West Ayton Highways Depot - North Yorkshire County Council

4.0 LOCAL PLAN BACKGROUND
4.1 The adopted Local Plan for northern half of the site is the North York Moors
Local Plan (May 2003) and the southern half is the Scarborough Local Plan.
4.2 The key relevant policies in the North York Moors Local Plan are considered
to be:
i) Policy H3, this permits open market housing on larger sites within the
built-up part of West Ayton subject to normal development control
criteria.
ii) Policy BE6 seeks, amongst things, to ensure an appropriately high
standard of design and materials and landscaping.
iii) Policy GP3 seeks, amongst other things, to ensure that new
development would not have an unacceptable impact on the operation
of surrounding land uses.
4.3 The key relevant policies in the Scarborough Local Plan are considered to be:
iii) Policy H3 permits open market housing subject to normal development
control criteria.
iv) Policy H5 relates to affordable housing in rural areas and states that
as an exception to other local plan policies, planning permission may
be granted for small scale, affordable housing to meet identified need
on sites within or on the edge of existing settlements that would not
normally be considered acceptable.
iii) Policy H6 requires a range of dwelling types.
iv) Policy H8 requires schemes of 20 or more houses to include a
proportion of homes to take account of people with disabilities.
v) Policy H16 requires new residential development to be at a minimum
density of 25 dwellings per hectare.
vi) Policy R2 requires the provision of an area of public open space for
developments of over 15 units and appropriate maintenance.
5.0 POTENTIAL USES
5.1 Having regard to the location of the site within the settlement, it is envisaged
the site will be developed for a sensitively designed scheme of open market
housing with a range of houses types and sizes. This should be possible
provided:-
i) Redevelopment of the entire site is achieved in a co-ordinated manner
avoiding a piecemeal approach to ownerships.
ii) Its design and subsequent after use positively contributes to the
regeneration of the area and does not prejudice the activities of any
neighbouring occupiers or business.
6.0 RETENTION OF SITE ASSETS
6.1 The site contains two former railway buildings of merit, the two storey railway
house/office along with its associated railway platform, and the brick
locomotive shed. These buildings should be incorporated into a scheme to
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