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10 Section 3 Spatial Strategy 3.9 Policy SS1 refers to several Government policy statements and commitments relating to sustainable development. These and other key documents including PPS1 Delivering Sustainable Development and the 2003 Sustainable Communities Plan are kept under regular review. Regional and local partners will need to keep abreast of changes to national policies for sustainable development and reflect these when reviewing their plans and strategies. The policies of this RSS reflect current understanding of the standards expected. Read together, they seek to use resources wisely and ensure that all development is compatible with environmental limits, including in regard to carbon performance, and that no development adversely affects the integrity of sites of European or international importance for wildlife. POLICY SS2: Overall Spatial Strategy In seeking the more sustainable relationships described in Policy SS1 the spatial strategy directs most strategically significant growth to the region’s major urban areas where: • strategic networks connect and public transport accessibility is at its best and has the most scope for improvement; and • there is the greatest potential to build on existing concentrations of activities and physical and social infrastructure and to use growth as a means of extending and enhancing them efficiently. Within this context Local Development Documents should develop policies which: • ensure new development contributes towards the creation of more sustainable communities in accordance with the definition above and, in particular, require that new development contributes to improving quality of life, community cohesion and social inclusion, including by making suitable and timely provision for the needs of the health and social services sectors and primary, secondary, further and higher education particularly in areas of new development and priority areas for regeneration; and • adopt an approach to the location of major development which prioritises the re-use of previously developed land in and around urban areas to the fullest extent possible while ensuring an adequate supply of land for development consistent with the achievement of a sustainable pattern of growth and the delivery of housing in accordance with Policy H1. The target is for 60% of development to be on previously developed land. 3.10 The main strategy is to concentrate development at the region’s cities and other significant urban areas including selected market towns. They provide its focal points for retailing and other commercial activities, administration, culture and tourism. They provide access to public transport and are a focus for improving the interchange facilities required to strengthen public transport. 3.11 Where new housing is proposed consideration needs to be given to its implications for the full range of health and social infrastructure that should be provided or augmented in parallel with development. Local Development Documents need to take account of the 2004 Regional Social Strategy and 2005 Regional Health Strategy together with advice from local education authorities, primary care trusts and the Strategic Health Authority, the police and other service providers. 3.12 The regional target for re-use of previously developed land should be monitored in relation to housing and employment development. The extent to which the 60% target is achieved will vary across the region. The Annual Monitoring Report should track performance in different parts of the region and whether the regional target is being achieved. The review of RSS should consider whether the target should be amended.
East of England Plan 11 POLICY SS3: Key Centres for Development and Change To achieve sustainable development and the aims of Policies SS1 and SS2 new development should be concentrated at the following locations: Basildon Bury St Edmunds Chelmsford Great Yarmouth Hatfield and Welwyn GC Ipswich Lowestoft Norwich Southend-on-Sea Thetford Bedford / Kempston / Northern Marston Vale Cambridge Colchester Harlow Hemel Hempstead King’s Lynn Luton / Dunstable / Houghton Regis & Leighton Linslade Peterborough Stevenage Thurrock urban area Watford 3.13 Concentrating development at these locations will make the most of existing infrastructure and the potential for improvements or extensions to it. The principal aims for each of the centres are set out in Section 13, Sub-Areas and Key Centres for Development and Change. 3.14 The key centres reflect the polycentric nature of the East of England – a region of small and medium sized towns and cities surrounded by more rural areas which look to those towns for employment and higher level services. The main exceptions are Essex Thames Gateway and the London Arc. They are characterised by towns and urban areas which have been strongly influenced by London and which are located close to each other with complex movements between them for shopping, employment, education etc. The key centres are the main drivers of economic growth with potential for continuing growth after 2021. The spatial strategy builds on and reinforces the region’s polycentric nature by focussing development on the key centres, including within Essex Thames Gateway and the London Arc, where the strategy looks to strengthen the role of a selected number of the towns. 3.15 In responding to household growth and affordability pressures, the further review of the RSS, Policy IMP3 will need to put in place a higher level of housing growth than the current RSS. The same sustainability based arguments that led to the spatial strategy in the current RSS review focussing development on the key centres imply that the network of key centres will need to play a major role in accommodating the growth required through the further review. The scale of longer term potential will be addressed through the roll forward of this RSS, Policy IMP3. Work on strategic development and transport options for the key centres, particularly in regard to their Core Strategies, should inform the RSS review by considering the potential for further growth towards the latter part of the current plan period and after 2021. Where key centres adjoin or cross local authority boundaries, local planning authorities should work jointly to develop co-ordinated strategies and delivery mechanisms.
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