Policy BLACON4: Local Green Spaces
Policy BLACON4:
The Neighbourhood Plan designates the following Local Green Spaces, as shown on the Policies Map:
- Saxon Way Playing Field
- Willow Drive Green Space
- Queen Elizabeth Field
- Canterbury Road Recreation Ground
- King George’s Recreation Ground
- Cranleigh Crescent Green Space
- Graham Road Playing Field
- Blacon Community Nature Park
- Dalton Close Green Space
- Willian Road Green Space
- Fowler Road Green Space
- Kipling Road Green Space
- Meynell Place Green Space
- Shelley Road Green Space
- Blacon Station Green Space
Proposals for development in a local green space will only be supported in very special circumstances.
Shelley Road Green Space
Canterbury Road Recreation Ground
Blacon is almost surrounded by the Green Belt but some of the open spaces within the community are just as precious to retain for local amenity and use by residents. The policy designates them as Local Green Spaces which gives them an equivalent protection of the Green Belt. Only in ‘very special circumstances’ will development on them be supported.
A review of all open land within Blacon has been completed and using national criteria these fifteen sites are considered to justify this status. They are all relatively small parcels of land lying in close proximity to the surrounding local communities and all are cherished as open spaces by local people.