Policy 7.1 – The Norwich urban area including the fringe parishes

Policy 7.1 – The Norwich urban area including the fringe parishes102

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The policy for the Norwich urban area is divided into three sections:

  1. The City centre;
  2. East Norwich;
  3. Elsewhere in the urban area including the fringe parishes.

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This division reflects:

  1. the importance of the city centre to Greater Norwich as a whole, the rapid change in the role of city centres (particularly in relation to retailing and office employment), and the need to promote brownfield regeneration (particularly in the northern city centre), which together create the necessity for a distinctive, detailed and updated planning framework;
  2. the potential for brownfield regeneration to create a new urban quarter in the long-term in East Norwich;
  3. the essential role that of the other parts of the urban area and the fringe parishes will play in meeting housing needs through the growth of strategic and smaller scale extensions and small-scale brownfield redevelopment to support neighbourhood renewal.  The area will also play a key role on meeting employment growth needs, providing sites for the growth of both strategic and local employment uses. 

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Housing growth of 32,691 in the area will provide around 66% of the total growth in the GNLP (see policy 1). The Sites document provides policies for each site allocated to deliver these homes. 

Footnotes

102The Norwich fringe is the built-up parts of the fringe parishes of Colney, Costessey, Cringleford, Drayton, Easton, Hellesdon, Old Catton, Sprowston, Taverham, Thorpe St. Andrew, Trowse and the remainder of the Growth Triangle