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
• 7 Open Space, Sport and Recreation Facilities
• 8 The Built and Historic Environment
• 9 Transport
• 10 Infrastructure, Education and Community Facilities
  • Introduction
  • Infrastructure and Facilities Necessitated by New Development
  • The Strategic Framework for Community Facilities Planning
  • Education
  • Village Shops, Post Offices, Public Houses and Hotels
  • Cemeteries
  • Social Services and Health Infrastructure
  • HM Prison Service
  • Major Leisure Uses and Urban Entertainment 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

HM Prison Service

10.38 HM Prison Service is experiencing serious overcrowding problems. As a result there is an ongoing exercise being undertaken to identify areas of future need for additional prison accommodation throughout England and Wales. West Yorkshire has been identified as one area of strategic importance for additional prison places. Whilst there are no specific proposals being put forward by HM Prison Service for a new prison in Calderdale, it is important that the UDP sets out how the Council would determine any planning application. DETR Circular 03/98 'Planning for Future Prison Development' sets out how the Government view this issue of national importance. The Circular gives priority to brownfield sites, and insists that the original presumption against inappropriate development within Green Belts should be applied to prisons as well. Paragraphs 9 to 12 in the Circular set out a number of ideal characteristics that any site should seek to display. These are:-

• area of 16 hectares with a regular shape;
• be reasonably level;
• be not overlooked;
• be capable of accommodating 2, 3 or 4 storey buildings;
• should normally be a brownfield site, although greenfield may be acceptable in some circumstances;
• should not be within the Green Belt unless special considerations indicate otherwise;
• should be in a sustainable location, assisting objectives of reducing the need to travel, not too far from the centre of population and have good accessibility by public transport;
• have good access to the motorway or arterial trunk road network; and
• have readily available mains gas, electricity, water and sewerage services without unreasonably high cost.

By virtue of their size, new prisons are likely to fall in the requirements of the Town & Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment )(England and Wales) Regulations (1999).

The Council would expect any proposed prison facility to generally comply with its design policies and all other relevant UDP policies, and not to cause any unacceptable environmental, amenity, safety, highway or other problems.

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