Rother Local Plan 2025-2042 Regulation 19 (pre-submission) version September 2026

 Appendix 1: List of Strategic Policies Comment

Policy SS1: Spatial Strategy for Rother

Policy INF1: Strategic Infrastructure Requirements

Policy INF2: Transport Connectivity, Decarbonisation & Mitigation

Policy SS2: Development Boundaries

Policy SS3: Strategic Green Gaps

Policy SS4: Strategy for the Countryside

Policy SS5: Strategy for Accommodation Needs of Gypsies, Travellers and Travelling showpeople

Policy SS6: Neighbourhood Plans & Parish Priority Statements

Policy HOU1: Mixed & Balanced Communities

Policy HOU2: Affordable Housing

Policy HOU3: Rural Exception Sites & Community-led Development

Policy HOU4: Sub-division of Dwellings & Houses of Multiple Occupation (HMOs)

Policy HOU5: Residential Internal Space Standards

Policy HOU6: Access Standards

Policy HOU7: Specialist Housing for Older People

Policy HOU8: Residential Care & Nursing Homes

Policy HOU9: Gypsies, Travellers & Travelling Showpeople

Policy HOU10: Self-Build & Custom Housebuilding

Policy HOU11: New Dwellings in the Countryside

Policy HOU12: Dwellings for Rural Workers

Policy HOU13: External Residential Amenity Areas

Policy HOU14: Extensions to Residential Gardens in the Countryside

Policy HOU15: Residential Extensions, Alterations & Outbuildings

Policy HOU16: Annexes

Policy HOU17: Boundary Treatments & Means of Enclosure

Policy HOU18: Accesses & Drives

Policy ECO1: Supporting a Thriving Local Economy

Policy ECO2: New Employment Development

Policy ECO3: Safeguarding Employment Land & Premises

Policy ECO4: Retention of Sites of Economic or Community Value

Policy ECO6: Supporting Town & Village Vitality

Policy ECO7: Tourism Activities, Facilities & Accommodation

Policy ECO9: Agricultural Development & Forestry

Policy GTC1: Net Zero Development

Policy GTC2: Net Zero Retrofitting

Policy GTC3: Construction Materials and Waste

Policy GTC6: Renewable and Low Carbon Energy

Policy DEV1: General Development Considerations

Policy DEV2: Comprehensive Development & Masterplanning

Policy LWL1: Efficient Use of Land & Appropriate Densities

Policy LWL2: Facilities and Services for Residential Development

Policy LWL3: Active Travel, Public Transport Connections & Services Outside the Site

Policy LWL4: Active Travel & Public Transport Within Sites

Policy LWL5: Well-designed and Distinctive Places

Policy LWL6: Built Form

Policy LWL7: Streets and Public Realm for All

Policy LWL8: Multimodal Parking, Servicing and Deliveries

Policy HWB1: Health Impact Assessments

Policy HWB2: Managing Impacts on Community Wellbeing

Policy HWB3: Healthcare and Other Community Facilities and Services

Policy LAN1: Landscape Character & Stewardship

Policy LAN2: High Weald National Landscape

Policy LAN3: Trees, Woodlands and Hedgerows

Policy ENV1: Flood Risk Management

Policy ENV2: Protection of Water Quality & the Water Environment

Policy ENV6: Rother Coastal Change Management Area

Policy ENV7: Biodiversity

Policy ENV8: Habitats & Species

Policy ENV9: Local Nature Recovery Strategy

Policy ENV13: Green & Blue Infrastructure

Policy ENV16: Combe Valley Countryside Park

Policy HER1: Conservation of the Historic Environment