new Local Plan 2016-2036 issues and options

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Vision (click to expand)

Bath and North East Somerset will be internationally renowned as a beautifully inventive and entrepreneurial 21st century place with a strong social purpose and a spirit of wellbeing, where everyone is invited to think big – a ‘connected’ area ready to create an extraordinary legacy for
future generations.

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Vision section of Local Plan document

Q1 - Have we identified the critical issues facing the District over the next 20 years?

Yes

Q1 - Please give reasons for your answer

Q2: Are the suggested spatial priorities the right ones?

Yes

Q2 - Please give reasons for your answer

Spatial Strategy (click to expand)

Through Urban Intensification in Bath. However, the new Local Plan has a key role in establishing how the ‘non-strategic growth’ of around 700 new dwellings will be delivered.

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Spatial Strategy section of the Local Plan document

Q3 - Which of the three scenarios do you think best addresses the need to accommodate non-strategic growth?

Option 1 - Continue the existing hierarchical approach

Option 2 - Focussed approach

Option 3 - Dispersed approach

Q3 - Please give reasons for your answer

Q4 - Are there any other approaches/scenarios you think should be considered for accommodating non-strategic growth in B&NES

Yes

Q4 - Please give reasons for your answer

Strategic Development Location: North Keynsham (click to expand)

There are a number of broad spatial scenarios to be explored before agreeing
the preferred approach for accommodating non-strategic growth. Such scenarios will be driven by the outcomes sought in the Vision and Spatial Priorities.

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North Keynsham section of Local Plan Document

Q5a - Have we considered all the issues?

Yes

Q5a - Please give reasons for your answer

Q5b - What other evidence do you think we need to consider?

The vision will be tested and expanded through the plan making process, particularly as the needs of stakeholders and partners are understood with increasing clarity.

Q6a What are your views on the vision and objectives?

Q6b What type of place should be created here?

Strategic Development Location: North Keynsham – Transport (click to expand)

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North Keynsham - Transport section of the Local Plan Document

Q7a - What do you think of the proposed road alignment?

Q7b - Do you have any views on the existing crossing points? Have you got any thoughts on the overall movement strategy?

Q8a - What do you think of the proposed approach to the street network and wider connections?

Q8b - Do you think it is important to create a healthy neighbourhood by encouraging walking and cycling?

Yes

Q8b - Please give reasons for your answer

Strategic Development Location: North Keynsham – Landscape & Housing (click to expand)

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North Keynsham - Landscape section of the Local Plan Document

Q9a - What do you think of the proposed response to landscape impact, especially considering views from the Cotswolds?

Q9b - How can we improve the Green Infrastructure network through the site?

Q10a - What should the housing mix comprise of?

Q10b - Is there any scope for other forms of housing, for example student accommodation?

Q11a - Do you agree with the principle of aiming for a Zero Carbon development?

Yes

Q11a - Please give reasons for your answer

Q11b - How ambitious should we be? How do you think this aim could be achieved?

Q12a - How can Avon Valley Wildlife & Adventure Park be best integrated into the new development?

Q12b - What opportunities are there to minimise visual impact from the Cotswolds?

Q12c - Do you agree with the requirement to link with the Bristol to Bath cycle path?

Yes

Q12c - Please give reasons for your answer

Strategic Development Location: Whitchurch – Vision and Development Area (click to expand)

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Whitchurch – Vision and Development Area of Local Plan Document

Q13a - What additional aspirations would you have here?

Q13b - How can this vision be delivered?

Q14a - Is this the right approach?

Yes

Q14a - Please give reasons for your answer

Q14b - Could some development take place in other areas outside of this broad development location? For example:

In Stockwood Vale?
Within the setting of Queen Charlton?
Within the setting of Maes Knoll?

Please give reasons for your response

Q14b - Could some development take place in other areas outside of this broad development location?

Q14c - What would be the benefits of this?

Q14d - What evidence is available to support development in these areas?

Q15 - What should happen with the existing separation between Whitchurch village and Bristol urban area? Should we:

Continue to protect the Green Belt gap & keep the village separate?

Allow some development, but keep a smaller gap?

Close the gap with development, and potentially have less development elsewhere?

Q15 - Please give reasons for your answer

Strategic Development Location: Whitchurch – Local Facilities and Green Infrastructure (click to expand)

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Whitchurch – Local Facilities and Green Infrastructure section of the Local Plan Document

Q16a - How could the existing village centre be enhanced to cater for the needs of an increased population?

Q16b - How do we best integrate new local centre and facilities with the existing communities?

Q17a - How can we improve the quality of green spaces, and ensure that people have better access to recreational facilities and to the natural environment?

Q17a - How can we improve the quality of green spaces, and ensure that people have better access to recreational facilities...

Q17b - How could we make more of Stockwood Vale or Maes Knoll as important environmental assets to the local area? Could they form part of a new strategic parkland for the area?

Q17b -How could we make more of Stockwood Vale or Maes Knoll as important environmental assets to the local area? Could...

Strategic Development Location: Whitchurch – Transport and Employment (click to expand)

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Whitchurch – Transport and Employment of the Local Plan Document

Q18a - How can we enhance routes for walking and cycling, for example to Keynsham and towards Bristol?

Q18b - How can we encourage greater use of public transport?

Q18c - How can we encourage people to be more active, more often?

Q18d - What other ideas could be explored to achieve these objectives?

Q19 - What sort of employment would be suitable as part of the new development and how much?

General Development Precedents (click to expand)

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General Development Precedents section of the Local Plan Document

Q20a - What are the qualities of the places on pages 24 to 27 that could be used in either of the new development areas?

Q20b - What aspects should we seek to avoid?

Q20c - What other precedents would you use?

Housing needs and student accommodation (click to expand)

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Housing needs and student accommodation section of the Local Plan

Q21a - Which of the options for responding to the universities' growth and demand for student accommodation should be the preferred approach?

Q21a - Which of the options for responding to the universities' growth and demand for student accommodation should be the...

Q21b - Are there any other options?

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