… 8.78 Core Strategy Policy CS23 Community Infrastructure and Cultural Activity seeks to ensure that in the first instance the role and viability of existing facilities are enhanced. Policy PSP45 will only allow new buildings for burial facilities, including crematoria, which are proposed outside of settlement boundaries and outside the Green Belt, where the re-use or conversion of an existing building is not viable. Any new building will have to be for the primary purpose of the site and proportionate to it and its surroundings. 8.79 In accordance with the NPPF, in the Green Belt, only new buildings providing appropriate facilities for cemeteries are acceptable in principle. There are other policies in the Plan which will apply to crematoria, such as environmental policies, which will seek to ensure proposal(s) respect landscape quality and prevent environmental pollution, for example. These are sensitive uses where privacy for those visiting is as important as for those living close by. This will need to be reflected in the design of proposal(s), particularly for boundary treatment. MM28 PSP46 See Appendix 1 at the end of this document for full Main Modifications to PSP46 MM29 PSP47 11.1 Site allocations and safeguarding for a range of land uses are required to support the delivery of sustainable communities and have been identified in Policy PSP47 below. These include those allocations previously contained in the South Gloucestershire Local Plan (adopted 2006) that still require allocated status; and new allocations and safeguarding made in this Plan. Other site allocations and safeguarding are set within the Development Management Policies, in Part 1 of the Plan. These are listed in this policy along with a cross reference to the relevant Development Management Policy. PSP47 SITE ALLOCATIONS AND SAFEGUARDING – The sites/routes listed in the tables below and shown on the Policies Map will be developed/safeguarded for the uses identified and brought forward in accordance with all other relevant development plan policies.
… 8.78 Core Strategy Policy CS23 Community Infrastructure and Cultural Activity seeks to ensure that in the first instance the role and viability of existing facilities are enhanced. Policy PSP45 will only allow new buildings for burial facilities, including crematoria, which are proposed outside of settlement boundaries and outside the Green Belt, where the re-use or conversion of an existing building is not viable. Any new building will have to be for the primary purpose of the site and proportionate to it and its surroundings. 8.79 In accordance with the NPPF, in the Green Belt, only new buildings providing appropriate facilities for cemeteries are acceptable in principle. There are other policies in the Plan which will apply to crematoria, such as environmental policies, which will seek to ensure proposal(s) respect landscape quality and prevent environmental pollution, for example. These are sensitive uses where privacy for those visiting is as important as for those living close by. This will need to be reflected in the design of proposal(s), particularly for boundary treatment. MM28 PSP46 See Appendix 1 at the end of this document for full Main Modifications to PSP46 MM29 PSP47 11.1 Site allocations and safeguarding for a range of land uses are required to support the delivery of sustainable communities and have been identified in Policy PSP47 below. These include those allocations previously contained in the South Gloucestershire Local Plan (adopted 2006) that still require allocated status; and new allocations and safeguarding made in this Plan. Other site allocations and safeguarding are set within the Development Management Policies, in Part 1 of the Plan. These are listed in this policy along with a cross reference to the relevant Development Management Policy. PSP47 – SITE ALLOCATIONS AND SAFEGUARDING The sites/routes listed in the tables below and shown on the Policies Map will be developed/safeguarded for the uses identified and brought forward in accordance with all other relevant development plan policies.