Replacement Calderdale UDP : Adopted 25 August 2006 (as amended August 2009)

Replacement Calderdale UDP : Adopted 25 August 2006

• Foreword
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Calderdale in Context
• Strategic and Core Part One Policies
• 3 Guiding Principles and Key Themes
• 4 Employment, The Economy, Tourism and Regeneration
• 5 Housing
• 6 Retailing and Town Centres
• 7 Open Space, Sport and Recreation Facilities
  • Introduction
  • Protected Open Spaces
  • Open Spaces in Areas of Deficiency
  • Safeguarding Sports Grounds and Playing Fields
  • Provision of Sport and Recreation Facilities
  • Provision of Recreational Open Space in Residential Development
  • Allotments
  • Common Land
  • Waterways and Open Water
  • Former Halifax Branch Canal
• 8 The Built and Historic Environment
• 9 Transport
• 10 Infrastructure, Education and Community Facilities
• 11 Natural Environment and the Countryside
• 12 Environmental Protection
• 13 Minerals
• 14 Waste Management
• 15 Monitoring and Review of the Plan
• Annex A Privacy, Daylighting and Amenity Space
• Annex B Trees On or Adjacent to Development Sites
• Appendix 1 National Planning Policy
• Appendix 2 National Minerals Policy
• Appendix 3 Supporting Published Documents
• Appendix 4 Glossary of Terms
• Appendix 5 Acronyms and Abbreviations
• Appendix 6 Policy Topic Index
• Appendix 7 Policy Number Comparison
• Appendix 8 Supplementary Maps

Common Land

7.27 There are approximately 5,400ha of registered common land and village green in Calderdale. The majority of this is urban common (see the Glossary for the definitions). The public has rights of access over urban commons for air and exercise whether on foot or horseback and, to a lesser extent, to rural commons using public rights of way. Village greens are land used by established custom for exercise and recreation and are claimed as such by local inhabitants. Registered urban and rural commons and village greens are collectively referred to as ‘Common Land’ in the UDP and are shown on the Proposals Map.

7.28 The Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 (CRoW) gives people a new right to walk over large areas of open countryside and common land. This ‘Access Land’ is mapped by the Countryside Agency and includes open country such as moorland, heath and registered commons. The Proposals Map does not show the access land defined under the provisions of the CRoW Act, but does show Council owned access land.

7.29 Common land, whether it is Urban or Rural Common or a Registered Village Green, represents an important resource for public recreation, nature conservation and agriculture. In the past, however, some areas have been used for mineral extraction and waste disposal. Government guidance rules out policies that would place a general embargo on mineral extraction and restoration of sites. It may be necessary to allow these activities to continue on commons unless there are overriding concerns such as the designation of the land as a Special Protection Area (SPA), Special Area of Conservation (SAC) Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), Site of Ecological or Geological Interest (SEGI) or as a locally designated nature reserve, where development is not considered appropriate.

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