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Appendix for Ripon
Lodge
Planning Policy
References
National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF)
Paragraph 94:
94. It is important that a sufficient choice of school
places is available to meet the needs of existing and
new communities. Local planning authorities should
take a proactive, positive and collaborative
approach to meeting this requirement, and to
development that will widen choice in education.
They should:
a) give great weight to the need to create,
expand or alter schools through the
preparation of plans and decisions on
applications; and
b) work with schools promoters, delivery
partners and statutory bodies to identify and
resolve key planning issues before
applications are submitted.
Local Plan 6: District Wide Policies - Further and
higher education provision
6.40 Growth in the Science Vale area is expected to
lead to an increase in the number of jobs in high
tech and science-based industries in the Vale. Core
Policy 30 supports improvements to further and
higher education facilities to help ensure local
people have opportunities to gain the skills needed
to access the jobs available and local employers
have access to a suitably skilled local labour force.
6.41 Core Policy 30 identifies the most appropriate
locations for further and higher education facilities.
The Council will support, where consistent with the
other relevant policies in this plan, the development
and expansion of higher education facilities at
Oxford Brookes University Harcourt Hill Campus
and at Cranfield University (Defence Academy) at
Watchfield.
Core Policy 30: Further and Higher Education.
The Council will support the development and
enhancement of further and higher education
facilities to help support the local economy and to
ensure the local labour force is equipped to take
advantage of the opportunities likely to arise in the
future.
The most appropriate locations for further and
higher education provision are:
i.
by the extension or more intensive use
of existing education or other suitable
community facilities
ii.
within identified strategic employment
locations, provided that the training offered is
clearly relevant to meet the needs of
businesses in that strategic employment
location, and
iii.
in the main settlements and other
locations with good pedestrian and cycle
access and well served by public transport
connections between the proposed facility
and its likely student catchment.
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