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The new Local Plan for the Borough

Presentation Content

• Background of the Local Plan
• Role of Local Plan
• Current Situation
• Housing
• Employment Land Needs
• Town Centre Development

Background

• OWBC is required by national government to

produce a new Local Plan.

• The Plan should have at least a 15 year life span.
• Over the past year the Planning Policy team has

undertook 2 public consultations.

• The public consultations have helped shape the

Plan as it is today.

• The Planning Policy team is currently preparing

the Pre-submission Local Plan document.

Role of the Local Plan

• The role of the Local Plan is to set out the long term

development strategy and strategic priorities for the Borough.

• OWBC has to work with neighbouring local authorities

and key stakeholders to fulfil the Duty to Cooperate.

• The new Local Plan will identify: where and how many

new homes should be built; the locations where businesses need more land to expand, which areas need regenerating; and, which areas should be protected.

• All planning related decisions will need to be in line

with the new Local Plan when adopted.

The Current Situation - Overview

• The new Local Plan is broken down into different

chapters, 9 of which relate to local planning policy.

• For the purpose of this presentation we will focus
• n only 4 – Housing Delivery, Economic

Prosperity and Development Allocations, and Town Centre Development.

• The recently published HEDNA illustrates the

Council’s identified Objectively Assessed Housing Need (OAN) and the Council’s identified Employment Land Need.

The Current Situation - Housing

• The OAN for OWBC is 148 new homes per

year up to 2031 and 155 new homes per year up to 2036.

• The figures are approximately a 65 per cent

increase from the current Core Strategy target

• f 90 new per year.
• Because of the increase need figures, further

greenfield land release is required in addition to the further Direction for Growth site.

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• Identifying additional greenfield release sites,

also ensures compliance with national government policy.

• Government policy states that Council’s

should not be reliant on a single site; they need to provide choice.

• The OWBC Preferred Options Local Plan

identified 3 further greenfield release sites.

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• Further work has identified an additional

brownfield site with the potential for residential.

• The further work also identified 2 further

greenfield sites with the potential for residential development; however, would only be brought forward if need required it to do so.

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• The 4 greenfield sites (including the further

DfG) could yield a potential 1158 additional new homes.

• The additional brownfield site could yield an

additional 15 new homes.

• The 2 longer term view sites could yield 100

additional new homes.

• Supply deficit up to 2031 = - 146 (-46)
• Supply deficit up to 2036 = - 1000 (approx)

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• Through the further work a number of other

sites were assessed, however these were deemed unsustainable.

• The potential yield from these sites deemed

unsustainable would be circa 1700 new homes.

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• Any shortfall identified takes account of the

town centre residential allocations.

• We are in a situation where we need both

greenfield release and the town centre allocations to come forward and not an ‘either

• r’.
• The shortfall identified is a minimum and

could increase subject to highway and transport infrastructure evidence base work.

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• Increase dwelling per hectare (dph). This

however could render developments unviable therefore would not be encouraged.

• Release more greenfield land, for example the

sites that are deemed unsuitable (red).

• Work with neighbouring local authorities

under the Duty to Cooperate to ensure any unmet need is met elsewhere.

Employment Land Needs

• The HEDNA identifies an employment need

for OWBC up to 2031 of:

• B1 a/b = 1 hectare (a – offices, other than those in use

within class A2, b – research and development of products or processes).

• B1c / B2 = 0 hectares (B1c – light industry, B2 –

industrial processes).

• Small scale B8 = 4 hectares (B8 – use for storage and

distribution, small scale – under 9000sqm).

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• The term ‘employment land’ refers to land

falling within the B use classes mentioned earlier.

• The term does not include any use that

creates employment opportunities.

• The key challenge for the Borough is where to

locate the amount of employment land identified.

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• The Preferred Options Local Plan document

locates a further 2.5 hectares of employment land at the further Wigston DfG.

• Initial developer responses have suggested that

there is currently no market interest for land at the Wigston DfG.

• The Council are currently undertaking further

work regarding employment land needs and how ‘fit for purpose’ existing employment sites are.

• The Council needs to take account of both

additional need, and need for ‘churn’.

Town Centre Development

• The Council currently has an adopted Town

Centre Area Action Plan document (AAP).

• The AAP document will be superseded by the

new Local Plan, however will contain very similar policies.

• The AAP contains policies relating to

development management, as well as policies relating to levels of development.

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• Levels of development set out within the

current AAP are:

Wigston

• 9,000sqm of new office space
• 11,800sqm of new retail space (circa 3,000sqm additional)
• 150 new homes

Oadby

• 800sqm of new office space
• 5,070sqm of new retail space (circa 1000sqm additional)
• 75 new homes

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• Current evidence relating to retail capacity

suggests the following is needed:

Wigston

• 2,138sqm of new retail (additional)

Oadby

• 1,959sqm of new retail (additional)
• The Planning Policy team are currently

working on a light touch review of the AAP policies to ensure they are up to date for when they are fed into the new Local Plan.

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