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‘Q&A’ on the new Local Plan

7 & 12 September 2016

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David Johncock

Cabinet Member for Planning and Sustainability

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Purpose of the meeting

• For us to answer questions that many people

have asked

• For you to get clarity around those answers
• For you to ask further questions.

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What we will cover (1)

Brief overview of :

• The plan
• The planning process
• The consultation responses

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What we will cover (2)

Hot topics

• 1. Housing numbers
• 2. Green Belt review
• 3. Infrastructure
• 4. Princes Risborough
• 5. Longwick
• 6. Haddenham

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• 7. Stokenchurch and

Lane End

• 8. Hazlemere
• 9. Bourne End

10.Marlow

Structure of the meeting

• Presentation covering the ‘hot topics’
• We will break for questions on that topic at

the end of each topic.

• We will then invite any other questions

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Penelope T

• llitt

Head of Planning and Sustainability Penelope.tollitt@wycombe.gov.uk 01494 421519

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What we will cover

Brief overview of :

• The plan
• The planning process
• The consultation responses

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A long time in the making…

• Two years ago the

consultation on the New Local Plan closed.

• Change to the ‘5 year

land supply’.

• Reserve Sites
• Appeals/permissions

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The Big Challenge Plan

Achieve High Quality and Sustainability + new infrastructure + new jobs + new homes

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Preparing the Plan

• Consultation 27th June – 8th August
• Reminder re Government deadline – plan

ready to submit “early 2017” (March 2017)

• Had to speed up timetable by 7 months
• Means will be finalising plan in autumn –

Cabinet and Council in December

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The Consultation

• Not a “statutory”

consultation

• But a sharing of where we

are at and our direction of travel before we finalise the Plan.

• Still gaps, still testing
• ptions, still working on

some evidence……

• Evidence base on web –

some still to be added

• Drop in sessions in July

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www.wycombe.gov.uk/haveyoursay

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Date Location Venue Times Fri 8 July Bourne End and Wooburn Bourne End Community Centre Wakeman Rd, Wooburn SL8 5SX 2.30 pm to 8.30 pm Sat 9 July High Wycombe - Eden Eden Shopping Centre

• utside Starbucks Unit 9, Eden Centre,

High Wycombe HP11 2BZ 9.30 am to 4 pm Mon 11 July Hazlemere Hazlemere Community Centre Rose Avenue Hazlemere HP15 7UB 2.30 pm to 8.30 pm Tues 12 July Lane End Lane End Village Hall, Church Road, Lane End, HP14 3JE 2.30 pm to 8.30 pm Wed 13 July Stokenchurch Kings Hotel, Oxford Road, Stokenchurch, HP14 3TA 2.30 pm to 8.30 pm Thur 14 July Booker/ Air Park Cressex Community Centre 203 Cressex Road High Wycombe HP12 4PZ 2.30 pm to 8.30 pm Wed 20 July Marlow Court Garden (Shelley Theatre), Marlow , SL7 2AE 2.30pm to 8.30pm Mon 4 – Sat 15 July (not staffed) Wycombe Leisure Centre Reception area Wycombe Leisure Centre, Handy Cross Hub High Wycombe, HP11 1TJ , HP11 1UP Leisure Centre

• pening times

Drop in Sessions

Settlement Hierarchy

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Settlement Hierarchy

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50% 25% 5% 10%

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Spatial Strategy

Spatial Strategy

• Determined by a combination of:

– Focusing development on settlements higher in settlement hierarchy – Green Belt constraint and the AONB

• High Wycombe area
• Princes Risborough and Bourne End
• Marlow heavily constrained environmentally
• Larger/medium villages – depending on Green

Belt review (later), AONB impact, sustainability

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Brief Overview The Plan

Any questions?

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What we will cover

Brief overview of :

• The plan
• The planning process
• The consultation responses

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National Housing Issue

Objectively Assessed Need // Housing Target

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Objectively Assessed Housing Need Less Constraints (AONB/Green Belt) Equals Housing Target + Unmet need

Objectively Assessed Need / Housing Target

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Objectively Assessed Housing Need 15,000 Less Constraints (AONB/Green Belt) Equals Housing Target 10,000 + Unmet need 5,000

Duty to Co-operate

• Chiltern/South

Bucks Joint Local Plan

• 50,000 homes in

Buckinghamshire

• AONB/Greenbelt
• Issue of unmet

need

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Aylesbury Reading Uxbridge / Heathrow Oxford Metropolitan Green Belt Chiltern’s Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

Race Horse 5 year land supply

Our local plan no longer provides for this on a long term basis

Development Management without a guiding plan. Cart Horse Duty to Co-operate Objectively Assessed Need (OAN) Local Plan

This is the best means for managing development

5 year land supply Reasons in favour Reasons against Strongly shift the balance

“Magnetic Darts Rules”

Strong attraction to areas

• utside the AONB and Green

Belt

• Reserve Sites
• Land around Longwick and north-

west of Princes Risborough

• Employment sites

Weak attraction to areas in the AONB but outside the Green Belt (south west of Stokenchurch and Lane End, villages in the Hambleden Valley) Repelled from Green Belt

Reserve Sites : planned release to maximise infrastructure and quality Site Development Brief Planning applications… Abbey Barn South Adopted Summer 2016 Spring 2017 Gomm Valley and Ashwells Consultation to start mid Sept for 6 weeks, for adoption early 2017 This autumn for both parts of the site Terriers Farm As for Gomm Valley As for Gomm Valley Slate Meadow Autumn/Winter 2016/7 Spring 2017 Abbey Barn North Consultation spring 2017 Application late spring 2017

Speculative applications Red (and purple) Applications awaiting decision Green Applications with permission Amber Applications at appeal Also appeals not on this plan

• Molins Saunderton
• Glory Park, Wooburn

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Brief Overview The Planning Process

Any questions?

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What we will cover

Brief overview of :

• The plan
• The planning process
• The consultation responses

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Volume

• 3,094 individuals and organisations responded

to the consultation

• High level of attendance at the drop in

exhibitions in July.

• We are currently assessing and recording what

all the comments relate to – so can’t give a detailed breakdown at present.

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Main themes

• General –

Principle of using Green Belt, have we used all our brownfield land? Infrastructure provision.

• Bourne End Green Belt –

Hollands Farm, scale of housing, flooding

• Marlow Green Belt –

Oak Tree Road, merging, access, no numbers

• Hazlemere Green Belt –

Tralee Farm and Penn Road – coalescence, Chiltern District land, Hazlemere crossroads

• Princes Risborough –

including numbers being higher than in the draft Town Plan

• AVDC Plan impacts (Haddenham new settlement)

But have to consider the issues raised and not the numbers.

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Brief Overview Consultation Responses

Any questions?

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Ian Manktelow

Strategic Planning Manager Ian.manktelow@wycombe.gov.uk 01494 421579

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What we will cover

Hot topics

• 1. Housing numbers
• 2. Green Belt review
• 3. Infrastructure
• 4. Princes Risborough
• 5. Longwick
• 6. Haddenham

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• 7. Stokenchurch and

Lane End

• 8. Hazlemere
• 9. Bourne End

10.Marlow

Housing Market Area

NB Chiltern/South Bucks Joint Local Plan

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Programme to Agree the Numbers

• Working towards agreeing housing numbers and

employment land distribution with other Bucks Districts – to go into respective local plans

• New updated housing need figures to be

produced by consultants shortly.

• Districts keep working on the supply.
• Finalise housing and employment land distribution
• Autumn – sign formal agreement

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Housing Numbers (work in progress, not all published, subject to change!) – June16

Plan Area Objectively assessed need (2013- 33) Rough indication of Potential Supply Unmet need (-)

• r surplus (+)

Wycombe 15,100 10,000 (approx)

• 5,100

Chiltern and South Bucks 13,100 ?

• 7,000?

Aylesbury Vale 21,300 Draft AVDC Plan consulting on 33,300 +12,000? Total 49,500

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New housing need figures to be produced by consultants shortly.

What about impact of Brexit?

• Won’t the housing need come down now?
• NPPF and NPPG (Practice Guidance) unchanged

at present

• Starting point for housing need assessment are

population and household projections – ie projection of past trends, not possible future policy changes

• Would require NPPF/NPPG change of approach
• r change in demographic trends to impact on

numbers

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Housing numbers (supply) – what is counted?

• Based date for plan – 1st April 2013.

We count:

• Net not gross
• What’s been built since 1/4/13
• Planning permissions (provided they are “deliverable”)
• Allowance for small windfall sites (under 5 dwellings)
• Suitable and deliverable new sites (eg Princes Risborough,

reserve sites, Green Belt Part 2 recommended sites, former employment sites etc) – ie ultimately what will be allocated in the Local Plan Currently updating all this – ultimately captured in the HELAA (Housing and Economic Land Availability Assessment)

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Theoretical 5 year housing land supply (2015-20)

• 5 year requirement = Housing requirement +

shortfall + 5% = 2,952 (based on notional housing target of 10,000 or 500 per year)

• Published 5 year supply = 3,642
• Surplus = 690

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Approx 50% brownfield, 50% Greenfield

Distribution across High Wycombe

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Sources of Housing Supply

Sources of Housing Supply Number of dwellings (approx and rounded)

Homes built 2013-15 (mainly previously developed sites) 700 2015-2033 Previously developed sites 3900 Reserve Sites 1500 Princes Risborough expansion (Greenfield) 2200 Green Belt Review (Greenfield) 900 Other Greenfield (including Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty villages outside Green Belt) 300 Windfall (previously developed sites) 500

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Approx 50% Brownfield 50% Greenfield

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Housing Numbers

Any questions?

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What we will cover

Hot topics

• 1. Housing numbers
• 2. Green Belt review
• 3. Infrastructure
• 4. Princes Risborough
• 5. Longwick
• 6. Haddenham

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• 7. Stokenchurch and

Lane End

• 8. Hazlemere
• 9. Bourne End

10.Marlow

Green Belt review

• Part 1 –Arups

– Bucks wide – Large scale – 7 possible areas identified in Wycombe to go into Part 2 of the review.

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Arups recommended Part 2 sites

Green Belt review

• Part 2 – site assessments, including

– the sites recommended by Arups in Part 1, – those we have identified – those promoted to us by landowners.

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Summary of Proposed Green Belt Changes

• Housing Proposals - Approx 900 homes, 7 sites, approx 60 ha.
• Employment Proposals (both at Air Park) – new and existing

built footprint – approx 25 ha

• The 9 sites above = Just over 0.5% of all Green Belt in District
• 3 others areas proposed to come out of Green Belt but not

allocated (mainly already built up) – approx 36ha

• Four other options being consulted on – approx 37ha
• If all sites/areas/options taken out = 1% of Green Belt
• NB In 2008 we added over 100ha of land into the Green Belt

in Core Strategy.

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Summary of other main changes/allocations

• New sites in AONB but not in Green Belt

(Stokenchurch/Lane End)

• approx 200 dwellings (greenfield)
• Discussions with Chilterns Conservation

Board and Natural England

• Key issue of “major development in the AONB”

especially at Stokenchurch.

• Sites at Longwick – mainly based on former draft

Neighbourhood Plan

• A few other new sites identified

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Green Belt Review

Any questions?

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What we will cover

Hot topics

• 1. Housing numbers
• 2. Green Belt review
• 3. Infrastructure
• 4. Princes Risborough
• 5. Longwick
• 6. Haddenham

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• 7. Stokenchurch and

Lane End

• 8. Hazlemere
• 9. Bourne End

10.Marlow

What is infrastructure

• The facilities, services, and installations needed to support our

communities and to enable

• the local economy to thrive. This includes but is not limited to the

following:

• ฀ Transportation: roads, bus routes, rail network;
• ฀ Education facilities: schools, colleges, universities, adult learning centres;
• ฀ Utilities: water, power grids, sewers;
• ฀ Community facilities: libraries, sports and leisure facilities, community

centres;

• ฀ Health care: hospitals, local GP surgeries and other facilities;
• ฀ Emergency & essential services: fi re, police and ambulance facilities;
• ฀ Green spaces: playing fields and sport pitches, wildlife areas; and
• ฀ Communications systems: digital telecommunications.

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What is the role of Planning?

• Work with providers (Thames Water, Chiltern

Rail etc etc)

– Advise them of the emerging plans – Learn from them their plans

• Utilities are obliged to make provision for

development from their own funding cycles

• Transport, health and education get

contributions from development through ‘s.106 or ‘CIL’

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Infrastructure

Any questions?

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What we will cover

Hot topics

• 1. Housing numbers
• 2. Green Belt review
• 3. Infrastructure
• 4. Princes Risborough
• 5. Longwick
• 6. Haddenham

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• 7. Stokenchurch and

Lane End

• 8. Hazlemere
• 9. Bourne End

10.Marlow

Princes Risborough T

• wn Plan

Draft published for consultation earlier this year

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The numbers

• Existing population about 8,000 people, in

about 3,500 homes

• Expansion area to accommodate up to 2,500

homes, so roughly doubling the size of the town

• Other developments in the town (such as

Picts Lane) take the overall total up to 2,600

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Next Steps

• Over 360 representations on draft plan
• Transport issues key – especially route of

relief road.

• Further work required on Shootacre Lane
• ptions
• The next stage of the plan is likely to be

included in the Local Plan.

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Princes Risborough

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Culverton Farm/rear of Poppy Road, Princes Risborough

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Princes Risborough

Any questions?

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What we will cover

Hot topics

• 1. Housing numbers
• 2. Green Belt review
• 3. Infrastructure
• 4. Princes Risborough
• 5. Longwick
• 6. Haddenham

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• 7. Stokenchurch and

Lane End

• 8. Hazlemere
• 9. Bourne End

10.Marlow

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Longwick

Any questions?

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What we will cover

Hot topics

• 1. Housing numbers
• 2. Green Belt review
• 3. Infrastructure
• 4. Princes Risborough
• 5. Longwick
• 6. Haddenham

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• 7. Stokenchurch and

Lane End

• 8. Hazlemere
• 9. Bourne End

10.Marlow

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33,000 total

• f which about (round figures)

20,000 = own growth & 12,000 = unmet need Aylesbury 15,500 (50%) Buckingham 2,500 (50%) Haddenham 1,000 (50%) Winslow 1000 (50%) Wendover 800 (25%) Milton Keynes 4,000 New Settlement 4,000

Haddenham identified sites

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19,500 total

• f which about (round figures)

15,500 own growth 3,750 unmet need from Oxford City 3500 at Chalgrove Airfield, but… Elsewhere: 450 at Henley/Harpsden (through NDP) 600 at Thame (over and above the NDP) 430 at Wallingford 2465 spread around other villages (through NDP) Safeguards land for Thames Water reservoir

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Haddenham

Any questions?

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What we will cover

Hot topics

• 1. Housing numbers
• 2. Green Belt review
• 3. Infrastructure
• 4. Princes Risborough
• 5. Longwick
• 6. Haddenham

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• 7. Stokenchurch

and Lane End

• 8. Hazlemere
• 9. Bourne End

10.Marlow

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Land off Mill Road, Stokenchurch

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Stokenchurch & Lane End

Any questions?

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What we will cover

Hot topics

• 1. Housing numbers
• 2. Green Belt review
• 3. Infrastructure
• 4. Princes Risborough
• 5. Longwick
• 6. Haddenham

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• 7. Stokenchurch and

Lane End

• 8. Hazlemere
• 9. Bourne End

10.Marlow

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Land off Amersham Road, Hazlemere

Land Off Penn Road, Hazlemere

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Proposed new boundaries for Booker and High Heavens

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Reserve Sites

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Hazlemere

Any questions?

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What we will cover

Hot topics

• 1. Housing numbers
• 2. Green Belt review
• 3. Infrastructure
• 4. Princes Risborough
• 5. Longwick
• 6. Haddenham

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• 7. Stokenchurch and

Lane End

• 8. Hazlemere
• 9. Bourne End

10.Marlow

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Hollands Farm, Bourne End

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Bourne End

Any questions?

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What we will cover

Hot topics

• 1. Housing numbers
• 2. Green Belt review
• 3. Infrastructure
• 4. Princes Risborough
• 5. Longwick
• 6. Haddenham

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• 7. Stokenchurch and

Lane End

• 8. Hazlemere
• 9. Bourne End

10.Marlow

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Little Marlow Lakes Country Park

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Marlow

Any questions?

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Any other questions?

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Slides not for use, but for ref in case…

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Travellers

• Updated Needs Assessment (joint across Bucks)

– WDC need for 22 additional pitches

• Need split between those who “Travel” and “Non

Travellers”

• Assessment shows:
• Need for 7 additional traveller pitches (2016–33)

for those who Travel or status “Unknown”

• 15 pitches when you include “Non-Travellers”
• 3 additional plots for travelling show people

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Travellers – consultation

• ptions/approach

Option A: Meet needs of just those who travel (or unknown) – mainly from permissions, vacant plots + one more site Option B: Meet needs of travelling/unknown and non- travelling – as per Option A + some additional site

• ptions.

Identify sufficient sites for first 10 years (to 2028), then: Generic policy including broad areas – seeks to exclude further development in Green Belt and in the Marsh area (due to over-concentration).

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Traveller Site Options

฀ The Nursery, Flackwell Heath ฀ Field Farm, Spurlands End Road, Great Kingshill ฀ Sanfoin Farm, Wooburn Moor ฀ High Barns, Cadmore End ฀ Dry Banks, Stokenchurch ฀ Part of land adjoining High Heavens, Booker ฀ Land adjoining Old Horns Lane, Booker

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Development Management Policies

• Approx 25 policies under main themes:
• Delivering Housing
• Fostering Economic Growth and Supporting Local

Communities

• Placemaking
• Managing Development in the Green Belt and our Rural

Areas

• Complemented by policies in Delivery and Site Allocations

Plan (which we will mainly keep where fit for purpose)

• Replace all policies in current Local Plan and Core Strategy

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DM Policy - Approach

• Not to repeat NPPF + identify in policy where

we are relying on NPPF

• More concise
• Not to have policies for everything
• Adoption of certain Government Technical

Standards – eg re accessibility, space, water efficiency

• DSA + this Plan = approx 45 DM policies
• Old Local Plan – approx 200 policies

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Questions and Discussion

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