7.0 Living Communities

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7.1.8

7.1.9 Since the start of the plan period in April 2018, the District has benefitted from a significant number of housing sites with planning permission, a number of housing completions and sites allocated through Neighbourhood Plans, this does not fully meet the housing need for the District. Additional housing is required to meet the changing housing needs of Bassetlaw, deliver the Spatial Strategy and maintain a five-year housing land supply.

This means, as required by national policy1, Policy ST16 will allocate land for housing in accordance with the Spatial Strategy, which concentrates housing development in the three Main Towns and Large Rural Settlements.

A site allocation is a planning policy that describes what type of land use, or mix of uses, would be acceptable on a specific site or whether the site is protected for certain types of development. The purpose of the site allocations in Policy ST16 is to allocate sites for housing development. Site allocations are important because they give guidance and certainty to developers and landowners and they help local people understand what may happen in their neighbourhood in the future. They provide a positive policy about the future development of the site and help ensure an appropriate amount and type of development happens in the right place, supported by infrastructure that addresses the needs and impacts generated by that development on local communities.

Each allocation has been assessed through the Land Availability Assessment2, with account taken of constraints on development, such as flood risk; and infrastructure partners’ views. Further detailed assessment was provided by the Sustainability Appraisal3 which identified potential sensitivities. The Whole Plan Viability Assessment4 ensures that each development could deliver infrastructure required as a consequence of its development.

The Land Availability Assessment2 identifies each site as either deliverable within the first 5 years of the plan period or developable later within the plan period. The envisaged start date and duration of construction for each allocation (taking account of the extent of site preparation and upfront infrastructure provision required, together with expected overall annual delivery rates) is reflected in the housing trajectory in the Land Availability Assessment. Each allocation is supported by a sitespecific policy in this Plan.

In the early plan period more development will be delivered by commitments in Worksop, Retford and Harworth & Bircotes; in sustainable locations in accordance with Policy ST1. Similarly housing development will take place in the Large Rural Settlements either through Neighbourhood Plan allocations or via commitments. The ongoing organic growth of the Small Rural Settlements will complement development elsewhere.

Moving through the plan period, allocations will continue to come forward, alongside the initial phases of development of key strategic sites at HS1: Peaks Hill Farm and HS13: Ordsall South. This will be supported by appropriate growth in the rural area. Towards the end of the plan period Bassetlaw Garden Village will start to deliver quality housing as part of the beginnings of this new community.

Sites allocated in this Plan will be expected to deliver the minimum net number of dwellings identified in the relevant site specific policy.

Each site allocation policy highlights site specific planning issues. Matters that apply to all development e.g. design, are not repeated in each site allocation policy. The site allocation policy must be read alongside other policies in this Plan to ensure all issues are properly considered. Draft Bassetlaw Local Plan, November 2020 77

7.1.11

7.1.12 To achieve sustainable development, the Council will require developers of each site, in conjunction with Nottinghamshire County Council and other infrastructure partners, to provide the infrastructure necessary to mitigate adverse impacts on existing infrastructure as identified in the Infrastructure Delivery Plan10 .

The Bassetlaw Whole Plan Viability Assessment (WPVA)4 states that the infrastructure identified for sites: HS1, HS3, HS4, HS6, HS7, HS11 and HS13 can reasonably be sought through on site delivery and developer contributions as part of a deliverable scheme provided that the site is exempt from the Community Infrastructure Levy. Infrastructure provision for the other sites will be sought through on site delivery, developer contributions and CIL.

The Council will support the use of a Planning Performance Agreement to ensure that a dedicated, specialist officer team is in place to progress site allocations of 50 or more units through the planning system.

POLICY ST16: Housing Distribution

In addition to the delivery of existing commitments and completions since the 1 April 2018, land for a minimum of 3080 new homes will be provided during the plan period to 2037 in the following locations:

Housing Allocations Reference

HS1 HS2 HS3 HS4 HS5 HS6 HS7 HS8 HS9 HS10 HS11 HS12 HS13 NP04 New settlement

Site Name Total Available Minimum

(Ha) No Dwellings

Peaks Hill Farm, Worksop 54 1000 Former Bassetlaw Pupil Referral Centre, Worksop 0.85 20 Radford Street, Worksop 3.5 120 Former Manton Primary School, Worksop 3.7 100 Talbot Road, Worksop 0.5 15 Former Knitwear Factory, Retford Road, Worksop 1.9 54 Trinity Farm, Retford 10.7 244 Milnercroft, Retford 0.45 5 Former Elizabethan School, W Furlong, Retford 1.3 46 St. Michael’s View, Hallcroft Road, Retford 0.37 20 Fairy Grove, Grove Road, Retford 2.7 61 Station Road, Retford 0.1 5 Ordsall South, Retford 103.4 800 Land south of Ollerton Road, Tuxford Bassetlaw Garden Village 1.5 216 90 500

7.2.1 7.2.2 7.2.3 7.2.4 7.2.5 7.2.6 7.2.7 Situated on the northern edge of Worksop, Peaks Hill Farm is adjacent to an existing residential and employment area. The site (63.7ha) provides an opportunity to create a sustainable and well integrated extension – for 1120 dwellings and 10.6ha of employment land - to significantly contribute to Worksop’s housing and local business needs in this plan period and the next. The site will have good access to a range of employment, retail and community facilities within the wider planned

development and Worksop itself.

Figure 15: Peaks Hill Farm

The development will be guided by a comprehensive masterplan framework prepared by the promotor, which will include community consultation and will require Council approval.

The first step is the Peaks Hill Farm Concept Plan (being consulted on as part of the Local Plan consultation) which sets out the vision and objectives, and broad development strategy for the site, illustrated by a visual concept plan. These form the fundamental development and design principles to help shape and inform the development of a masterplan, and in turn, guide decision-making.

The next stage will be for the promotors to use the draft Local Plan policy framework and consultation responses to inform the masterplan itself. An agreed suite of supporting strategies, design codes and parameter plans will also be required to inform planning applications and the phased delivery of the site. The masterplan framework should be prepared to enable it to be adopted as a Supplementary Planning Document.

Given the complex nature of delivering a large urban extension, it is considered appropriate to set a local plan growth target of 1000 dwellings to help meet local needs in this plan period, with the remaining homes to be delivered thereafter. On that basis the Housing Trajectory shows that housing delivery is not expected to start on the wider site until at least 2026.

The site will provide a range of house types and sizes to meet housing needs. These should include affordable homes, family homes, specialist housing and the opportunity to provide self- build plots should demand exist. Sustainable, innovative design of new development will be supported.

Complementing this will be the delivery of employment land – with planning permission for green technologies - allocated for 5ha in this plan period with a further 6ha of land thereafter, creating approximately 1000 jobs5 .