ANGUS LOCAL PLAN REVIEW FINALISED PLAN - Angus Council

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES2.1 Key elements of sustainable and vibrant places include a varietyof quality, affordable homes in attractive locations, access to the righttype of job, interesting and exciting leisure pursuits, and a wide rangeof shops and services. In such communities there is a careful balancebetween the need for new development and the protection of the localenvironment, development is energy efficient and does not generateunnecessary waste and pollution, people don’t have to travel farbetween home, work, shops and leisure and where they have to thereare a variety of ways to get around.2.2 In helping to build sustainable communities in Angus this LocalPlan gives priority to:• Guiding the majority of development such as housing, employment,retail and leisure to locations within the Angus towns and villageswhich can best accommodate development making use of existingand planned transport and other infrastructure;• Locating residential, employment, leisure and shopping uses inproximity to one another in order to improve accessibility for all andminimise the need to travel;• Locating new developments, particularly those generating highlevels of traffic, to sites where there is a choice of means oftransport;• Providing a mix and range of housing developments to meet theneeds and aspirations of all sectors of the community;• Providing a range of employment sites in key locations to meetdemand and stimulate investment in Angus, and making provisionfor rural diversification projects;• Supporting the maintenance and improvement of the transportnetwork to provide safe and efficient ways to travel, includingpromoting alternatives to the use of the private car;• Supporting the provision of a range of facilities such as shops,schools, hospitals and other public facilities to serve local areas;• Ensuring development makes a contribution towards protection ofthe environment, resource management, reducing pollution, anddeveloping energy efficiency.Angus Local Plan Review16Finalised Plan