walford neighbourhood

1. NDP Policies

2.Housing Options

The Neighbourhood Development Plan can be found at https://walford-ndp.co.uk/project-documents/the-neighbourhood-plan/

March 2021

Walford Neighbourhood

Development Plan

https://walford-ndp.co.uk/project-documents/the-neighbourhood-plan/

What’s a policy?

A policy is “a deliberate system of principles to guide decisions and achieve rational outcomes”.

● This Neighbourhood Development Plan (NDP) will define

policies which will guide and control aspects of development

within the Parish.

● These policies have been developed to meet the needs

expressed by the community.

● These policies cover a range of subjects and not just

housing.

● All proposed policies can be found in the draft NDP on the

NDP website.

23 Policies

Check these out in the draft NDP

1.Promoting Sustainable Growth

2.Development Strategy

3.Major Development in AONB

4.Conserving landscape and scenic beauty

5.Enhancing natural environment

6.Protecting heritage assets

7.Waste water drainage

8.Protection from flood risk

9.Sustainable design

10.Renewable energy and low carbon

11.Highways requirements

12.Traffic measures

13.Community facilities and business

14.Contributions to community facilities

15.High speed broadband and telecoms

16.Housing design and appearance

17-21. Housing development

22. Use of rural buildings for business

23. Polytunnel Proposals

Major Issues Raised in Walford

The main issues raised in the questionnaire and the public consultations in February 2020 were:

Waste Water Flooding Housing Design Sustainable Development

Waste Water

● This deals with sewer capacity including at Ross Lower Cleeve treatment works.

● It also covers the need for developers to show that foul drainage will not cause pollution.

Flood Risk

● New development is subject to national tests to establish risk.

● Where risk is present full and effective mitigation is required.

● Development should not cause increase surface water flooding

Housing Design This is a long policy:

• Respecting rural character

• Sympathetic designs

• Sensitivity to landscape

• Sufficient garden space

• Meet housing needs in terms of size, type and tenure

More details in the NDP

Sustainable Development This is a long policy including:

• Orientation to maximise solar gain

• Energy and water conservation

• Solar panels

• Tree planting

• Facility for pedestrians, cycles,

pushchairs and wheelchairs

Housing Policies

Once the preferred housing option is decided by Walford Parish Council the specific housing policies will be finalized in the draft NDP. The draft NDP will then be complete and ready for approval by Walford Parish Council prior to submission to Herefordshire Council.

Summing Up

All 23 policies can be read in detail in the draft NDP available on the NDP website.

End of Part 1. NDP Policies

1. NDP Policies

2. Housing Options

•The Meeting Housing Need and Site Assessment report and Addendum(s) for sites submitted after that report was published can be found at https://walford-ndp.co.uk/project-documents/the-neighbourhood-plan/

• March 2021

Walford Neighbourhood

Development Plan

https://walford-ndp.co.uk/project-documents/the-neighbourhood-plan/

Purpose of this Consultation

Walford Parish Council must define how it will accommodate an

additional 51 houses by 2031.

All options are open at this moment and things can be influenced by

your feedback.

This is the last part of the consultation in which options for choosing

between various combinations of sites are presented.

We will go into more detail on the 5 options that are set out in the

Meeting Housing Needs and Site Assessment Report.

We would like your feedback on the approach that might best suit the

needs of the parish in meeting it’s housing target.

Housing Development OptionsRecap

HC Core Strategy Requirement

91 Dwellings

Number of Completions and dwellings with planning permission

40 Dwellings

Current Shortfall (Minimum requirement)

51 Dwellings

Rank Order

Site Reference

No.

1 11(R) 402 24(R) 53 6(R1) 164 7(R) 105 32 56 34 37 26 38 11(R) & 21 65-100

5 Reasonable Alternative Options

Development OptionsThe following options comprise the combinations of sites to meet at

least the minimum level of housing growth (51):

Option 1 - Allocate one large site with any shortfall being made up through one or more medium or small sites.

Option 2 – Allocate all of the medium and small sites together with a realistic windfall allowance.

Option 3 – Allocate sites in order of ranking in order to meet and/or exceed the required level of housing growth.

Option 4 – No housing allocations but rely upon a policy similar to Core Strategy Policy RA2

Option 5 - Allocate one very large site.

Housing Development Options

• Do we allocate housing sites or leave it to Herefordshire Planners to

decide what goes where?

• Do we rely on small and medium sized sites and hope that the

examiner accepts that the windfall allowance is sufficiently certain to

meet the target?

• Do we spread the housing around the parish or place it in as few sites

as possible?

We face a few choices and must work within the constraints given by the

process.

Housing Development Options

Site Sizes: For the purposes of defining options sites have been divided into:

- Small – 3 to 5 dwellings – ORANGE

- Medium – 6 – 20 dwellings - BLUE

- Large – 21-50 dwellings – RED

- Very Large – 50+ dwellings – PURPLE and PINK DOTTED LINE

Development Option 1Allocate one large site [Site 11(R) – 40

dwellings] with any shortfall (11 dwellings)

being made up through one or more medium or

small sites.

A range of combinations are available

although the following offer a number

of reasonable alternatives.

i) The best sites in ranked orderSites 11(R) + 24(R) + 6(R1) – 61 dwellings

ii) The least number of sitesSites 11(R) + 6(R1) – 56 dwellings

iii) The least housesSites 11(R) + 24(R) + 34 + 26 – 51 dwellings

iv) Spreading development across

settlements in ranked orderSites 11(R) + 24(R) + 32 + 34 – 53 dwellings

Ross-on-Wye fringe

Walford &

Coughton

Bishopswood

SMALL

MEDIUM

LARGE

Housing Development Option 1

Advantages Disadvantages

Provides an element of affordable housing on site 11(R) – at least 16 such dwellings plus a further 6 if the alternative with site 6(R1) chosen

Involves one large development site

Enables a variety of dwellings sizes to be achieved

High degree of certainty that the required level of housing growth will be achieved

Variations available through a choice of sites to achieve this option

Development Option 2

Allocate the range of medium and small sites together with a realistic windfall allowance. Medium and

small sites provide 42 dwellings in total. This would leave a shortfall of 9 dwellings to be met through

the windfall allowance.

This option would involve

allocating sites:

Site 24(R) – 5 dwellings

Site 6(R1) – 16 dwellings

Site 7(R) - 10 dwellings

Site 32 – 5 dwellings



Ross-on-Wye fringe

Walford &

Coughton

BishopswoodSMALL

MEDIUM



Promotes small scale developments. Reliance on windfall allowance means less certainty that the required level of housing growth will be achieved

Provides an element of affordable housing on site 6(R1) – 6 such dwellings

Spreads dwellings around Parish

Development Option 3Allocate sites in order of ranking in order to meet and/or exceed the required level of housing

growth which could be up to 107/142 dwellings depending upon the cut-off point chosen and the

extent of area agreed for Site 21. All would be in addition to any windfall allowance.

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Rank Site Reference Cumulative

No of dwellings

1 Site 11(R) 40

2 Site 24(R) 45

3 Site 6(R1) 61

4 Site 7(R) 71

5 Site 32 76

6 Site 34 79

7 Site 26 82

8 Sites 11(R) and 21

(south part) combined

107

9 Sites 11(R) and 21

(whole site) combined

142

Ross-on-Wye fringe

Walford &

Coughton

Bishopswood

SMALL

MEDIUM

LARGE



Enables choice in terms of most suitable sites

Impact of one large development site on the landscape of the AONB if cut off points 6 or 7 chosen.

Provides an element of affordable housing on sites 11(R) and 6(R1) –22 such dwellings

Contrary to community’s wishes expressed in consultations if larger sites utilised



Provides ability to exceed minimum requirement to a notable degree should this be required

Core Strategy Policy RA2 allows housing

development in or adjacent to the three

Settlements.

Development Option 4

No housing allocations but rely upon a policy similar to Core Strategy Policy RA2

Ross-on-Wye fringe

Walford &

Coughton

Bishopswood

Howle Hill



Clarity about where the settlements are.

High level of uncertainty about ability to deliver required level of housing

Provides significant flexibility to achieving the housing target.

Does not limit housing growth

Greater uncertainty about location of development

Development Option 5Allocate one very large site. Combination of sites 11(R) and 21 (65 to 100 dwellings)

This would result in one large

allocation in Walford and Coughton.

Two alternatives are available both

of which would require site 11(R) for

access:

• Site11(R) + the whole of Site 21

(Approximately 100 dwellings)

• Site 11(R) + the south part of Site 21

(Approximately 65 dwellings)

LARGE

VERY LARGE



Provides an element of affordable housing on sites 11(R) and 21 – 26 -40 such dwellings depending upon extent of site 21.

Impact of one large development site on the landscape of the AONB


May be considered ‘Major Development’ within the AONB


Contrary to community’s wishes expressed in consultations

Thank you for listening and we look forward to

hearing your views.

Keep watching for details of how to make your

voice heard will follow after the presentation.

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