The Housing Development Plan Document forms part of the Eden Local Development Framework and will shape guidelines for housing developments over the next 15 years, impacting on issues such as affordable housing.
It will provide greater detail and clarity to the overarching framework that is identified in the Core Strategy and will allocate sites for housing in the Eden area outside of the Lake District National Park. This will ensure that future housing development meets local need and takes place in a planned way.
What We Have Done So Far
Penrith Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment
The Penrith Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment (LVIA) has been produced by PDP Associates and will form an important piece of evidence to support the Housing Development Plan Document, in particular the proposed allocations in Penrith. The document assesses and ranks both the landscape and visual impacts of the identified major housing option sites surrounding Penrith and suggests possible mitigation proposals to limit any potential impact.
For further information please contact the Planning Policy Section on (01768) 817817 or email loc.plan@eden.gov.uk
Consultation on Alternative Housing Sites
A large number of Alternative Sites were proposed to the Council in response to the initial Issues and Options consultation. These sites were the subject of a six week consultation from Monday 19 May to Friday 27 June 2008. A report summarising the responses made to the Alternative Sites has now been produced.
Warning: The above files are large documents and may take a long time to download.
Issues and Options Consultation
The first consultation stage took place between Monday 13 August and Friday 12 October 2007. It was in the form of an Issues and Options document which asked a series of questions about potential policies. It considered issues that are important in Eden, such as meeting the high levels of need for affordable housing that exist in the District, and suggested options for addressing the issues.
An initial set of sites that had been proposed from a number of sources were also included in the document for consideration. The Issues and Options consultation was the first opportunity for the public to comment on the initial sites that are being considered as well as identify and suggest alternative sites that may be suitable for housing development in the future.
Reports summarising the responses to the Policy questions and initial sites are available below.
Warning: Some of the above files are large documents and may take a long time to download.
Next Steps
The responses to the Issues and Options and Alternative Sites consultations and the conclusions within the Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment and other evidence will be considered when the Council starts to prepare the Preferred Options for housing allocations.
A set of criteria will be developed for identifying and prioritising sites to take forward as Preferred Options. The Council will then produce a Preferred Options paper that will include draft housing policies and preferred sites for housing allocations. The Preferred Options paper will be approved by the Council and will likely be published in early 2011. A six week public consultation period will follow to enable stakeholders and members of the public an opportunity to comment on the document.
Read more about where you can view hard copies of the Local Development Framework Documents.
Sustainability Appraisal and Strategic Environmental Assessment
Sustainability Appraisal has been produced in order to assess the likely social, environmental and economic impacts of the different options presented. This will help inform later stages of the Development Plan Document. Sustainability Appraisal reports were produced to support the Issues and Options and Alternative Sites consultations.
These Sustainability Appraisals follow on from an earlier Scoping Report published in March 2007:
Warning: Some of the above files are large documents and may take a long time to download.
You can read more about Sustainability Appraisals.
