Knowsley Replacement Unitary Development Plan - Knowsley Council

CORE POLICIES
CORE POLICIES
EXPLANATION CP2
4.9
The Planning Act 1990 requires UDPs to contain
strategic policies in respect of the conservation of the
natural beauty and amenity of land and the
improvement of the physical environment. Policy CP2
identifies the key environmental assets of Knowsley
which must be preserved, and gives policy effect to
objectives 11-17 of the Plan. The overall aim is to
ensure that there is no net loss, and indeed a net
gain, in the environmental resource in Knowsley.
The principles set by this policy are to be
implemented primarily through more specific policies
set down elsewhere in the Plan.
POLICY CP3:
DEVELOPMENT QUALITY
All development proposals should seek to:
1. Provide an efficient use of land and buildings,
which will minimise the need to build on
undeveloped greenfield sites to meet overall
development needs;
2. Provide a high design quality which will
respond to and enhance the characteristics of
the site and its surrounding area;
3. Protect and enhance the environment and
amenities of people who live, work in and
visit Knowsley;
4. Avoid causing unacceptable levels of pollution
of air, land or the water environment;
5. Avoid causing hazard from flood risk, the
storage or use of notifiable hazardous
substances, or land contamination
or instability;
6. Include provision for safe and convenient
accessibility to new development by a choice of
transport, including walking, cycling and public
transport; and
7. Reduce the threat of global warming, for
example through environmentally efficient
building design and the encouragement of the
use of renewable energy sources.
This is a part 1 policy
EXPLANATION CP3
4.10
The government (through its “By Design” initiative)
and the Regional Spatial Strategy (through its Core
Development Principles) both encourage an improved
design quality in new development. Policy CP3
identifies the key qualities that the Council will seek
in new development. The policy will be implemented
primarily through the more detailed policies found in
subsequent parts of the Plan - see table 4.1 below.
Table 4.1: Links to other chapters of the Plan
Policies CP1 to CP3 will be implemented through
the more detailed, topic specific policies which are
contained in subsequent chapters. The links set
out below should in particular be noted:
Core Policy Related chapter areas
Policy CP1: Chapter 5 Housing
Regeneration and Chapter 6 Economic
Development
Development
Priority Areas Chapter 7 Town Centres and
Shopping
Policy CP2: Chapter 9 Green Belt and
Environmental
the Rural
Assets
Economy
Chapter 10 Urban
Greenspace,
Sport and
Recreation
Chapter 11 Development
Quality and the
Built Environment
Chapter 13 Environmental
Protection and
Nature
Conservation
Policy CP3: Chapter 8 Transport
Development Chapter 11 Development
Quality
Quality and the
Built Environment
Chapter 13 Environmental
Protection and
Nature
Conservation
4.11
Some of the policies in chapters 5-14 are themselves
of a strategic nature. Government legislation requires
these to be identified as “Part 1” policies. A list of
these is set out below:
• Policy H1
“Strategic Housing Land Requirements and
Supply”
• Policy EC1
“Strategy for Provision of Employment Land”
• Policy S1
“Retail and Town Centre Development Strategy”
• Policy T1
“An Integrated Transport System”
• Policy OS1
“Strategy for Urban Greenspace and Sport”
• Policy MW1
“Protection, Winning and Working of Minerals
Resources”
• Policy MW4
“Waste Management Strategy”
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KNOWSLEY REPLACEMENT UNITARY DEVELOPMENT PLAN: Adopted June 2006
KNOWSLEY REPLACEMENT UNITARY DEVELOPMENT PLAN: Adopted June 2006
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