Yorkshire Dales Local PlanNew opportunities 2015 – 2030

Changes since last Local Plan 2006

• Adoption of YDNP Management Plan 2013 - 2018• Adoption of YDNP Housing Development Plan 2012 -2027• Presumption in favour of sustainable development (NPPF)• Objectively assessed need 2012• Abolition of Regional Spatial Strategies 2012• Duty to cooperate 2011• Neighbourhood planning 2011• Increased planning flexibilities (permitted development and

change of use) 2014• Legal challenge to national policy 2015

Local Plan objectives

• Support locally-sustainable development• Support development that will maintain or develop new services for the

benefit of communities. • Encourage development that will support a growing, diverse and resilient

economy, which increases the proportion of young adults and people of working age living in the Park.

• Use the planning system to help deliver conservation and public enjoyment.

• Encourage development in locations with services • Support innovative and high-quality design• Ensure the landscape is responsive to change while at the same time

conserving and enhancing its character.

Main policy changes 1

Housing

• Increased financial viability of allocated sites• Housing target• More flexibility for local occupancy• New allocated business sites

Business/employment

• Wider opportunities for farming and rural land based enterprises• New live/ work policy• Wider range of high street uses• Clear support for reinstated Wensleydale Railway• New flexibility for visitor accommodation and facilities

Main policy changes 2

Conservation/heritage/Landscape• Open space review• Roll out of residential conversion to roadside barns• New crushed rock quarrying policy• New biodiversity enhancement policy

Outcome of Representations

• 49 responses from 7 individuals, 4 Parish Councils, 5 local authorities and 3 central govt. agencies. The rest were from local and national organisations and planning consultants

• 164 representations in total. 35 propose minor changes and 62 are observations. 67 are substantive objections about: – Housing target, viability, local occupancy– Locational strategy– Open space protection policy– Barns/conservation levy– Quarrying policy– Caravan policy

Next stages

• Issues/ Options 2012/13• Draft Plan consultation June 2014• Publication and formal representations July 2015• Give weight to emerging policy October 2015 -• Submission to Planning Inspectorate January2016• Examination April 2016• Adoption 2016• Implementation and review eg. new housing sites