Planning in Buckinghamshire

Planning for Community Health and Wellbeing

a. Create accessible and inclusive places that support active lifestyles and good health through people-friendly streets, open and green spaces, and play areas. b. Work with health providers to ensure appropriate local health facilities and access to them (and deliver new ones where they are needed). c. Provide new or enhanced sport, leisure and cultural facilities where needed. d. Improve air quality across Buckinghamshire.

Create great places to live and work that function well, and are welcoming, safe, and accessible to all

a) Take inspiration from the valued and unique characteristics of Buckinghamshire to deliver high quality design that reinforces Buckinghamshire's distinctiveness, while being innovative in construction and design where appropriate. b) Create neighbourhoods where goods and services are available locally, are supportive of healthy lifestyles and social connectedness, easy to move through and easy to understand. c) Provide sufficient and well-integrated parking. d) Ensure development meets energy efficiency standards and design that promotes natural surveillance to improve safety. e) Secure a safe, accessible, inclusive, and robust network of spaces across Buckinghamshire for recreation, play, biodiversity, and water infrastructure. f) Create safe and vibrant public spaces in towns and villages.

Planning for New Jobs

a. Enhance our economic assets by supporting Enterprise Zones, strategic and key employment areas. b. Support and enhance Buckinghamshire's specialisms and strengths in high performance technology, space, film and high-end television, life sciences and medical tech sectors, including through appropriate skills and education provision. c. Designate employment spaces that support a diverse range of commercial activity, from high quality offices to local workshops. d. Seek opportunities to link residential and commercial development to encourage local living. e. Locate new employment spaces close to good transport connections to ensure residents have access to viable pu

To conserve and enhance Buckinghamshire's valued natural, historic, and built environments, to ensure they are protected from inappropriate development

a. Sustain the predominantly rural character of Buckinghamshire. b. Protect valued landscapes, including the Chilterns National Landscape, and open countryside in the Green Belt from harmful or inappropriate development. c. Conserve and enhance special places for nature and create an enhanced connected county-wide network of green and blue infrastructure which maximises opportunities for biodiversity net gain through the creation of new priority habitats, (having regards to the Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes Local Nature Recovery Strategy). d. Improve water quality in our rivers and watercourses, including our globally rare chalk streams. e. Ensure that development respects historic assets and facilitates the enhancement of their setting. f. Support regeneration of the built environment. g. Seek to minimise waste and encourage the efficient use of resources and recycling.

To ensure the delivery of sustainable development, mitigating climate change and adapting to the impacts on Buckinghamshire's environment

a. Support the transition to a net zero carbon Buckinghamshire by 2050. b. Direct growth to the most sustainable locations in terms of transport connections and services. c. Design new development to be resilient to climate extremes and manage the risk of flooding. d. Increase the supply of renewable/low-carbon energy and provide supporting infrastructure such as electric vehicle charging points and hydrogen fuelling. e. Meet existing standards of insulation, water, and energy efficiency in new and refurbished buildings. f. Create locally liveable neighbourhoods in new development and regenerated areas. g. Provide attractive and viable travel choices in addition to the private car, for walking, wheeling, cycling and public transport.

To meet housing needs for all of the different groups in the community, including affordable housing, and to provide increased tenure choice throughout Buckinghamshire, prioritising the efficient use of land

a. Provide a range of housing to meet local needs for market, affordable, accessible and specialist needs (such as lifetime homes so people can stay in their homes for longer) while recognising the diversity in the character and context of our urban, suburban and rural areas. b. Enable the delivery of homes for key workers, people with local connections, and those seeking self- and custom-build opportunities. c. Ensure new housing is of high-quality design, low-carbon and digitally enabled and in keeping with its surroundings.

Planning for Infrastructure

a. Facilitate wider connectivity across Buckinghamshire and beyond. b. Ensure improved local connections within and between settlements. c. Provide and protect appropriate social infrastructure including for health, education, skills training, sports, recreation and other community facilities. d. Provide and connect green and blue infrastructure to enhance the landscape and biodiversity. e. Provide flood risk mitigation and sustainable drainage solutions, negotiating with utility companies for adequate sewerage and wastewater infrastructure. f. Encourage adequate provision of energy (gas and electricity), water and other utilities.