Upper Holton Road Supplementary Planning Guidance

What is Supplementary Planning Guidance

The Council produces Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG) to provide further detail on specific planning policies and proposals in current development plans.

SPGs help to ensure that the policies or proposals are better understood and applied more effectively. They do not have the same status as the adopted development plan policies but are likely to be used as a material consideration in determining planning applications.

What Does the Upper Holton Road Development Guidelines SPG Cover?

The Upper Holton Road Development Guidlelines SPG seeks to address the deterioration in the quality of the street scene and retail environment within Upper Holton Road. It seeks to encourage the development of higher design standards for a range of developments relating to commercial properties.

View this document here.

The document also identifies a ‘retail core’ whereby the Council will seek to resist the conversions of retail premises to other uses. However, outside of this core area the guidance suggests that the planning department takes a more flexible approach to the conversion of commercial properties to residential, provided the conversions meet the necessary design criteria.

Where Does it Apply to?

The SPG would cover all the properties upon Holton Road between Court Road and Robert Street (except for Holton Road Primary School). Meanwhile, the properties on the southern side of Holton Road between Lower Guthrie Street and Robert Street are located within the area that the Council proposes should be established as a retail core and offered further protection.

A map of the area that the guidance would cover can be found on page 35 of the SPG document.

Consultation

The Council is very keen to hear your views on the proposals and will take account of them prior to deciding to formally adopt the SPG.

If you have any comments you'd like to share with us, please complete this online form.

The consultation period runs from 4 January 2012 to 14 March 2012.

Drop-in-sessions are to be held in the Renewal Area office at 198 Holton Road, Barry on the following dates:

• Wednesday 18 January 2012
• Thursday 26 January 2012
• Tuesday 7 February 2012.

The offices will be open between 2pm and 6pm on each of these days when officers will be available to discuss the project in detail.

Enquiries

For any additional information relating to the SPG please contact:

Economic Development Unit

Vale of Glamorgan Council

Dock Office

Barry

CF63 4RT

Tel: 01446 704782

Email: lconde@valeofglamorgan.gov.uk

If required hard copies of the document can be provided upon request or will be available to view at the following locations:

• Civic Offices, Holton Road, CF63 4RU
• Dock Office, Barry Docks, CF63 4RT
• Renewal Area Office, 198 Holton Road, CF63 4HN