puts sustainable development at the heart of planning:
Sustainable Development
One of the basic conditions underlying a Neighbourhood
Plan (or Neighbourhood Order or Community Right to Build Order) should be that
it contributes to the achievement of sustainable development.
The Government’s approach to sustainable development
is set out in the National Planning Policy Framework. Essentially, it is about
enabling growth to cater for the needs of current generations, but ensuring
that growth doesn’t mean worse lives for future generations.
There are many ways in which a Neighbourhood Plan can
address sustainable development. Some examples are:
• encouraging and requiring mixed transport provision,
including accessible public transport, cycle facilities and safe and convenient
pedestrian routes
• mixed-use areas, thereby reducing the need for
travel
• a good mix of community facilities in walking
distance where possible
• facilities to support and encourage home working
• good urban design, creating safe, overlooked, attractive,
well-connected streets and spaces
• ensuring new development enhances the viability of
city, town, village
and local centres
• provision of varied local employment opportunities
at a sustainable wage
• provision of affordable housing and a good mix of
housing types
• protection and enhancement of wildlife areas and
measures to support bio-diversity
• encouragement for the reuse and refurbishment of
existing buildings
• ensuring development builds in facilities to
encourage recycling, water collection, local energy generation, etc.
• ensuring works to improve the performance of
traditional buildings are compatible with their building technology (the need
for walls to breathe)
• prioritising brown field sites
• conserving historic buildings and environments and
ensuring they remain in productive use
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