds; and
• The buildings, features and areas, together
with archaeological remains which
represent the best of Knowsley’s
historic heritage.
2. New development will be required to
contribute to the management and
maintenance of environmental assets where
this is necessary either to avoid long-term
harm to the asset concerned or to ensure that
environmental benefits associated with the
development are achieved.
3. Development that would damage the above
assets will only be permitted in exceptional
circumstances where there is a clear and
documented over-riding benefit arising from
the development. In such cases, the Council
will require mitigation measures to be
implemented which will counter any loss in the
environmental resource.
This is a part 1 policy
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KNOWSLEY REPLACEMENT UNITARY DEVELOPMENT PLAN: Adopted June 2006
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