Bradford on Avon CommunityArea strategy

Future development in Bradford on Avon should be on a modest scale and should deliver additional employment, thereby helping to improve the self-containment of the town. Development will need to meet high standards of sustainable design and should incorporate renewable energy provision. Housing development in Bradford on Avon should be phased for delivery towards the end of the plan period (2016-2026), and development should be employment led wherever possible.

Wiltshire LocalDevelopmentFramework

Specific issues in Bradford on Avon:• The town currently has a high level of out-commuting.• Further loss of employment land should be strongly resisted.• The overall retail offer serves only basic local needs.• High traffic volumes and congestion in the town centre.• The town has aspirations to become ‘carbon neutral’ by 2050.• High level of need for affordable housing in the town.• Development should be planned so as to conserve and enhance the high quality built and natural environment.• An ‘area of opportunity’ in Holt will be protected as it continues to offer a suitable location for mixed use development, such as light industrial, workshops, offices and residential uses.

GP

GP

Bradford-on-Avon

A363

A363

Resident based professions, 2001

Electricity; gasand watersupply, 0%

Agriculture; hunting; forestry,

2%

Manufacturing,16%

Construction, 5%

Wholesale and retailtrade, 13%

Real estate, 14%

Public adminand defence,

8%

Education, 13%

Health andsocial work,

11%

Other,5%

Hotels andcatering, 5%

Transport andcommunication,

5%Financial,

3%

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10

House price to income ratioAverage house price 2009 = £171,000

House price to income ratio

Bradford-on-Avon (highest in mid and north Wiltshire)

Average for Wiltshire towns

Tidworth/Ludgershall (lowest in mid and north Wiltshire)

South West

UK

Percentage of people that live andwork in Bradford-on-Avon (2001)

Cricklade(lowest inWiltshire)

Bradford-on-Avon Trowbridge(highest inWiltshire)

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Population: Bradford-on-Avon community area

20%

19%

58%

50%

23%

31%

Bradford-on-Avon 2006

Bradford-on-Avon 2026

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%

Data is indicative and subject to change

Housing built since 2001

Large new housing sites

Strategic employment sites

Proposed allocations

Town centre

Conservation area

Urban boundary

Hospitals

GP surgeries

Secondary schools

Station

Green belt

AONB

Commuting flows

GP

310

Trowbridge

765

970

Bath

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300

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790

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Bradford-on-Avon community map

Bradford on Avon

(2001)

Bradford on Avon CommunityArea proposals

Wiltshire LocalDevelopmentFramework

Area Housing already provided for Housing to be identified

Proposed Completions Specific Proposed Remainder requirement 2006-10 permitted strategic to be 2006-26 sites sites identifiedBradford on Avon 510 61 256 150 43Remainder 160 62 30 0 68Community area total 670 123 286 150 111

Employment and housingOver the plan period (2006 to 2026), 2-3 hectares of new employment land and 670 new homes will be provided across the community area. 510 dwellings should occur at the town of Bradford on Avon, including land identified for strategic growth to the east of the town on land at Kingston Farm.

Specific requirements for the strategic site at Kingston Farm include:• 2-3 hectares of employment land including space for an existing local firm to expand • 40% affordable housing • development to provide an exemplar for sustainable development and renewable energy in Wiltshire• protection and, where possible, enhancement, of the setting of the Conservation Area, and The Hall and its park and garden• protection and enhancement of the River Avon environmental corridor• survey and mitigation of the impacts on bats and other protected species and local wildlife habitats/ features associated with the river corridor• improvements to the junction of the B3107 and B3109, and potential widening of the B3107.

160 homes will be provided in the rest of the community area over the plan period.

The following principal employment areas will be supported: Treenwood Industrial Estate and Elm Cross Trading Estate

Delivery of proposed housing 2006 to 2026, Bradford on Avon Community Area:

Are there any changes that you would suggest to the strategy set out for Bradford on Avon Community Area?

Strategic SitesType

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B3107

B3109

Bradford on Avon CommunityArea infrastructure

Wiltshire LocalDevelopmentFramework

Are these additional infrastructure requirements needed to supportdevelopment in Bradford on Avon Community Area?

InfrastructureInfrastructure requirements identified so far to support development at Bradford on Avon:

• Sustainable transport solution for the town centre.• Improvements to the sewer system. • Reinforcement of low pressure gas mains. • Financial contributions towards expansion of primary and secondary schools.• Expansion, or relocation to larger premises, of one or both GP surgeries.• Expansion of the existing cemetery and provision of pedestrian links to the town centre.

Holt

Winsley

Limpley Stoke

Westwood

Staverton

Wingfield

Monkton Farleigh

Bradford on Avon

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