Bentworth Neighbourhood Plan Simon Jenkins Head of Planning Adam - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Bentworth Neighbourhood Plan Simon Jenkins – Head of Planning Adam Harvey – Principal Planning Officer Jennifer Howard – Planning Policy Officer

What are they? * Localism Act defines them * Community Plans * Slim-line processes of plan making * Community buy in * Part of Development Plan for EHDC * Referendum of community * Adoption * Monitored through EHDC Annual Monitoring Report

EHDC Local Plan * EHDC Local Plan Part 2 Housing and Employment Allocation (adopted 7 April 2016) * Plan allocates Land at corner of Church Street and Ashley Road (BTW001) for about 12 dwellings * Site now lies within the settlement policy boundary of Bentworth * Affordable housing threshold

BTW001 – site allocated in Part 2 Local Plan for 12 dwellings, now within the settlement policy boundary BTW002 – “Top Field”, land adjacent to Glebe Fields BTW003 – Land at Village Street BTW004 – Land at Drury Lodge BTW005 – The Park Lodge

What is a SHLAA? * Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (SHLAA) is a technical study * Purpose is to assess the amount of land available for development * Important source of evidence but does not make decisions about the future of sites * Development Plan allocates sites

2016 SHLAA * Moving away from ‘Red, Amber, Green’ * Replaced by detailed site appraisals * International and national constraints now excluded (e.g. Flood Zone 3) * Local policy constraints now identified in appraisals

Site proformas

Next steps * Use results from questionnaire * Develop Site Assessment Criteria * Allocation of 12 dwellings in EHDC Local Plan? * Allocation of other site/s? * Affordable housing threshold? * Rural exception site?

Any Questions?