Policy information sourced from the Aylesbury Local Plan

D1 Delivering Aylesbury Garden Town

Aylesbury Garden Town is the focus for the majority of Aylesbury Vale’s growth. It should develop in accordance with the vision for Aylesbury Garden Town set out above and deliver key infrastructure requirements (in accordance with Policy S5).

Aylesbury will deliver at least 16,207 new homes. Taking account of commitments and completions, 3,282 homes are allocated at Aylesbury in the Plan. The Policies Map allocates the following major sites for development:

  • South Aylesbury (D-AGT1)
  • South west Aylesbury (D-AGT2)
  • Aylesbury north of A41 (D-AGT3)
  • Aylesbury south of A41 (D-AGT4)
  • Berryfields, Aylesbury (D-AGT5)
  • Kingsbrook, Aylesbury (D-AGT6)

The following smaller sites are also allocated:

  • Ardenham Lane, Aylesbury (D-AYL032)
  • Land at Thame Road/Leach Road, Aylesbury (D-AYL073)
  • Post Office Sorting Office Cambridge Street (D-AYL052)
  • Land at the Junction of Buckingham Street & New Street (D-AYL059)
  • Hampden House (D-AYL063)
  • Land North of Manor Hospital (D-AYL068)
  • Rabans Lane (D-AYL115)

Provision will be made for employment within the enterprise zones and at identified employment sites across the town in line with Policy E1 and allocations AGT3, AGT4, AGT5 and AGT6.

To comply with policy T1 Delivering The Sustainable Transport Vision, all development in Aylesbury Garden Town should make a significant contribution to meeting the Aylesbury Transport Strategy.

To complement housing and employment provision, developments in the town centre will contribute to consolidating and enhancing its role as set out in policy D8.

The design and delivery of development within Aylesbury Garden Town should adhere to the following principles:

  • To create distinctive, inclusive sustainable, high quality, successful new communities which support and enhance existing communities within the town and neighbouring villages with the highest quality, planning, design and management of the built and public realm. This will ensure that new garden communities and development within the Garden Town is distinctive, creates a local identity, enhances local assets and establishes environments that promote health, happiness and well-being. The Aylesbury Garden Town design principles detailed design guidance will be set out within the overarching Aylesbury Vale Design SPD
  • Ensuring the right infrastructure is provided at the right time, ahead of or in tandem with the development that it supports, to address the impacts of new garden communities and to meet the needs of residents and the town’s changing demographics (in accordance with Policy S5 and the Infrastructure Delivery Plan). The AGT Framework and Infrastructure SPD will set out in detail when infrastructure is required and how it will be delivered and funded
  • Community and stakeholder engagement is embedded within the design and delivery of the Garden Town from the outset. The stakeholder and engagement strategy for the Garden Town will need to be taken into account and long-term community engagement planned for
  • Development will be delivered to provide a truly balanced, inclusive and accessible community that meet the needs of local people, including the mix of dwellings sizes, tenures and types including provision for custom and self build and for an ageing population (in line with policies H5 and H6a, b and c); the Garden Town will also deliver housing for those most in need through delivery of a minimum of 25% affordable housing (in line with policy H1)
  • Providing and promoting opportunities for local employment for new and existing residents, both within and alongside new garden communities, to support and enhance the overall economic viability of Aylesbury Garden Town (in line with policies E1, E2, E3, E4 and E5)
  • Promote and encourage sustainable travel choices through integrated, forward looking and accessible transport options which support economic prosperity and wellbeing for residents. Travel plans will be required to increase walking, cycling and the promotion of public transport routes connecting new garden communities to the town and beyond. New development should be planned around a user hierarchy that places pedestrians and cyclists at the top. Consideration should also be given to delivering electric vehicle infrastructure in new development and disability discrimination requirements. Policies T1, T2, T3, T4, T6, T7 and T8 should be taken into account
  • New garden communities should be designed to be easily accessible and maximise opportunities to integrate with existing communities to create healthy sociable, vibrant and walkable neighbourhoods with equality of access for all to a range of community service and facilities including health/wellbeing, education, retail, culture, community meeting spaces, multifunctional open space, sports and leisure facilities and well connected to public transport. Policies I2 and I3 should be taken into account. The Aylesbury Garden Town Framework and Infrastructure supplementary planning document (SPD) will be developed as required to set out clear and detailed advice for place-making
  • Creation of distinctive environments which seek to achieve a minimum of 50% land within the proposed garden communities as local and strategic multi functional green infrastructure which should be designed as multifunctional, accessible, and maximise benefits for wildlife, recreation and water management. This will include land required to mitigate the ecological and flood risk impacts of development. As part of the masterplan for allocated sites, areas of Best and Most Versatile Agricultural Land will be preferred to be used for green infrastructure. Management regimes should be developed in tandem with the detailed development of GI for each of the garden communities. Policies I1, I2, I3, I4, I5, I6, NE1, NE2, NE3 and NE4 should be taken into account. A site-specific Masterplan SPD will be developed for AGT1 Aylesbury South in order to set out clear and detailed advice for place-making
  • Establishing opportunities for appropriate and sustainable governance and stewardship arrangement for community assets including green space, public realm, community and other relevant facilities. Such arrangements should be funded by developments and include community representation
  • New garden communities should be designed to be resilient places that allow for changing demographics, future growth and the impacts of climate change by anticipating opportunities for technological change including renewable energy measures and 5G.

Policy information sourced from the Aylesbury Local Plan