Tracked Version of Core Strategy, November 2012 - Selby District ...

Selby District Submission Draft Core Strategy – May 2011
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Local Shops and Services Outside Established Town Centres
6.61 The District is characterised by a large number of villages varying
in size and levels of services and facilities. There are also a
number of local shops and services located outside the
established town centres in Selby, Sherburn in Elmet and
Tadcaster. These provide a range of local shops and services for
day-to-day needs to help support sustainable communities 13 .
6.62 The protection of the vitality and viability of these local centres is
important by restricting the loss of retail floorspace and preventing
inappropriate change from existing facilities. PPS4 provides a
range of development management policies with that objective and
it is not considered necessary to repeat national policy within this
core strategy. Further detailed local policies may be developed
through future DPDs.
6.63 The Core Strategy establishes the general direction of retail and
town centre policy and the spatial vision for the three town centres
and remaining villages in the District. Annual monitoring and
updating of town centre health checks will be undertaken to check
progress of the implementation of the policy.
6.64 The following policy outlines the broad principles for town and
village centres. The Core strategy seeks to protect the future
health as well as the existing hierarchy and roles of all the District’s
centres, including promoting appropriate growth in the town
centres and protecting existing facilities from inappropriate change.
The Council wishes to seek to remedy deficiencies in local
shopping and other facilities to help promote social inclusion.
Policy CP11 Town Centres and Local Services
A. Spatial Strategy
The health and wellbeing of town centres, and local shopping
facilities and services will be maintained and enhanced by:
Selby Town Centre
• Focussing town centre uses on Selby including retail,
commercial, leisure, entertainment, food and drink,
offices, hotels, indoor sports, recreation, and arts and
cultural uses.
• Promoting the continued renaissance of the town
centre through environmental improvements, planned
(PC4.27) floorspace increases, and by diversifying the
range of activities present.
13 See Figure 6 Key Diagram for settlement hierarchy
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