Policy LGS1: Local Green Space
- The following spaces, as shown on the Policies Maps (page 63) and maps 3-5, are designated as Local Green Space for the purposes of national decision-making policies on Local Green Space:
Site Ref Location Description Ward LGS1 Mayfeld Road Play Area Farmoor LGS2 Green Lane/Denton Close Green Dean Court LGS3 Pinnocks Way Green Dean Court LGS4 Fogwell Road Sports Pitch and Play Area Dean Court LGS5 Fogwell Road Quiet Area Dean Court LGS6 Tilbury Lane Allotments Dean Court LGS7 Delamare Way Green Cumnor Hill LGS8 Kimmeridge Road Green Cumnor Hill LGS9 Kimmeridge Road Estate Green Space Cumnor Hill LGS10 Glebe Green Cumnor Village LGS11 The Park Green Cumnor Village LGS12 Robsart Place Green Cumnor Village LGS13 Cumnor ‘Old Carp Ponds’ Cumnor Village LGS14 Cumnor Cricket Pitch Cumnor Village Table 3 List of Local Green Spaces for Designation
Development proposals within the designated Local Green Spaces will only be supported in very special circumstances.
- The policy designates various sites as Local Green Spaces, with the consequence of providing the same national planning policy provision as the Green Belt, excluding its provisions on Grey Belt. It also sets out how development that is defined as appropriate and inappropriate in a Local Green Space will be considered in accordance with national-decision making policies.
Part B of the policy takes the matter-of-fact approach set out in paragraph 101 of the NPPF.This currently includes National Policy HC8: Development affecting Local Green Space and states: “Development proposals for land which has been designated as Local Green Space should be determined in a manner consistent with the relevant national decision-making policies for land in the Green Belt, excluding provisions relating to Grey Belt and Previously Developed Land.” (which reflects para. 108 and footnote 45 of the 2024 NPPF). - In the event of development proposals within the Plan period the District Council will be able to assess development proposals within designated LGSs for any very special circumstances on a case-by-case basis. This will particularly apply to the LGSs which are in active recreational use in general, and for the Cumnor Cricket
ClubPitch and Fogwell Road Sports pitch in particular. The information about the various green spaces in the LGS Report will be a helpful starting point for any such assessment.