Core Strategy for Central Lincolnshire
The Growth Agenda
Comment from Cllr Marianne Overton;
Some people blame the press for the negative public view of the effect of the Localism Act on planning,
dubbed by some as a “free for all”. Many people are reading what is written in the actual legislation, not
reading the politician’s lips. We have yet to see how regulations can be fashioned in the hope of softening the
legislation,
Like other villages, in Welbourn, we are seeking small scale, affordable housing that fits the requirements of
our village, and in the right place. Can we get that, and only that?
Nationally and carried out through the core strategy covering Lincoln, West Lindsey and North Kesteven,
there is the clear intention to increase building houses as a way of increasing economic development.
However, we fear that to make them cheap enough to purchase, would result in an infrastructure levy that is
not enough to support the extra needed, such as roads, health, schools etc. It also increases people’s
personal debt, perhaps more than they can afford and makes our banks less secure. There is also the clear
intention through the core strategy to encourage people to come to this part of Lincolnshire - 82,000 of
them. That is four fifths of North Kesteven’s population added. In theory, it is spread over 26 years, but we
saw what happened in practice last time. Once the planning rules are lifted, developers naturally move in as
fast as they can, but at the same time, asking to be let off the infrastructure levy, and then wanting more
land. It did not work in Ireland. They have great swathes of half-built or even completed empty houses, falling
derelict and a risk to anti-social behaviour. Same in a number of other places. Just building houses is not good
enough. We need to have a wide range of thriving enterprises as our economic engine of the future. We do
want big, productive companies like Siemens, but some big businesses arrive and just push out the small
shops. Big companies can come and go, leaving unemployment and brown field sites in their wake. A range of
small businesses, changing to meet the markets, are a relatively sustainable bedrock for rural counties. As
they grow in success, then building will follow naturally and in proportion, cutting according to our cloth,
without damaging the very things about rural Lincolnshire that we know and love.
Core Strategy for Central Lincolnshire
The Growth Agenda
Mike Braithwaite
19 January 2012
Central Lincolnshire Joint Planning
Committee refresh
• West Lindsey, North Kesteven & City of
Lincoln in partnership with County
Council prepare one Joint Statutory
Development Plan
– 4 Authorities one joint plan.....
– Central Lincolnshire Local Plan or LDF
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Stage one – Central Lincolnshire Core Strategy
Role of the Local Plan or LDF
• Range of documents –
1. Core Strategy (principles and strategic aims)
2. Allocations (specific sites and their
requirements)
3. Development Management (detailed policies)
4. Area Action Plans (Strategic aims for a specific
area)
• Saved Policies
• National Planning Policy Framework
• Neighbourhood Plans?
• Supported by evidence, Community
Infrastructure Levy and Integrated Impact
Assessment.
Progress so far........
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Consulted on Issues and Options
December 2010
Response was reported Report to Joint
Committee Feb 2011, support for
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Level and distribution of Growth
Promoting renewable Energy – local solutions
Co-ordinate Infrastructure provision
Local approach to determining growth in
villages
Jan 2012, Joint Committee approved
draft policies for informal consultation
Draft Policies, Key Messages
Settlement
Lincoln
Gainsborough
Sleaford
Smaller Towns
and Rural
Settlements
TOTAL
Number of new
dwellings,
2011/12-2030/31, and
area to which target
relates
18,800
10,000
Area of employment land,
2011/12 – 2030/31, and
area to which target relates
4,500
9,500
20 ha
25 ha
42,800
210 ha
140 ha
25 ha
NB: Figures will be refined further in the Draft Plan to be published later this year, however the
current evidence suggests targets will be close to these requirements
Draft Policies, Key Messages
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Above all promotes growth (homes,
economy, infrastructure whilst
safeguarding the environment)
Promote Sustainable development
informed by what is needed and can be
achieved locally
Promotes low carbon and the delivery of
energy through renewable sources
A joint approach to infrastructure funding
and delivery
Promotes affordable homes at 40% of the
overall target where viable
Next Steps
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Formal Consultation on the Draft Core
Strategy......
Formal representations considered
Examination in public...late 2012.
Adoption of the Core Strategy 2013
Consulting on the first stage of the Site
Allocations document later in 2012
depending on progress with the Core
Strategy
How to keep up to date
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Newsletters
Joint Planning Unit Website
The Joint Planning Committee Meeting
Minutes and Agendas
Drop in sessions
Lincoln Drill Hall, 24 Feb 11.00-17.00
Sleaford, The Source, 06 March, 12.00-19.00
Gainsborough, Guildhall, 13 March, 9.00-17.00
Further events planned for when the draft plan is
published.
Questions
Talkplanning@central-lincs.org.uk
Tel :01529 308084
or visit the Joint Planning Unit Offices at
Lincoln City Hall or North Kesteven in
Sleaford during working hours