In this chapter

• Introduction to development management policy
• Housing
• Climate change
• Nature and ecosystem services
• Green Belt
• Jobs and economy
• Healthy, vibrant and inclusive communities
  • Policy HVC/TC: Town centre retail hierarchy and development
  • Policy HVC/TCD: Town, district and local centre development
  • Policy HVC/LS: Dispersed local shops
  • Policy HVC/H: Health and wellbeing
  • Policy HVC/HIA: Health impact assessments
  • Policy HVC/HFT: Hot food takeaways
  • Policy HVC/CF: Community facilities
  • Policy HVC/PS: Safeguarding land for primary school use
  • Policy HVC/PSC: Primary school capacity
  • Policy HVC/C: Safeguarding land for cemeteries
  • Policy HVC/A: Protecting allotments
  • Policy HVC/B: Broadband connection at new residential properties
  • Policy HVC/LGS: Local green spaces
• Heritage and design
• Sustainable transport
• Pollution, contamination and safety
• Minerals and waste
• Waste
• Infrastructure

Policy HVC/PS: Safeguarding land for primary school use

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How this part of the Local Plan Options Document works

These Development Management policy option pages contain the following sections:

Policy background

• Relevant national policy or regulations
• National or regional trends
• Local situation and needs/li>
• How we have dealt with this issue in the past
• The thinking behind the policy

Policy options for the new Local Plan

We may suggest a variety of approaches:

• Keeping existing policy as it is
• Making small changes
• Replacing the policy with something that is substantially different
• Identifying factors or events which may affect this policy in the future

Policy option analysis

• A list of the advantages and disadvantages that we have identified for each of the policy options we are presenting.

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Policy background

9.303 Policy LCR3 includes a list of land which is safeguarded for the expansion of primary schools as follows:

Safeguarded land

School	Land size
Oldfield Park Junior School, Claude Avenue	0.21ha
St Saviours Primary School	0.1ha
St Keyna Primary School	0.65ha
Welton Primary School	1.1ha
Land at Silver Street, Norton Hill, Midsomer Norton	4.7ha
St Mary’s Primary, Writhlington	1.0ha
Camerton Primary School	0.6ha
Clutton Primary School	0.6ha
East Harptree Primary School	0.25ha
Freshford Primary School	0.3ha
Marksbury Primary School	0.8ha
Shoscombe Primary School	0.4ha

9.304 Three of the sites on the list above. Land at Silver Street and Camerton Primary School can now be removed as the sites have been developed. Land at St Keyna Primary School has been added to the school site to facilitate enlargement and can also be removed from the list.

9.305 The list can be further reviewed if through the consultation it is demonstrated that further sites are no longer required for educational purposes.

9.306 The allocation of new housing sites in the draft Local Plan may result in additional sites being added to the list of safeguarded land.

Policy options for the new Local Plan

Option A

Remove Land at Silver Street, Camerton Primary School and St Keyna Primary School from the list of safeguarded land.