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
  • Introduction
  • Objectives for Retail Policy
  • Location of Retail and Key Town Centre Uses
  • Major Development Opportunities
  • Sequential Approach to Retail, Key Town Centre and Leisure Developments
  • Criteria for Asssessing Retail Development
  • Local Shopping
  • Retailing in the Green Belt and Open Countryside
  • Shopping Frontages in Town Centres
  • Halifax Town Centre
  • Temporary Retailing / Car Boot Sales
  • Hot Food Takeaways
  • Shop Fronts
• 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

Major Development Opportunities

Sites Which May Include Retailing

6.16 There are a number of major development opportunities within the District. Within Halifax town centre there is scope at Broad Street to accommodate major new retailing development to assist in maintaining the town’s competitive position in the face of expanding and improving major centres throughout West Yorkshire. The following are previously developed land sites where their development will support sustainability objectives. The Council has identified two sites within or at the edge of the centre of Halifax for major mixed-uses, these being shown on the Proposals Map:-

1. BROAD STREET, HALIFAX: (See Policy E 4 ‘Sites Allocated for Mixed-Use’ Site MU6) This site is within the Halifax town centre and was given planning permission in June 1997 for a mixed retail/leisure/restaurant development with significant car parking, which did not proceed. This is a major town centre site with significant potential and the Council wishes that it remains at the top of the sequential test list for Halifax. This site was marketed again by the Council during 2002/3 and new developers have been selected. The new scheme proposes a mixed development that will include retailing and residential uses. Retailing up to 15,000sq.m may be appropriate, which supports the role of Halifax as a sub-regional centre and fifth in the retail hierarchy of West Yorkshire.
2. TRANSCO SITE, MULCTURE HALL ROAD, HALIFAX: (See Policy E 4 ‘Sites Allocated for Mixed-Use’ Site MU2). This site forms part of a key area within the Halifax Renaissance Strategy theme of 'Re-Populating the Valley Bottom'. Whilst it is accepted that some retailing may be appropriate here, it is considered that this should be small in scale, ancillary to the predominant residential development of the site. Any retailing on the site is unlikely to exceed 1,500sq.m in gross area. Single use developments other than residential that would not be supportive of the objective of repopulating the valley bottom will be resisted. Other uses that may be appropriate within the mixed development include Use Classes A2; A3 (ancillary); B1; D1; C1; and C2.

6.17 There are other development opportunities across the District where retailing could form either the main element of the development or where it could be part of a mixed development:

1. DEWSBURY ROAD, ELLAND: (See Policy E 4 ‘Sites Allocated for Mixed-Use’ Site MU5). This site includes the old Gannex Mill site and other derelict or underused premises along the south side of Dewsbury Road. A major mixed-use development of retailing, leisure, residential and community use would be supported. The retail element should meet the needs of Elland and be appropriate to the role of the centre and the catchment that the development is intended to serve.
2. SUGDEN’S MILL AND SITE ON MILL ROYD STREET, BRIGHOUSE: (See Policy E 4 ‘Sites Allocated for Mixed-Use’ Site MU4).This is a major edge of centre site, which when developed would expand the centre of Brighouse. This site has been approved for a major mixed-use development including food and non-food retail, (1,500sq.m and 5,300sq.m respectively) a new swimming pool, offices, car parking and new canal crossings for vehicles and pedestrians. Major mixed-use development including retailing, business and possibly housing together with the replacement pool would be supported.

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