Chapter 3 I Delivering Homes and Communities
The Challenge
3.1 The National Planning Framework (NPF) and the Regional Spatial and Economic Strategy (RSES) both focus on improving quality of life and creating compact growth and delivering housing and sustainable neighbourhoods with access to appropriate services, resources and infrastructure. Access to high quality housing is a primary component of achieving quality of life. Delivering a sufficient amount of housing to meet our strategic growth targets is essential, but housing supply is also essential to ensure that the City offers an excellent quality of life and liveable neighbourhoods to its residents. The NPF sets out elements that support quality of life (see Figure 3.1).
3.2 The values that underpin this Development Plan are components of achieving sustainable neighbour- hoods. This Chapter seeks to create a city of strong communities with liveable neighbourhoods and an excellent quality of life utilising the 15-minute City building block to strengthen our neighbourhoods. All of the core principles set out in the Strategic Vision in Chapter 1 are relevant to this Chapter.
“While the National Planning Framework [and the land use planning system] cannot effect change in all of the dimensions that contribute to quality of life, there are some key elements that it will directly impact on, most importantly ‘the natural and living environment’. This is why place is intrinsic to achieving good quality of life - the quality of our immediate environment, our ability to access services and amenities, such as education and healthcare, shops and parks, the leisure and social interactions available to us and the prospect of securing employment, all combine to make a real difference to people’s lives” (NPF).
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