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 The Unitary Development Plan 1996 - 2011 was adopted by Wrexham County Borough Council on the 14th February 2005.
The plan supersedes existing development plans, namely the Wrexham Maelor Local Plan: Forward to 2001, the Glyndwr District Local Plan and the Clwyd Structure Plan: First Alteration.
Please contact Planning Policy on Tel: 01978 292013 for further information.
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Wrexham UDP Timetable
Wrexham UDP - Monitoring Report 2005
Wrexham's UDP: A Summary
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Broad Strategy
Outline of
Specific Policies
Broad Strategy
The planning strategy seeks to achieve sustainable development to ensure
a better quality of life for everyone, now and for future generations.
It seeks to integrate economic, social and environmental goals. The strategy
seeks to secure economy, efficiency and amenity in the use of land resources
through limited outward growth appropriate to the scale and character
of settlements, together with a continuing economic regeneration and social
and environmental rehabilitation of older urban and industrial areas.
Future land needs are satisfied in a controlled and incremental manner,
always balancing development and conservation issues. Sufficient land
is provided to meet foreseeable demand for new homes, jobs and community
facilities etc.
New development is dispersed and appropriate to the scale and character
of settlements subject to other planning policies on agricultural land,
green barrier or environmental protection. There is no intention to repeat
the relatively large-scale unsympathetic extensions of villages that occurred
in the past. Maximum use is made of existing infrastructure whilst minimising
the cost of new provision. Existing constraints have been respected.
New development is directed to existing settlements and employment areas,
primarily in Wrexham and the urban villages to the west, where derelict
or under-utilised land can be economically re-used, there is spare capacity
in existing infrastructure and facilities, and where there is access to
a range of public transport links. In this way, land resources are used
efficiently and existing resources are used economically; at the same
time , development can provide additional benefit through environmental
improvements, by safeguarding countryside and rural villages from an inappropriate
scale of development, and by reducing car journeys through an integrated
pattern of land use and transport.
Outline of Specific Policies
Environment and Conservation
The Plan acknowledges that the local environment is one of the County
Borough's greatest resources, being an essential consequent in resident'
quality of life and in the successful development of local employment
initiatives. Accordingly, policies seek to rectify damage done in the
past, prevent further deterioration, and conserve and enhance those open
space, biodiversity, landscape, and townscape elements which form an important
part of the local heritage, its diversity and distinctiveness, and its
residents' quality of life.
General Development Principles
The General Development Principles and a set of general requirements
which all development proposals should satisfy. The policy, in setting
out the general principles highlights the importance of the physical environment,
traffic management and conservation of the natural environment. Quality
design can only be achieved through the application of flexible but sensitive
standards relating these issues. The local planning guidance notes provide
the supplementary detail to expand on the general development principles
in order to encourage high standards of development and urban design.
Housing
Allowance is made for the development of approximately 5640 new dwellings
between 1996-2011 to meet foreseeable housing requirements based on a
balanced assessment of population and household forecasts, recent housing
completion rates, the physical and environmental capacity of settlement
to absorb growth, and the extent of existing commitments. Policies seek
to ensure that new housing is well related in scale and location to existing
development and is well integrated with the existing pattern of settlement
and surrounding land uses. Such development contributes to the economic
use of land, avoids pressure on greenfield / countryside sites, and contributes
to urban regeneration. Full account has been taken of marketing, servicing,
phasing and ownership constraints in defining genuinely available housing
land.
Employment
Approximately 300 hectares of employment land will be made available
between 1996-2011 to meet future employment requirements. Policies identify
fully serviced and easily accessible sites in a variety of sites and type
of employment and at locations which accord with the existing pattern
of built development to cater for sustained economic development. In making
land available, consideration has been given to the need to protect high
quality agricultural land and landscape and to promote urban regeneration.
Shopping
The 1990s witnessed several major comparison retail developments in,
and on the edge of, Wrexham town centre and on the edge of Wrexham. There
have also been major additions to convenience goods floorspace with the
relocation and expansion of the Asda and Tesco stores. Following a recent
study, a retail strategy generally in line with government policy to sustain
and enhance Wrexham town centre and other district centres and to seek
a qualitative improvement to local mapping provision has been adopted
in the Plan. Up to 2006 policies limit new convenience shopping development,
for which there is no current capacity for development. The projected
13800 sq. m comparison goods floorspace requirement to 2011 will be directed
to firstly the defined Wrexham town centre or, if no suitable opportunities
exist at that location, to edge of town centre locations. Development
that could weaken the vitality or viability of Wrexham town centre will
be resisted.
Community, Leisure
and Tourism Facilities
Community, leisure and tourism facilities provide a valuable ingredient
of community identity and development, contribute to the location of new
housing, and help to sustain current jobs and create new revenue. Policies
seek to retain and/or enhance all such facilities.
Transport
The Plan seeks to integrate the transport network with existing and future
areas of development in order to secure a high quality environment and
a successful economy. Policies strongly promote public transport usage
and walking/cycling as alternatives to the car while acknowledging that
a limited number of key road improvement schemes are needed to increase
accessibility, provide enhanced environments for by-passed settlements,
to support the attraction of industry, and for road safety reasons.
Minerals and Waste
The Plan acknowledges that mineral extraction makes a significant contribution
to both local and regional economies but that their extraction can affect
the living conditions of local people and permanently affect the landscape.
Policies generally strongly control further mineral extraction. With regard
to waste management, policies seek to minimise the environmental impact
of such operations through waste reduction, re-use, recovery, and disposal
at or near to its source.
 Monitoring
and Implementation
Achieving the Plan's provisions requires investment decisions to be taken
at a variety of levels and sustained over several years by a number of
agencies and individuals. It is expected that private investment will
play the major role in implementing the Plan's development strategy guided
by the Council's land use planning, development control, and corporate
statutory powers. Development and environmental protection/enhancement
land use based indicators are used to measure the success, or otherwise,
of the Plan.
Development
Plan Price Guide
Planning Policy
Supplementary
Planning Guidance
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