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Rudy Parish Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group Meeting 2/7/2018

Proposed Green Spaces (Includes all slides discussed on 2/7/18. Slides

• n other Green Spaces will be published later.)

NPPF: Green Space Designation

The Local Green Space designation will not be appropriate for most green areas or open space. The designation should only be used:

• where the green space is in reasonably close proximity to the community it

serves; [HDC Criterion 3]

• where the green area is demonstrably special to a local community and

holds a particular local significance, for example because of its beauty, historic significance, recreational value (including as a playing field), tranquillity or richness of its wildlife; and [HDC Criteria 4-9]

• where the green area concerned is local in character and is not an

extensive tract of land. [HDC Criterion 2] To be eligible for designation a site must satisfy all s NPPF tests. HDC’s assessment process breaks the middle criteria into several sub-criteria based on the key words in the NPPF definitions.

Agenda / Methodology

• HDC Assessed Green Spaces – What are we considering today?
• Decision: Support or Oppose HDC recommendation
• Key issues supporting the NP recommendation
• Identify precedents to ensure consistency across sites & lessons for NP

assessed sites.

• If sites have distinct sections, does each part ‘win on its own merits’?
• Additional Proposals from Community Consultation
• Decision: Support / Oppose designation or insufficient evidence
• Key issues for each site
• Specific justification for any decisions.

Proposed Green Spaces

HDC Assessed Sites

HDC Assessed Sites

• Cricket Pitch
• Allotments
• Land between North Side and River (Honeyman’s field etc.)*
• Main Green
• North Green
• Belbrough Lane / Station Lane (consider in two parts)
• Sexhow Lane
• Hundale Gill
• Churchyard* +
• Rudby Farm (considered as a whole and in sub-sections)* +

* Also considered later as part of a potential whole Leven Valley designation + Not discussed on 2/7/18 due to time constraints – to be discussed at next meeting

Cricket Pitch: HDC Preferred Site ALT/S/073/014/G

Key points:

• HRCC supportive of designation
• Area is not open access, but is used by a

community based club and is used to host important community events (fireworks)

• “Local significance because of recreational value.”

Allotments: HDC Preferred Site ALT/S/073/015/G

Key points:

• Owned/managed by RPC
• RPC supportive of designation
• “Local significance because of

recreational value.”

Land between North Side & River Leven – HDC Preferred Site ALT/S/073/016/G

Land between North Side & River Leven – HDC Preferred Site ALT/S/073/016/G

• Extension proposed in consultation
• Site per HDC assessment
• HDC have excluded land

incorporated into gardens

• “Local significance because of

historic, recreational and wildlife significance”

North Green: HDC Preferred Site ALT/S/073/017/G

North Green: HDC Preferred Site ALT/S/073/017/G

• Covers all the public grassed areas
• Already designated as Village Green
• Owned/managed by PC
• Main Green a separate designation
• Includes War Memorial
• “Local significance because of its

beauty, recreational value and historic significance”.

• Section omitted from HDC site – to

be included by NP

Main Green: HDC Preferred Site ALT/S/073/018/G

Main Green: HDC Preferred Site ALT/S/073/018/G

• Covers all the public grassed areas
• Already designated as Village Green
• Owned/managed by PC
• North Green a separate designation
• Local significance because of its

beauty, recreational value and historic significance”.

Station Lane –HDC Preferred Area, Part of ALT/S/073/019/G

Station Lane – HDC Preferred Area Part of ALT/S/073/019/G

Key Points:

• Open Public Access
• Recreational use
• “Local significance because
• f its recreational value”

Station Lane – HDC Non Preferred Area Part of ALT/S/073/019/G

Station Lane – HDC Non Preferred Area Part of ALT/S/073/019/G

Key Points:

• Large arable field
• No Public Access
• No Recreational use

Points to consider

• Proximity of Heritage Assets
• Linden Grange & Parkland
• Gardenstone Farm
• Drumrauck Hall
• The Old Vicarage
• View to NYM National Park:

(HDC criteria 9 other features)

• HDC SCA “the site to the south east
• f Drumrauck Hall has high visual

landscape value providing a setting to the village and Drumrauck Hall

Woodland between Sexhow Lane & R. Leven ALT/S/073/020/G

• HDC did not include narrow steep section of the

bank between road and river.

• “Local Significance because of its recreational

value and richness of its wildlife.”

Hundale Gill – HDC Non-preferred site. ALT/S/073/022/G

From public footpath From public footpath From private land with permission of resident

Hundale Gill – HDC Non-preferred site. ALT/S/073/022/G

Notes:

• Area considered by HDC
• Culverted section - not suitable for designation?
• Stops at arbitrary point on Western end.
• Potential extension to logical end point.
• Cannot designate due to extant planning permission

Key points

• Local significance because of the richness of is wildlife.
• HDC rejected as “not in reasonably close proximity to the

community it serves as it does not have public access.”

• Site is crossed by a PRoW
• Para 17 of PPG “land could be considered for designation even if

there is no public access (eg green areas which are valued because

• f their wildlife, historic significance and/or beauty).”
• Consultation evidence supports buffer zones around watercourses

Proposed Green Spaces

NP Assessed Sites (No HDC Assessment, but uses HDC criteria / pro-forma)

NP Assessed Sites

• Linden Crescent / Linden Close +

 South (Pump-house)  North

• Village Hall (Bowling Green, Tennis Courts, Play Area) +
• Enterpen

 Flagpole field  Paddock

• Leven Valley (Field Only) +
• Leven Valley whole area designation +
• Hundale Gill near Paddocks End +
• Middleton Churchyard & Play area +

+ Not discussed on 2/7/18 due to time constraints – to be discussed at next meeting

Enterpen/Flagpole Field– No HDC Assessment

Hills obscured by mist! Very little visibility in summer from footpath towards rear of Enterpen

Enterpen/Flagpole Field– No HDC Assessment

Hills obscured by mist!

Enterpen/Flagpole Field– No HDC Assessment

• Landscape Character Protection Area
• Site Approved For Single Dwelling –

cannot designate this part as GS.

• Paddock mentioned in Heritage

report recommendations.

• VDS Landscape features of

community importance: “the open space adjoining Highfield providing an open vista of the Hills” HDC Comparator sites / issues

• Paddock: Station Lane (both are

fields with no public access)

• Hundle Gill (HDC opinion no public

access = “not in reasonably close proximity to the community it serves”).