Appendix 1 Land Allocations Local Plan
Appendix 1 Land Allocations Local Plan
Appendix 1 Land Allocations Local Plan
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Dover District Council<br />
<strong>Land</strong> <strong>Allocations</strong> <strong>Local</strong> <strong>Plan</strong> Adopted 2015<br />
25<br />
Urban Areas<br />
1 Whitfield<br />
2 White Cliffs Business Park<br />
3 Connaught Barracks<br />
4 Town Centre and Waterfront<br />
5 Western Docks<br />
6 Western Heights<br />
7 Coombe Valley<br />
8 River/Crabble<br />
9 Buckland Valley<br />
10 Buckland<br />
11 Tower Hamlets<br />
12 Connaught Park<br />
13 Burgoyne Heights<br />
14 Duke of Yorks School<br />
15 Dover Castle<br />
16 Eastern Docks<br />
17 Aycliff<br />
18 Folkestone Road<br />
<strong>Land</strong>scape Areas<br />
19 Coombe Valley<br />
20 Edinburgh Hill<br />
21 Long Hill & Guston Farmland<br />
22 Old Park & Temple Ewell<br />
Table 3.6 Character Areas<br />
Urban Grain and Structure<br />
3.25 Dover is located in an exceptional and defining setting and has an extremely clear<br />
urban structure and grain. It has a dominant north-south spine following the River Dour and<br />
east-west valleys branching off the spine. A significant proportion of the countryside which<br />
surrounds existing development, particularly to the west, is protected as AONB. Key heritage<br />
assets are in the town centre and on the flanking cliff tops. The Western Height fortifications<br />
and Dover Castle are the main landmarks, they play an important role in legibility and<br />
wayfinding and are key to Dover's urban identity. See Core Strategy Figure 3.3 Dover Spatial<br />
Issues.<br />
Core Strategy<br />
3.26 The Core Strategy identified that there needs to be a significant amount of change<br />
to Dover town centre. This is focused on the need to reinforce and restore the function and<br />
character of the town centre alongside the planned housing development at Whitfield and<br />
Connaught Barracks.<br />
3.27 Whilst Dover has been identified in the Core Strategy as the main focus for action,<br />
it is also where there is most potential for transformation. The Core Strategy set a number<br />
of key objectives for the regeneration of the town:<br />
attract working age families to support growth in the economy;<br />
increase the attractiveness, making Dover a place to live, work, visit, shop and spend<br />
leisure time;<br />
improve the housing market perception and housing offer;<br />
improve the ease of, and reduce the need to, travel; and<br />
protect and enhance the historic environment whilst supporting regeneration.
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