Banbridge / Newry and Mourne Area Plan 2015
Strategic Plan Framework: Local Development Guidelines for Urban and Rural Areas
- Identity - Encouraging community participation in the planning process. Reinforcing a sense of belonging and sense of place by maintaining distinctive places throughout local communities and in local landscape character areas, including places of public assembly and community interaction, focal points, landmarks and a continuity of urban and rural traditions.
- Vitality - Continuously caring for, restoring and renewing the physical fabric oftowns and villages by a strong emphasis on the imaginative re-use of older buildings and the use of previously developed land as a fundamental component of the regeneration process for towns, villages and rural areas.
- Proximity - Providing compatible mixed use developments extending local community choice and opportunity in relation to jobs, commercial facilities and services.
- Accessibility - Developing multi-modal systems of urban and rural transport which would enhance accessibility for local communities to the full range of urban activities and meet the needs of people with disabilities. This would be achieved by integrating public transport, cycling and walking with a more responsible use of the private car, whilst facilitating the movement of goods.
- Amenity - Providing Community Greenways to establish connections with nature and the countryside, and local historic features, for residents in urban and rural areas by maintaining and building up an interlinked pattern of public open spaces, play facilities and landscaped areas, woodlands and wildlife habitats, pedestrian and cycle routes, linking to rivers, canals, coastal and inland waters, as well as respecting the rural setting of towns and villages.
- Quality - Fostering an imaginative and resource efficient quality of design which respects existing rural or urban character, local tradition and human scale.
PPS 1 - General Principles sets out the key themes that underlie the Department's overall approach to planning across the whole range of land use topics. It highlights the importance of good design in promoting sustainable development; improving the quality of the existing environment; attracting business and investment; reinforcing civic pride and creating a distinct sense of place.
PPS 7 - Quality Residential Environments sets out the Department's regional planning policies for achieving quality in the design and layout of new residential developments.
PPS 6 - Planning, Archaeology and the Built Heritage and Addendum to PPS 6 - Areas of Townscape Character, set out the Department's regional planning policies for the protection and conservation of the built heritage.
Draft PPS14 - Sustainable Development in the Countryside contains regional planning policies for the location, siting and design of development in the countryside.
Further regional planning policies relating to both urban and rural design are currently set out in the Planning Strategy for Rural Northern Ireland (PSRNI).
Supplementary planning guidance is contained in the following documents: -
- Creating Places, Achieving Quality in Residential Developments(May 2000);
- A Design Guide for Rural Northern Ireland(May 1994); and
- Various Conservation Area designation documents and Design Guides.
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Draft PPS 14 was withdrawn in November 2008. Draft PPS 21 ( 345 KB) sets out the new planning policies for development in the countryside. |
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