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• What stage the Local Plan (Part 1: Core Strategy and Part 2: Land and Planning Policies) is at
• Identify the Core Strategy’s major development proposals
• Identify other key policy requirements
• What’s next for Part 1 (Core Strategy) and Part 2 (Land and Planning Policies)
Rushcliffe Core Strategy (Local Plan Part 1)
• Main strategic part of the Local Plan. Includes key policies and development proposals to 2028
• Requires a minimum of 13,150 homes between 2011 to 2028 (774 per annum)
• Will increase Rushcliffe’s housing stock from 47,350 in 2011 to 60,500 in 2028 (28% increase)
• Draft plan examined by a Planning Inspector, including public hearings in July 2014
• December 2014 – Planning Inspector found plan ‘sound’. Plan then adopted by the Borough Council on 22 December
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Legal Challenge
• Legal challenge from Barton in Fabis Parish Council received on 29 January
• Parish Council seeking to have the Core Strategy quashed, on the basis that NPPF Green Belt policy has been inappropriately applied
• Will be heard in the High Court in London, probably within the next few months
• Aligned Core Strategies of Browtowe, Gedling and Nottingham City Council also challenged (by Calverton Parish Council). Due to be heard by the High Court on 24 March
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Rushcliffe – great place, great lifestyle, great sport
Member WorkshopStrategic allocation – land south of Clifton
Local Plan Requirements
• 3,000 new homes (all to be delivered by 2028)• 20 hectares of employment• Up to 30% affordable housing. Gypsy and traveller pitches• Neighbourhood centre - retail, education, health and other
community facilities• Significant open space provision
Rushcliffe – great place, great lifestyle, great sport
Member Workshop
• Outline planning application received July 2014• Up to 3,000 homes • 20 hectares employment • Infrastructure: neighbourhood centre; 2,500m2 of retail; 2 primary schools;
new community park
Planning application – land south of Clifton
Rushcliffe – great place, great lifestyle, great sport
Member WorkshopStrategic allocation – Melton Road, Edwalton
Local Plan Requirements
• 1,500 new homes (to be delivered by around 2026)
• Up to 4 hectares of employment generating development
• Up to 30% affordable housing
• Neighbourhood centre
• Community Park
Rushcliffe – great place, great lifestyle, great sport
Member Workshop• Outline planning permission for 1,200 homes
granted in 2009 but scheme unlikely to be implemented
• Fresh full planning applications being received, including Bovis Homes – for 388 homes, received June 2014
• To guide this and other anticipated planning applications a ‘Development Framework Plan’ is being prepared
• Main role of Framework to identify how each application contributes to ‘site-wide’ infrastructure.
• To be published in February 2015 for consultation
Planning applications – Melton Road, Edwalton
Bovis Homes – 388 homes
Rushcliffe – great place, great lifestyle, great sport
Member Workshop
• 2,500 new homes by 2028 and up to a further 1,500 homes post 2028
• 20 hectares of employment development
• Up to 30% affordable housing. Gypsy and traveller pitches
• Two new direct accesses onto A52
• Open space provision
• Neighbourhood centre – retail, education, health and other facilities
Local Plan Requirements
Strategic allocation – land east of Gamston/north of Tollerton
Rushcliffe – great place, great lifestyle, great sport
Member WorkshopStrategic allocation – land north of Bingham
Around 1,000 homes and 15.5 hectares of employment development (has planning permission, but development not started)
Rushcliffe – great place, great lifestyle, great sport
Member WorkshopStrategic allocation – Former RAF Newton
Around 550 homes and 6.5 hectares of employment development (has planning permission, but development not started)
Rushcliffe – great place, great lifestyle, great sport
Member WorkshopStrategic allocation – Former Cotgrave Colliery
Around 470 homes and 4.5 hectares of employment development (has planning permission and development started)
Plus new housing on the edge of main villages:
East Leake – minimum 400 homes (already planning permission for around 700 homes)Keyworth – minimum 450 homes Radcliffe on Trent – minimum 400 homes Ruddington – minimum 250 homes
•Specific locations for development yet to be identified
•Allocation of sites through Neighbourhood Plans prepared by parishes or by Borough Council in Part 2 of the Local Plan
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Other key Core Strategy policies – Policy 8 Housing Size, Mix and Choice• Affordable housing targets:
• Core Strategy requires affordable housing on sites of 5 homes or more
• However, recent national policy changes mean affordable housing cannot be asked for on sites of 10 homes or less
– Core Strategy strategic sites Up to 30%
– West Bridgford, Rushcliffe Rural, Radcliffe and Compton Acres
30%
– ‘Leake’, Keyworth and Bingham 20%
– Cotgrave 10%
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Other key Core Strategy policies – Policy 4 Green Belt
• Policy 4 (Green Belt) identifies that the following villages will be inset from the Green Belt:
• At present, these villages are ‘washed over’ by the Green Belt
• Inset boundaries will be created through Part 2 of the Local Plan
Bradmore Plumtree Bunny Newton Cropwell Butler Shelford Gotham Upper Saxondale
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Next stages…
Local Plan Part 2: Land and Planning Policies
• Issues and Options – Summer 2015
• Preferred approach – Winter 2015
• Examination of draft plan – Summer 2016
• Adoption by Council – Winter 2016