This DPD will consider ways to protect and enhance the landscape setting of Plymouth, as well as opportunities for development.  It will identify sites for needed development of housing (especially affordable homes), employment and associated community facilities to 2016 and beyond.

This is a joint DPD being prepared by South Hams District Council, Plymouth City Council and Devon County Council, with the assistance of Baker Associates Planning Consultants.  It looks at the areas around Plymouth’s boundary, including Woolwell, Roborough, Bickleigh, Hemerdon and Langage, and considers opportunities for development as well as the need for restraint.

Workshops were held in October 2009 to gather people’s views and ideas for this area.  The results of that consultation have been used to draw up a series of consultation pamphlets.  The pamphlets identified issues and options for landscape protection, housing, employment and associated community facilities. These were available for comment from 16 February to 15 April 2011.

A summary report of the comments received to this consultation is available below.

Consultation Response This report provides a summary of the comments received to the Plymouth Urban Fringe Development Plan Document (DPD) Issues and Options consultation pamphlets which were available for comment between February and April 2011.   Summary of representations report

Consultation Pamphlets

A set of pamphlets were available for comment between 16 February and 15 April 2011.  These were accompanied by an information pamphlet, providing details on the consultation process.

• General information pamphlet – explains what the consultation was about.
• General overview to the Plymouth Urban Fringe DPD – sets out the background to the DPD, the reasons for producing it and a list of objectives.

Community specific pamphlets:  

                                                 Bickleigh,     Hemerdon,     Langage,     Roborough,     Woolwell.

Consultation Events

Events were held at Hemerdon (1st March 2011) and Woolwell (3rd March & 7th April 2011) where planners were available for people to share their ideas and views on their neighbourhoods and the wider urban fringe.  

Background documents

Notes from Visioning Event (September 2009)

Issues that emerged from workshops (September 2009): Hemerdon  and Woolwell

Settlement Roles and Relationships Study, Final Report (June 2010)

Sustainable Neighbourhood assessments: Bickleigh, Hemerdon, Roborough and Woolwell

Landowner Forum, July 2010 - notes and presentation

Site Assessment Report and Appendices.

Plymouth Sustainable Neighbourhoods DPD

The Sustainable Neighbourhoods (including Key Site Allocations) Development Plan Document covers those parts of the City not included within the Area Action Plans (AAP).  It aims to set out visions for each neighbourhood, developed in partnership with each community, which will guide change in each neighbourhood into the future.  As part of this, the DPD will look to identify key sites which will contribute to meeting Plymouth's needs for homes, jobs, shopping and recreation – as outlined in the Core Strategy.

Further information on Plymouth's Sustainable Neighbourhoods DPD can be found on Plymouth City Council’s web site:

• Sustainable Neighbourhoods DPD
• Sustainable Neighbourhoods Assessments page
• Green Infrastructure Delivery Plan page
• Plymouth SHLAA page.

Other relevant background documents

In October 2004 the Council published a ‘Town and Village’ (Area Action plans/Site Specific Allocations: Issues, Options and Preferred Options) as one of the first steps in the South Hams Local Development Framework (LDF) process. This included a section on the South Hams part of the Plymouth Principal Urban Area (PUA).

In June 2006 the Council published the Preferred Options Stage of the – ‘Plymouth Urban Fringe Site Specific Allocations’ document. It covers the period up to 2016 and proposes preferred sites for approximately 500 dwellings and new employment land on the edge of Plymouth. It also sets out the policy context for the settlements of Woolwell and Roborough. The consultation leaflets will build on that earlier work and the public response to it.  

This plan does not include the Sherford New Community, which is dealt with in the ‘Sherford Area Action Plan’.

View the Plymouth Urban Fringe Site Specific Allocations: Preferred Options Stage (June 2006).

View the ‘Town and Village’ (Area Action plans/Site Specific Allocations: Issues, Options and Preferred Options Report) (October 2004).

Sustainability Appraisal

The Plymouth Urban Fringe Site Specific Allocations document was subject to a Sustainability Appraisal (SA), incorporating Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), at several stages during its preparation. A Sustainability Appraisal Report accompanied the Preferred Options document which set out the findings of the SA.

View the Sustainability Appraisal Report of the Plymouth Urban Fringe Site Specific Allocations: Preferred Options Report (June 2006):

•Sustainability Appraisal Report
•Appendix I: Review of Relevant Plans and Programmes
•Appendix II: Collations and Analysis of baseline Information
•Appendix III: Summary of Response to Scoping Consultation.