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
  • Introduction
  • Strategy for Housing
  • Existing Housing Areas
  • Additional Housing
  • Non-Allocated Sites
  • Density and Type of Dwellings
  • Living Over Shops and Other Business Premises
  • Affordable Housing
  • Accessible Housing
  • Houses in Multiple Occupation
  • Gypsies
• 6 Retailing and Town Centres
• 7 Open Space, Sport and Recreation Facilities
• 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

Living Over Shops and Other Business Premises

5.42 Whilst a number of conversion schemes have been completed during the life of the previous UDP (1997), there remains a significant amount of disused or underused floorspace over many shops and business premises within Calderdale, particularly within the town centres. The Urban Capacity Study indicates that some 510 dwellings could be provided from this source. Halifax has the potential to accommodate some 470 of these dwellings but there is also more limited potential in the other towns. The Council’s objective of bringing empty or underused property back into use is underpinned by Housing Service's Empty Properties Strategy. Such space is often no longer required in connection with the use of the ground floor and could, if brought back into use, provide a valuable source of residential accommodation. This would add to the housing stock in the District as well as providing a range of other benefits, such as bringing life back into town centres and reducing crime, thereby making the town centres safer and more attractive. Other benefits include generating environmental improvements and enhancing the conservation of the built environment whilst pressures for new development on greenfield sites will also be lessened. Many suitable buildings, particularly in town centres, are well served by public transport and often occupied by people who do not have a car, thereby reducing the need for the provision of car parking. In the designated town centres there is no car parking requirement in the Plan (see Policy T 18 ‘Maximum Parking Allowances’), whilst many flats are likely to be occupied by single people, many of whom may not own a car. Whilst having regard to the amenities of the occupants of such conversion schemes a more flexible approach needs to be taken to reflect the realities and location of this type of development. This approach is reflected in the following Policy:-

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