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Policy OS1: Strategy for urban Greenspace, Sport and Recreation
   

Open space, sport and recreational facility sites will be protected from inappropriate development and proposals to improve existing sites and create new sites to meet identified needs in the Borough will be supported.

New development should:

a)  Protect sites which have existing or potential value to provide for identified local needs; Improve the quality and/or accessibility of sites where this would address identified deficiencies;

b)  Improve the quality and/or accessibility of sites where this would address identified deficiencies;

c)  Create new sites where this would address identified deficiencies and resources are available; and

d)  Protect and where possible improve links between sites.

Where needs arise from new developments, planning obligations will be sought to secure new or improved provision and contributions towards future maintenance.

This is a part 1 policy

 

Explanation OS1

10.6

The policies of this Plan aim to ensure that new development is consistent with the provision of both an adequate quantity and quality of accessible urban greenspace and sporting facilities. In the case of public open spaces and playing pitches, provision will be made within a hierarchy of different types of open spaces, to be set out in the “Open Space, Sport and Recreation” Supplementary Planning Document. This will identify the special role that parks and other types of open space should play, and recommend appropriate facilities that should be provided within each level in the hierarchy and their distribution across the Borough. Development that would significantly harm the qualities of open space, as set out in policy OS2, is inappropriate.

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