Strategy for Housing

5.2 The overall objectives of the Housing Section of the Replacement UDP reflect those of the Government as set down in PPG3, Regional Spatial Strategy (RSS) for Yorkshire and the Humber (2004) and also the wider sustainability objectives set out in the introduction to this Plan. These can be summarised as follows:-

  • meeting the housing requirements of the whole community, including those in need of affordable housing and those with specialised housing needs;
  • providing a better mix in the size, type and location of housing and creating mixed communities;
  • providing sufficient housing land but giving priority to re-using previously developed land within urban areas, bringing empty homes back into use and converting existing buildings, in preference to the development of greenfield sites;
  • creating more sustainable patterns of development by ensuring new housing is linked by public transport and other non-car modes to employment, education and health facilities, shopping, leisure and local services;
  • promoting good design and energy efficiency in new housing developments in order to create attractive, high quality living environments in which people will choose to live; and
  • making more efficient use of land by increasing densities of housing development.

These objectives are set out in Part One POLICY GH 1 ‘MEETING CALDERDALE’S HOUSING NEEDS’ and POLICY GH 2 ‘PROVISION OF ADDITIONAL DWELLINGS’:-

POLICY GH 1

MEETING CALDERDALE’S HOUSING NEEDS

THE HOUSING NEEDS OF CALDERDALE WILL BE MET THROUGH:-
  1. THE IMPROVEMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF EXISTING HOUSING AND THE BRINGING BACK INTO USE OF EMPTY HOMES;
  2. THE CONVERSION OF EMPTY AND UNDERUSED NON-RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES, INCLUDING THOSE ABOVE SHOPS AND BUSINESS PREMISES, TO HOUSING;
  3. THE ALLOCATION OF A RANGE OF SITES TO ENABLE A MIX OF HOUSE TYPES AND SIZES TO BE BUILT WHERE SUCH DWELLINGS ARE ACCESSIBLE TO SCHOOLS, JOBS, SHOPS AND LEISURE OPPORTUNITIES, NOT ONLY BY CAR BUT ALSO BY PUBLIC TRANSPORT, WALKING AND CYCLING;
  4. THE PROVISION OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR THOSE WHO CANNOT AFFORD TO BUY OR RENT HOUSING WHICH MEETS THEIR NEEDS IN THE OPEN MARKET AND THE DISPERSAL OF THIS HOUSING THROUGHOUT INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT SITES;
  5. THE PROVISION OF SPECIALISED HOUSING ACCOMMODATION FOR DISADVANTAGED GROUPS; AND
  6. RECOGNITION OF THE NEED TO INTEGRATE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT WITH OPEN SPACE PROVISION, COMMUNITY SAFETY AND CRIME PREVENTION, GOOD DESIGN REFLECTING THE NEEDS OF COMMUNITIES AND THE AVAILABILITY OF INFRASTRUCTURE, INCLUDING SCHOOL PLACE PROVISION.

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