RE: Local Green Spaces on allocated sites - Public forum - Planning Advisory Service (PAS)
RE: Local Green Spaces on allocated sites
Lorayne Woodend, modifié il y a 7 années.
Local Green Spaces on allocated sites
New Member Publications: 9 Date d'inscription: 12/08/13 Publications RécentesWe have a community that are preparing a Neighbourhood Plan and wish to include in it a Local Green Space designation to apply to a portion of a field on the edge of a small town - the wider field and neighbouring fields are allocated for mixed use (residential and employment) development in our adopted Local Plan. The site is not yet subject to a planning application but is subject to an adopted Development Brief. The Brief does identify a piece of land to be retained as public open space that closely reflects the area the community wishes to designate, however, Development Briefs are of course only guidance and the area identifed may not be the exact area actually left open in the final development.
Can a such a space be designated as Local Green Space?
i.e. firstly, would it meet the criteria anyway, especially the ones about it being demonstrably special to the community and local in nature given it is currently 'just' a portion of a field outside the town and currently has no public access
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Secondly, if the NP is adopted with such a designation in it before the application is approved then it would effectively give policy weight to something set out only as guidance in the brief, it the application and approval came first then the NP could only designate whatever the approved development happened to leave as open space, which should be guided by the Brief but may not reflect it exactly...could either come first, are both appropriate/reasonable in process terms?
Jo Witherden, modifié il y a 7 années.
RE: Local Green Spaces on allocated sites
Enthusiast Publications: 33 Date d'inscription: 21/10/11 Publications RécentesLorayne Woodend, modifié il y a 7 années.
RE: Local Green Spaces on allocated sites
New Member Publications: 9 Date d'inscription: 12/08/13 Publications RécentesThanks Jo - that pretty much fits with my thinking
Lorayne
jim Allen, modifié il y a 7 années.
RE: Local Green Spaces on allocated sites
New Member Envoyer: 1 Date d'inscription: 11/10/16 Publications RécentesLorayne Woodend, modifié il y a 7 années.
RE: Local Green Spaces on allocated sites
New Member Publications: 9 Date d'inscription: 12/08/13 Publications RécentesHi Lorayne,
We have a similar issue in our Borough where a Neighbourhood Plan seeks to designate Local Green Space as part of a strategic housing allocation in the Local Plan, with the Local Green Space boundary informed by an indicative masterplan (in an SPD) for a site that is yet to gain planning permission.
The indicative masterplan is precisely that, and there is no certainty that the area in the indicative masterplan will correlate to the area of open space that will be delivered as part of the development. To designate Local Green Space prior to permission being granted for the strategic site could be argued to unduly constrain or undermine the delivery of the strategic allocation (and strategic policy) in the Local Plan by applying Green Belt policy within the site. If this is the case then it would result in the NDP not being in general conformity with the strategic policies in the Local Plan, and the NDP failing to meet the basic conditions.
In my view the Local Green Space designation is to be applied retrospectively to open spaces with demonstrable community value. The open space delivered as part of the strategic allocation has the potential to meet the criteria in NPPF 77 in the future, and should that materialise then Local Green Space could be designated through a review of the NDP or Local Plan.
I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on this!
Anthony
Lorayne Woodend, modifié il y a 7 années.
RE: Local Green Spaces on allocated sites
New Member Publications: 9 Date d'inscription: 12/08/13 Publications RécentesHi Anthony
Many thanks for this helpful response. It does sound like we have some very similar circumstances here, the only differences being that I'm not sure we'd consider the allocation we have as 'strategic' and we are calling our SPD a Development Brief rather than an Indicative Masterplan.
I don't think that in our case designating the particular part of the site as LGS could be argued to unduly constrain or undermine the delivery of the allocation as the Brief is adopted and shows as open space the exact area the NP wants to designate as LGS, so this is what the landowners and developers are expecting to have to at least reflect in any proposed development of the site - they have been involved in the preparation of the Brief - although the Brief is only guidance so the acutal open space on the ground is likely to be at least a little different to that in the LGS proposal and Dev Brief. I also don't think that in our case it would cause the Plan to conflict with the Strategic Policies of our adopted Local Plan because we would require that sort of level of open space to be provided on a site of this size through policy anyway.
I do however fully agree with you that LGS can realistically only be applied retrospectively - i.e. once they actually exist and once they can demonstrate community value. As you say, the open space delivered as part of the development of the allocation is likely to meet the criteria in NPPF 77 in the future, and LGS could then be designated through a review of the NP or Local Plan.
Thanks again for your reply - togetehr with the earlier responses, that helps us respond to the NP group with confidence that our thinking was along the right lines.