Policy information sourced from the Braintree District Council Local Plan 2013-2033.
LPP 14: Retail Warehouse Development.
Retail warehouse development will be permitted within or immediately adjoining town centres and land identified for retail warehousing on the Proposals Map. If no such sites are available then the sequential approach will be applied, together with an impact assessment, if applicable.
Proposals outside of town centres will be required to satisfy all the following criteria:
- A sequential test and impact assessment which demonstrates that no material harm to an identified Town, District or Local Centre would occur and that no sequentially preferable sites are available;
- Development to be confined to the sale of non-food retail products, of a weighty or bulky nature and associated ancillary goods.
For more information, please visit Braintree District Council’s Local Plan here.