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New Local Plan Options

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• Foreword
• 1. Introduction
• 2. A brief portrait of Harborough District
• 3. Vision and Objectives
  • New Local Plan Draft Vision
  • New Local Plan Draft Objectives
• 4. Sustainable Settlements
  • Harborough's Settlement Hierarchy
• 5. Housing
  • Why do we need to build more houses?
  • How many new houses do we need to build?
  • Potential Strategic Development Areas
  • Alternative Housing and Employment Options
  • Option 1: Rural
  • Option 2: Core Strategy Distribution
  • Option 3: Urban
  • Option 4: Scraptoft / Thurnby SDA
  • Option 5: Kibworth SDA
  • Option 6: Lutterworth SDA
  • Option 7: Scraptoft / Thurnby SDA and Kibworth SDA
  • Option 8: Scraptoft / Thurnby SDA and Lutterworth SDA
  • Option 9: Lutterworth SDA and Kibworth SDA
  • Testing the Options
  • How will new housing be delivered?
  • Potential housing site allocations
  • Development Management
  • Proposed Settlement Development Policy to replace current Limits to Development
• 6. Housing in the Countryside
  • Option C1: Strictly controlling development in the countryside
  • Option C2: Limited infill and Development Management led
  • Option C3: Meeting locally identified need
• 7. Affordable Housing
  • Proposed approach
• 8. Gypsy and Traveller, and Travelling Showpeople Provision
  • How many Gypsy and Traveller pitches do we need to provide?
  • How many Travelling Showpeople plots do we need to provide?
  • How will future need be met?
• 9. Employment
  • Why do we need to provide land for more jobs?
  • How much employment land do we need to provide?
  • How will provision for new jobs and employment land be met?
  • Where will new land for employment be provided?
  • Continuing current distribution of Development (Options 1-3)
  • Options involving delivery of 1 or 2 Strategic Development Areas (Options 4-9)
  • Potential general employment site allocations
  • Provision for Strategic Distribution
    • Strategic Distribution Option A
    • Strategic Distribution Option B
    • Strategic Distribution Option C
    • Assessment of impacts of Strategic Distribution Options
  • Bruntingthorpe Proving Ground
  • Leicester Airport, Stoughton
• 10. Green Infrastructure
  • Green Wedges
  • Preventing the coalescence of settlements
  • Option G1
  • Option G2
  • Local Green Space
• 11. Town Centres and Retail
  • How much new retail floorspace is needed to 2031?
  • Where should retail and town centre needs be met?
  • Town Centre and Primary Shopping Area Boundaries
  • Threshold for requirement of a Retail Impact Assessment
  • Proposed new Local Plan policy approach
• 12. Infrastructure Planning
• 13. Settlement Sections
  • Scraptoft, Thurnby and Bushby
  • Market Harborough
  • Lutterworth
  • Broughton Astley
  • Billesdon
  • Fleckney
  • Great Glen
  • Houghton on the Hill
  • Husbands Bosworth
  • The Kibworths
  • Ullesthorpe
  • Selected Rural Villages
• Appendix A: Neighbourhood Planning in Harborough District
• Appendix B: Maps to illustrate Potential Strategic Development Areas
• Appendix C: Housing Distribution Options - residual requirements
• Appendix D: Illustration of the residual housing requirement under a proportionate increase
• Appendix E: Outstanding Employment permissions and allocations - as at 31 March 2015
• Appendix F: Existing Employment sites proposed for retention and protection
• Appendix G: Maps showing Sites for Potential Employment Allocation
• Appendix H: Employment Options - residual requirements by settlement
• Appendix I: Maps to illustrate potential Strategic Distribution sites for Options A, B and C
• Appendix J: Proposed Local Green Space sites
• Appendix K: Potential Retail / Town Centre Uses Development Areas
• Appendix L: Glossary

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