Rother Local Plan 2020-2040 (Regulation 18)

Local Plan Policy/Strategy

How can we monitor this?

Proposed Policy GTC1: Net Zero Building Standards

• % of planning applications approved that have submitted an energy statement.
• % of development where a BRE Home Quality Mark assessment is undertaken.
• % of applications meeting LETI standards proposed: residential development, non-residential development, and embodied carbon.

Proposed Policy GTC2: Net Zero Retrofit Standards

• % of planning applications approved that have submitted an energy statement.
• % of development meeting BREEAM Domestic Refurbishment standards.

Proposed Policy GTC3: Construction materials and waste

• % of developments undertaking a BRE pre-demolition audit or similar outlining materials for reuse prior to demolition or retrofit.

Proposed Policy GTC4: Water Efficiency

• % of applications providing evidence how it will meet the optional technical housing standard.
• % of applications implementing water efficiency measures.

Proposed Policy GTC5: Heat networks

• % of applications where developer contributions were secured on liable developments.

Proposed Policy GTC6: Renewable and low carbon energy

• % of applications for solar energy approved with opposition from High Weald National Landscape.
• % loss of priority habitats as identified in the Biodiversity monitoring report.

Proposed Policy GTC7: Local Nature Recovery Areas

• % loss of areas identified for Nature Recovery.

Proposed Policy GTC8: Biodiversity Net Gain

• % of qualifying development delivering 20% BNG. % of sites delivering on-site delivery compared to off-site delivery.

Proposed Policy GTC9: High Weald National Landscape

• % of applications approved with opposition from High Weald National Landscape.

Proposed Policy LWL1: Compact Development

• Average density of new developments delivered in the 5 area types compared to the density requirements.

Proposed Policy LWL2: Facilities & Services

• % of new developments in urban, suburban and live well locally area types located within 800m walking distance of local amenities.
• % of new developments of 150 homes or more or 15,000sqm or more non-residential floorspace delivering an indoor meeting space.
• % of new residential developments that satisfy the 'facility and services' consideration in the Building for Healthy Life Toolkit.

Proposed Policy LWL3: Walking, Wheeling, Cycling & Public Transport (Outside the Site)

• % of new major developments delivering active travel infrastructure and coastal access (where relevant).
• % of new developments of 50 or more homes delivering high quality walking, Cycling and Wheeling routes and cycle routes to key destinations. 
• % of new residential developments that satisfy the 'natural connections' and 'walking, cycling and public transport' considerations in the Building for Healthy Life Toolkit.

Proposed Policy LWL4: Walking, Wheeling, Cycling & Public Transport (Within the Site)

• % of new development approved, contrary to meeting the requirements of Policy LWL4 as identified in planning policy response or officer report.
• % of new residential developments that satisfy the 'cycle and car parking and 'walking, cycling and public transport' considerations in the Building for Healthy Life Toolkit.

Proposed Policy LWL5: Distinctive Places

• % of new residential developments that satisfy the 'making the most of what is there' and a 'memorable character' considerations in the Building for Healthy Life Toolkit.
• % of new development approved, contrary to meeting the requirements of Policy LWL5 as identified in planning policy response or officer report.

Proposed Policy LWL6: Built Form

• % of new residential developments that satisfy the 'homes for everyone' consideration in the Building for Healthy Life Toolkit.
• % of new development approved, contrary to meeting the requirements of Policy LWL6 as identified in planning policy response or officer report.

Proposed Policy LWL7: Streets for All

• % of new development approved, contrary to meeting the requirements of Policy LWL7 as identified in planning policy response or officer report.
• % of new residential developments that satisfy the 'well defined streets and spaces' and 'healthy streets' considerations in the Building for Healthy Life Toolkit.

Proposed Policy LWL8: Multimodal Parking

• % of new development approved, contrary to meeting the requirements of Policy LWL7 as identified in planning policy response or officer report.
• % of new residential developments that satisfy the 'cycle and car parking' consideration in the Building for Healthy Life Toolkit.

Proposed Strategy: Overall Spatial Development Strategy

• Annual delivery of housing numbers and employment floorspace against annual district target.

Vision for Bexhill

• Annual delivery of housing numbers and employment floorspace against annual Bexhill target.

Vision for Hastings Fringes and surrounding settlements

• Annual delivery of housing numbers and employment floorspace against annual Hastings Fringes target.

Vision for Battle and surrounding settlements

• Annual delivery of housing numbers and employment floorspace against annual Battle target.

Vision for Rye and the Eastern Settlement Cluster

• Annual delivery of housing numbers and employment floorspace against annual Rye and Eastern Cluster target.

Vision for Northern Rother

• Annual delivery of housing numbers and employment floorspace against annual Northern Rother target.

Vision for the Countryside

• No monitoring proposed.

Proposed Strategy: Sites for Gypsies, Travellers and Travelling Showpeople

• Annual delivery and identified supply of gypsy, traveller and travelling showpeople sites against rolling 5-year target.

Proposed Policy DEV1: General Development Considerations

• % of new development approved, contrary to meeting the requirements of Policy DEV1 as identified in planning policy response or officer report.

Proposed Policy DEV2: Comprehensive Development and Masterplanning

• % of new development approved, contrary to meeting the requirements of Policy DEV2 as identified in planning policy response or officer report.

Proposed Policy DEV3: Development Boundaries

• % of new development approved outside of development boundaries.
• % of new development within development boundaries on brownfield sites.

Proposed Policy DEV4: Retention of Sites of Community or Commercial Value

• Amount of community or employment floorspace lost per annum to other uses.
• % of new development approved, contrary to meeting the requirements of Policy DEV4 as identified in planning policy response or officer report.

Proposed Policy DEV5: Development on small sites and windfall development

• % of housing delivery delivered on small and medium sites (compared to target of 20%).
• Number of windfall dwellings delivered (compared to target of 39 dwellings per annum).

Proposed Policy DEV6: Strategic Green Gaps

• % of new development proposed within strategic green gaps, contrary to planning policy response or office report.

Proposed Policy HWB1: Supporting Health and Wellbeing

• Life expectancy at birth.
• Residents with long term illness.
• % of new development approved, contrary to meeting the requirements of Policy HWB1 as identified in planning policy response or officer report.

Proposed Policy HWB2: Health Impact Assessments

• % qualifying applications approved without a HIA.
• Number of applications screened and % qualifying applications where HIA screening was undertaken.
• % qualifying applications where HIA screening resulted in full HIA being required.
• % of qualifying schemes that proceed with an objection from ESCC on public health grounds.

Proposed Policy HWB3: Reducing Harmful Impacts on Health

• % of applications for hot food takeaways granted within 400m of the boundary of a school or park.
• Total number of new approvals for betting shops, casinos, pay day loan shops or hot food take aways.

Proposed Policy HWB4: Community Facilities and Services

• % of new residential developments that satisfy the 'facility and services' consideration in the Building for Healthy Life Toolkit.
• Net additional floorspace in Class C2, E(d-f), F1 and F2.

Proposed Policy HWB5: Green and Blue Infrastructure

• % of new residential developments satisfying the 'green and blue infrastructure' considerations in the Building for Healthy Life Toolkit.
• Net gain/loss in areas of designated open space and priority habitats.
• Net gain/loss in designated playing pitches/fields.

Proposed Policy HWB6: Public Rights of Way

• Net change in areas of public rights of way.

Proposed Policy HWB7: Combe Valley Countryside Park

• Net loss in area of open space of Combe Valley Countryside Park. % of applications approved contrary to planning policy advice or recommendations of officer report in the Combe Valley Countryside Park.

Proposed Policy INF1: Strategic Infrastructure Requirements

• % of new development approved, contrary to meeting the requirements of Policy INF1 as identified in planning policy response or officer report.
• Tracking the delivery of strategic infrastructure in line with timescales identified in the IDP.

Proposed Policy INF2: Digital Connectivity

• % of new major developments that secure and deliver Fibre to the Premise connection.

Proposed Policy HOU1: Mixed and Balanced Communities

• % of new residential developments that satisfy the 'homes for everyone' consideration in the Building for Healthy Life Toolkit.
• % of new development approved, contrary to meeting the requirements of Policy HOU1 as identified in planning policy response or officer report.
• % of new housing development permissions that are policy compliant in delivering affordable housing.

Proposed Policy HOU2: Affordable Housing

• % of new housing development permissions that are (i) policy compliant and (ii) exceeding minimum requirements, in delivering affordable housing.
• % of new housing developments permitted where viability evidence demonstrates lower level of affordable housing.
• Gross number of affordable dwellings delivered per annum.

Proposed Policy HOU3: 100% Affordable Housing Developments

• % of new development approved, contrary to meeting the requirements of Policy HOU3 as identified in planning policy response or officer report.
• % of 100% affordable housing schemes delivered out of all qualifying residential developments.
• % of 100% affordable housing schemes that proceed with a planning obligation/S106 agreement.
• Number of 100% affordable housing schemes delivered and number of affordable units delivered in total.

Proposed Policy HOU4: Allocating Sites for Wholly or Substantially Affordable Housing

• % of overall identified housing numbers identified in Neighbourhood Plans where sites are wholly or substantially affordable housing.

Proposed Policy HOU5: Rural Exception Sites

• % of new development approved, contrary to meeting the requirements of Policy HOU5 as identified in planning policy response or officer report.
• % of overall housing delivered through rural exception sites on a parish basis.

Proposed Policy HOU6: Sub-division of dwellings, and Houses of Multiple Occupation (HMOs)

• % of new development approved, contrary to meeting the requirements of Policy HOU6 as identified in planning policy response or officer report.
• Number of gross housing units per per annum that are achieved through conversions and subdivision into HMOs (including units of accommodation within HMOs).

Proposed Policy HOU7: Residential Internal Space Standards

• % of new development approved, contrary to meeting the requirements of Policy HOU7 as identified in planning policy response or officer report.

Proposed Policy HOU8: Access Standards

% of new development approved, contrary to meeting the requirements of Policy HOU8 as identified in planning policy response or officer report.

Proposed Policy HOU9: Specialist Housing for Older People

• Number of specialist dwellings for older people approved per annum.
• % of new development approved, contrary to meeting the requirements of Policy HOU9 as identified in planning policy response or officer report.

Proposed Policy HOU10: Residential Care Homes for Older People

• % of new development approved, contrary to meeting the requirements of Policy HOU10 as identified in planning policy response or officer report.
• Percentage of older people achieving independence through rehab/intermediate care.
• Number of care beds lost as a result of planning permission for change of use of existing care homes.
• Number of new care beds gained as a result of new permissions.

Proposed Policy HOU11: Gypsies, Travellers and Travelling Showpeople Criteria

• Net additional gypsy, travellers and travelling showpeople pitches provided in Rother per annum.
• % of new development approved, contrary to meeting the requirements of Policy HOU11 as identified in planning policy response or officer report.

Proposed Policy HOU12: Self-Build and Custom Housebuilding

• Gross self and custom housebuild dwellings delivered each year, and compared against total demand.
• % of new housing developments of 20 or more dwellings that deliver at least 5% as custom or self- build plots.

Proposed Policy HOU13: New Dwellings in the Countryside

• % of new development approved, contrary to meeting the requirements of Policy HOU13 as identified in planning policy response or officer report.
• % and number of new dwellings delivered in rural 'countryside' locations per annum.

Proposed Policy HOU14: External Residential Areas

• % of new development approved, contrary to meeting the requirements of Policy HOU14 as identified in planning policy response or officer report.

Proposed Policy HOU15: Extensions to Residential Gardens

• % of new development approved, contrary to meeting the requirements of Policy HOU15 as identified in planning policy response or officer report.

Proposed Policy HOU16: Extensions, Alterations and Outbuildings

• % of new development approved, contrary to meeting the requirements of Policy HOU16 as identified in planning policy response or officer report.

Proposed Policy HOU17: Annexes

• % of new development approved, contrary to meeting the requirements of Policy HOU17 as identified in planning policy response or officer report.

Proposed Policy HOU18: Boundary Treatments and Means of Enclosure

• % of new development approved, contrary to meeting the requirements of Policy HOU18 as identified in planning policy response or officer report.

Proposed Policy HOU19: Accesses and Drives

• % of new development approved, contrary to meeting the requirements of Policy HOU19 as identified in planning policy response or officer report.

Proposed Policy ECO1: Supporting New Employment Development

• Amount of employment floorspace delivered per annum, that is either not allocated or forming part of an agricultural diversification scheme.
• % of new development approved, contrary to meeting the requirements of Policy ECO1 as identified in planning policy response or officer report.

Proposed Policy ECO2: Protecting Existing Employment Sites and Premises

• Amount of employment floorspace lost per annum to other uses.
• % of new development approved, contrary to meeting the requirements of Policy ECO2 as identified in planning policy response or officer report.

Proposed Policy ECO3: Designated Town Centres

• % of new development of 'main town centre uses' approved, contrary to meeting the requirements of Policy ECO4 as identified in planning policy response or officer report.
• Level of vacancy of units in designated Town Centre and District Centres. Overall net/loss gain in 'main town centre use' floorspace within designated Town and District Centres.
• Overall net/loss gain in retail floorspace within Designated Primary Shopping Areas.

Proposed Policy ECO4: Retail and Leisure Impact Assessments

• % of permitted qualifying applications for 'main town centre uses' submitting an Impact Assessment.
• % of permitted qualifying retail applications submitting an Impact Assessments.

Proposed Policy ECO5: Tourism Activities, Facilities and Accommodation

• % of new development approved, contrary to meeting the requirements of Policy ECO5 as identified in planning policy response or officer report.
• Overall net gain/loss in visitor accommodation (bed spaces) per annum.
• Overall net gain/loss in tourism related development (excluding visitor accommodation) per annum.

Proposed Policy ECO6: Holiday Sites

% of new development approved, contrary to meeting the requirements of Policy ECO6 as identified in planning policy response or officer report. Overall net gain/loss in land area for holiday sites per annum.

Proposed Policy ECO7: Agriculture development and forestry

• % of new development approved, contrary to meeting the requirements of Policy ECO7 as identified in planning policy response or officer report.

Proposed Policy ECO8: Agricultural Diversification

• Amount of floorspace delivered per annum that forms part of an agricultural diversification scheme.
• % of new development approved, contrary to meeting the requirements of Policy ECO8 as identified in planning policy response or officer report.

Proposed Policy ECO9: Local Employment & Skills

• % of qualifying developments that produce and deliver a Local Employment and skills Plan.
• % of qualifying developments that secure financial sums through a legal agreement.
• Qualifications and skills levels of working age population, and change per annum.

Proposed Policy ECO10: Equestrian Developments

• % of new development approved, contrary to meeting the requirements of Policy ECO10 as identified in planning policy response or officer report.

Proposed Policy LAN1: Rural Environments and Landscape Character

• % of new development approved, contrary to meeting the requirements of Policy LAN1 as identified in planning policy response or officer report.
• Extent and change in area of environmentally designated sites.

Proposed Policy LAN2: Trees, woodlands and hedgerows

• % of new development approved, contrary to meeting the requirements of Policy LAN2 as identified in planning policy response or officer report.

Proposed Policy LAN3: Dark Skies

• % of new development approved, contrary to meeting the requirements of Policy LAN3 as identified in planning policy response or officer report.

Proposed Policy ENV1: Coastal, Water and Flood Risk Management

• Environment Agency objections to planning applications based on flood risk or drainage.
• % of new development approved, contrary to meeting the requirements of Policy ENV1 as identified in planning policy response or officer report.

Proposed Policy ENV2: Sustainable Surface Water drainage

• % of qualifying permitted developments that provide at least 3 stages of treatment of water within the hydrological catchments of the Pevensey Levels and the Dungeness Complex of Habitats Sites.
• % of new development approved, contrary to meeting the requirements of Policy ENV2 as identified in planning policy response or officer report.

Proposed Policy ENV3: Land Stability

• % of new development approved, contrary to meeting the requirements of Policy ENV3 as identified in planning policy response or officer report.

Proposed Policy ENV4: Fairlight Cove Coastal Change Management Area

• % of new development approved, contrary to meeting the requirements of Policy ENV4 as identified in planning policy response or officer report.

Proposed Policy ENV5: Habitats and Species

• Extent and change in area of environmentally designated sites. Extent and change in area of priority habitats.
• % of new development approved, contrary to meeting the requirements of Policy ENV5 as identified in planning policy response or officer report.

Proposed Policy ENV6: Sustainable Access and Recreation Management Strategy

• % of new development approved, contrary to meeting the requirements of Policy ENV6 as identified in planning policy response or officer report.

Proposed Policy ENV7: Environmental pollution

• NO2 levels (μg/m3) in AQMA meeting air quality objective standards (2020).
• PM10 levels (μg/m3) in AQMA meeting air quality objective standards (2019).
• % of new development approved, contrary to meeting the requirements of Policy ENV6 as identified in planning policy response or officer report.

Proposed Policy HER1: Heritage Management

• Number of buildings (and annual change) on the heritage at risk register.
• % of new development approved, contrary to meeting the requirements of Policy HER1 as identified in planning policy response or officer report.

Proposed Policy HER2: Traditional Historic Farm Buildings

• % of new development approved, contrary to meeting the requirements of Policy HER2 as identified in planning policy response or officer report.

Proposed Policy HER3: Shopfronts, signage and advertising

• % of new development approved, contrary to meeting the requirements of Policy HER3 as identified in planning policy response or officer report.