Proposed Submission: Gravesham Local Plan Core Strategy

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5.12 Affordable Housing5.12.1 Affordable housing is defined as housing with sale prices or rent levelswhich are set substantially lower than the prevailing market price or rent, sothat it will be accessible to local people in priority housing need, whoseincomes are insufficient to enable them to afford housing on the open market.It includes social rented, affordable rented and intermediate housing (seeglossary for definitions). Affordable housing should remain at an affordableprice for future eligible households.5.12.2 The SHMA update indicates that Gravesham has a significant need foraffordable housing (52%). The Council needs to be realistic when setting itstargets about what can be delivered. Given this, different affordable housingtargets for the different Gravesham sub-markets were tested in the AffordableHousing Viability Study. This recommended that the Council should introduceseparate targets for the proportion of affordable housing to be included inhousing developments, based on the differing residual land values of urbanand rural sites. It considered a 30% target for the urban area and a 35%target for the rural area to be appropriate for achieving the maximum deliveryof affordable housing.5.12.3 The Study also concluded that a smaller threshold for the delivery ofaffordable housing in the rural area would be justified as a substantial majorityof all new dwellings would be developed on sites of less than five dwellings.Consequently, the Council has decided to retain what was then the nationalthreshold of 15 dwellings or more or on sites of 0.5 hectares or more in theurban area and a locally derived threshold of 3 dwellings or more or on sitesof 0.1 hectare or more within the rural area. The Council will seek anaffordable housing mix of 70% affordable and social rented and 30%intermediate. It represents a balance between the desire to maximise theprovision of affordable and social rented accommodation for those in greatestneed, with the desire for balanced communities and recognition of viabilityconsiderations.5.12.4 Affordable housing will be provided on-site unless both the Council andthe applicant agree that it would be preferable for provision to be made on an170
alternative site or a financial contribution be made for development to takeplace elsewhere.5.12.5 The SHMA indicates that whilst rural areas are typically wealthier thanurban areas, they will still contain many households who still face acutehousing needs. This is best addressed through local housing needs surveys.Rural Housing Needs Surveys are being undertaken in the Borough on an ongoingbasis to identify the specific affordable housing needs of the ruralparishes and settlements. It is recognised that it might not be possible to fullydeliver the scale of affordable housing identified in these surveys in the ruralsettlements which are inset from the Green Belt. Consequently, some of thelocal need for affordable housing might need to be met within the Green Belt.The NPPF states that limited affordable housing for local community needsunder policies set out in the Local Plan is not inappropriate in the Green Belt.Cross subsidy or other mechanisms to deliver market housing in the GreenBelt will not be acceptable under this policy.5.12.6 It is not appropriate to quantify a particular number of dwellings that willbe considered to be "limited" for affordable housing in the Green Belt as thiswill primarily depend on the level of local community need identified togetherwith the following:• The size and character of the built up area of the individual settlementconcerned, and its position in the settlement hierarchy;• The fact that this will be a solely affordable housing site may also limitthe size of the site to ensure mixed communities and this may meanthat the development of 2 or more sites might be preferable to onelarge site; and• The type of affordable housing being proposed, such as extra-care,where the viability of a scheme may depend upon its scale.5.12.7 It is considered that affordable housing in the Green Belt should beprovided in a sustainable location. The accessibility of the site to services andfacilities and the position of the settlement in the settlement hierarchy will beused to assess this, whilst recognising that the level of local community needis normally considered at a parish level. Consideration will also be given to the171
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Proposed Submission:Gravesham Local
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4.1 Sustainable Development .......
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1.2.3 When adopted, the Local Plan
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a focus for growth and regeneration
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• Working with partners to develo
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- 2028). However in keeping with ex
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Canal Basin12
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Kent. There is also a regular passe
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2.3 Settlement pattern2.3.1 Gravese
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2.3.8 Culverstone Green lies south
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2.5.3 In addition to the need to pr
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2.7.4 As well as contributing to th
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small scale, involving redevelopmen
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Gravesend riverfront26
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community. It will have started to
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• SO5 Create a mixed use communit
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3.3 Key DiagramFigure 2: Key diagra
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Opportunity AreaCS14 - Housing Type
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communities in Gravesend,Northfleet
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quality through the improvedprovisi
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• any adverse impacts of doing so
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Gravesham 10 . It seeks to make ful
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Table 3: Housing Land SupplyA) All
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ange of facilities. Most of the hou
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4.2.20 The distribution and amount
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Development DistributionTable 5: Di
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4.2.25 Development will be distribu
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4.3.3 This Core Strategy aims to tr
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Figure 3: Opportunity areas within
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4.4.1 The Northfleet Embankment and
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4.4.5 Swanscombe Peninsula East Riv
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under use classes B1, B2 and B8. In
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a multi-modal industrial and wareho
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4.4.30 The Swanscombe Peninsula Eas
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Figure 5: Key site 1.3 Land East of
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Figure 7: Key site 1.5 Northfleet C
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4.5 Gravesend Riverside East and No
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Roundabout will also need to be con
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Basin was a maritime hub and, as su
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4.5.23 This sub-area includes the G
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B1c) with the latter providing arou
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Figure 10: Key site 2.1 Canal Basin
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4.6 Gravesend Town Centre Opportuni
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quality and range of supply whilst
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4.6.10 The Sub-Areas which comprise
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Rathmore Road link between Stone St
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4.6.25 As explained in Policy CS08,
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uilding in the Upper Windmill Stree
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has more potential as the upper gar
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• Support existing retail, commer
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4.7 Ebbsfleet (Gravesham) Opportuni
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the needs of the resident and dayti
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interest and are part of the Ebbsfl
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4.7.20 Development of the Key Sites
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Figure 15: Key site 4.1 Northfleet
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5.1.4 In recognition of the above f
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5.1.10 The context within which Gra
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Protection of existing employment s
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Centre, along with those areas with
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