Planning Schedule Date: 10/08/2004 - Stroud District Council

Planning Schedule Date: 10/08/2004
The retention and provision of a wide range of recreational facilities in urban areas and all
principal settlements, to meet local and sub-regional needs, will be supported. Local Plans will
give special consideration to:
1. Areas which are deficient in recreational facilities;
2. Facilities which provide for as wide a range of the population as possible;
3. Increased accessibility for all potential users particularly by public transport, cycling and
walking; and
Local scale of provision of a non-specialist nature, for example local halls capable of some
recreational uses, will be encouraged provided they are well related to the communities they
serve.
Policy S.5 states:
In providing for development, local authorities will have regard to the need for community facilities
and services, including education, health, and cultural facilities, local shopping facilities, sport and
leisure facilities, transport services and infrastructure, housing including affordable housing and
public utilities. In determining the type, scale and location of development, the adequacy of
infrastructure and community services will be taken into account. Provision for development will
be made where related infrastructure and community services are in place or will be provided in
appropriate phases in an environmentally acceptable way.
Policies T1 and G5 of the Local Plan deal with issues relating to highway safety and sustainable
development. The site is located within the main urban fabric of Nailsworth and is accessible to a
wide range of services and facilities by a number of modes of transport. The development is
therefore sustainable.
The development has been designed to be served by a new roundabout (22m) which is the only
measure acceptable to the Highway Authority as the juxtaposition of the new access with the
existing roads would create a cross roads. Traffic calming measures are also required by the
Highway Authority. The applicant, in consultation with the Highway Authority, is proposing three
sets of 'cushions' outside the school and applying for a speed limit of 20 mph to be adopted. A
new footway will be provided to the existing westerly gates of the school. The function and
capacity of the new roundabout has been considered by the County Council and its highway
consultants. The nature and capacity of the roundabout is sufficient to deal with the new housing
development. In terms of traffic generation from the site and its effect on the local highway
network, this has been computer modelled by the applicant and the traffic generated from the
scheme is not significant when compared with the scenario which existed when the secondary
school was operation pre 1991. Traffic generated at that time would have equated to 100 peak
hour trips.
The new development will generate 53 two-way movements at morning and evening peak
according to modelling. In terms of direction of movements this is likely to result in most traffic
moving in an easterly direction towards the town with approximately 6 additional movements in a
westerly direction towards Nympsfield. Bearing in mind the network capacity and movements in
the past when the secondary school was operational, coupled with the amount of traffic which is
currently generated by the existing club site, this is not of a scale which causes concern to the
Highway Authority.
The proposed residential development will act as a windfall site within the established urban
boundaries of the town, as defined in the Stroud District Local Plan Draft for Deposit (as
amended June 2001).
At the time of the appeal on the adjacent site it was generally agreed that particular site is a
brownfield site and subject to the retention of the tennis court is suitable for residential use. With
the relocation of the recreational and community facilities on the stadium site similar
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