Policy information sourced from Wycombe District Local Plan
CP2 Overall Spatial Strategy
The Council will, through the allocations and policies in this Plan:
- Meet as much of the District’s need for housing and employment land as is sustainable to do so (as set out Policies CP4 and CP5) whilst protecting areas where development should be restricted including:
- Attaching great weight to conserving the landscape and scenic beauty of the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty when considering allocating sites in the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and not allocating sites that constitute “major development” in the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty;
- Protect the Green Belt by only releasing land from the Green Belt where there are exceptional circumstances for doing so.
- Direct broadly 85% of the housing requirement and most new employment land to the four larger settlements of the District (Tiers 1 and 2 of the settlement hierarchy), taking into account their relationship to the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and Green Belt, and their infrastructure constraints and opportunities;
- Direct broadly 15% of the housing requirement to the villages and limited new employment land, and facilitating rural enterprise and diversification to foster their social and economic well-being (Tiers 3-6 of the Settlement Hierarchy);
The Council will, through partnership working, progress issues of strategic connectivity relating to the strategic settlements, their connectivity and infrastructure needs within a wider sub-regional spatial strategy for growth for inclusion in future revisions of this Plan.
Policy information sourced from Wycombe District Local Plan