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

Local Shopping

6.25 The Council recognises that not all people in Calderdale have easy access to shopping facilities, particularly those without the use of a car. It also recognises that there are parts of the urban areas, which have very few convenience goods facilities. The Council will therefore support proposals that assist in the creation of small scale, local facilities, which will reduce the likelihood of the development of a 'food desert' and will provide residents with much needed local shopping. ('Food deserts' are described in the Glossary). Small scale local food shopping facilities, (generally those that are able to open all day on Sunday, as they are under 280 sq.m net area), provide an important local facility that is unlikely to have a detrimental effect upon any of the larger town centres within the hierarchy. However, there may be potential for them to attract expenditure away from some of the smaller centres forming part of the retail hierarchy thereby reducing the vitality and viability of those centres. As a matter of principle, the Council considers that this type of small scale retailing should be located within or close to existing smaller centres or alongside groups of local shops, where suitable sites or buildings capable of being converted may exist and are therefore covered by Policy S 1 ‘Sequential Approach for Retail and other Key Town Centre or Leisure Uses’ and Policy S 2 ‘Criteria for Assessing Retail Developments’. However, small convenience or some types of comparison shops, may be supportable in locations where there is a local deficiency, within the urban areas or rural settlements, which could help to reduce the necessity to travel, meet local shopping needs and help to tackle the issue of 'food deserts'.

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