1. Take into account of recession Plan to 2031 Place shaping agenda Reforms of planning system Local needs/aspirations Duty to co-operate Reviewing the Joint Core Strategy Andra Bowyer – NN Joint Planning Unit

2. Positively prepared Seek to meet objectively assessed development and infrastructure requirements consistently with the presumption in favour of sustainable development Justified Most appropriate strategy when considered against the reasonable alternatives, based on appropriate evidence Effective Deliverable over its period and based on effective joint working on cross-boundary priorities Consistent with national policy National Planning Policy Framework is pro-growth Preparing a Sound Plan

3. Joint Core Strategy Review

4. Significant differences between the towns Some settlements where conservation and character is key Small towns need enhanced job and retail officer New residential development considered alongside job and infrastructure provision Relationships with large centres outside of NN Innovative solutions to public transport Small Town Workshop February 2010

5. Joint Core Strategy Introduction Vision & Outcomes Core Policies Protecting and enhancing assets Ensuring high quality development Spatial Strategy The network of Urban & Rural Areas Connections within and beyond NN The Green and Blue Infrastructure Framework Delivering Economic Prosperity Delivering Homes Delivering Infrastructure & Services Development Principles for Strategic Sites Monitoring & Review

6. Lower levels of growth Increased protection for North Northamptonshire’s cultural and environmental assets Stronger recognition of the importance of the natural environment Embedding urban design ‘place-shaping’ principles Greater emphasis on economic prosperity Guidance on strategically important sites Simplifying the structure of the plan Changes include

8. Urban design principles on making it easier to get into the town centres Transformed public transport services Regeneration where appropriate Simplified settlement hierarchy – Market towns category Diversification of employment Small Towns

9. CategorySettlements included Growth TownsCorby, Kettering Wellingborough, Rushden Market TownsBurton Latimer, Desborough, Higham Ferrers, Irthlingborough, Oundle Raunds, Rothwell, Thrapston Principal VillagesBrigstock, Broughton, Earls Barton, Easton on the Hill, Finedon Geddington, Irchester, King’s Cliffe, Mawsley, Nassington, Ringstead, Stanwick, Warmington, Wilbarston, Wollaston, Woodford Smaller VillagesMost villages other than some isolated rural communities or settlements of a dispersed form, which may be designated as open countryside, outside the formal settlement hierarchy Open Countryside Proposed Settlement Hierarchy

10. Development principles to be set out for: Strategic sites North Kettering A14 Junction 10 business park

11. Development principles to be set out for: New strategic sites North Kettering A14 Junction 10 business park

12. What next? JPC consider consultation response 8 th & 29 th November Seek views on site development principles November/ December Complete evidence baseSeptember - December JPC agree Pre-Submission Plan for consultation January 2013 ExaminationSummer 2013