Appendix 1 - Development Brief

3 Key planning policies
Relevant planning policies
3.1 All redevelopment proposals for the
riverside site will need to have regard to
National Planning Policy Statements, the
key planning policies in the Draft Revised,
Regional Spatial Strategy for the South West
Incorporating the Secretary of State’s Proposed
Changes (July 2008), and the adopted East
Dorset Local Plan (January 2002). Attention
should also be paid to several Supplementary
Planning Guidance notes that have been
adopted by the District Council.
Draft Revised Regional Spatial
Strategy for the South West
(July 2008)
3.2 In terms of emerging regional spatial
planning policies, the site’s redevelopment will:
• provide for additional housing in a
market town where there are existing
employment, shopping, cultural, faith,
education, health and public services
and sustainable transport modes
available, consistent with Development
Policy B
• need to deliver the highest possible
standards of design, both in terms of
urban form and sustainability criteria
(Development Policy E)
• need to deliver comprehensively planned
development to deliver a high quality
residential scheme featuring a range of
housing types and tenures, appropriate
levels of amenity space and green
infrastructure, all linked to the nearby
town centre by enhanced footpath and
cycle links (Development Policy F)
• deliver housing on previously developed
land (Development Policy H ) and
contribute towards the provision of 320
9
net dwellings per annum in East Dorset
over the period 2006 to 2026 (Policy
HD1)
• need to mitigate the impacts of housing
development on the ecological integrity
of Dorset’s heathlands (Policy HMA7)
• need to make provision on-site for at
least 35% affordable housing provision
(Policy H1)
• need to deliver housing at a net density
equivalent to or higher than 40 dwellings
per hectare (Policy H2)
• need to deliver at least 10% of
the energy used in the proposed
development from decentralized and
renewable or low-carbon sources (policy
RE5).
East Dorset District Local Plan
(2002)
3.3 In terms of the adopted planning policies
in East Dorset, the site’s redevelopment will:
• reuse previously developed land within
the existing urban area of Wimborne,
consistent with Policy HSUP2 of the
Local Plan
• need to protect and enhance the visual
and physical quality and natural history of
the adjoining River Stour (Policy WENV4)
• need to deliver a form of housing that
is appropriate to the physical and visual
character of the settlement (Policy
HODEV1)
• need to make good use of land close to
the town centre, provide an appropriate
range of dwelling sizes and types, retain
existing trees, provide for landscaping
as an integral part of the development,
create places and spaces which are
attractive and respect and enhance local
character. The proposals will also need
to take account of crime prevention and
community safety, prioritise pedestrians
over the movement and parking of
vehicles, provide opportunities for
passive solar design, and include surface
water run-off attenuation measures as an
integral part of the development (Policy
HODEV2)
• need to be of a scale that respects the
amenity of adjoining residents and the
character of the local area, and make
provision for adequate external amenity
space for its residents away from vehicle
parking or manoeuvring areas (Policy
HODEV3)
• need to deliver affordable housing
provision of a size, type and tenure
which reflects the current requirements
of East Dorset district residents (Policy
HODEV5)
• need to provide facilities for children’s
play and outdoor sport in accordance
with the standards set out in Appendix C
of the Local Plan (Policy RCDEV2)
• need to retain a significant number of the
existing trees on site (Policy DEV5)
• need to deliver a landscaping scheme
which comprises of indigenous species
(Policy DES6)
• need to deliver a development which is
compatible with the site’s surroundings
in terms of layout, site coverage, scale,
height, landscaping, visual impact and
their relationship to nearby properties
and mature trees (Policy DES8)
• need to deliver a layout which seeks to
reduce the risk of crime (Policy DES10)
• need to produce a residential
development where the form, landscape
planting and means of enclosure of
roads, cycleways, footpaths and parking
areas, together with the relationship of
buildings and property boundaries to
these spaces, respect and enhance their
surroundings (Policy DES11)
• need to deliver a residential
development with an appropriate
level of car parking provision without
resulting in unacceptable levels of onstreet
parking (Policies TRANS2 and
TRANS10)
• need to enhance footpath links from
Wimborne town centre into the
countryside (Policy WIMCO11).
Supplementary Planning
Guidance (SPG)
3.4 In order to supplement the policies of
the adopted Local Plan, the District Council
has adopted a number of SPG notes dealing
with specific development issues, four of
which are particularly relevant to the future
development of Cobham’s riverside site.
3.5 The Council’s Flood risk, groundwater
and sustainable drainage SPG was adopted
in September 2005. It provides guidance to
developers on three specific topics concerning
the impact that development could have on the
water environment, namely flooding, drainage
(including sustainable drainage systems) and
groundwater protection.
3.6 The Council’s Affordable and special
needs housing and the provision of small
dwellings SPG was adopted in December
2005 and is a material consideration in the
determination of planning applications. This
SPG explains that as part of new residential
developments, the District Council’s will seek:
• the provision of more smaller dwellings
for affordable housing
• the provision of 40% affordable housing
on qualifying sites, and
• to ensure that affordable housing
provision broadly matches the identified
housing need and to be predominantly
social rented.
3.7 The Council’s Design Requirements for
Landscaping Residential Areas SPG was
adopted in January 2007. In particular,
this SPG indicates that:
• landscape planting proposals should
be worked out concurrently with the
housing and road layout, and not treated
as an afterthought
• where it is intended that the Council is to
adopt public amenity areas it is important
that it should be consulted at the design
stage
• developers should discuss the range
of facilities, type of treatment and
maintenance responsibilities with the
District Council at an early stage
• individual specimen trees planted in
public areas should be of sufficient size
to provide some degree of instant effect
and to withstand vandalism.
3.8 Finally, in May 2009, the District Council
adopted the Council for Architecture and the
Built Environment’s Building for Life criteria
as SPG to the design policies in the Local
Plan. The Building for Life standard identifies
20 benchmarks for the quality of design and
which planning applications are expected to
demonstrate in order to obtain a planning
permission.