Including them within this policy is intended to help provide certainty around how they should be developed, in order to ensure delivery to help meet the housing target.
- Sites in List 1 of HOM 2a are within the existing built area (or on other land outside of the Green Belt).
- As iterated in HOM 1, the NPPF sets out that changes to Green Belt boundaries would require there to be exceptional circumstances, which includes an inability to meet housing need. Consequently, the council has been required to consider development of land in the Green Belt.
- The sequential approach set out in the NPPF expects that, in considering Green Belt, we firstly look at sites which have been previously developed, then those grey belt sites which are not previously developed and then other Green Belt sites. Doing this has informed the council's site selection process as referenced in the explanation to policy HOM 1. The sites are listed in each of those three groupings in List 2 of the table above. Allocation of these sites in List 2 of this policy brings about their removal from the Green Belt so as to enable their development.
HOM 2b: Site-specific requirements
1. Unless otherwise specified, the requirements of this policy apply to all sites allocated by policy HOM 2a.
2. Except site HOM 2.12 (Compstall Mills), List 2 sites allocated by HOM 2a will require the development of land that has been removed from the Green Belt. In some cases additional land has been removed from the Green Belt because it no longer functions as Green Belt once the allocated land has been removed. This land does not generally afford opportunities for development at a scale that would warrant allocation and is not included in the council's calculations of likely future housing land supply. In some cases other policies, such as those relating to Local Green Space, might prohibit or restrict development in these areas. In other cases these areas have been added to the Predominantly Residential Area and might be subject to future development proposals.
Wherever the provisions of this policy refer to List 2 sites it should be taken that they also apply to major development on any of these other areas of land that have been removed from the Green Belt.
3. Design, phasing and community engagement
Planning applications for the development of the sites to which this policy applies must include:
a. a site-specific masterplan and design code, illustrating how the proposals will respond to local character, deliver high-quality design,