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1 Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council Local Development Framework core Strategy DPD. March 2011. If you would like this leaflet in large print, on audio tape, in Braille or on disk, please contact: Planning Policy Team Communities, Regeneration & Environment Directorate Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council FREEPOST. Stockport SK1 3YQ. Telephone: 0161 474 4395. Fax: 0161 474 4337. Contents List of Policies 2. 1 Introduction 4. What is the core Strategy ? 4. What does it do? 4. How has it been prepared? 5. 2 The Need for Change 6. Current Picture of the Borough The Spatial Portrait 6. Challenges for the Future What are the issues? 19. Other Plans, Evidence and Influences 20.

2 3 The Strategy 31. Future Picture of the Borough - Vision 31. Objectives 33. Strategy 37. Key Diagram 38. OVERARCHING PRINCIPLES: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT - ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE AND INEQUALITIES 42. PROVIDING A DECENT HOME FOR EVERYONE 58. ACCESS TO SERVICES 72. ACCOMMODATING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 92. SAFEGUARDING AND IMPROVING THE ENVIRONMENT 101. TRANSPORT 128. Stockport Town Centre Strategic Location 140. Woodford Aerodrome Opportunity Site 145. A Glossary 149. B Superseded policies 159. C Additional Information for core Policies and Development Management Policies 163. Energy Opportunities Plan 163. Energy Efficiency Checklist 164. Recreational Open Space 165.

3 The general distribution of Green Infrastructure 169. 2. List of Policies List of Policies Policy Location core Policy CS1 'OVERARCHING PRINCIPLES: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT - Page 43. ADDRESSING INEQUALITIES AND CLIMATE CHANGE'. Development Management Policy SD-1 'Creating Sustainable Communities' Page 44. Development Management Policy SD-2 'Making Improvements to Existing Dwellings' Page 45. Development Management Policy SD-3 'Delivering the Energy Opportunities Plans Page 46. New Development'. Development Management Policy SD-4 'District Heating (Network Development Page 50. Areas)'. Development Management Policy SD-5 'Community Owned Energy' Page 52.

4 Development Management Policy SD-6 'Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change' Page 54. core Policy CS2 'HOUSING PROVISION' Page 59. core Policy CS3 'MIX OF HOUSING' Page 61. core Policy CS4 'DISTRIBUTION OF HOUSING' Page 62. Development Management Policy H-1 'Design of Residential Development' Page 64. Development Management Policy H-2 'Housing Phasing' Page 64. Development Management Policy H-3 'Affordable Housing' Page 67. core Policy CS5 'ACCESS TO SERVICES' Page 74. core Policy CS6 'SAFEGUARDING AND STRENGTHENING THE SERVICE CENTRE Page 76. HIERARCHY'. Development Management Policy AS-1 'The Vitality and Viability of Stockport's Page 77. Service Centres'.

5 Development Management Policy AS-2 'Improving Indoor Sports, Community and Page 81. Education Facilities and their Accessibility'. Development Management Policy AS-3 'Main Town Centre Uses, Hot Food Take Page 85. Aways and Prison Development Outside Existing Centres'. Development Management Policy AS-4 'Visitor Accommodation and Other Tourism Page 87. Development'. Development Management Policy AS-5 'Cemeteries' Page 89. 3. List of Policies Policy Location core Policy CS7 'ACCOMMODATING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT' Page 94. Development Management Policy AED-1 'Employment Development in the Town Page 96. Centre and M60 Gateway'. Development Management Policy AED-2 'Employment Development in District Page 97.

6 Centres'. Development Management Policy AED-3 'Employment Development in Employment Page 97. Areas'. Development Management Policy AED-4 'Employment Development in Rural Areas' Page 98. Development Management Policy AED-5 'Education, Skills and Training Provision' Page 99. Development Management Policy AED-6 'Employment Sites Outside Protected Page 99. Employment Areas'. core Policy CS8 'SAFEGUARDING AND IMPROVING THE ENVIRONMENT' Page 102. Development Management Policy SIE-1 'Quality Places' Page 106. Development Management Policy SIE-2 'Provision of Recreation and Amenity Page 107. Open Space in New Developments'. Development Management Policy SIE-3 'Protecting, Safeguarding and enhancing Page 113.

7 The Environment'. Development Management Policy SIE-4 'Hazardous Installations' Page 123. Development Management Policy SIE-5 'Aviation Facilities, Telecommunications Page 124. and other Broadcast Infrastructure'. core Policy CS9 'TRANSPORT AND DEVELOPMENT' Page 129. core Policy CS10 'AN EFFECTIVE AND SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT NETWORK' Page 130. Development Management Policy T-1 'Transport and Development' Page 134. Development Management Policy T-2 'Parking in Developments' Page 135. Development Management Policy T-3 'Safety and Capacity on the Highway Network' Page 136. Development Management Policy T-4 'Protecting Disused Rail Alignments' Page 137. core Policy CS11 'STOCKPORT TOWN CENTRE' Page 140.

8 Development Management Policy TC-1 'Stockport Town Centre' Page 141. 4. 1 Introduction 1 Introduction What is the core Strategy ? The Stockport core Strategy is part of the Local Development Framework (LDF) for the Borough. To be prepared in accordance with the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 the LDF will, over the next several years, replace the Stockport Unitary Development Plan as the local plan to guide development over the next 15 years and beyond. The core Strategy provides the overall spatial Strategy for the LDF. It sets down why change is needed; what should be done; and where, when and how it is going to happen, including the provision of supporting infrastructure.

9 The core Strategy covers the period from its adoption to 2026. The document begins by identifying the land use and development issues confronting the Borough up to 2026 by considering in the Spatial Portrait a range of social, economic and environmental characteristics of the Borough. The Council's core Strategy must conform with national and regional planning policies and the principal ones are explained. The core Strategy should also be the spatial expression of the Stockport Strategy (the Sustainable Communities Strategy for the Borough), and reflect a range of other plans and strategies of the Council and its partners. These also help to identify the issues that the core Strategy needs to address, and the main strategies are identified in the document.

10 'Future Picture of the Borough - Vision' sets down what a more sustainable Borough will look like once the issues identified have been addressed though the core Strategy and subsequent LDF documents. Objectives are identified (in 'Objectives') that need to be met if the Vision is to be realised and the issues addressed. Finally the core Strategy sets down (in ' Strategy ') the Strategy and policies that aim to achieve the Objectives. Covering a range of topics under which the issues that need to be addressed fall, the policies comprise ' core Policies', of a strategic nature, and 'Development Management Policies'. of a more detailed nature upon which proposals for development will be assessed.