Bishop's Tachbrook NDP Regulation 16 Submission

Ended on the 10 August 2020
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3.0 Planning Policy Context

3.1 The current local planning policy framework for the Neighbourhood Plan area comprises the Warwick District Local Plan 2011 to 2029, adopted in September 2017.

National Planning Policy and Guidance

3.2 National planning policy is set out in the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) published in revised form in February 2019. The NPPF sets out in paragraphs 7 and 8 that the purpose of the planning system is to contribute to the achievement of sustainable development, and that the planning system has to perform an economic role, a social role and an environmental role.

3.3 More specifically for neighbourhood plans, the NPPF states:

"29. Neighbourhood planning gives communities the power to develop a shared vision for their area. Neighbourhood plans can shape, direct and help to deliver sustainable development, by influencing local planning decisions as part of the statutory development plan. Neighbourhood plans should not promote less development than set out in the strategic policies for the area or undermine those strategic policies.

30. Once a neighbourhood plan has been brought into force, the policies it contains take precedence over existing non-strategic policies in a local plan covering the neighbourhood area, where they are in conflict; unless they are superseded by strategic or non-strategic policies that are adopted subsequently."

3.4 Neighbourhood plans have to be in "general conformity" with national and strategic local planning policies, and it is therefore important that as the plan is prepared, the NDP's policies reflect this higher-level planning framework. A summary document, Planning Policy Background and Evidence Base Review, has been prepared as a background document to the BTNDP. This has been used to inform the policies in the BTNDP.

Warwick District Planning Policy

3.5 Neighbourhood plans must be in general conformity with the strategic planning policy for the area. In the case of Bishop's Tachbrook this is contained in the Warwick District Local Plan 2011-2029.

3.6 The Warwick Local Plan 2011-2029 sets strategic planning policy on a number of matters that are relevant to Bishop's Tachbrook, including:

  • The overall level of housing provision for the area and how this should be managed in different areas, including villages,
  • The identification of strategic housing sites, in the north of the neighbourhood area at The Asps, Heathcote and Grove Farm,
  • The allocation of land for the Tach Brook Country Park; and
  • A number of planning policies dealing with landscape, heritage, and the natural environment.

National Planning Policy Framework (February 2019) https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/

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