mksm Sub-Regional Strategy

The mksm Sub Regional Strategy was published in March 2005, and covers the period from 2001 to 2021. It is a statutory planning framework and forms part of the East of England, South East and East Midlands Plans.

The Sub Regional Strategy comprises an over-arching strategy and key spatial diagram for the whole of the sub region (Part A) and a set of separate statements providing more specific guidance for all of the growth towns (Part B).

The Sub Regional Strategy is focussed on these growth towns and does not seek to duplicate other topics covered in national or regional guidance. Detailed local planning frameworks are being established separately through Local Development Frameworks which are being produced by Local Planning Authorities.

The objectives of the Strategy are:

• To achieve a major increase in the number of new homes provided in the area, meeting needs for affordable housing and a range of types and sizes of market housing;
• To provide for a commensurate level of economic growth and developing skills in the workforce, particularly in the high value, knowledge-based sectors;
• To locate development in the main urban areas to support urban renaissance, regeneration of deprived areas, recycling of land and sustainable patterns of travel;
• To ensure that development contributes to an improved environment, by requiring high standards of design and sustainable construction, protecting and enhancing environmental assets (including landscape and biodiversity) and providing green space and related infrastructure (green infrastructure);
• To meet existing infrastructure needs and provide for requirements generated by new development by investing in new and improved infrastructure, by planning to reduce the need to travel and by creating a shift to more sustainable modes of travel;
• To create sustainable communities by ensuring that economic, environmental, social and cultural infrastructure needs are met in step with growth.

You can download a full copy of the mksm Sub Regional Strategy on the link below.

Download: mksm Sub Regional Strategy.pdf