Purpose

Adoption of the Shenley Park SPD, setting out
how the housing allocation should be developed for the delivery of
least 1,150 new homes.

Content

Supplementary Planning
Documents provided guidance to implement Local Plan policies. This
Supplementary Planning Document applied to the Shenley Park site
allocation (D-WHA001) near Whaddon in the Vale of Aylesbury Local
Plan. To adopt a Supplementary Planning
Document, the Council was legally required to conduct a public
consultation for a minimum of four weeks. A six-week consultation
was conducted from 30 August to 11 October 2023 and the report now
requested that Cabinet adopted this Supplementary Planning
Document.
 
The Vale of Aylesbury Local
Plan set out a vision and framework for sustainable growth across
the North and Central planning areas area for the period up to
2033. It promoted new development to meet identified needs, which
would contribute to creating a thriving, diverse, safe, vibrant
place to live, work and visit.
 
This policy allocated the site
for at least 1,150 homes, forming part of the housing requirement
for the VALP. The allocation was for “an exemplar
development, of regional significance, which would be a great place
to live, work and grow. Built to a high sustainable design and
construction standards, the development would provide a balanced
mix of facilities to ensure that it met the needs and aspirations
of new and existing residents, at least 1,150 homes, 110 bed care
home/extra care facility, new primary school, subject to need a
site for new secondary school, multifunctional green infrastructure
(in compliance with Policies I1 and I2 and associated Appendices),
mixed use local centre, exemplary Sustainable Drainage Systems, new
link road between A421 Buckingham Road and H6 and or H7 Childs
Way/Chaffron Way, public transport and cycling and walking
links."
 
In addition to infrastructure,
the Supplementary Planning Document also set out key principles for
design and landscaping to ensure that a new long-term defensible
edge and buffer between the village of Whaddon and the new
development was created. It also identified an extension to the
existing Tattenhoe Valley park in the
southern half of the site.
 
RESOLVED that the Shenley Park Supplementary Planning Document
be adoped (site D-WHA001 of the Vale of
Aylesbury Local Plan).