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9.1 New development can be affected by climate change, but offers the opportunity to design-in measures to avoid or mitigate its effects at the outset. Therefore, the Local Plan can be instrumental in ensuring that future development is better equipped to deal with the impacts of climate as it will be in the future. 9.2…

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8.1 The importance of high-quality design is integral to the Local Plan and is therefore central to the planning of all development. This is crucial in Fylde, especially in the seaside resorts of Lytham and St Annes, both of which developed in the Victorian and Edwardian era – an era that is now recognised…

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7.1 This chapter considers how the infrastructure required by the Borough will be secured to support the development in the Local Plan, and where there are issues of shortfall in existing infrastructure. Infrastructure comprises physical assets providing for a wide range of supporting service provision including, but not restricted to the following:

• Transport: footways,…

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6.1 This chapter groups together sites or areas of the Borough where they need protection from certain types of development. These range from extensive areas protected as natural assets to individual sites protected for heritage importance. This document invites views on the identification of areas of particular importance.

The Coast

6.2 The Coast consists of areas…

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5.1 National policy requires councils to positively and proactively encourage sustainable economic growth. It requires authorities to plan for the needs of land for development and identify sites to meet needs over the plan period. Policies should be flexible enough to respond to accommodate needs that arise but were not anticipated. 5.2 For some types…

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Overall Housing Needs

4.1 The government requires that strategic policies should, as a minimum, provide for objectively assessed needs for housing and other uses, as well as any needs that cannot be met within neighbouring areas, unless:

1. The application of policies in the Framework that protect areas or assets of particular importance provides a strong…

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The Role of the Development Strategy 3.1 The development strategy provides the overall framework for the pattern of future development in the Borough. National policy requires that all plans should promote a sustainable pattern of development that seeks to: eet the development needs of their area; align growth, delivery, and infrastructure; improve the environment; mitigate…

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2.1 This section presents a description of the Borough in the form of the Spatial Portrait. From this an initial view of the important issues in the Borough going forward to 2042 has been drawn up. However, the purpose of this Regulation 18 consultation is to invite views on the important issues: therefore…

Read more 2. Spatial Portrait of Fylde, Key Issues and Vision

1.1 The Local Plan provides a framework to guide development in a co-ordinated and sustainable way, whilst protecting other areas from the effects of development. It also sets out policies to ensure that development is of high quality, is deliverable and provides necessary infrastructure.  1.2 The Borough of Fylde comprises the major…

Read more 1. The Development of a New Local Plan

This consultation has been produced by the Council as an initial stage in the preparation of a new Local Plan to extend to 2042. Councils are required to consult when preparing a Local plan (under Regulation 18 of the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2012). The Regulations require that the…

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