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This section opens the chapter on delivering infrastructure. During consultation, residents consistently raised concerns that existing infrastructure lacks capacity and that new development would make things worse. The plan therefore requires housing and employment growth to be supported by the infrastructure needed to serve it, including roads, schools, health services and community facilities, with development contributing to that provision.
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3 Delivering the Necessary
Infrastructure
3.1 Infrastructure Delivery Plan
Policies within this section contribute to achieving the following Strategic
Objectives:
SO1. Providing infrastructure in the right place at the right time
SO5. Contributing towards Net Zero Carbon targets
SO8. Improving the quality of life of our communities
SO9. Connecting people to places
SO10. Protecting and enhancing our environmental assets and working
towards environmental net gain
3.1.1 The growth proposed through the South Warwickshire Local Plan should be
supported by and have good access to infrastructure. Throughout the Preferred
Options consultation, a consistent concern raised by
respondents regarding development proposals was both the insufficient capacity of
existing infrastructure, and concern that proposals will exacerbate issues for residents
in the future. It is therefore vital to ensure that any housing or employment growth is
supported by the necessary infrastructure identified to support it, this includes access
to roads, schools, health and community facilities.
Policy ID.1
Securing Infrastructure Provision
Development proposals must provide, or contribute towards, infrastructure
necessary to accommodate the additional demands which arise as a result. Planning
permission will only be granted where:
a. It can be demonstrated that adequate infrastructure capacity exists or will be
provided so as to mitigate harms arising from a proposed development, having
regard to the Infrastructure Delivery Plan and taking into account both site-
specific requirements and cumulative impacts arising from other committed
development, whilst creating twenty-minute neighbourhoods enabled by public
and active transport modes and infrastructure.
b. Proposals make appropriate contributions towards the delivery of relevant
infrastructure. The preferred approach for infrastructure delivery is via on-site
provision. Where this is demonstrably unfeasible, financial contributions
towards local and strategic infrastructure to meet the needs arising from the
development will be sought. The Local Planning Authority will seek to secure
infrastructure which is necessary to make the development acceptable in
planning terms, directly related to the development, and fairly and reasonably
related in scale and kind to the development proposed.