Agenda item

Local Development Framework – Allocations Development Plan

 

Representatives of the Service Director (Place Development) attended the meeting and made a presentation on the consultation on the Stockport’s Allocations Development Plan Document that would support the spatial vision, objectives and strategic priorities of the Core Strategy and would inform the allocation of uses of land in the borough. It was not proposed that any sites be allocated for particular uses at this stage. Members considered issues 1-17 in the report and commented as follows:-

 

Issue 1 – Cheadle Royal Business Park

 

The policy relating to Cheadle Royal Business Park (Site 094) be amended to allow employment uses other than office development.

 

Issue 2 – Bird Hall Lane Employment area

 

The Bird Hall Lane employment area (Site 096) be retained for its current purpose.

 

Issue 3 – Offices adjacent to the roundabout and Junction 2 of the M60

 

The allocation of this site be retained as a predominantly residential area.

 

Issue 4 – Brookfield Road, Cheadle

 

The policy guidance area at Brookfield Road allowing for ‘business’ and ‘open space’ uses, along with residential development, subject to the impact of aircraft noise, be retained.

 

Issue 5 – Allocation of sites in housing

 

(a)    The following sites be allocated for housing:-

 

•           Bullocks Coaches garage, Stockport Road, Cheadle (Site 146)

•           Grimond House, The Paddock

•           Nurses Home, Cheadle Royal Hospital

•           Land at Cheadle Campus, Cheadle Road(Site 086)

 

(b)  A small area of land in the Queens Garden Neighbourhood Renewal Priority Area be allocated for housing.

 

Issue 6 – Sites for housing/mixed use development

 

The focus be on maintaining the Green Belt boundary and making effective use of land within accessible urban areas, with the priority for development on previously developed land.

 

Issue 7 – Sites for Self build housing

 

Self-build housing should be encouraged.

 

Issue 8 – sites for Gypsies, Travellers and/or Travelling Showpeople

 

None of the sites referred to in the report were suitable for gypsies, travellers and/or travelling showpeople.

 

Residents were encouraged to respond formally to the consultation.

 

Item 9 – Boundaries of the District and Local Centres, and their Primary and Secondary Frontages

 

(a)   The changes to the Cheadle District Centre, Gatley Large Local Centre and Heald Green Large Local Centre, as set out in the report, were supported.

(b)    No changes for the Councillor Lane Other Centre, as proposed in the report, were supported.

 

Item 10 – Primary Shopping Areas

 

The suggested Primary Shopping Areas should be allocated in the Allocations DPD.

 

With regard to Heald Green, it was requested that the land between the railway line and Neal Lane be examined for inclusion within the Primary Shopping Frontage.

 

Item 1 1 – Level of hot food takeaways (A5 use) within the Primary and Secondary Frontages and amount of Primary and Secondary Frontages that can be in non-A1 (shops) use

 

Hot food takeaways

 

The percentage of units that can be hot food takeaways should be limited to (the average of) 3% within the Primary Frontage and 8% in the Secondary Frontage (or no increase if that percentage is already exceeded); and hot food takeaways limited so that no more than two adjacent units are in such use, with a minimum number of other units before the next food takeaway within the frontage.

 

Proportion of non-A1 uses allowed

 

District Centres

 

The current (UDP Review) approach should be continued of limiting the percentage of non-A1 use to 20% in Primary Frontages and 40% in Other Main Shopping Frontages, with no threshold in Secondary Frontages, with no more than 12m continuous non-A1 use (where the percentage limit is already exceeded then there should be no increase);

 

Large Local Centres

 

The current (UDP) Review approach should be continued of limiting the percentage of non-A1 use to 20% in Primary Frontages and 40% in Other Main Shopping Frontages, with no threshold in Secondary Frontages, with no more than 12m continuous non-A1 use frontage and no more than two adjacent units in non-A1 use (where the percentage limit is already exceeded then there should be no increase).

 

Item 12 – Criteria which could/should be used to determine whether planning applications for non-town centre uses within District, Large Local or Other Local Centres are acceptable or not:-

 

•           Development should safeguard the viability and vitality of the centre;

•           Development should safeguard ancillary floorspace required to ensure the viability of the related commercial unit

•           Safeguard/ensure (and, where possible, enhance) residential amenity and environmental conditions

•           Provide separate access to first floor premises

•           Provide adequate parking (in line with adopted parking standards) without detriment to the centre’s existing parking or servicing provision.

 

Item 13 – Business Frontages

 

The business frontages shown in Cheadle District Centre, Gatley Large Local Centre and Heald Green Large Local Centre were broadly representative of the type of unit that they contain.

 

Item 14 – Out-of-centre development of shops and other uses

 

The method of control set out in the report was suitable and would help to ensure that the sub-division of existing out-of-centre retail units does not harm the vitality and/or viability of nearby centres.

 

Item 15 – Provision of Formal Open Space

 

The open space related to the sites listed should not be considered for other uses.

 

Item 16 – Green Belt

 

There were no sites currently within the Green Belt (not identified as Major Existing Developed Sites) where adjustments to the boundary merited consideration.

 

Item 17 – Cheadle Royal Site – ‘low carbon opportunity area’

 

The Cheadle Royal site should be identified in the Allocations Development Plan Document as a ‘low carbon opportunity area’.

 

RESOLVED – That the presentation and Members’ comments be noted.