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SLP Team3 years ago Ensure that growth contributes to decarbonisation through reduced reliance on fossil fuels and achievement of biodiversity net gain; and the delivery of zero and low carbon development that is resilient and adaptable to climate change incorporating measures to aid urban cooling and biodiversity such as green walls and tree planting. Ensuring growth takes place in sustainable locations that minimise the need to travel and provide genuine sustainable transport and active travel options. Making the most effective use of previously developed land, including higher density development in city and town centres and other locations well served by public transport. Ensure development effectively integrates with existing development, and/or is a self-contained development that provides shops, services, facilities through walking, cycling or public transport. Delivers low and zero carbon energy development, making the most effective use of renewable energy opportunities, both in new developments and off-site energy generation. Ensure development is located in areas that are not liable to flooding, considering the implications of climate change, making effective use of sustainable drainage systems and natural flood management techniques. Ensure that existing infrastructure is adequately protected from the threat of flooding, and that existing flood defences and protected and enhanced. Ensure development incorporates measures to reduce waste. Ensure people can make carbon friendly choices at home by providing easy to use cycle storage, covered space to dry washing outside, space to grow food and compost.

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SLP Team3 years ago Ensuring a network of city and town centres that meet the needs of communities, including supporting cultural uses and events, and that are able to respond and evolve as the role and function of centres changes. Support the provision of a wide range of different uses appropriate to city and town centres, including new homes, to create activity at different times of the day and build an active city and town centre community. To draw on the uniqueness of the different centres in planning for their future.

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SLP Team3 years ago People’s housing needs will have been met through the provision of sustainable, high-quality market, affordable and other specialist homes set in beautiful, safe places and conforming to sustainable standards of design and construction. The focus will have been on making best possible use of brownfield sites in built up areas and large-scale, comprehensively planned new development to ensure our valuable green spaces and highest quality farmland are preserved. The vital role of the area’s city centre, town centres and high streets will have been improved through careful management of development and land uses.

SLP Team3 years ago Growth will have been supported by the provision of a range of essential digital, transport, community and other infrastructure. Equally, alongside conserving the area’s special landscapes and its attractiveness as a place to visit, a network of interconnected green spaces and waterways will have secured a high-quality environment for people and nature. Together with necessary retention and management of existing sports and leisure facilities, this will have unlocked opportunities for healthy lifestyles, inclusive access to sport and recreation, active flood risk management and improvements to biodiversity.

SLP Team3 years ago 1. Supporting the creation of high quality, beautiful and sustainable buildings and places through good design.2. Ensuring that new development is integrated well with existing communities and providing well-located infrastructure which meets the needs of communities;3. Creating a strong sense of place through high quality and inclusive design that respects and enhances local distinctiveness.

SLP Team3 years ago This option would mean distributing growth widely across the rural area by encouraging development at many existing settlements and potentially other rural locations (such as redundant industrial sites or farm complexes). This would mean the smallest of hamlets and villages could contribute to meeting overall development needs, even where they are not currently recognised in the JCS settlement hierarchy as Rural Service Centres or Service Villages.

SLP Team3 years ago This option means delivering development in locations along existing and potential high frequency public transport, walking and cycling routes. It draws on the broad objectives of Gloucestershire County Council as the body responsible for managing road and public transport networks. The Local Transport Plan in particular, promotes sustainable travel. Development under this scenario would need to be integrated in, or linked to, the Gloucestershire cycle spine and the proposed Gloucestershire Mass Rapid Transport system, which is a longer-term aspiration. Furthermore, all the local authorities in Gloucestershire have agreed a Statement of Shared Intent to in principle to reduce carbon emissions from transport in line with science-based targets to achieve net zero ambitions by 2050.

SLP Team3 years ago This option would involve much more intense development than would traditionally be expected on urban sites in Gloucester and Cheltenham, particularly on previously developed land. This would include substantial increases in densities; higher buildings even in more sensitive areas such as Conservation Areas; conversions or rebuilding of retail or other town Centre properties into housing or mixed-use schemes.

SLP Team3 years ago This option would mean seeking to deliver development through one or more comprehensive, master-planned new settlements, of a minimum of around 4,000 new homes with supporting infrastructure. Currently, three such potential locations have been identified based on information submitted on behalf of landowners/promoters. The locations are around Boddington on land to the south of the A4109 between the A38 and M5 corridors. A further potential option is presented straddling the boundary of Tewkesbury Borough and the Forest of Dean between Churcham and Highnam in the south west of the SLP area. The third option lies to the east of the M5 at Ashchurch on the edge of the built-up area of Tewkesbury.

SLP Team3 years ago This option would mean seeking to deliver development as urban extensions to the key urban areas of Cheltenham, Gloucester and Tewkesbury Town, but avoiding the Green Belt. This scenario has been identified because the government attaches great importance to Green Belt and the NPPF makes clear that its boundaries should only be altered where exceptional circumstances to do so are fully evidenced and justified through a Local Plan. For this reason, the role of the Green Belt in planning for long-term growth is subject of much national debate.

SLP Team3 years ago This option would mean seeking to deliver development as urban extensions to the key urban areas of Cheltenham, Gloucester and Tewkesbury Town, and could include sites which fall within the designated Green Belt. The development strategy of the JCS focused on such extensions as a means of meeting some of the housing needs of Gloucester and Cheltenham. In addition, several areas of land were removed from the Green Belt and ‘safeguarded’ for longer term development needs.

SLP Team3 years ago Delivering sufficient new homes in the right places to meet the needs of our communities, including market and affordable, specialist homes (e.g. older persons), Gypsy, Travellers and Travelling Showpeople and those wishing to build their own homes (self and custom build homes). Delivering housing of the right size, type and tenure to crate mixed and balanced communities, in sustainable locations and with good access to shops, services and facilities.

SLP Team3 years ago Today’s young people will soon be looking for jobs and starting families of their own, without necessarily wanting to move away from their roots. They will need somewhere to live, work and send their own children to school in a way that if affordable. In June 2023 the Office for National Statistics reported that the average UK house price was £288,000, well beyond the reach of many. The affordability of rural housing is a particular challenge with recent analysis by the National Housing Foundation reporting that social housing waiting lists grew by 31% in the three-year period up to 2022, compared with a 3% increase in urban areas. How can the SLP ensure that there are enough affordable homes for people?

SLP Team3 years ago 1. Reducing the need to travel by creating real options for healthy, accessible and walkable neighbourhoods where key services are available without the need to use motorised transport;2. Promoting the use of sustainable travel modes by improving existing and providing new frequent public transport links and safe walking and cycling routes in all new developments;3. Reducing reliance on the private vehicle by improving access to services in rural and urban areas through new development, improved integrated transport links and supporting local and community led transport initiatives in the Local Transport Plan;4. Creating a genuine choice between different modes of transport by integrating new development with existing networks and enhancing these wherever possible.

SLP Team3 years ago Providing the right conditions and sufficient land in the right locations to support existing and new businesses and deliver the ‘green growth’. Improve the area’s economic resilience, supporting a highly skilled workforce, skills and educational development attainment. Providing the right environment for business start-ups, entrepreneurship, and the improvement and expansion of education and training facilities to develop the skills employers need. Supporting the needs of agricultural businesses, encouraging farm diversification, the development of small rural business units, the conversion of existing buildings for rural business use, appropriate expansion of existing businesses. Supporting effective home working through provision of housing with adequate space and services. Developing the area’s role as a tourist destination, building on the unique and varied cultural offer that already exists. Ensuring access to high speed, reliable full-fibre broadband connectivity in both urban and rural areas.

SLP Team3 years ago Investment in training, skills and development will have attracted and retained a younger workforce and provided new premises and flexible workspaces to support a flourishing circular economy in both urban and rural areas. Inward investment, innovation and growth in key sectors including, amongst others, cyber and digital-tech, food/agri-tech, advanced engineering and tourism will have been fostered.

SLP Team3 years ago By 2041, and beyond for larger scale developments, the Cheltenham, Gloucester and Tewkesbury area will have harnessed the opportunities of green growth to create thriving, beautiful, energy efficient, resilient and healthy places. Growth will have afforded the highest possible quality of life for all in a manner which achieves carbon reductions and addresses the causes and effects of climate change.

SLP Team3 years ago This option means putting the new homes and jobs (development) alongside existing and new public transport (bus, coach and train), walking and cycling routes.The County Council (Gloucestershire County Council) are in charge of looking after roads and public transport routes. They have plans to make travel better for people and the environment.To do this they hope to build a "Gloucestershire Mass Rapid Transport System". This will be a fast service that can carry lots of people. It will make public transport quicker and more appealing to more people.

SLP Team3 years ago 1. Delivering new developments that are supported by the necessary social and community infrastructure, including schools, open space, playing fields, community facilities and green and blue infrastructure and promote community cohesion.2. Supporting and safeguarding village shops that serve the everyday needs of local communities.3. Delivering new developments that are fully integrated into the green infrastructure network to allow people access to nature and green spaces to maximise wellbeing and active travel opportunities. 4. Ensure new developments create high quality living environments and prioritise health and mental wellbeing. 5. Ensure that all homes have useable functioning amenity space that allows residents the opportunity to live, work and relax outside.

SLP Team3 years ago Within our area there are three further education establishments: the University of Gloucestershire, the University of the West of England and Gloucestershire Royal Hospital. Outside of the area, but in close proximity, is Hartpury University and College. There have been recent investments, for example the conversion of the former Debenhams building in Gloucester City Centre as a new campus for the University of Gloucestershire. This is due to open in September 2024 and once fully open, will provide brand new teaching facilities for 4,500 students. To support the growing student population there have also been significant new student accommodation developments, including Pitville student village in Cheltenham and Blackfriars in Gloucester.Through the SLP, it’s important to support the delivery of new student accommodation to meet the needs of the growing universities and further education establishments. However, this form of accommodation tends to be used by students in their first year, with private sector housing used for later years. This can cause problems with the loss of family housing to student lets and issues arising from the loss of character of an area.How can we make sure the SLP welcomes students but gets the balance right?

SLP Team3 years ago Making as much use as possible of brownfield land and conserving and enhancing the natural and historic environments1. Protecting and enhancing the area’s unique historic and cultural environment, archaeological heritage and geological assets whilst enabling appropriate development that facilitates the cross-cutting objectives of sustainable development;2. Conserving, managing and enhancing the area’s unique natural environment and biodiversity, including its waterways, Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), the Cotswolds National Landscape, and areas of landscape and biodiversity importance, and maximising the opportunities to use land to manage flood water;3. Ensuring developments support green infrastructure and improve existing green infrastructure within urban and rural areas to provide movement corridors for people and wildlife.

SLP Team3 years ago The SLP will need to ensure that the needs for housing for older and disabled people are addressed. National planning guidance sets out advice on the different types of specialist housing designed to meet the diverse needs of older people, which can include: · Age-restricted market housing.· Retirement living or sheltered housing.· Extra care housing or housing-with-care.· Residential care homes and nursing homes.Other models of housing include co-housing, which are created and run by residents, allowing people to live with others with similar needs and desires. The SLP will similarly need to consider the need for accessible and adaptable housing to enable disabled people to live more independently and safely, with greater choice and control over their lives. How can we ensure the SLP plans for the needs of older and disabled people?