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

Selby District Submission Draft Core Strategy – May 2011
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4.35 National guidance stresses the importance of new development
being accessible by modes of transport other than the private car
and where the need to travel is minimised. Selby, Sherburn in
Elmet and a number of Designated Service Villages are served by
rail services although buses are generally the predominant form of
public transport in the District (PC1.18). Guidance also seeks to
make the best use of the existing transport infrastructure and
capacity and to maximise the use of rail and water for uses
generating large freight movements.
d) Environment and Natural Resources
4.36 Protection and enhancement of biodiversity and natural resources
is a basic principle of national planning guidance, which can also
influence the location of development.
e) Green Belt
[Replace 4.37 – 4.39 with new supporting text and new Policy
CPXX. (PC5.6) ] [SEE ALSO BELOW]
4.37 The District is covered by parts of the West Yorkshire and York
Green Belts 10 . National planning guidance stresses the importance
of protecting the open character of Green Belt. Only ‘appropriate’
forms of development identified in national guidance, such as
affordable rural exceptions housing, will be permitted unless very
special circumstances can be demonstrated.
4.38 One of the functions of the Green Belt is to prevent the
coalescence of settlements, for example by preserving the open
countryside gap between Sherburn in Elmet and South Milford.
4.39 While the Strategy aims to maintain the overall extent of Green
Belt, in locations where there are difficulties in accommodating the
scale of growth required, consideration will be given to undertaking
localised Green Belt boundary reviews. The reviews will need to
balance the relative need for new development within each
settlement against the value of Green Belt as assessed against the
basic purposes of the Green Belt, as well as other considerations
such as the effect on landscape, biodiversity and access to the
natural environment.
4.39a
PC7.2
The District is covered by parts of both the West Yorkshire and
York Green Belts. One of the functions of the Green Belt is to
prevent the coalescence of settlements, for example by
preserving the open countryside gap between Sherburn in
Elmet and South Milford. National planning guidance The NPPF
(PC6.20) stresses the importance of protecting the open
character of Green Belt, and that ‘inappropriate’ forms of
development as expressed in higher order policy (PC6.20) will
be resisted unless very special circumstances can be
demonstrated. See below for Green Belt Policy CPXX.
10 See Figure 6 Key Diagram for indication of extent of Green Belt
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