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SECTION 7 SUPPLEMENTARY DOCUMENTS

1 List of Capel Neighbourhood Plan Policies

2 Glossary of terms

Schedule of Neighbourhood Plan Policies

HOUSING

CA‐H1: Allocate land for homes

CA‐H2: Integrate allocated sites

CA‐H3: Provide affordable housing

WORKING AND SHOPPING

CA‐WS1: Permit small shops on allocated
sites

CA‐WS2: Retain existing employment land in
employment use

GETTING AROUND

CA‐GA1: New development to provide good pedestrian and cycle connections to the village centre and other local destinations

CA‐GA2: Provide public parking associated with shops – FIG3 and FIG4

COMMUNITY, LEISURE AND WELLBEING

CA‐CLW1: Appropriate standards of open space from all housing developments

CA‐CLW2: Standards for play and sport to meet F.I.T. requirements. The framework identifies 10 key policies

CA‐CLW3: Protect, enhance and improve playing fields (including school playing fields)

ENVIRONMENT, SUSTAINABILITY AND DESIGN QUALITY

CA‐ESDQ1: Protect existing open spaces

CA‐ESDQ2: Incorporate Sustainable Urban Drainage into new development

CA‐ESDQ3: Design of new development to be of high quality and make a positive contribution towards the distinctive character of the village as a whole and must relate well to its site and its surroundings. New development must contribute to local character by creating a sense of place appropriate to its location

CA‐ESDQ4: Building style must be appropriate to the historic context

CA‐ESDQ5: Development requiring archaeological investigation

CA‐ESDQ6: Development proposals, particularly where sited on the village edge must seek visual connections with the countryside

CA‐ESDQ7: Streets within new development must be designed as pleasant places to be

CA‐ESDQ8: Pedestrian and cycle routes must link together potential destinations, such as new housing and the village centre

CA‐ESDQ9: Design in the ‘forgotten’ elements from the start of the design process

CA‐ESDQ10: Design car parking /traffic calming so that it fits in with the character of the proposed development

Beare Green Specific Policies

CA‐BGP01: Extensions and alterations to existing dwellings should have regard to the proximity and privacy of neighbourhood dwellings. Materials should respect the prevailing characteristics of the immediate locality

CA‐BGP02: Proposals for the use of existing agricultural buildings on farmsteads for employment purposes will be supported, subject to the following criteria:

  • the employment use can be contained within the building concerned without extension or external storage;
  • any conversion works are carried out in a manner appropriate to the character of the building and have no adverse impact on its surroundings; and
  • the use concerned does not generate any unacceptable traffic impacts or detrimentally affect the character of the rural road work.

Where the property is within the Green Belt the proposal should not have a materially greater impact than the present use on the openness of the Green Belt and the purpose of including land within its boundaries.

Proposals that provide starter business units will be particularly supported.

Site Specific Allocations

CA‐BG01 Land off Highland Road as shown on the plan is allocated for outdoor sport and recreation se. The provision of the following ancillary facilities will be supported on the site:

  • a pavilion/changing room
  • an associated car park; and
  • a children’s play area

CA‐BG02 Land at Old Horsham Road, Beare Green is allocated for residential(comprehensive) or the development of individual dwellings, subject to criteria a to e.

CA‐BG03: Land at Surrey Hills Hotel, Horsham Road, Beare Green is allocated for residential development at a minimum of 10 dwellings subject to criteria a to d..

Coldharbour Specific Policies

CA‐COP01: The natural and historic environment of Coldharbour and its surrounding areas should be afforded the highest levels of protection against any form of development, works or other activities that would detrimentally affect its character or appearance.

Glossary of terms

AONB

  1. Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Affordable Housing
Means housing “provided to those whose needs are not met by the market, for example homeless persons and key workers.” It comprises social rented housing and intermediate housing and should:‐

  1. Meet the needs of such households in terms of affordability, having regard to local incomes and local house prices; (See Report prepared for Mole Valley District Council by Peter Brett Associates which details house prices in each of the Parish Villages).
  2. Include a mechanism whereby the home is either to remain at an affordable price, or else any subsidy provided to such a unit can be recycled for additional affordable housing provision.

CSA Report
Landscape and Visual Sensitivity Assessment

Density
Net dwelling density is calculated by including only those site areas which will be developed for housing and directly associated uses, including access roads within a site, private garden space, car parking areas, incidental open space and landscaping and children’s play areas, where these are provided.
Gross dwelling density is calculated on the basis of gross site area, which includes buffer planting, roads serving not only the development but the wider area (e.g. distributor roads) and open space that serves not only the development but the wider population.

Gross site area
Includes all of the elements within the definition “net site area” but also:‐

  1. Major distribution roads;
  2. Primary schools;
  3. Open spaces;
  4. “Significant landscape features such as buffer strips.”

Homes
A single unit of living accommodation such as house or a single dwelling in a block of flats. A maisonette is a single building but two homes.

Housing Land Availability Assessments
Survey by Capel Parish Council

  1. An estimate of housing needs and demand, for both market and affordable housing;
  2. A means of determining that demand;
  3. A means of identifying different types of accommodation for different types of occupier.

Intermediate Housing

  1. Means housing “at prices or rents above those of social rent but below market prices or rents.” It is specifically acknowledged that they can include “shared equity products (for example HomeBuy)” and intermediate rent.

Key Worker
‘Key Worker’ is defined by reference to the Government’s own definition. ‘Key Worker’ housing sample includes Forestry Commission land.

Land Availability

  1. A means of assessing the numbers tied up in unimplemented permissions, or in sites presently under construction;
  2. The availability of land and any constraints to bringing it forward for development, together with how they can be overcome;
  3. A means of assessing how many units each allocated site could deliver.

MGB
Metropolitan Green Belt.

Net site area
Means the area to be developed for housing and “directly associated uses” and includes:‐

  1. Access roads;
  2. Private garden space;
  3. Car parking areas;
  4. “Incidental open space and landscaping;”
  5. Local children’s play areas.

Previously developed land

  1. Is land which is or was occupied by a permanent structure (other than agricultural or forestry buildings) and associated fixed surface infrastructure;
  2. Includes the curtilage of the developed land, although “curtilage” is not attempted to be defined as it is a legal term;
  3. Excludes land and buildings used or previously used for agricultural or forestry purposes, and land within built‐up areas not previously developed (e.g. parks, recreation grounds and allotments);
  4. Also excludes previously developed land where a structure or activity on the land is now blended into the landscape “in the process of time.”

SEA
Strategic Environmental Assessment

Social Rented Housing
Means housing owned by either a local authority or an RSL for which guideline target rents are specified or rented housing provided under equivalent rental arrangements, as agreed with the local authority or with the benefit of funding.




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