Contents

• Abbreviations used in this document
• Timetable for updating the Local Plan
• Purpose and scope of the Options document
• Sustainability Appraisal and Habitats Regulations Assessment
• Duty to co-operate
• How to respond to the consultation
• Development Management Policies
  • Responding to Climate Change
  • Sustainable Construction Policy (Amendments to Policies SCR1 and CP2)
  • Retrofitting Existing Buildings (Amendments to Policy CP1)
  • Whole Life Carbon Assessments (new policy)
  • Renewable energy (amendments to Policy CP3)
  • Harnessing wind power (new policy)
  • Electric Vehicle (new policy)
  • Environmental Quality (Ecological emergency)
  • Ecology: Sites, Species and habitats (amendments to Policy NE3)
  • Ecological Networks (amendments to Policy NE5)
  • Biodiversity Net Gain (new policy)
  • Green Infrastructure (GI) (amendments to Policies CP7 and NE1)
  • Artificial pitches (amendments to Policies PCS1, PCS5 and LCR6)
  • Affordable housing ’Build to Rent’ schemes (amendments to Policy CP9)
  • Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) (amendments to Policy H2)
  • Intensification of Existing HMOs (new policy)
  • Purpose Built Student Accommodation (PBSA) (new policy)
  • Housing Accessibility (amendment to Policy H7)
  • A prosperous economy - Protection of Industrial Land
  • Strategic(*) and other Primary Industrial Estate (amendment to Policy ED2A)
  • Non-Strategic Industrial Premises (amendments to Policy ED2B)
  • Bath Spa University Locksbrook Campus (new policy)
  • Sustainable Transport
  • Green Belt (amendments to Policy GB2)
• Addressing housing supply
• Other opportunity sites
• Minor amendments
• Policies to be retained and with no amendments proposed

Intensification of Existing HMOs (new policy)

Consultation Reference DM 20

New Policy H2A: Intensification of Existing Houses in Multiple Occupation

Applications for the intensification of an existing small HMO (C4) to provide a large HMO (Sui Generis) will be permitted, unless the intensification:

i Significantly harms the amenity of adjoining residents through a loss of privacy, visual or noise intrusion;

ii On its own or cumulatively results in a severe impact on the highway network;

iii Does not provide a good standard of accommodation for occupants;

iv Does not provide adequate storage for recycling/refuse and bicycles.

v Does not achieve an Energy Performance Certificate “C” rating.

A condition restricting the number of occupants may be attached to permissions where deemed necessary to ensure that no further harmful intensification will occur.