Breaking News: Site Allocations DPD (HBBC 21/1/09)

Breaking News
Following the Council meeting held on the evening of the 20 January 2009. The Council resolved to consult on the Site Allocations and Generic Development Control Policies Preferred Options DPD with the following change to potential gypsy and traveller sites:

Transit:

* Hinckley
Potential Site: West of A5 (temporary holding site Warwickshire side of A5), Number of Pitches: Up to 10 caravans

Total: 10 transit pitches

Residential:

* Newbold Verdon
Potential Site: West of Kirkby Lane, south of housing allocation, Number of Pitches: 4
* Barlestone
Potential Site: Oak View, land at Garlands Lane (extension to an existing site), Number of Pitches: 5 pitch extension
* Stoke Golding
Potential Site: Off Stoke Lane / Basin Bridge Lane (extension to existing site), Number of Pitches: 4 pitch extension
* Thornton
Potential Site: North of Reservoir Road, Number of Pitches: 10
* Cadeby
Potential Site: Bosworth Road, Bull in Oak (existing site), Number of Pitches: 1
* Markfield
Potential Site: Copt Oak Road (regularisation of existing unauthorised pitches and 1 pitch extension), Number of Pitches: 5
* Ratby
Potential Site: Desford Lane (extension to Ben’s Hut), Number of Pitches: 4 pitch extension
* Higham on the Hill
Potential Site: The Paddock, Watling Street (extension to existing site), Number of Pitches: 1 pitch extension
* Groby
Potential Site: Anstey Lane, Groby, Number of Pitches: 5 residential pitches

Total: 39 residential pitches

Please note that the document discussed at Council and available on the website under ‘Council and Democracy’ is now out of date. The updated document will be available from the 9 February 2009 on the Council webpage at: Home page -> Planning Policy and Conservation -> Planning Policy -> Site Allocation DPD.

The consultation period will begin on the 9 February 2009 for a period of 8 weeks, up to 6 April 2009.

It is during this 8 week period that representations and comments are welcomed on any of the proposed sites. The document and details on how to comment will be available on www.hinckley-bosworth.gov.uk

Please ensure that your comments are received during this time, if they are received outside of the consultation period they may not be counted.

The Site Allocations & Generic Development Control Policies Development Plan Document – Consultation Draft 2009
This development plan document (DPD) will allocate sites for housing, gypsy and traveller sites, employment, retail, recreation/open space, nature conservation and other land uses including the provision of community facilities and amenities. This document should be read in conjunction with the Council’s Core Strategy (proposed submission 2008) and the Infrastructure Delivery Plan set out on pages 67-88 of the Core Strategy document which details how the growth in the borough will be supported including the provision of new sporting facilities, GP surgeries and schools etc.

The DPD also contains policies relating to proposals that require site specific conditions such as design guidance, conservation and protection of open spaces through the generic development control policies which will be used in the day-to-day assessment of planning applications.

Consultation
During August to October 2007 this document underwent issues and options consultation to seek public opinion on the range of sites that had been submitted to the council for consideration for future allocation and the usefulness of development control policies.

The Site Allocations & Generic Development Control Policies DPD is now being prepared for Preferred Options Consultation and will present the Borough Council’s views on the preferred sites which could be allocated to deliver the authority’s allocation of growth set by the East Midlands Regional Plan (proposed changes 2008).

This document does not present the final allocations of land for future development, but presents options for professional bodies, departments and members of the public to consider, giving them the opportunity to express their views and offer alternative suggestions.

Before the council can formally undertake the six-week period of public consultation, the Site Allocations & Generic Development Control Policies DPD and accompanying Sustainability Appraisal must be agreed by Councillors at the Council meeting to be held on 20 January 2009.

View the covering report and associated documents being discussed by Councillors on 20 January 2009.
Should this be agreed by members, officers will then work towards a comprehensive schedule of consultation including mailouts, public exhibitions and workshops to be held over the agreed six-week period. Further details of these events will be published on the council’s website, in the local press and on posters to be distributed to local libraries and parishes.

Watch out for more information on the web and in the local press.

What happens then?
Following the completion of the six-week consultation period, officers will collate and consider all responses received and work towards revising the document accordingly in preparation for submission to the Secretary of State. Prior to submission, this document will undergo a further six-week consultation period to allow for any further representations third parties and individuals may wish to make.

The public examination of this document is not anticipated to take place until late spring 2010, with adoption occurring in winter 2010.

Please note: any applications for development on sites identified in the Site Allocations & Generic Development Control Policies DPD will be judged on existing Local Plan Policies. The Site Allocations & Generic Development Control Policies DPD does not become planning policy on which applications can be judged until it is adopted in 2010

Link to HBBC