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

Gypsies

5.63 This UDP was written prior to the publication of ODPM Circular 1/2006 which substantially changes Government Policy in relation to planning for gypsies. Given the advanced stage already reached in preparation of the RCUDP at the time the Circular was published, its requirements could not be accommodated in this Plan.

5.64 The term gypsy is defined in Paragraphs 2 and 3 of Circular 18/94 (Gypsy Sites Policy and Unauthorised Camping). Circular 1/94 (Gypsy Sites and Planning) encourages local authorities when preparing UDPs to, wherever possible, identify locations suitable for gypsy sites. Where this is not possible, criteria are to be set for suitable locations.

5.65 Gypsies comprise a small proportion of the population whose land use requirements need to be met. Their accommodation and occupational needs can be varied, making an assessment of the provision to meet this need a difficult and time consuming task for local authorities. This is compounded by the fact that the gypsy population can vary appreciably.

5.66 As stated in Circular 1/94, gypsy sites are not amongst those land uses normally appropriate in Green Belts or other sensitive locations. They should be within a reasonable distance of local services and facilities such as shops, hospitals and schools. Sites should have access from a properly surfaced road and a reasonable level of service provision including electricity and drinking water supplies, sewage disposal and refuse collection. The following Policy will therefore apply:-

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