Background documents
The planning policy team has produced a number of documents in order to monitor and evaluate policies in the Plan. A number of these are available by clicking on the links below.
Open Space Technical Note 2001
The survey assesses the degree to which Stevenage meets recognised guidelines on the provision of open space. The results were used to inform District Plan policies that protect and regulate the provision of new open spaces.
Playing pitches and outdoor sports facility study 2001
This study supplements the work on the Open Space Technical Note. As well as servicing the needs of the District Plan, the research also assists the development of other strategies (such as an outdoor sports facility strategy), and the review of the Cultural Strategy.
Children's Play Space Study 2001
The study provides estimates of the cost of providing new play areas which meet Local Area for Play (LAP), Local Equipped Area for Play (LEAP) or Neighbourhood Equipped Area for Play (NEAP) standards as defined by the National Playing Fields Association, and the cost of upgrading existing facilities to such standards. This note explains the Six Acre Standard and its relevance to play; examines ways of costing improvements to local children's play facilities to satisfy NPFA guidance; and, makes some recommendations on the costing of required new provision.
This report provides a quantitative assessment of future needs in respect of the burial of the dead, taking into account the population growth provided for in the housing provisions of the adopted 2004 District Plan.
The study includes an assessment of the demand for allotments, an assessment of the scope for rationalisation of allotments and identification of methods for more effective management and promotion of allotment gardening.
The Council commissioned this study in order to assess how much land there was available within the urban area that had potential to be redeveloped for housing. Some of the sites identified in this study became allocated sites in the adopted District Plan. The study comes with an appendix full of site plans of the areas considered. This is currently being scanned and prepared for the website, which will be updated in due course.