Publication: Pre-Submission Gloucester City Plan
Pre-Submission City Plan
Strategic policies and proposals in the Joint Core Strategy & Gloucester City Plan
6.1 For Gloucester the majority of strategic policies are contained within the JCS. A full list of strategic and non-strategic policies contained within the development plan as a whole are as follows:
Joint Core Strategy 2011-2031 – Strategic Policies
Paragraph 2.2 - Vision |
Paragraph 2.35 – Strategic Objectives 1 to 9 |
Policy SP1 – The Need for New Development |
Policy SP2 - Distribution of New Development |
Policy SD1 - Employment |
Policy SD2 - Retail and City / Town Centres |
Policy SD3 - Sustainable Design and Construction |
Policy SD4 – Design |
Policy SD5 – Green Belt |
Policy SD6 - Landscape |
Policy SD7 - AONB |
Policy SD8 Historic Environment |
Policy SD9 – Biodiversity and Geodiversity |
Policy SD10 – Residential Development |
Policy SD11 - Housing Mix and Standards |
Policy SD12 – Affordable Housing |
Policy SD13: GTTS |
Policy SD14 – Health and Environmental Quality |
Policy SA1 - Strategic Allocations |
Policy INF1 – Transport Network |
Policy INF2 - Flood Risk Management |
Policy INF3 – Green Infrastructure |
Policy INF4 - Social and Community Infrastructure |
Policy INF5 – Renewable Energy and Low Carbon Energy Development |
Policy INF6 – Infrastructure Delivery |
Policy INF7 – Developer contributions |
Policy SA1 - Strategic Allocations |
Gloucester City Plan 2011-2031 – Strategic Policies
Vision |
Key Principles |
Policy A2: Affordable Housing Policy |
Policy A6: Accessible and adaptable homes |
B2: Safeguarding employment sites |
Policy B3: New employment development and intensification and improvements to existing employment land |
Policy C6: Cordon sanitaire |
Policy E8: Development affecting Cotswold Beechwoods Special Area of Conservation |
Policy F6: Nationally Described Space Standards |
Policy G8: Review mechanism |
Site Allocations SA01 to SA22 |
Policy SA01: Land at the Wheatridge |
Policy SA02: Land at Barnwood Manor |
Policy SA03: Former Prospect House, 67-69 London Road |
Policy SA04: Former Wessex House, Great Western Road |
Policy SA05: Land at Great Western Road Sidings |
Policy SA06: Blackbridge Sports and Community Hub |
Policy SA07: Lynton Fields, Land East of Waterwells Business Park |
Policy SA08: King’s Quarter |
Policy SA09: Former Quayside House, Blackfriars |
Policy SA10: Former Fleece Hotel & Longsmith Street Car Park |
Policy SA11: Land rear of St Oswalds Retail Park |
Policy SA12: Land at Rea Lane, Hempsted |
Policy SA13: Former Colwell Youth & Community Centre |
Policy SA14: Land off New Dawn View |
Policy SA15: Land South West of Winneycroft Allocation |
Policy SA16: Land off Lower Eastgate Street |
Policy SA17: Land South of Triangle Park (Southern Railway Triangle) |
Policy SA18: Jordan’s Brook House |
Policy SA19: Land off Myers Road |
Policy SA20: White City Replacement Community Facility |
Policy SA21: Part of West Quay, the Docks |
Policy SA22: Land adjacent to Secunda Way Industrial Estate |
Gloucester City Plan (2011-31) – Non-Strategic Policies
Policy A1: Effective use of land and buildings |
Policy A3: Estate regeneration |
Policy A4: Student accommodation |
Policy A5: Specialist housing - Housing choice for older, frail and disabled people |
Policy A7: Self build and custom build homes |
Policy A8: Static caravan sites |
Policy A9: Extensions to existing dwellings |
Policy A10: Annexes to existing dwellings |
Policy B1: Employment and skills plans |
Policy B4: Development within and adjacent to Gloucester Docks and Canal |
Policy B5: Tourism and culture |
Policy B6: Protection of public houses |
Policy C1: Active design and accessibility |
Policy C2: Allotments |
Policy C3: Open space, playing fields and sports facilities |
Policy C4: Hot food takeaways |
Policy C5: Air quality |
Policy C7: Fall prevention from taller buildings |
Policy C8: Changing Places Toilets |
Policy D1: Historic environment |
Policy D2: Non-designated heritage assets |
Policy D3: Recording and advancing understanding of heritage assets |
Policy D4: Shopfronts, shutters and signs |
Policy D5: Views of the Cathedral and historic places of worship |
Policy E1: Landscape character and sensitivity |
Policy E2: Biodiversity and geodiversity |
Policy E3: Nature Recovery Area |
Policy E4: Trees, woodlands and hedgerows |
Policy E5: Green Infrastructure: Building with Nature |
Policy E6: Flooding, sustainable drainage, and wastewater |
Policy E7: Renewable energy potential of the River Severn and the canal |
Policy F1: Materials and finishes |
Policy F2: Landscape and planting |
Policy F3: Community safety |
Policy F4: Gulls |
Policy F5: Open plan estates |
Policy G1: Sustainable transport |
Policy G2: Charging infrastructure for electric vehicles |
Policy G3: Cycling |
Policy G4: Walking |
Policy G5: Broadband connectivity |
Policy G6: Telecommunications infrastructure |
Policy G7: Water Efficiency |
Article 4 Directions
6.2 Gloucester currently has two Article 4 directions, at St Michael's Square and Southgate Street Conservation Area. Full details can be found online https://www.gloucester.gov.uk/planning-development/conservation-regeneration/article-4-direction/
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