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
    • Farm Shops and Nursery Gardens
  • 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

Retailing in the Green Belt and Open Countryside

6.26 Government Guidance as expressed by PPG2 and RSS (2004) is that there is no place for major retail development either within the Green Belt or generally within open countryside. Some smaller scale retailing can however be appropriate to a rural area and can facilitate and foster the development and diversification of the rural economy, and may be considered to be supportive of the advice in PPS7 'Sustainable Development in Rural Areas' (2004). Farm shops, for example, can bring the farmer closer to the market thus meeting the demand from customers who want fresh produce from the point of production. They can also help to diversify individual farm businesses making them more financially stable. Other types of small scale retailing such as a golf shop associated with a golf course, or a horse tack shop at a riding stable may also be appropriate. Small convenience stores may also be appropriate within a rural settlement. It is important however, to ensure that all types of retailing in rural areas are properly managed and controlled and do not develop to such an extent that they become inappropriate.

Farm Shops and Nursery Gardens

6.27 Whilst the importation of some goods for sale to the public from a farm shop must be accepted if the shop is to remain viable and attractive to customers, it is considered that the great majority of goods sold through the farm shop should be produced on the farm to which the shop belongs. In a similar manner to farm shops, the retail element of nursery gardens may be appropriate within the Green Belt or open countryside. However the type of garden centre which imports all its produce for selling on, is unlikely to be considered appropriate to a rural area as it would be more suitably located close to one of the main town centres or generally within an urban area.

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