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Lake District National Park Core Strategy including Proposals Map Adoption October 2010 Policy CS05: East Distinctive Area We anticipate that approximately 7% of all development will take place in the East Distinctive Area. We have identified Glenridding/Patterdale as the rural service centre serving the East. The identified villages are Penruddock, Pooley Bridge, Askham and Bampton. We will support initiatives that strengthen the sustainable transport links between settlements in the East area with Penrith, and that reduce nonessential travel especially by car-based visitors between the East and Central/South area. We will work with others to improve public transport and community transport services across the East Distinctive Area. We will encourage more utility and recreational cycling. In the rural service centre of Glenridding/Patterdale we will: give priority to existing retail uses and local shops, and to supporting development proposals for additional local shops, give priority to providing local affordable housing. We will allocate sites in Glenridding/Patterdale to provide the mix of housing types and tenures appropriate to meeting the identified local housing needs, seek to allocate new employment land at Glenridding/Patterdale while recognising the cross boundary links to sites in Penrith, and develop opportunities for sustainable tourism, where sustainable transport connections are available. In villages we will: recognise Pooley Bridge as providing an important choice of transport modes, protect existing local shops, and support development of additional local shops where there is evidence of local need, consider allocating sites for small scale housing development in Askham, because of the high level of identified housing need. We will encourage small scale housing development in Penruddock, Pooley Bridge and also in Bampton to meet their identified housing needs, support proposals for children’s playgrounds in Penruddock, Pooley Bridge and Askham, support proposals for small scale employment uses within or well related to Penruddock, Pooley Bridge and Askham, and develop opportunities for sustainable tourism at Pooley Bridge, where sustainable transport connections are available. In cluster communities and the open countryside we will support small scale proposals to diversify the rural economy, in particular farm diversification schemes. Elsewhere we will: 33
Lake District National Park Core Strategy including Proposals Map Adoption October 2010 work with partners to improve the water quality of Ullswater, strengthen Ullswater’s role in enabling everyone, especially visitors, to travel more sustainably, and consider sustainable tourism development at other locations where sustainable transport connections are made available, including Lowther Castle, as individual development opportunities arise. We will use the Lake District Landscape Character Assessment to guide management of development and land use change. We will enhance the varied landscape character of the East, from parkland to mountain massif, by: conserving and enhancing the diverse patchwork of habitats especially water, moorland, woodland, gill and bog, conserving and enhancing the historic landscape including historic route-ways, the distinctive pattern of field boundaries and walled enclosures, and the character of the vernacular built environment, protecting the skyline and views into and out of the area enhancing the sense of remoteness and tranquillity of the upland mountain massifs, and protecting the character of the quieter valleys from Martindale and the Lowther valley to the head of Troutbeck. Policy CS06: West Distinctive Area 3.16 What’s it like now? 3.16.1 The character of the majority of this area of the National Park is remote with small scattered communities, in contrast to the busier valleys to the east. The population of the area is relatively small (4,094), and the main settlements are Gosforth and Bootle. The north of this area has close links to the larger settlements of Workington and Whitehaven outside the National Park and to Millom in the south. The coastline stretches for approximately 19 kilometres from Drigg and Ravenglass to Silecroft. Ravenglass is the only coastal settlement in the National Park and is located at the estuary of the Rivers Esk, Mite and Irt. 3.16.2 The West area relies on the nuclear sector and its related supply chain and research activity for employment. The main employment centres are at Whitehaven, Sellafield and Millom. Both Gosforth and Bootle export more workers than they retain. Apart from the nuclear sector, Copeland has a relatively low Gross value added (GVA) per head, low income levels and a relatively mature population. Within the National Park, agriculture often provides alternative employment. The area has a relatively low level of business start ups. 3.16.3 81.5 percent of the housing stock of 2,429 dwellings is owner occupied, with a median house price of £193,000 and median income of £28,814. The average figure for percentage of second homes is significantly less than other parts of the National Park. According to the District wide survey for Copeland, 45 units of new affordable homes will be required by 2011, although recently commissioned parish wide surveys have 34
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