Local Development Plan

7 | Key Issues and Options
A | ENABLING SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES AND DELIVERY OF NEW HOMES
As referred to in Part 6, research on the policy context and evidence base
for the Local Development Plan identified the following strategic
objective which informs the discussion of key issues and options:
Strategic Objective A: Enabling Sustainable Communities and Delivery of
New Homes
• To develop strategic policy that will build sustainable communities
with good access to jobs, housing, public transport, education,
community and recreation opportunities
• To support the existing settlement hierarchy across the Council area;
recognising Lisburn & Castlereagh as a growth area for new homes
reflective of its strategic location
• To support the Council’s towns, villages and small settlements as
vibrant and attractive service centres providing a level of homes
appropriate to their role in the settlement hierarchy whilst
protecting their identity from excessive development
• To support the provision of housing to cater for a range of types and
tenures and the need to support social housing
• To support rural communities by providing appropriate
opportunities for housing in the countryside that supports
sustainable patterns of development.
These strategies will be shaped by the options presented in this paper
which are subject to sustainability appraisal.
The following four key issues have been identified:
• Key Issue 1: The Settlement Hierarchy
• Key Issue 2: Facilitating Future Housing Growth (Settlements)
• Key Issue 3: Facilitating Sustainable Housing in the Countryside
• Key Issue 4: Education, Health, Community and Cultural Facilities
For each of these key issues a number of options have been presented
and the Council’s Preferred Option is identified. In some instances, only
one option has been identified where alternative options have not been
considered possible/viable.
Sustainable communities and the provision of new homes in the Lisburn
& Castlereagh City Council area will be facilitated by a Settlement
Strategy and a Housing Growth Strategy. Flourishing strong and balanced
communities require a strategy for planned education, health,
community and cultural facilities.
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Key Issues and Options