Rotherham Local Development Framework

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Rotherham Local Development Framework

• Core Strategy
• Preferred Options

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Local Development Framework

• Replaces current Unitary Development Plan
• Statutory requirement
• Promotes spatial planning and sustainable
  development
• Spatial expression of Community Strategy

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Initial LDF Documents

• Core Strategy cornerstone of the LDF
• Supporting Sites and Policies documents
• Priorities of Economy, Housing and Transport
• Robust evidence base, soundness tests,
  sustainability appraisal, consultation

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Core Strategy Stages

• Feb 2006 Front loaders workshop
• May/June 2006 Alternative Options
• Jan/Mar 2007 Preferred Options
• Late 2007 Submit to Government
• 2008 Independent Examination

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Preferred Options Document

• Why a Core Strategy?
• Policy context
• Rotherham now
• Vision to 2021
• Options to deliver vision

• Selection of Preferred Option
• Development amount/spatial distribution issues
• 9 supporting policy directions
• Key Diagram

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9 Policy Directions

• PD1 Sustainable Communities
• PD2 Housing
• PD3 Industry and Commerce
• PD4 Retail and Leisure
• PD5 Waste Management
• PD6 Transportation
• PD7 Local Heritage
• PD8 Efficient Use of Resources
• PD9 Community Safety and Well Being

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PD1 Sustainable Communities

• Hierarchy of settlements
• Urban Renaissance in main urban areas Rotherham
  Urban Centre, Wath, Dinnington and Maltby
• Protect Green Belt with some changes
• Distinctive communities through better urban
  design and facilities

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PD2 Housing

• Around 19,500 new dwellings 2004-2026
• Sustainable developments in accessible locations
• Improve choice and affordability
• Regenerate Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder
  areas and older housing areas
• Potential large-scale housing at Waverley

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PD3 Industry and Commerce (i)

• Employment land requirement of around 328
  hectares up to 2021
• Focus on Rotherham Town Centre and larger
  outlying centres
• Strategic locations at Waverley, Manvers,
  Templeborough, Dinnington and Aldwarke

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PD3 Industry and Commerce (ii)

• Logistic/distribution centres in locations on the
  primary road, rail and canal network
• Safeguard existing firms and encourage new
  businesses in sustainable communities and areas
  of greatest job need
• Provide for business and leisure tourism
• Encourage rural diversification

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PD4 Retail and Leisure

• Enhance Rotherham Town Centre as a sub-regional
  centre
• Provide further retail, leisure and service
  facilities in line with retail hierarchy
• Restrict out-of-town development
• Retain neighbourhood facilities

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PD5 Waste Management

• Promote sustainable waste management and
  innovation with potential benefits to the local
  economy
• Provide new waste management sites and operations

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PD6 Transportation

• Reduce the need to travel and promote more
  sustainable transport solutions
• Improve public transport services, interchanges
  and parking management
• Better pedestrian and cycling facilities
• Key transport corridors connecting sustainable
  locations

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PD7 Local Heritage

• Promote biodiversity and geodiversity
• Conservation Area management plans
• Landscape character assessment and new area
  designations
• Safeguard greenspace networks and set new local
  standards
• Manage countryside resources

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PD8 Efficient Use of Resources

• Treat unstable and contaminated land
• Higher density development where appropriate
• Regulate minerals production
• Integrated management of water catchments
• Encourage energy efficiency and increased use of
  renewable energy in new developments

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PD9 Community Safety and Well Being

• Mitigate flood risk in new development
• Reduce potential pollution from new development
• Incorporate crime reduction measures in the
  layout and design of new development Secured
  by Design

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Dearne Settlements

• Wath town centre housing, Manvers links
• Swinton town centre housing
• Kilnhurst loss of employment land to housing,
  links to rail interchange
• Brampton/West Melton new housing on greenspace?
  links to Cortonwood
• Rawmarsh redevelopment of local centre

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Rotherham Urban

• Town Centre renaissance housing and mixed use
  developments
• Restructuring of housing offer / additional local
  employment in HMR Pathfinder areas
• Better connectivity between housing and urban
  centre/employment via Bus Rapid Transit
• Scope for major employment development at
  Aldwarke with transport corridor improvements

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Urban Fringe

• Lack of employment sites at Bramley/ Wickersley
  safeguard existing sites and links to Hellaby and
  other job centres via Bus Rapid Transit
• Popular housing market area limited
  opportunities and out-commuting via M18 Motorway

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Rotherham/Sheffield Corridor

• Abandon major Thorpe Hesley housing development
  re-allocate to Green Belt
• Scope for additional housing at Kiveton subject
  to rail improvements and local facilities
• Potential new mixed use community at Waverley
  subject to sustainable transport
• Concern about long term future of Blackburn
  motorway noise and traffic emissions

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Outlying Settlements

• Additional housing and employment at Maltby
  Green Belt release and BRT improvements
• Dinnington/South Anston/ Laughton Common
  additional housing and employment land to reduce
  commuting, possible Green Belt release
• Limited employment land at Thurcroft reduces
  scope for additional housing possible longer
  term development on greenfield sites with
  improved BRT links

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Next Steps

• Preferred Option not a done deal
• Analyse consultation responses
• Develop and refine policy directions
• Firm up spatial aspects with more local content
• Produce Submission Draft (to Government)
• Independent Examination of Core Strategy