Policy SPS10: Oakdown Farm

Policy SPS10:  Oakdown Farm

The site is allocated for an exemplar, well-designed and highly sustainable development that supports the council’s climate emergency declaration by meeting or exceeding the plan’s climate change policies and achieving clean growth. It will:

1. Make provision for the delivery of warehousing and/or industrial floorspace (use classes B2 or B8);
2. Be in accordance with the principles of the Concept Plan;
3. Ensure there are no unacceptable detrimental impacts on existing properties near the site, including from noise and external lighting;
4. Ensure safe, suitable and convenient access for all users, whilst maintaining the safe and unhindered operation of the surrounding highway network (A30, etc.), together with prioritising active travel (walking and cycling), and access to high quality public transport services that offer a genuine choice of transport modes;
5. Be subject to the submission of a comprehensive and robust Transport Assessment and a supporting site wide Travel Plan, which demonstrates how measures to prioritise and maximise movement by active travel  and public transport use have been incorporated into the development, to minimise the transport impacts arising from the development;
6. Recognise the site’s key position in the approach to, and as a ‘gateway’ to, Basingstoke along the two major road routes of the M3 and the A30, and adjacent to Junction 7 of the M3. Development will respond positively to the site’s varying visibility to the wider landscape and local Public Rights of Way network, and to changes in levels across the site. This ‘gateway’ status and response to its landscape context will be achieved through a design and landscape-led approach to the development of the site. Development will enhance the landscape qualities of the site and the wider area through appropriate siting, scale, massing, layout, appearance and hard and soft landscaping. Gaps between the buildings should be included to ensure visual separation is achieved;
7. Retain and enhance existing tree belts and hedges along all external boundaries, minimising any impact associated with access provision, and retain and respond positively to protected trees within the site;
8. Ensure that the layout and scale of built form responds positively to the Dummer Conservation Area and other heritage assets in the vicinity of the site;
1. Protect and enhance key species and habitats, prevent detrimental impacts and, where unavoidable, mitigate the impact on protected species and habitats, and secure the creation and management of linkages that provide existing or improved levels of habitat connectivity within the site and to the wider green infrastructure network. The development will provide a minimum 10% biodiversity net gain together with a site management plan;
10. Undertake technical investigation and assessment of all sources of flooding (including surface water and groundwater) to determine flood risk management measures to ensure sustainable development and incorporate provision of on-site sustainable drainage systems (SuDS);
11. Ensure that the layout responds positively to archaeological assets and successfully mitigates any impacts.

Infrastructure

50. Demonstrate that the design of the means of access for all users and the associated highway improvements take into account and do not prejudice the provision of safe, suitable and convenient access to serve the Southern Manydown site allocation (Policy SPS5.4), including the provision of suitable pedestrian and cycle connections between both sites and other nearby residential developments;

1000. Demonstrate the provision of sufficient onsite access, parking, loading/unloading, servicing and turning facilities (including for HGVs and other vehicles likely to access this site) to accommodate the peak parking, servicing and operational requirements of the development, whilst maintaining the safe and unhindered operation of the surrounding highway network (A30, etc.); and
14. Provide or contribute towards suitable infrastructure for wastewater (on and off site), foul water and other utilities.