Policy information sourced from South Bucks Core Strategy Development Plan Document
Core Policy 11: Healthy and Viable Town and Village Centres
Proposals for new retail, office and other main town centre uses should enhance the vitality and viability of centres in South Bucks, and support the following hierarchy:
- District Centres - Beaconsfield (New Town) and Gerrards Cross will complement the larger regional and sub-regional centres outside of the District, by providing for bulk convenience food shopping and offering a reasonable range and choice of comparison shops and other services, in a distinctive local environment.
- Local Centres – Beaconsfield (Old Town), Burnham, Farnham Common, Iver Village and Denham Green, will complement the District Centres by catering for top-up shopping trips and a more limited range of comparison shopping.
Neighbourhood Centres will be protected, recognising their important local role.
New retail provision will be encouraged to meet the indicative floorspace requirements set out in table 8 below (or as updated in a future Retail and Town Centre Study), with the allocation of sites in a subsequent Development Plan Document, as necessary. Redevelopment of the Bishop Centre is supported, although the actual form and scale of new retail provision will be subject to a more localised need, impact and sequential analysis, at the time a planning application is submitted. The Bishop Centre must maintain a scale and role which does not impact adversely on other centres, including Burnham, Slough and Maidenhead.
Particular support will be given to improvements in the retail offer in Beaconsfield (New Town), Gerrards Cross and Burnham. A limited increase in retail floorspace to meet local needs will be acceptable in the Local Centres. In particular, the regeneration and enhancement of Iver Village centre will be encouraged.
| Centre | Additional Convenience Floorspace (sqm) | Additional Comparison Floorspace (sqm) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007-2016 | 2016-2026 | 2007-2016 | 2016-2026 | |
| Beaconsfield | 250 | 100 | 0 | 2,250 |
| Gerrards Cross | 450 | 50 | 0 | 800 |
| Bishop Centre, Taplow | 350 | 100 | 250 | 1,000 |
| Other | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,250 |
For more information please see the Core Strategy Development Plan Document