All development proposals should seek to:

1. Provide an efficient use of land and buildings, which will minimise the need to build on undeveloped greenfield sites to meet overall development needs;

2. Provide a high design quality which will respond to and enhance the characteristics of the site and its surrounding area;

3. Protect and enhance the environment and amenities of people who live, work in and visit Knowsley;

4. Avoid causing unacceptable levels of pollution of air, land or the water environment;

5. Avoid causing hazard from flood risk, the storage or use of notifiable hazardous substances, or land contamination or instability;

6. Include provision for safe and convenient accessibility to new development by a choice of transport, including walking, cycling and public transport; and  

7. Reduce the threat of global warming, for example through environmentally efficient building design and the encouragement of the use of renewable energy sources.

This is a part 1 policy

Table 4.1

Links to other chapters of the Plan

Policies CP1 to CP3 will be implemented through the more detailed, topic specific policies which are contained in subsequent chapters. The links set out below should in particular be noted:

Core Policy	Related chapter areas
Policy CP1: Regeneration and Development Priority Areas	Chapter 5 “Housing” Chapter 6 “Economic Development” Chapter 7 “Town Centres and Shopping”
Policy CP2: Environmental Assets	Chapter 9 “Green Belt and the Rural Economy” Chapter 10 “Urban Greenspace, Sport and Recreation” Chapter 11 “Development Quality and the Built Environment” Chapter 13 “Environmental Protection and Nature Conservation”
Policy CP3: Development Quality	Chapter 8 “Transport” Chapter 11 “Development Quality and the Built Environment” Chapter 13 “Environmental Protection and Nature Conservation” Wingate Towers site, Alamein Road , Huyton