Hampshire County Structure Plan 1996 - 2011(Review)

This document is the Hampshire County Structure Plan 1996-2011 (Review). It contains policies (in bold type) adopted by Hampshire County Council and Southampton City Council in January 2000, and Portsmouth City Council in February 2000, text (in normal type) which explains and interprets the policies, and a key diagram inside

the back cover. The Hampshire County Structure Plan 1994

has been repealed with effect from 27 March 2000.

This version incorporates changes ordered by the High Court of Justice on 29 November 2000 to delete Policy G5, to delete the final bullet points of adopted policies MDA2 and MDA3, and to delete references to Policy G5 on the Key diagram.

Printed copies of the Plan can be purchased from the County Planning Officer price £5.00 plus £1.50 postage and packing (within United Kingdom). Please make cheques payable to `Hampshire County Council'.

Preface

1. This document is the Hampshire County Structure Plan 1996-2011 (Review). In the explanatory text which follows it is referred to as the Plan.

2. Hampshire County Council began work on the Plan in July 1993. The plan-making process has been punctuated by a sequence of comprehensive public consultation exercises which have sought to ensure that the Plan was an effective response to contemporary pressures and influences. However, over the period the structure of local government and many social, economic and environmental factors have changed. As a consequence of local government review the Hampshire (Cities of Portsmouth and Southampton) (Structural Change) Order 1995(1) requires the Hampshire County Structure Plan 1996 - 2011 (Review) to be treated as if it had been prepared jointly by Hampshire County Council, Portsmouth City Council and Southampton City Council under Section 50 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended).

3. To avoid repetition in the document, the three strategic planning authorities responsible for the Plan are referred to collectively as the authorities. References to `Hampshire' should, unless otherwise stated, be taken to refer to the combined administrative areas of Hampshire County Council, Portsmouth City Council and Southampton City Council.

4. The policies adopted by the authorities are in bold type. These policies together with the key diagram are the statutory structure plan. The remaining text represents the explanatory memorandum which amplifies the policies and provides the authorities' advice on how the policies should be interpreted in local plans and through day-to-day development control.

5. Existing local plans will have to be reviewed and, where necessary, amended to conform with the policy framework established in this Plan. The authorities will inform district councils, and the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, of those plans which they consider need to be amended and the reasons why, in their opinion, the local plan fails to conform to the strategic framework established in this Plan.