Cheeseman's Green & Waterbrook AAP
The Cheeseman’s Green & Waterbrook Area Action Plan ( AAP )
forms part of Ashford’s Local Development Framework. Cheeseman’s
Green is identified in ABC 's Core Strategy (policy CS5) as
an urban extension site which should be planned to accommodate
around 4,300 dwellings and at least 1475 additional jobs in the
combined area by 2021. After 2021, there is potential for a further
2,200 dwellings and at least 750 jobs. As such, the
AAP
will set out the development
framework for the mixed-use urban extension area at Cheeseman's
Green / Waterbrook and establish policies for residential,
employment and infrastructure development within the area.
The site has some existing planning consents which will be taken
into account as part of the
AAP
masterplanning process, as well as
some constraints which are capable of being overcome in order to
allow development to proceed. A key part of the
AAP
process will be the production of a
masterplan for the development of these areas, to which development
proposals will be expected to accord.
Progress
The Council issued an Issues and Options Report for public
consultation in June 2009 for a period of 8 weeks. Representations
in relation to the Issues and Options report can be viewed through
the Council’s consultation portal. The Issues and
Options Report will form the basis of developing a credible
evidence base which will see the Council produce a Publication
version of the Cheeseman’s Green & Waterbrook
AAP
by September 2012. Responses to the
Publication version will be considered when preparing the final
Submission version of the
AAP
in January 2013.
Background Documents
In conjunction with the preparation of the
AAP, a Sustainability Appraisal Scoping Report
has been produced which assesses the economic, social and
environmental constraints of the proposed urban extension. Copies
of the report have been sent to the statutory consultation
bodies which includes the Environment Agency, English Heritage and
Natural England.
Contact Details
For further information on the Cheeseman’s Green &
Waterbrook Area Action Plan, please contact Charlotte
Brooks-Lawrie on 01233 330638 or email the Policy
Team.
This webpage was updated on
1/13/2011