NM15: Employment
This policy is proposed to be modified from the current Neighbourhood Plan
This policy will be modified to include additional clauses. This will identify specific employment sites which provide particular employment uses and economic benefits to the community, to safeguard them, recognising that not all brownfield land is suitable for redevelopment to residential or other uses.
Policy NM15: Employment
The Neighbourhood Plan identifies land in established employment use as shown on the Policies Map at:
- Gore Road Industrial Estate
- Williams Industrial Park
- Hamilton Business Park
- New Milton Business Centre
- Wick One
- Wick Two
- Queensway / Stem Lane Industrial Estate
- Double H Nurseries.
These sites are of strategic economic value to the town and fundamental to its spatial strategy.
- Proposals for the intensification of employment uses on, or to extend, a site for new Class E(g) and B2 uses, will be supported, provided they will not cause significant harm to the amenity of adjoining residential areas.
- Proposals that require planning permission for the change of use of land or premises on a site to a non-Class E or -Class B use will not be supported in any circumstance.
- Development proposals that will result in the loss of existing employment land elsewhere in the parish will only be supported if it can be satisfactorily demonstrated that the land is no longer in a competitive location to support a continuation of an employment use
Please review the proposed modifications and tell the steering group your thoughts on the proposed changes.
Original policy text
Development proposals that will result in the loss of existing employment land will only be supported if it can be satisfactorily demonstrated that the land is no longer in a competitive location to support a continuation of an employment use.
Supporting text
This policy seeks to prevent the unnecessary loss of existing employment land beyond the brownfield proposals contained in the Neighbourhood Plan. The long term future of New Milton as a modern, vibrant and sustainable town serving a larger economically active population depends on it sustaining and growing its economic base. Its proximity to larger centres of population and businesses in the Solent to the east and in the Bournemouth-Poole conurbation, and its high quality coastal environment, make it an attractive location for business.
In developing a vibrant local economy it is important that we seek to retain (young) skilled workers in the town as opposed to them out commuting. In this respect the linking with education establishments, including local colleges and universities, is key to ensure people that people leaving full time education are sufficiently skilled to be able to take advantage of locally created skilled jobs within New Milton.