Development Limits
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Between
9 September and 4 November 2011 the Council consulted on draft development limits for Harrogate, Knaresborough and Ripon. You can find out more about this consultation on the
Urban Areas Consultation page.
The Council consulted on draft development limits around towns and villages in the District's rural areas in 2010. A summary of the responses received during this consultation is available on the
Rural Areas Consultation page.
Development Limits
Development limits are to be drawn around those settlements listed in Policy SG2 in Chapter 3 of the Core Strategy (see link, below). A development limit is a planning policy tool to differentiate between where a settlement comprises mainly built form (and where further built form may be acceptable) and where its character is more akin to the open countryside and there is to be strict control over new building.
Much work and discussion with local communities has already taken place on this matter and this is already being used as an important consideration in the determination of planning applications (see Current Policy section below).
If you wish to enter the debate, or would like to be informed about future consultations please email us on: ldf@harrogate.gov.uk
Current Policy
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In February 2009 the Council adopted the Harrogate District Core Strategy. Chapter 3 of the Core Strategy (276KB) includes Policy SG2 which replaced policies H6 and GB5 of the Harrogate District Local Plan. |
| For those settlements listed in Policy SG2 which already have established Development or Infill Limits marked on the Local Plan Proposals Map, the existing Development or Infill Limit continues to be used for development control purposes. These settlements are: |
Group A
settlements: |
Harrogate, Knaresborough and Ripon. |
Group B
settlements: |
Boroughbridge, Masham, Pateley Bridge, Birstwith, Burton Leonard, Darley, Follifoot, Great Ouseburn, Green Hammerton, Hampsthwaite, Killinghall, Kirkby Malzeard, Marton cum Grafton, Pannal, Spofforth, Tockwith, and Summerbridge. |
Group C
settlements: |
Aldborough, Askwith, Bishop Monkton, Bishop Thornton, Dacre Banks, Dishforth, Glasshouses, Goldsborough, Grewelthorpe, Kirby Hill, Kirby Overblow, Kirk Hammerton, Long Marston, Markington, Melmerby, Minskip, North Stainley, Scotton, Sharow, Sicklinghall, Skelton on Ure, and Staveley. |
| For the following settlements in Policy SG2 (where there are no existing development limits) the draft development limits used for consultation during the Rural Areas Consultation should be used as a guide of the extent of the main built-up area: |
Group B
settlement: |
Ripley. |
Group C
settlements: |
Beckwithshaw, Burnt Yates, Cundall, Dacre, Grantley, Kirk Deighton, Little Ouseburn, Lofthouse, Rainton, Ramsgill, Roecliffe, Sawley and Wath (nr Ripon). |
Policy SG2 provides for a more sustainable pattern of growth than Policies H6 and GB5 by reducing the number of villages where open market housing will be allowed.
Other settlements are now defined by the Core Strategy as countryside where there will be strict control of development in accordance with Policy SG3. |
Emerging Policy
The Council is now preparing the Sites & Policies DPD which, together with the Core Strategy, will replace the Local Plan. This DPD is scheduled for adoption in 2013 and will contain detailed planning policies to help deliver Core Strategy policies and objectives. At this stage we are looking to include the following policy within :
POLICY SG8: Development Limits and Replacement Dwellings
Find out more from: 'Plan the future with us' (1Mb) and a summary of consultation responses to it (100KB).
For more about Development Limits, contact Andy Hughes on 01423 556585.