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Forest of Dean District Council | Settlement Hierarchy for the Forest of Dean 16 . Relevant Strategic Policies should provide for balanced development and growth at identified centres designated to meet sub-regional growth needs outside the PUAs while maintaining and enhancing the range of employment, housing and other facilities in the area. Policy SS 7: Meeting Local Needs In relation to development elsewhere, Policy SS7 advised Local Authorities that when planning for future development outside the PUAs and other designated centres for growth, development plans should: identify, where appropriate, towns to accommodate smaller scale development to serve local needs and make services available to the wider rural areas of the region; recognise that other small towns in rural areas should provide for local needs only. It went on to advise that policies should also resist the substantial expansion of residential development at small dormitory towns within easy commuting distance of the PUAs (see also SS2 above). Policy SS 19: Rural Areas In relation to rural areas which is particularly pertinent to the Forest of Dean policy SS19 advised that market towns should be the focal points for development and service provision in the rural areas and this role should be supported and enhanced. Outside market towns, development should be small scale and take place primarily within or adjacent to existing settlements, avoiding scattered forms of development. Local authorities in their development plans should: locate development to support the rural areas primarily in market towns, identified and designated in development plans through a balanced mix of homes, jobs, services and facilities suitable to the scale and location of such settlements; 30
Forest of Dean District Council | Settlement Hierarchy for the Forest of Dean 16 . Relevant Strategic Policies adopt policies which support the restructuring of the rural economy and the provision of jobs to satisfy local needs; set out policies for supporting sustainable farm diversification schemes which help to maintain the viability of the agriculture sector and rural economic vitality; seek ways of providing for essential shops and services to serve the rural areas; promote improved and integrated public transport, communications and service delivery and support innovative community based solutions to public transport and communications, in order to increase access to jobs, housing and facilities; limit housing growth in market towns near larger urban areas where it would fuel commuting rather than meet local needs. Regional Spatial Strategy for the South West (RSS) The emerging Regional Spatial Strategy for the South West provides a revised approach to settlement hierarchy which is set out in Development Policies A, B and C. These are summarised below. Development Policy A – Development at the Strategically Significant Cities and Towns (SSCTs) This policy advises that the primary focus for development in the South West will be those places which offer the greatest opportunities for employment, and the greatest levels of accessibility by means other than car to cultural, transport, health, education, and other services. These SSCTs, will continue to have regionally and sub-rgionally important functions and potential, and play critical roles in delivering development in the period to 2026. They are identified as: Barnstaple Bath Bournemouth Bridgwater Bristol Camborne/Pool/Redruth, Falmouth-Penryn, Truro Cheltenham 31
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