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This allocation covers the former Inov8 site on Tingewick Road, Buckingham, a brownfield site vacant for over a decade and owned by the University of Buckingham. It is allocated for up to 2.7 hectares of academic uses including an assumed 300 student accommodation units. If the university's needs are met elsewhere, the site would instead take an assumed 125 homes. No living accommodation is allowed in Flood Zone 3, and development must respect protected trees, the River Great Ouse and Buckingham's historic character.
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UC01 - Former Inov8 site, Tingewick Road, Buckingham
BUC01: Former Inov8 site, Tingewick Road, Buckingham
The site as shown on the Policies Map is allocated for up to 2.7 hectares of academic uses (use class F1 (a)), including an assumed 300 units of student accommodation for the University of Buckingham. If evidence is provided that the University of Buckingham’s academic and student accommodation needs have been met elsewhere, the site as shown on the Policies Map is allocated for an assumed 125 dwellings. New development will be supported where:
a) Built development consisting of any sort of living accommodation, including purpose-built student accommodation, should not be proposed in any areas shown as Flood Zone 3 on the Environment Agency's Flood Map for Planning.
b) An acceptable ecological buffer is maintained between all built development and engineering operations and the River Great Ouse.
c) The proposed development has been clearly informed by and responds positively to an appropriately detailed character analysis of Buckingham’s important historic buildings, materiality, scale and architecture with regards to building.
d) The proposed development has been clearly informed by and responds positively to an appropriately detailed survey of the existing protected trees with regards to the siting of built form, engineering operations and infrastructure within the site.
6.395 The site covers an area of around 2.7 hectares and has been a vacant brownfield site for over a decade which previously was used for employment with industrial buildings on the site. Around the periphery of the site and particularly along the bank of the river are several trees many of which are subject to preservation orders. The site when previously in use had four vehicular access points. The site is bounded along its eastern and southern boundaries by the conservation area. Most of the site is within Flood Zone 2 with a lesser area along the eastern edge within Flood Zone 3.
6.396 The site is owned by the University of Buckingham and has been identified in the Buckingham Neighbourhood Plan as a Brownfield Opportunity Site, under policy HP2, and is considered suitable for development. The neighbourhood plan is very supportive of any expansion or redevelopment plans which support the universities presence in the town and a scheme for this site which includes the provision of open market homes should it be demonstrated that the universities accommodation needs has been met elsewhere.
6.397 The site previously was granted planning permission in 2015 (13/03041/AOP) for three hundred units of student accommodation and 7,100 sq.m of educational facilities. The PPG1 sets out that student accommodation, whether it consists of communal halls of residence or self-contained dwellings, and whether it is on campus, can in principle count towards contributing to an authority’s housing land supply by applying a ratio. A ratio of 2.42 has been used which means three hundred student units equalises to 125 homes that can be counted in the supply. If this need were met elsewhere the area of the site not in Flood Zone 3, around 1.95ha, could also reasonably deliver around 125 homes.