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Sheffield Local Plan (formerly Sheffield Development Framework)
City Policies and Sites Document and Proposals Map
Simon Vincent, Forward and Area Planning
Purpose of Presentation
• City Policies & Sites and Proposals Map - representations period
• What’s new since last version (2010)?• Weight attached to document in decisions• How to comment• Next steps
Core Strategy• Adopted 2009• Spatial plan – where
and how• Overall vision –
Transformation and Sustainability
• Objectives• Spatial strategy• Key diagram• Overall housing and
employment land requirements to 2026 (until reviewed)
City Policies and Sites
• Flows from Core Strategy • Policies to provide criteria
to guide development management
• Land uses in policy areas– Preferred– Acceptable– Unacceptable
• Site Allocations– Conditions– Justification– How delivered
Proposals MapShows: • policy areas delivering spatial
strategy e.g.:– Priority Office Areas– Industrial Areas– Housing Areas– Central Shopping Area– District Centres– Flexible Use Areas– Open Space Areas– Green Belt etc.
• Other designations• Site allocations to safeguard
sites to help deliver strategic requirements:– Housing– Employment
The Process so Far
• Emerging Options: consultation 2006• Preferred Options: consultation 2007• Interlude: Core Strategy Examination 2008• Draft Document and Proposals Map: consultation
2010• The search for more housing land: consultation 2012• Pre-submission draft: representations 2013
– to check soundness
What’s new? – Greater Flexibility
Policy Areas• Priority Office Areas - reduction of minimum %
preference for offices• Business Areas - no preference for particular
uses, e.g. offices (and up to 40% housing)• More extensive flexible areas
Allocated Sites• Required use % reduced• Flexible site allocations
What’s new? – CIL
• Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL)
Policy identifies broad priorities:
- types of infrastructure
- criteria for prioritising
• Specific priorities
- transport
- schools
- green infrastructure
- measures critical to economic & spatial strategy
What’s new? - Housing
• Additional housing sites- incl. more greenfield sites to widen choice
• Some standards less aspirational e.g.:
– 25% wheelchair accessible housing (no increase)– cycle parking capacity in dwellings subject to negotiation in
Travel Plans
• On-site open space only on sites of 4ha or more
What’s new? - City Centre Shopping
• Broader Central Shopping Area (incl. The Moor)• Edge-of-centre locations for bulky goods sales,
mainly Moorfoot• Relaxation of restrictions on the proportion of non-
retail uses on ground-floor frontages outside the Primary Shopping Area
What weight does document have?
• NPPF – emerging documents may be given weight• Weight depends on:
- stage reached- extent of unresolved objections- consistency with NPPF
Next Steps
• Submission – Oct 2013• Public Examination – Jan/ Feb 2014• Inspectors report – June 2014• Adoption – Oct 2014
The future!• Local Plan review
- including Green Belt Review
How to comment
• Representations period 10 June to 2 Aug (5pm)
• On-line consultation portal:
https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/localplanconsult
• E-mail: local.plan@sheffield.gov.uk
Questions?