New Local Plan – Phase 3 towards a preferred strategy
Section 1 – Introduction
- Preparing our new Local Plan
- Stages of preparation so far
- What is in the Phase 3 consultation
- What is not in the Phase 3 document and will be presented in future stages of plan preparation
- What this means for planning applications
- Neighbourhood plans
- Updates to Local Plan timeline and plan period
Section 2 – Council priorities and Local Plan objectives
Section 3 – Building a new strategy
- What we need to consider – homes, jobs and infrastructure
- Building a new strategy – Step 1: New homes and jobs in urban areas and market towns
- Building a new strategy – Step 2: Strategy lenses and sites
Section 3a – Planning for new homes – how many and what type
- Why we need to provide more homes
- When new homes will be built
- What type of homes will be needed
- How many new homes are needed in South Gloucestershire
- How we will plan for the 9,653 new homes
- Affordable Housing
- Self and custom build
- Planning for older people’s housing – including Extra-Care
- Providing homes for students
- Meeting the needs of traveller communities
- Meeting any adjoining authorities’ unmet needs
Section 3b – Planning for a strong economy and jobs
- Why we need to provide for employment
- How many new jobs we need to plan for
- How this need is divided across South Gloucestershire
- Rural economy and employment
- Our emerging employment land strategy
- Safeguarded employment areas
- Draft employment policy
Section 3c – Planning for town centres
- The role planning has for our town centres and high streets
- Our town centres
- Our proposed town centre hierarchy
- Future town centre growth needs
- Draft town centre policy
- Town centre and primary shopping area boundaries
Section 3d – Planning for infrastructure
- What infrastructure might be needed
- The national planning context
- Infrastructure planning challenges
- How this influences where jobs and homes could be created
- Recent progress and looking forward
- How infrastructure provision is reported on
- The need for consultation
Section 4 – Urban areas and market towns
- Making the most effective use of land in built-up areas
- Capacity from urban areas and market towns
- Proposed site allocations in urban areas and market towns
- Proposed site allocations ‘options’ sites
- Capacity from ‘windfall’ sites
- Areas with potential for evolution and change
- Total justified capacity
Section 5 – Towards an emerging preferred strategy
- Our emerging strategy
- The key drivers informing our emerging preferred strategy
- Why we need to amend the Green Belt
- Future transport infrastructure considerations
- Places currently included in the emerging preferred strategy
- Further work and investigations
- Green Belt exceptional circumstances and boundary review
- Settlement boundary amendments
- Transport and infrastructure emerging evidence and next steps
Section 6 – New strategy ‘lenses’
Section 6a – Strategy Lens 1: No Green Belt loss
- Consultation point – status of information
- Lens 1 description
- Potential number of homes and amount of employment land that might be delivered through this lens
- Places and sites explored in this lens
- How this lens performs against council priorities and plan objectives
- Rural villages and settlements
- Summary of infrastructure challenges in this lens
- Lens map and site list
Section 6b – Strategy Lens 2: Urban edge
- Consultation point – status of information
- Lens 2 description
- Potential number of homes and amount of employment land that might be delivered through this lens
- Places and sites explored in this lens
- How this lens performs against council priorities and plan objectives
- Severnside and the North Fringe large extensions
- Severnside and North Fringe small sites
- East Fringe large extensions
- East Fringe small extensions
- Summary of infrastructure challenges in this lens
- Lens map and site list
Section 6c – Strategy Lens 3: Transport corridors and hubs
- Consultation point – status of information
- Lens 3 description
- Potential number of homes and amount of employment land that might be delivered through this lens
- Places and sites explored in this lens
- How this lens performs against council priorities and plan objectives
- Summary of infrastructure challenges in this lens
- Lens map and site list
Section 7 – Planning for traveller communities
- The local picture
- Traveller communities’ accommodation needs
- Defining pitches and plots
- Identifying and assessing potential sites
- Transit provision
- Safeguarding existing authorised sites
Section 8 – Planning for renewable energy
- Background
- Planning for renewable energy generation
- What we are seeking your views on now
- Approach to solar energy generation
- General approach to wind energy generation
- Community energy proposals
- Mine-water heat
- Energy balancing including storage and generation
Section 9 – Planning for minerals extraction
- Overview
- Minerals extraction in South Gloucestershire
- Existing supply
- What we are seeking your views on now
- General considerations
- Restoration and aftercare
- Recycled aggregates
Section 10 – Planning for strategic green infrastructure
- What we want to do
- Green Infrastructure and Strategic Green Infrastructure
- What we have done so far
- Updates since Phase 2 consultation
- The Strategic GI Network – option and designations
- Interrelationship between the emerging Local Nature Recovery Strategy and our Nine Strategic Green Infrastructure Corridors
- Linked planning policy
Section 11 – Policy framework and draft policies
- New Local Plan – policies
- Status of policies drafted and prepared so far
- Change since Phase 2 consultation
- New Local Plan – overall policy framework
- Existing and new area-based policies
- Policies being consulted on in Phase 3
- List of adopted policies