Local Development Plan: Vision, Objectives & Options

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Chapter 6

Objectives

6.0 Introduction

This section of the document sets out the Council’s draft objectives. The draft objectives will ensure that the draft vision as set out in chapter 5 is delivered. The vision and objectives will form the basis of the LDP. The objectives have been developed in the context of the key issues, opportunities and challenges identified in chapter 4. The draft objectives clearly link to the Corporate Plan, Future Wales, Planning Policy Wales and the Wellbeing of Future Generations Act.

6.1 Theme: Promoting Placemaking and Wellbeing

6.1.1 The objectives in this section are designed to maintain a resilient and prosperous economy to ensure a robust supply of jobs and support local businesses.

Objective 1: Encourage economic prosperity through supporting existing businesses and attracting new investment to improve skills and job opportunities on the Island and, in doing so, enable the retention of the working aged population and contribute to more sustainable and viable communities.

6.1.2 Objective 1 seeks to provide a range of secure local employment for residents on Anglesey. It recognises that providing local employment will assist with retaining working age people on the Island. It links to the strategic objective of promoting opportunities to develop the Island’s economy of the Council Plan.

Objective 2: Continue to provide development opportunities for the diversification of the rural economy whilst providing support to primary rural industries such as farming to secure their continued viability and resilience

6.1.3 Objective 2 provides specific support for the rural economy. It provides support for diversification.

Objective 3: Support development that improves the vitality and viability of Anglesey’s high streets and town centres with a view to enhancing and safeguarding local retail centres on the Island

6.1.4 Objective 3 recognises the importance of the Island’s town centres as retail hubs. It seeks to address the issue of reduced footfall and ensure that town centres are maintained as community focal points and economic centres even in a changing retail market.

Objective 4: Support appropriate, high quality tourism development that will contribute to the sustainable growth of the visitor economy whilst ensuring that the qualities that contribute to the Island’s attraction as a destination are adequately safeguarded.

6.1.5 Objective 4 provides clear support for the growth of the visitor economy. It seeks to enhance the Island’s offer as a tourist destination but balances this with the need to protect that which generates the tourism demand. Anglesey is prized for its dramatic landscapes and the Plan must ensure that these key assets are suitably protected.

Objective 5: Support the delivery of the strategic investment opportunities provided by the Freeport Designation and development at Wylfa. This includes enabling infrastructure.

6.1.6 Linked to Objective 1, Objective 5 provides clear, specific support for the delivery of the key strategic investment opportunities available on Anglesey.

6.2 Theme: Ensuring access to suitable Homes

6.2.1 The objectives in this section show how the Plan will make Anglesey a great place to live by providing suitable housing supported by sufficient and suitable infrastructure to promote sustainable lifestyles.

Objective 6: Facilitate delivery of a range and mix of housing required to meet both urban and rural housing demand. Such homes will be climate-resilient and accessible to services and facilities required by residents in addition to considering the specialist needs and requirements of an ageing population and the need to provide sufficient affordable housing

6.2.2 Objective 6 seeks to ensure the delivery of a suitable range and mix of housing to meet the diverse needs of the Island. The Plan will need to be supported by evidence of the housing needs of the Island, including the assessing the need for affordable housing. It will seek to meet needs for specialist accommodation and the need for Gypsy and Traveller accommodation.

6.3 Theme: Infrastructure to support ambitions

6.3.1 The objectives in this theme are designed to ensure that development is appropriately supported by essential infrastructure.

Objective 7: Ensure that adequate strategic and local physical, social/community, digital and green and blue infrastructure is in place to support future growth within the Plan area

6.3.2 Objective 7 will ensure that supporting infrastructure is a key consideration for the Plan. This objective covers the “traditional” infrastructure types ordinarily considered by an LDP, but also covers green and blue infrastructure (such as parks, rivers and beaches), elevating this to the same level as other infrastructure needs and requiring the consideration of nature-based solutions. The objective also supports the basis of future developer contributions to support development.

Objective 8: Ensure that as far as possible new development is located to reduce the need to travel and designed to be walk- or cycle-friendly with facilities located near to where people live

6.3.2 Objective 8 is a recognition of the need to make day-to-day living as simple and easy as possible. It will assist with ensuring the LDP delivers modal shift. It reflects the need to support active travel and will help deliver wider Council environmental and health objectives.

6.4 Theme: Responding to a Changing Climate

6.4.1 The objectives in this section show how the Plan will respond to the climate change emergency.

Objective 9: Support measures to reduce carbon emissions and the consequences of climate change whilst responding to global warming and supporting society to adapt the way it works, lives and uses land thereby building resilience to the effects of a changing climate.

6.4.2 Objective 9 reflects the declaration of a climate emergency by the Council. It also reflects the strategic objective set in the Council Plan to respond to the climate crisis and work towards being a net zero organisation. The LDP will have a key role in assisting the Council in tackling climate change. This is in terms of reducing carbon emissions, mitigating the impact of climate change and making Anglesey more resilient to its impacts.

Objective 10: Support the transition to a low carbon economy. Support renewable and low carbon energy generation through facilitating the development of appropriate infrastructure that realises meaningful local benefits and mitigates negative impacts.

6.4.3 Objective 10 provides high level support for renewable and low carbon energy to tackle the climate crisis. It ensures the Council’s commitments to delivery of renewable energy are reflected through the LDP.

6.5 Theme: Preserving and Promoting Welsh Language and Culture

6.5.1 The objectives in this theme seek to ensure that the planning system plays its part in promoting the Welsh language on the Island.

Objective 11: Ensure that development is appropriately planned to enable the Welsh language to develop and thrive thereby making a positive contribution towards achieving the Welsh Government’s national target of a million Welsh speakers by 2050.

6.5.1 Objective 11 provides a framework for the Plan to consider how it can respond to the aim of increasing the numbers of Welsh speakers in Wales and specifically within Anglesey. It also reflects the strategic objective of increasing opportunities to learn and use the language as set out in the Council Plan.

6.6 Theme: Protecting the Natural and Historic Environment and the management of resources

6.6.1 The objectives in this section seek to strike the balance between allowing development and change, whilst protecting the unique features of Anglesey’s environment.

Objective 12: Protect and enhance the Island’s biodiversity by ensuring the impacts of development are avoided and where necessary mitigated. Contributing towards sustaining resilient and connected ecological networks and improving green infrastructure as part of development.

6.6.2 Objective 12 responds to the requirements of the Environment (Wales) Act to maintain and enhance biodiversity and to promote the resilience of ecosystems. It seeks to halt, and reverse, the decline in biodiversity by ensuring new development has a positive impact on existing networks.

Objective 13: Protect the historic environment through ensuring that any development proposed which may affect historic assets is guided by the best interests of those assets and respects local character and distinctiveness

6.6.3 Objective 13 seeks to ensure the ongoing preservation and protection of historic assets and the historic environment. It recognises the contribution of these assets to the unique qualities of the Island.

Objective 14: Safeguard mineral resources from sterilisation whilst ensuring that an adequate landbank of aggregate mineral is maintained in line with current requirements to sustainably meet society’s needs

6.6.4 Objective 14 recognises the need to consider the supply of materials to support development.

Objective 15: Facilitate the adequate provision of sustainable waste management facilities that will contribute towards maximising the reuse and recycling of wastes and, in so doing, transitioning towards a circular economy.

6.6.5 Objective 15 recognises the importance of the circular economy and provides a basis for it to be embedded in future development proposals.

Objective 16: Promote and support the health and wellbeing of all residents by ensuring places are designed and developed to support active lifestyles and connected communities by integrating high standards of amenity and fostering safe environments for all

6.7.2 Objective 16 intends to ensure that healthy lifestyles choices are supported by the LDP, such as providing active travel opportunities and ensuring ease of access to open space, but also promoting scope of social interactions within the community. It has a clear link with the social care and wellbeing strategic objective of the Council Plan.

Objective 17: Ensure that communities are provided with a range of key facilities that provide adequate access to leisure, recreation, culture, health, education and public open spaces. Development that may impact upon the use of and availability of such facilities should seek to enhance or improve provision.

6.7.3 Objective 17 seeks to ensure that places are functional and nice to live in. It seeks to ensure adequate community infrastructure is in place, and that it is protected. It recognises that sustainable lifestyles need to be supported by adequate local infrastructure provision.

Objective 18: Adopt a placemaking approach to enable the development of vibrant settlements delivering good design that is locally distinct, reflects context, character and setting, ensures appropriate access and movement, and contributes towards the achievement of sustainable settlements that increase their attractiveness as places to live and work.

6.7.4 Objective 18 reflects the importance of place. It seeks to ensure that the LDP appropriately embeds placemaking as a central plank of the Plan. This placemaking approach aims to shape sustainable growth in the right areas – a key planning principle of PPW.

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