Draft Core Strategy (incorporating Preferred Options) October 2010
Draft Core Strategy (incorporating Preferred Options)
Commuted Sums for Future Maintenance
11.25 Provisions for future maintenance can be sought towards on-site provision or contributions towards off-site provision, to ensure the continued availability of the open space, equipped play space, youth facilities and playing pitches and changing rooms. Planning Obligations can include maintenance payments towards the provision of facilities that are predominately for the benefit of the users of the associated development.
11.26 The provision of on-site, and contribution towards off site, play and youth facilities, playing pitches and changing facilities, public open space and landscaped areas will require developers to agree the future management of this space with the Council. This will normally be by adoption by the Local Authority, Town or Parish Council or through a management company set up by the developer. The Council will need to be satisfied that any management company is suitably financed. The former will require an initial landscape maintenance plan to be implemented prior to adoption, with a commuted sum paid to the local planning authority to cover maintenance for the 10 years following adoption. The latter will require a formal management plan, including timescale for adoption and maintenance schedule, to be agreed as part of a Section 106 planning obligation.
11.27 To determine commuted sums, in accordance with ‘Assessing Needs and Opportunities: a Companion Guide to PPG17’, the Council calculates the annual cost of maintaining each landscape feature on a proposed site from the Council’s maintenance rates, or the annual cost of maintaining facilities based upon the Council’s known costs of managing similar facilities. From these figures, which are periodically reviewed, the Council then calculates the 10 Year Commuted Sums.
11.28 Other open space facilities include Green Corridors, Public Rights of Way, Civic Spaces, Cemeteries, Private Open Space and Allotments are other aspects of Green Infrastructure, which need to be given full consideration, however there are no standards currently developed for this type of provision.
Where new housing development generates a need for additional open space and outdoor playing space, provision/contributions will be made in accordance with the standards set out in the SSDC PPG17 Assessments of Outdoor Playing Space and Sports, Cultural and Community Facilities, 2010 and Green Spaces Strategy, 2010. The quantitative standards are summarised in the table below.
Housing provision consisting of sheltered housing, rest and nursing homes, special needs housing will be exempt from these standards with the exception of informal recreational open space in accordance with Section HW1.2 in the table below.
Developments of one bedroom dwellings will not be required to provide equipped play provision (HW1.2.1 below) and youth facilities (HW1.2.2) but will be required to provide for other open space and outdoor playing space.
Dependent upon the size and layout of the development, the provision of open space and outdoor playing space may be required on site or may form part of a contribution towards off site provision of either new or improved facilities. In such circumstances off-site provision towards local facilities should be made in a location, which adequately serves the new development and a planning obligation may be used to secure this.
Provision should be made for future maintenance to ensure its continued availability as open space and outdoor playing space.
Green Corridors, Public Rights of Way, Civic Spaces, Cemeteries, Private Open Space and Community Allotments are other aspects of Green Infrastructure, which need to be given full consideration, however there are no standards developed for this type of provision.
Open Space is defined as informal recreational open space, formal parks and gardens, country parks, natural open space and woodlands.
Outdoor Playing Space is defined as playing pitches, equipped play areas and youth facilities.
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Section Number |
Typology |
Sub - Typology |
Quantity Standard (ha per 1000 pop.) |
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HW1.1
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Playing Pitches
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1.4ha
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HW1.2 |
Children and Young People's Provision
|
|
|
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HW1.2.1 |
Children and Young People's Provision
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Equipped Playing Provision
|
0.2ha |
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HW1.2.2 |
Children and Young People's Provision
|
Youth Facilities |
0.05ha |
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HW1.3 |
Informal Recreational Open Space
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0.55ha* |
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HW1.4
|
Parks and Public Gardens
|
|
|
|
HW1.4.1 |
Parks and Public Gardens |
Formal Parks and Public Gardens
|
0.19ha |
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HW1.4.2
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Parks and Public Gardens
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Country Parks
|
1.32ha
|
|
HW1.5
|
Natural Open Space
|
|
0.25ha
|
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HW1.6
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Woodland
|
|
0.024ha
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Where new housing development generates a need for additional local and strategic sports, cultural and community facilities, provision/contributions will be made in accordance with the standards set out in the SSDC PPG17 Assessments of Sports, Cultural and Community Facilities, 2010. The quantitative standards are summarised in the table below.
Housing provision consisting of sheltered housing, rest and nursing homes, special needs housing will be exempt from policy HW2.
Developments of one bedroom dwellings will normally be required to provide for sports and recreational facilities in accordance with policy HW2.
Dependent upon the size and layout of the development, the provision of sports, cultural and community facilities may be required on site or may form part of a contribution towards off site provision of either new or improved facilities. In such circumstances off-site provision towards local facilities should be made in a location, which adequately serves the new development and a planning obligation may be used to secure this.
Provision should be made for future maintenance of changing rooms to ensure its continued availability to support outdoor playing space.
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Section Number
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Type of Provision
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Quantity Standard (m2 per 1000 population)
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Local Facilities
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HW2.1
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Changing Room Provision
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347.2
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HW2.2
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Community Halls/
Village Halls
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Rural Parishes 353 Yeovil, Market Towns and Rural Centres 119 |
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Strategic Facilities
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|
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HW2.3
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Sports Hall
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46.88
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HW2.4
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Swimming Pool
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10.86
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HW2.5
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Indoor Tennis
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23.72
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HW2.6
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Synthetic Turf Pitch (STP)
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255.5
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HW2.7
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Theatres and Arts Centres
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45
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