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8 Section 3 Spatial Strategy Section 3 Spatial Strategy 3.1 Policies SS1 to SS9 set out the core strategy and overall framework for development in the region and complement national planning policy statements. 3.2 RSS should not normally repeat national policy. However, national policies on sustainable development, including such fundamentals as climate change and what makes for a genuinely sustainable community, are set out in several documents. Policy SS1 draws key principles together by referring to them in a first over-arching policy, with has the weight of statutory development plan policy. 3.3 One of the key ambitions of this RSS is to allow the region to accommodate higher levels of growth in sustainable ways. It does this in a number of ways including by focusing development on a group of significant urban areas, termed Key Centres for Development and Change in Policy SS3, together with the policies for the individual centres and through the approach to selective green belt reviews in Policy SS7. 3.4 A group of factors – the most recent household projections, the continued deterioration in housing affordability, the proximity to London, and the region’s economic potential suggest that the rate of growth needs to both increase further and continue after 2021. This will be addressed through the approach in Policy H1, the early review of this RSS, Policy IMP3, and through the role of core strategy Development Plan Documents in informing that review. However, this RSS has a key role in putting in place a strategy which promotes, rather than constrains, medium and longer term growth. Growth Areas, Growth Points and Ecotowns 3.5 The Sustainable Communities Plan was published in 2003 and is kept under regular review. It sets out overall aims for the four Growth Areas which were first proposed in the former Regional Planning Guidance for the South East (RPG9, 2001). The three largest Growth Areas include substantial areas within the East of England: • Thames Gateway, a regeneration area of national importance which includes part of South Essex (Essex Thames Gateway); • Milton Keynes – South Midlands, which includes Luton and Bedfordshire; and • London-Stansted-Cambridge. 3.6 The policy has subsequently evolved. London-Stansted-Cambridge was extended to include Peterborough and Stevenage and renamed London-Stansted-Cambridge-Peterborough. Haven Gateway, Norwich and Thetford were identified as New Growth Points in October 2006. In July 2007 developers and local authorities were invited to propose schemes for eco-towns, new settlements of 5-20,000 homes with the whole settlement able to reach zero carbon standards. Through the consultation paper, ‘Ecotowns Living a greener future’, April 2008 the Government has identified a shortlist of 15 locations for Ecotowns, four of which are in the East of England. The paper explains the process for identifying the final list of locations before the end of 2008. 3.7 The growth areas and new growth points provide opportunities to capitalise on existing drivers of growth, notably London, Cambridge and the major ports and airports, and to use growth as a catalyst to address regeneration needs. It has never been the intention that the growth areas would be continuous corridors of development. Rather, they are broad areas based on key movement corridors within which there are a number of opportunities focussed on urban areas to deliver
East of England Plan 9 significant sustainable growth over the long term. Away from these opportunities, the remaining parts of the growth areas will remain predominantly undeveloped. 3.8 The growth areas and new growth points are where the most significant development and regeneration challenges in the region are concentrated. They provide a framework for helping to prioritise investment in infrastructure and, where necessary, for establishing strengthened delivery arrangements. POLICY SS1: Achieving Sustainable Development The strategy seeks to bring about sustainable development by applying: (1) The guiding principles of the UK Sustainable Development Strategy 2005: – living within environmental limits; – ensuring a strong, healthy and just society; – achieving a sustainable economy; – promoting good governance; and – using sound science responsibly. (2) The elements contributing to the creation of sustainable communities described in Sustainable Communities: Homes for All: – active, inclusive and safe in terms of community identity and cohesion, social inclusion and leisure opportunities; – well run in terms of effective participation, representation and leadership; – environmentally sensitive; – well designed and built; – well connected in terms of good transport services; – thriving in terms of a flourishing and diverse economy; – well served in terms of public, private, community and voluntary services; and – fair for everyone. Local Development Documents and other strategies relevant to spatial planning within the region should: (a) help meet obligations on carbon emissions; and (b) adopt a precautionary approach to climate change by avoiding or minimising potential contributions to adverse change and incorporating measures which adapt as far as possible to unavoidable change. In particular, the spatial strategy seeks to ensure that development: – maximises the potential for people to form more sustainable relationships between their homes, workplaces, and other concentrations of regularly used services and facilities, and their means of travel between them; and – respects environmental limits by seeking net environmental gains wherever possible, or at least avoiding harm, or (where harm is justified within an integrated approach to the guiding principles set out above) minimising, mitigating and/or compensating for that harm.
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