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Hollands Farm Liaison Group Meeting 3 – Powerpoint Slides

Liaison Group Meeting 3 – Draft Development Brief Chair: Cllr Dominic Barnes, South West Chilterns Community Board Lead Officer: Charlotte Morris, Principal Planning Officer Chris Kennett: Natural Environment & Urban Design Officer Chris Steuart: Major Development Team Leader Emily Hadley: Planning Policy Officer

Agenda

• 1. Introductions (10mins)
• 2. Progress since March (15mins)
• 3. Development Framework (1hr)
• Access and movement
• Green infrastructure and open space
• Heritage and conservation
• Infrastructure - Onsite + off-site requirements
• 5. Appropriate Assessment + Sustainability Appraisal (20 mins)
• 6. Next steps (5mins)
• 7. AOB (15mins)

Progress to date

 First draft of Development Brief

• Internal consultation with specialists
• Further refinement of infrastructure requirements
• Development framework plan

 Completed Draft Appropriate Assessment  Completed Draft Sustainability Appraisal  Legal challenge update  Programme going forward

Site analysis – Constraints and Opportunities

Access and movement

 Existing public right of way  Current access Hedsor Road + Princes Road  Link road requirement including bus route  Need for wider connectivity

• Former orchard
• Hedsor Road
• Wessex Road Employment Area
• Town Centre
• Connect to existing PRoWs

 Location of primary school

Green infrastructure and open space

 Requirement to be landscape led

• use of buffers
• building on existing green
• corridors – former orchard,
• - maintain hedgerows + mature trees

 Open space and play provision  Incorporation of SUDs  Incorporating existing wildlife corridors

Heritage and Conservation

 Conservation Area + listed buildings  Cores End Roundabout  Design of Hedsor Road junction  Relationship with properties at Hedsor Road

Development Framework

 Landscape-led approach  Green space focus for setting  Connected green infrastructure  Use of generous green corridors as the basis for a footpath/cycle network  Respond to the different characters of the adjoining areas  Use landscaping to screen industrial + business park  Maintain separation from Hedsor Road properties through tree belt buffer  Respond to views across the site from public rights of way  Respond to the sites topography  Retain and protect existing mature trees

Infrastructure Requirements

Onsite

 Link road + bus route  1 form primary school  Strategic open space, including the sports pitches, MUGA, Teen play facility, NEAP and allotments

Off site

 Junction improvements  Provide and enhance footpath and cycle links to the village centre  Contributions to facilitate public access to the former orchard  Contributions towards improving access and upgrading the bridleway on the disused former Bourne End to High Wycombe railway line  S106 contributions to mitigate recreational impacts at Burnham Beeches SAC

Appropriate Assessment and Sustainability Appraisal Next Steps

• Finalise draft Development Brief
• Commence public consultation End of November
• Early 2021 finalise and adopt Development Brief as a Supplementary Planning Document

Consultation methods

• Online survey
• Leaflet drop
• Social media
• Press release

AOB?