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Adur Development Plan - Core Strategy
Review of the Core Strategy - June 2008
Following the withdrawal of the old Core Strategy, a new Core Strategy is being produced, a process which began in January 2008. The Planning Policy Team have been and are currently consulting with members, stakeholders and the local strategic partnership about the new draft Core Strategy. We are also producing in parallel with the Core Strategy an Area Action Plan for Shoreham Harbour in joint partnership with Brighton & Hove City Council and west Sussex County Council with support from SEEDA.
The new government regulations will enable the plans to be produced more quickly and it is anticipated that consultation drafts will be made available in the summer of 2009, following the completion of a number of technical studies. Adoption of the plans is anticipated for 2011 following a public examination. Stakeholder consultation will take place throughout the whole process.
Introduction :
The
Council has been preparing a new Development Plan for Adur which will replace
the 1996 Adur District Local Plan. The Core Strategy is the first document
of the new plan to be prepared. It has been produced in line with national
planning legislation on the preparation of local development frameworks and
it will underpin all subsequent documents. The Core Strategy sets out a spatial
vision, strategy and policies to guide development in the district and help
protect and improve its environment and facilities over the next 20 years.
Through its key policies, the Core Strategy will help to meet the spatial
needs of Adur’s Community Strategy - “Your Community, Your Future”.
Core Strategy : Progress Report
The Core Strategy was submitted to the Secretary of State on the 31st January 2007 and a period of six weeks allowed for public representations to be made. An Inspector was appointed and a public examination programmed for September 2007.
Having considered the nature of the representations received, the Inspector raised a number of concerns regarding the Core Strategy which he wished to address at an exploratory meeting held on the 12th June of this year. Together with the Council, the inspector invited a number of government agencies to this meeting on the basis of the representations these bodies made on the Core Strategy. The main concerns of the Inspector were :
- Lack of details as to the delivery of development, particularly at the Harbour, Airport and Cement works.
- The evidence base and how this had informed the Core Strategy (particularly with regard to flooding and highway impact)
- Uncertainty regards the deliverability of housing sites (e.g. flooding and highway impact constraints)
Notwithstanding the above, the Inspector has stated that he does not underestimate the difficulties associated with being one of the front running authorities in the preparation of this new style of plan. He also noted that we were committed to producing a range of development plan documents to replace the existing adopted local plan as soon as possible and for this the Council should be commended.
It was unfortunate that it was not until after the Core Strategy was submitted that a number of new issues were raised by objectors which could not be addressed - the current planning system does not allow policy changes to be made during this later stage. The new White Paper on Planning recognises this as a flaw:
The delivery of the major sites as well as the housing sites depends on infrastructure provision (public transport, road improvements and flood mitigation measures) and the Council depends on other agencies and developers to provide these. Government resources are also needed.
It was the intention to deal with detailed delivery issues for the large sites as part of a subsequent plan - the site allocations document - rather than through the Core Strategy.
The planning advice on the preparation of Core Strategies has continued to change throughout the process of preparing the Core Strategy and the new Planning White Paper may change things even further.
The Council at its full meeting on the 11th September 2007 recommended that on the basis of recommendations from the Secretary of State the Core Strategy will be withdrawn. On 31st October 2007 the Secretary of State wrote to the Council saying they were satisfied that the Adur Core Strategy development plan document should be withdrawn and has made a direction under Section 22(2)(b) of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004. In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 22(2)(b) of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004, the Secretary of State directs Adur District Council to withdraw the Adur Core Strategy development plan document.
Review of the Core Strategy
The Council will now be revising the Core Strategy to ensure that it will address the issues raised by the Inspector to ensure that the Core Strategy is sound. A new timetable will be produced and included in the new Local Development Scheme.
A delay has a number of advantages :
- It allows time to take on board the South East Plan policies following its Examination, as well as current and any new Government guidance.
- It allows time to undertake further studies needed.
- We can work closely with the owners and developers of the main regeneration sites in Adur to ensure their deliverability with appropriate infrastructure provision.
- The Community Strategy is to be reviewed next year and the Core Strategy can dovetail with this
Exploratory Meeting - Inspector's Notes (.PDF 47kb)
Documents :
In order to produce the Core Strategy a number of technical studies were undertaken. These will be used to inform the review of the Core Strategy.
- Core Strategy Submission Document (.PDF 919kb)
- Statement of Community Involvement (.PDF 165kb)
- Sustainability Appraisal January 2007 (.PDF 409kb)
- Sustainability Appraisal Tables (.PDF 501kb)
- Review of Plans, Programmes and Policies (PPPs) (.PDF 148kb)
- Evidence Document (.PDF 397kb)
- Statement
of Compliance 22/12/2006 (.PDF 2.5Mb note - large
file)
- Site Allocations : Issues and Options
Document
- Public
Notice (.PDF 27kb)
- Technical
studies :
- Adur Local Development Framework Strategic Transport Study (.PDF 5.2Mb note - large file)
- Adur Retail Study :
- Adur Retail Study Volume 1 (.PDF 3.84Mb note - large file)
- Adur Retail Study Volume 2 (.PDF 535kb)
- Employment Land Review :
- Employment Land Review - Report (.PDF 296kb)
- Employment Land Review - Schedules (.PDF 1Mb note - large file)
- Employment Land Review - Annexes (.PDF 152kb)
- East Worthing Access Road Study, January 2006 (.PDF 231kb)
- Open Space, Sport and Recreation Study (.PDF 26.8Mb note - large file)
- Strategic
Level Flood Risk Assessment (SFRA) : Part 1 Report (.PDF
536kb)
- Figure A : Worthing and Adur SFRA Allocation Areas v2 (.PDF 896kb)
- Figure D : Worthing and Adur SFRA defences V2 (.PDF 897kb)
- Figure E : Worthing and Adur SFRA Designated Sites V2 (.PDF 1Mb note - large file)
- Figure H : Worthing and Adur SFRA Historic Events (.PDF 908kb)
- Figure L : Worthing and Adur SFRA Landcover (.PDF 892kb)
- Figure M : Worthing and Adur SFRA Model Extents (.PDF 851kb)
- Figure P (.PDF 16kb)
- Figure S (.PDF 15kb)
- Figure T : Worthing and Adur SFRA Topographic Data (.PDF 876kb)
- Figure T2 : Worthing and Adur SFRA Topographic Data V2 (.PDF 3Mb note - large file)
- Figure W : Worthing and Adur SFRA Flood Warning (.PDF 944kb)
- Figure Z : Worthing and Adur SFRA Flood Zones (.PDF 919kb)
- River Adur Catchment Flood Plan
:
- RACFP - Document 1 (.PDF 1,049kb note - large file)
- RACFP - Document 2 (.PDF 1,618kb note - large file)
- RACFP - Document 3 (.PDF 1,522kb note - large file)
- RACFP - Document 4 (.PDF 1,652kb note - large file)
- RACFP - Document 5 (.PDF 1,595kb note - large file)
- RACFP - Document 6 (.PDF 1,788kb note - large file)
- RACFP - Document 7 (.PDF 296kb)
- Urban Fringe Study (UFS) :
- UFS : Cover, contents and chapters 1 to 4 (.PDF 55kb)
- UFS : Chapter 5 (.PDF 2.4Mb note - large file)
- UFS : Chapter 6 (.PDF 600kb)
- UFS : Chapter 7a (.PDF 3.4Mb note - large file)
- UFS : Chapter 7b (.PDF 3Mb note - large file)
- UFS : Chapter 8 (.PDF 26kb)
- Urban
Housing Potential Study (.PDF 6.48Mb note - large
file)
- Other documents on our website :
- Other documents on other external websites :
- Adur Community Transport Plan (www.westsussex.gov.uk/ccm/content/roads-and-transport/area-transport-plans.en?page=2)
- Southdowns Management Plan (draft) (www.southdowns.gov.uk/rte.asp?id=7)
- Southdowns
Planning Guidelines (draft) (www.southdowns.gov.uk/rte.asp?id=96)
- Other useful websites :
- Sussex Biodiversity Action Plan (www.biodiversitysussex.org)
- Environment Agency : Shoreham Adur Tidal Walls (West bank) Consultation
Document
(requires user name and password : www.environment-agency.gov.uk/
regions/southern/201793/1351070/1351132/?version=1&lang=_e)
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