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Frank Butler Farms Ltd
A vision for Rye Common Village
8 August 2017
SLIDE 2 Frank Butler Farms Ltd
- Frank Butler Farms Ltd was a mixed farming
enterprise but as times and markets have changed so has the way we have farmed. We are now purely arable with the last of our dairy herds being closed down 9 years ago.
- We farm a mix of Wheat, Barley, Rape, Peas and
- Beans. James and Jo Butler now run the day to day
farming enterprise from our main yard and offices based at our Chosley site on the outskirts of Odiham.
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SLIDE 3 Contents
- 1. Rye Common in context
- 2. Contributing to Hart’s development needs
- 3. Our vision – a new garden village
- 4. Environmental opportunities and
constraints
- 5. Community services and facilities
- 6. Phasing and delivery.
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SLIDE 4 Hart settlement pattern
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Extract from Draft Hart Local Plan Strategy and Sites 2011-2032
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Rye Common
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Site context
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Site context
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SLIDE 8 Meeting Hart’s development needs
- 1600 to 1900 new homes
- 4 hectares of employment land
- Accommodation for rural small businesses – most in
demand
- Health facility
- Scope for elderly/care accommodation
- Local scale retail – not competing with district’s
primary retail centres
- 40% affordable housing
- Mix of housing in Council’s control
- Zone for self-build homes.
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SLIDE 9 Our vision
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- A new village celebrating the principles of the
Garden Cities movement
- A settlement of genuine identity and character
- A rural destination
- Investing in the rural area – better
connections, better access to the countryside
- A great place to live, work, play and learn
- A settlement for Hart to be proud of
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National Planning Policy Framework
“The supply of new homes can sometimes be best achieved through planning for larger scale development, such as new settlement or extensions to existing villages and towns that follow the principles of Garden Cities” (para 52) Frank Butler Farms Ltd
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Rye Common - A Garden Village for the 21st century
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Illustrative master plan
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Character areas
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The Gateway - ‘Keeps Corner’
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’Oak Apples lane’
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‘The Wheelers Dell’
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The village centre
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‘Funters Field’
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‘Beachampswood’
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Space for supporting rural businesses
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Green infrastructure
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Housing densities
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Community facilities
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A walkable village
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Managing traffic effectively
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SLIDE 26 Creating a sustainable garden village
- Social, economic and environmental
- Connecting people with the countryside
- A new rural centre improving local access to key
services and facilities
- Accommodation for small-scale rural business
- Pedestrian and cycle priority
- Generous formal and informal green spaces
- Integrating biodiversity
- Holistic design
- Scope for innovative building techniques and
energy technologies
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SLIDE 27 Environmental constraints and opportunities
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SLIDE 28 Environmental constraints and opportunities
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SLIDE 29 Environmental constraints and opportunities
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SLIDE 30 Environmental constraints and opportunities
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Thames Basin Heaths Special Protection Area
Saved Policy NRM6 “Priority should be given to directing development to those areas where potential adverse effects can be avoided without the need for mitigation measures” Frank Butler Farms Ltd
SLIDE 32 Environmental constraints and opportunities
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- No statutory nature designations within site
- Intensively farmed land
- Opportunity for net gain in biodiversity
- Incorporate hedges and woodland into master
plan
- Tree removal required for access from A287
- Brown’s Row and Rye Common East SINC
- Potential compensation through net gain in
tree planting and active management of SINC
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Connecting the rural areas
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SLIDE 35 Education and health
- Village Primary School (2 FE)
- Part of the heart of the community
- Financial contribution to Secondary education
- Land for a new doctors surgery
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SLIDE 36 Utilities and infrastructure
- Need to engage with key service providers
- Opportunities to improve infrastructure in the rural
area
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Phasing through the Local Plan period and beyond
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SLIDE 38 Indicative timeline
- Local Plan/planning application phase – Years 1 to 3
- Site preparation/access – year 4
- Development commences (phase 1 housing and
SANG construction) Year 4/5
- First completions (Year 6)
- Village centre (Phases 2 to 4) (Year 6/7/8)
- Employment, recreation, SANG completion (Phase 2)
(year 6/7)
- Residential Phases 5 to 9 (Years 9 to 15)
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SLIDE 39 Benefits of a garden village at Rye Common
- Land is available and in single control
- Significant housing delivery
- Control of housing mix
- Control of design
- Cater for all groups of society
- Better connections for the rural area
- Avoid settlement coalescence
- Less harm to the TBHSPA = less mitigation
- Support for rural businesses
- Improve public access to the countryside
- A settlement with genuine identity.
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