Core Strategy (PDF) - Lake District National Park

Lake District National Park Core Strategy including Proposals Map Adoption October 2010
3.7.4 Our approach needs to be flexible enough to ensure that necessary or
beneficial development is in the most appropriate location. We have
therefore developed criteria that gives our settlements the flexibility to
accommodate change, but that safeguards their character; both within
the existing built up area of the settlement and where it meets the
countryside.
3.7.5 We will direct development proactively. We will allocate sites for
employment, housing and some tourism development.
3.7.6 There may be some circumstances where a settlement has reached or
is approaching the limits of its capacity to accommodate further
development, but is still under pressure for more development. We will
monitor our settlements using a range of indicators to establish if, and
where, these circumstances arise. Where we find that these
circumstances exist, we will define physical boundaries for these
settlements in a Development Plan Document or Documents.
Policy CS03: Settlement form
We want rural service centres, villages and cluster communities to have the
flexibility to evolve appropriately over time. Development of these
settlements should satisfy the following criteria. It should:
be within or relate well to the form of the settlement, to existing
buildings within the settlement, and to utility and community
infrastructure; and
protect, maintain or enhance the local distinctiveness, character and
landscape setting of the settlement;
In the interests of the character and setting of the settlements, development
should not:
result in the loss of green infrastructure or natural features which
form an important relationship with existing buildings or provide a
valuable local amenity; or
exacerbate the adverse effects of ribbon development; or
result in further adverse effects of areas of sporadic development in
otherwise open countryside; or
result in settlements joining together.
Where settlements experience greater pressures, a development boundary
will be delineated in a Development Plan Document (DPD). We will restrict
development of these settlements within the development boundaries in
the Development Plan Document. Only in exceptional circumstances will
development be permitted outside their boundaries.
3.8 Explanatory text
3.8.1 Some areas may be at, or near to, the limits of their capacity to accept
further settlement growth. So that we can determine development
pressure on settlements, we will monitor a range of information. This will
include the Annual Monitoring Report, appeal decisions, and cases that
have required exception tests to PPS 25. We will take environmental
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