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East Meon Neighbourhood Plan

• update & next steps

14 Nov 15 EMPC & EMNP LG

What’s the purpose

• f this meeting?

To give you a progress report on: Feedback from previous village meetings. The housing needs assessment conclusions

WIP Village Character Design Statement

Landscape reports

WIP Proposed policies WIP Update on the sites proposed to the

Neighbourhood Plan Next steps

What is the Neighbourhood Plan & Why do we need it?

We need a Neighbourhood Plan to protect the character of East Meon and the surrounding countryside from unwelcome development and to give residents a very real say in how we would like to see our parish develop over time A Neighbourhood Plan can:

• allow residents to have a very real influence on

how the places where we live and work will develop over time

• Determine type and location of future

residential development

• Develop policies that give priority for

affordable/social housing to local families

• Include policies related to building design

standards

• Identify and protect important landscapes and

local green spaces

Who is working on the plan?

Steering Team

• East Meon Parish Council
• Role: To provide focus; to take overall responsibility for the NP

process and to ensure consistency with the strategic priorities

• f the SDNP Local Plan

Leadership Team

• Chris Moor, Clint Hansen,

Steve Ridgeon, George Thompson

• Role: Empowered to lead, consult and

take decisions necessary for a successful

• utcome of the EMNP

Volunteers and Experts

• Role: To provide input and assistance to the Leadership Group

and the NP

Where have we come from?

• The new team has been able to pick out and

build on some of the work done previously

• We have the Parish Plan, the Housing Needs

Survey & Assessment, Green Spaces etc.

• SDNP has a greater understanding of the

challenges faced by more development in our village

• Independent landscape character assessments

(in addition to the SDNPs)

• Draft policies have been written

What have the Steering & Leadership

Groups been doing these past few months?

NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN

Reading documents Meeting with consultant Housing Needs Analysis Feedback from previous consultations Input from residents Understanding proposed sites SDNPA Draft Local Plan Meetings with SDNP Developing Policies Preparing for this meeting Open Spaces Valued views Developing the website

Constraints we need to work within

• East Meon has significant landscape constraints
• Our NP must be consistent with national or SDNPA (draft)

policies

• There is a prescribed process to develop the plan
• SDNPA has set East Meon a target of finding capacity for 15

dwellings deliverable within the next 5 years (but will cover the period of the plan – 15 years)

• Your feedback and our guiding principle is that we don’t want

any large developments

• Development must be sustainable
• Only sites of 3 or more dwellings can be included in the plan
• Landscape, flood risk, traffic & access, sewage handling and

environmental impact must all be considered for each site

• Our evidence base must be watertight

Our NP will include the following contents….

• Introduction outlining

– the Housing Needs Assessment – Landscape Character Assessments – Community involvement

• How our NP conforms with the SDNP draft Local Plan

and National Planning Policy Framework

• East Meon Parish Profile
• Vision for East Meon
• Our NP Policies
• All proposed development sites
• Deliverable sites

Housing Needs Survey Summary

• Between the 2001 and 2011 censuses:

– East Meon has seen 12% growth in population compared to the East Hants average of 6% – We have fewer pre-school and secondary age children – We have fewer younger adults (18 – 44), more older adults (45 – 64) and a static population of 65 – 74 year olds

• A proportion of the older population is seeking to downsize and

some will require specialist housing when they move home

• 58% of households are 1 or 2 person households with no children

present

• East Meon has a higher level of social housing (23%) compared to

the East Hants average (14%)

• The parish has a comparable proportion of smaller homes to East

Hampshire but significantly less than SE England

• There is support in the parish for building:

– small homes for singles and couples – small family homes (2/3 bedrooms) – smaller homes to enable people to downsize

Last consultation meeting

• feedback on sites & green spaces

Top 5 first choice votes (most favoured first)

• A1
• No development
• A3
• B2
• B4, B7, B11A, B15 (all =)

Top 5 based on cumulative votes (5 points for first, 4 for 2nd etc)

• A1
• A3
• B3
• B4
• B8

% SUPPORT CHURCHYARD 99 FOOTBALL PITCH 91 FROGMORE ALLOTMENTS 96 GARSTON CLOSE 89 GLENTHORNE MEADOWS GREENS 92 RECREATIONAL GROUND / CRICKET PITCH 100 VILLAGE GREEN 97 VILLAGE HALL GRASS AREAS 94 WASHERS TRIANGLE 99 WORKHOUSE LANE ALLOTMENTS 97 TOTAL NUMBER OF SUGGESTIONS FOR SITES TO 22 BE ADDED TO LOCAL GREEN SPACES GLEBE STRIP 10 SCHOOL PLAYING FIELDS 8 B10/B11 3 FROGMORE FOOTPATH 1

GREEN SPACES

ABOVE FIGURES SHOULD TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THAT THERE WAS NO PROVISION ON THE FORM FOR FURTHER SUGGESTED SITES

Some of our written feedback…

Typical comments:

• “Traffic within the village as a whole has received scant attention.”
• “Parking and congestion on Church St. is already an issue.”
• “Any increase in traffic in Temple Lane…would further increase the risk of an

accident”

• “Workhouse Lane often floods after heavy rainfall, the drains and sewer unable to

cope with the level of wastewater and run off. It would be unacceptable to have any more houses built before this worrying situation is addressed.”

• “Residents are being asked to vote tactically for their own environment instead of

for the community as a whole.”

• “My preference is for small pockets of development to avoid obscuring the visual

beauty of the village from footpaths…”

• “The village asked, at the previous pop-in session, for small developments, not

large”

• “I feel we should build…within the village boundary, where the is available land for

no more than 1,2 or 3 houses…”

• “Development on existing farmland would irrevocably change the nature of the

landscape, and views from Park Hill and Small Down would be lost to future generations forever.”

With expert help, we are developing policies, potentially including…

• Which sites are preferred for development and a

preference for when

• The policy for each site – size of dwellings, affordable

housing, small dwellings for 1st time buyers or downsizers etc.

• Restrictions on occupation – people living or working in

the parish

• Design – comply with the Village Design Statement
• Preservation of Green Spaces including open and

recreation spaces

• Other community and tourism uses
• Settlement Boundary
• Affordable exception policy

Remember: Our Policies must be consistent with SDNPA Draft Plan Policies

Original plan of all proposed sites

We have already been able to eliminate some sites due to non-availability

Assessment criteria for remaining sites….

• Availability
• Landscape Impact
• Site Access
• Traffic
• Sewerage
• Surface Water
• Type of Development
• Suitable for policy requirements
• Location
• Effect on Village/Street Character
• Effect on Village Open Spaces
• Effect on Conservation Area/Listed Buildings and Heritage Assets
• Effect on Amenity of Adjacent Properties
• Benefits & Adverse Effects not identified above
• Best Use of Land
• Effect on Biodiversity and Trees
• Effect on Climate Change

Timetable & Next Steps

Today Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Prepare the East Meon Neighbourhood Plan NP Consultation Document ready X Community feedback on Consultation Doc Incorporate community feedback Share NP with SDNP X SDNP review NP Incorporate SDNP feedback NP document for external examiner ready X Examiner reviers East meon NP Incorporate examiner feedback Ready for referendum X 2015 2016

We’d like to hear from you….

http://www.eastmeon.org.uk/neighbourhood-plan/