Part One: Spatial Strategy and Policies (Regulation 19)

Policy DLP3 Areas outside the Growth Network Comment

1. By 2041, the areas outside the Growth Network will provide:
   1. A mix of good quality residential areas where people choose to live.
   2. A strong and improved network of green and blue infrastructure, centres and community facilities to promote health and wellbeing.
   3. Strong links to Regeneration Corridors and Centres, via access and design improvements to spread regeneration benefits and ensure integration of new and existing communities.
   4. A supply of development opportunities on land allocated outside the Regeneration Corridors and Centres.
2. The main role of areas outside the Growth Network are to provide employment opportunities to serve communities outside the Regeneration Corridors and Centres and to provide a supply of housing land at appropriate densities to meet local needs. Local and District Centres will be protected and enhanced, to serve new and proposed development. Site allocations outside the Growth Network are listed in Part Two.
3. The broad approach to development in areas outside the Growth Network will be to primarily focus on brownfield land, in locations with best access to local services and infrastructure.
4. Improved green and blue infrastructure, linked with protected Green Belt will promote health and wellbeing, support biodiversity and will bring the countryside and its landscape into the heart of the urban area.
5. Protection and enhancement of local character and the historic environment.
6. Dudley's Green Belt boundaries will be maintained and protected from inappropriate development.
7. Focusing development in the most accessible locations, developing a strong network of centres and community facilities and creating strong links to the growth network will support social inclusion and the creation of sustainable communities.