St Edmundsbury Core Strategy (December 2010)

will be dependent upon the capacity of the natural and built environment toaccommodate this growth without unacceptable damage being caused and theability of existing or planned infrastructure to cope with the development.6.18 The Key Diagram identifies the broad location for the future strategic growthof the town. This site will primarily be capable of delivering a mix of usesincluding homes, jobs, community and social facilities that will be developed overa longer period. The government describe strategic sites as those that are“central to the achievement of the strategy.” The Area Action Plan for Haverhillwill need to provide more detail about the boundaries and mix of uses to beaccommodated in this location and it is expected that the development of the areawill be informed by a masterplan that will be the subject of extensive publicengagement during its preparation. However, the Area Action Plan will need tohave regard to the policies in this Core Strategy, in particular in relation toprotecting the identity of settlements and the delivery of infrastructure.Policy CS12 Haverhill Strategic GrowthAn Area Action Plan DPD will be prepared for Haverhill that will providea co-ordinated spatial planning framework for the whole town includingthe release of larger, strategic, greenfield, sites.Land north-west of Haverhill allocated in Policies HAV2 and HAV8 of theReplacement St Edmundsbury Borough Local Plan 2016 is confirmed bythis Core Strategy, with the potential to deliver 1,150 new homes andother services and facilities and the north-west relief road. Thedevelopment will be undertaken in accordance with the masterplan thatwas approved by the Council in June 2009.In addition, it will be necessary to release a larger, strategic greenfieldsite at Haverhill to deliver the development strategy of the LocalDevelopment Framework. Subject to other relevant policies, inparticular CS2, the site will be released in a phased manner, havingregard to the spatial strategy in Policy CS1, and the need to ensure thatall essential infrastructure is in place before any development isoccupied and that agreements are in place to deliver the desirableinfrastructure required as a result of the development.Land on the north-eastern edge of Haverhill will:Maintain the identity and segregation of Kedington and LittleWratting;Provide new high quality strategic public open space and recreationfacilities;Protect by appropriate means the Scheduled Ancient Monument atWilsey Farm;Provide improved public transport, foot and cycle links to the towncentre and other locally significant leisure, employment and servicedestinations;Deliver additional education, community and leisure facilities tomeet the needs of this development and is located in a way that canachieve positive integration with the wider area;Deliver around 2,500 homes of mixed tenure and size, includingaffordable homes; and71