Meeting documents

Appendix 3

Key Issues in Regional Spatial Strategy Panel's Report

The key issues in the Panel Report with a direct impact on Bath & North East Somerset are:

• proposals to increase Bath & North East Somerset's total housing allocation for 2006-2026 from the 15,500 in draft RSS to 18,800
  
• proposals to require an additional 3,000 houses to be built in an urban extension to Keynsham, whilst maintaining the integrity of the Green Belt separation of Bristol and Bath
  
• no increase in the amount of growth to be directed towards Bath
  
• the area of search for an urban extension to Bath should be expanded to include land to the south of Bath within the Cotswolds AONB
  
• provision of employment land within the urban extension to Bath should be considered
  
• development of the urban extension to south east Bristol (capacity and area of search unchanged from draft RSS) should not be phased for implementation after brownfield development in South Bristol
  
• employment provision within the south east Bristol urban extension should complement the regeneration of South Bristol
  
• strategic growth associated with Bath should not be directed towards the Norton-Radstock area and its regeneration based on local growth should be encouraged
  
• non-acceptance of proposals in the draft Strategy to expand the Green Belt in a number of locations in the West of England, including south of Bath towards Norton-Radstock
  
• a recommendation that consideration should be given to establishing a Public Transport Authority for the Greater Bristol area
  
•  the relationship between the A46/A36 and A350 and measures to reduce the impact of long distance traffic on Bath should be reviewed in light of stronger traffic restraint measures in Bath city centre