Local Plan

Community Update Session

22 November 2016

Agenda:
1. Recap and key work areas
2. Spatial Vision
3. Strategic Policies
4. Places, clusters and site allocations
5. Questions and discussion
6. Next steps

1. RECAP AND KEY WORK AREAS

Timeframes

Regulation 19 drafting

Winter 2016/2017

Regulation 19 consultation

March to April 2017

Submission to secretary of state

Summer 2017

Adoption

Winter 2017

Consultation overview

From 4 February to 31 March 2016:

2,640 email and letter responses

11 w o r k s h o p s p r o v i d i n g 1 , 2 0 0 c o m m e n t s
29,000 views of the online engagement platform from
over 6,000 individuals
L i v e Tw i t t e r s e s s i o n s p r o v i d i n g 8 0 Tw e e t s

To t a l o f o v e r 7 , 0 0 0 i n d i v i d u a l c o m m e n t s p r o v i d i n g
2,300 issues resulting in 7 key themes

Key issues

1. Delivering a range of housing types and tenures

2. Building at super densities
3. Environmental challenges (integrated utilities, daylight/sunlight)
4. Connecting to the wider area and open space
5. Releasing more industrial land
6. Impacts on the transport network
7. Infrastructure delivery and timing

1. Housing
Housing Viability

Affordable
Self build
Housing
Co-living

Housing
need
Starter
Homes
Wheelchair
accessible

Lifetime
Neighbourhoods

London
Living
Rent

Build to rent

Family
housing
at high
density

2. Density

3. Environment

4. Amenity space

5. Industrial land

6. Transport

7. Infrastructure

Evidence Base

ENVIRONMENTAL
STANDARDS

PUBLIC REALM &

CONNECTIVITY
STRATEGY

CIRCULAR
ECONOMY
STRATEGY

FUTURE GROWTH
SECTORS
STRATEGY

LOCAL PLAN

INFRASTRUCTUR
E DELIVERY PLAN

HERITAGE
STRATEGY

DEVELOPMENT
CAPACITY STUDY

HOUSING
STRATEGY

Potential Supplementary
Planning Documents (SPDs)
Scrubs
Lane

Victoria
Road

STRATEGIC
POLICIES

LOCAL PLAN

Park
Royal
EVIDENCE BASE
REPORT
Public
Realm

Section
106

SPD

Old & new structure

New evidence base and

response to consultation

REGULATION 18

REGULATION 19

INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION

SPATIAL VISION & OBJECTIVES

SPATIAL VISION

OVERARCHING SPATIAL POLICIES

STRATEGIC POLICIES

PLACES

PLACES

THEMATIC POLICIES

DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT POLICIES

DELIVERY & IMPLEMENTATION

DELIVERY & IMPLEMENTATION

2 . S PAT I A L V I S I O N

Our spatial vision

Old Oak and Park Royal will be a highly connected part of

London, playing an important role in shaping west Londons
future
Comprising an innovative industrial area, working alongside a
high-density new city quarter, the area will be home to a
diverse and intense mix of uses, places and people
Development will pioneer excellence in sustainability and
design quality to deliver tangible benefits for both local
communities and London

OUR SPATIAL VISION

GOING
LOCAL

THINKING
BIG

Narrative: thinking big

THINKING
BIG

1.

Old Oak will be a transport superhub for people and goods, it will be a gateway to London, the UK and beyond.

2.

Old Oak will become a major new London centre providing high-density mixed-use development, shaping west
London and supporting Londons continued growth.

3.

Park Royal will continue to be an important industrial location supporting Londons economy, with opportunities for
intensification and innovative growth.

4.

Wormwood Scrubs will continue to perform its role as a district and metropolitan park.

5.

The area will become a destination for people across London and the UK and will be home to a mix of cultural and
leisure uses.

6.

Development will showcase high quality design and set new standards in commercial, industrial and residential
development.

7.

It will be an exemplar in healthy and sustainable large-scale development.

Narrative: going local

GOING
LOCAL

1. Improve life chances for existing and future communities, with new development providing opportunities to enhance
health and well-being, access to skills, education and social infrastructure.
2. Provide a mix of new homes at different prices including affordable housing for local people.
3. Support the local economy by creating opportunities for local businesses to access new markets, providing
employment space and support for new business growth.
4. Enhance day-to-day quality of life for local people by providing access to town centres, shops, GPs, schools, nature
and parks, community facilities, leisure and sports.
5. Create an attractive built environment comprising a network of places, good quality streets, open spaces and welldesigned buildings.
6. Celebrate the existing rich social, cultural and built environmental and heritage assets such as Wormwood Scrubs,
the Grand Union Canal and the Rolls Royce Factory.
7. Ensure new development is connected into the surrounding areas through high quality walking, cycling, public
transport and vehicular links.

Relationship to
Strategic Policies

Spatial
Vision
Place and
Cluster Visions

SP1

SP2

SP3

SP4

SP5

SP6

Places & clusters

SP7

SP8

SP9

3 . S T R AT E G I C P O L I C I E S

Strategic Policies

City in the
west

SP1

Thriving
communities

SP2

Excellence
and
innovation

SP3

Places and
destinations

SP4

Resilient
economy

SP5

Green and
blue
infrastructure

SP6

Connecting
people and
places

SP7

Integrated
delivery

SP8

Built
environment

SP9

SP1: City in the West

Proposals should support the delivery of the spatial vision by

contributing to a new city quarter that:
a. Creates a new strategic transport infrastructure hub, that acts as
a national destination and gateway to the rest of the UK and to
London
b. Providing uses that supports Londons role as a global city and
position as the worlds cultural capital
c. Complements and shapes West Londons growth

SP1: City in the West

SP2: Excellence
and Innovation

Proposals should support the delivery of the spatial vision by:

a. achieving high standards of environmental sustainability
b. delivering high design quality at high densities
c. creating mixed and inclusive lifetime neighbourhoods
d. supporting health, well-being and active lifestyles
e. designing, constructing and managing a smart and resilient city
f. promoting resource efficiency and circular economy principles

g. proactively engaging with and delivering tangible benefits to local

communities

SP2: Excellence and Innovation

SP3: Thriving
communities

Proposals should support the delivery of the spatial vision by

promoting the integration of new and existing communities through:

a. Protecting existing and providing new housing that meets locals

and Londoners identified housing needs by:
i. Providing a mix of housing tenures, types and sizes;
ii. Delivers a minimum 21,000 additional homes over 2017-37, of
which 10,500 (50%) should be affordable homes, subject to
viability
b. Protecting and improving existing and delivering and contributing to
new high quality social infrastructure that meets that needs of the
needs of population in terms of their location, scale and phasing

SP3: Thriving communities

SP4: Resilient economy

Proposals should support the delivery of the spatial vision by facilitating the
delivery of a sustainable, robust and resilient economy that supports the
delivery of over a minimum additional 60,000 new jobs over 2017-37, across
a range of employment sectors and skill levels, by;
a) protecting, strengthening and intensifying the Strategic Industrial
Location (SIL) in Park Royal;
b) Creating a new major commercial centre in Old Oak;
c) Delivering a range of employment generating uses in designated town
centres;
d) Supporting the provision of small workspaces across both Old Oak and
Park Royal; and
e) securing employment and training opportunities for local people and
procurement opportunities for local businesses;

SP4: Resilient economy

SP5: Places
and destinations
Proposals should support the delivery of the spatial vision by:
a. supporting a coordinated and phased approach to place-making that:
i. creates a series of distinctive places and destination areas
ii. provides a range of meanwhile and catalyst uses

b. delivering and supporting the following town centre hierarchy to serve the needs of
development and complement nearby town centres:
i. Old Oak High Street a potential new major centre focussed on a street
connecting Harlesden to Willesden Junction station, Hythe Road station, the
Grand Union Canal, Old Oak Common station and Wormwood Scrubs Park
ii. North Acton a neighbourhood centre, focussed around North Acton station
iii. Park Royal Centre a neighbourhood centre in the heart of the Park Royal
Industrial Estate
iv. Atlas Junction a neighbourhood centre serving existing and new
communities around Old Oak Lane, Old Oak Common Lane and Victoria
Road

SP5: Places and destinations

SP6: Connecting
People and Places
Proposals should support the delivery of the spatial vision by creating a
high quality, safe and accessible movement network that:
a. supports enhancements to national, regional and local connections
b. reduces the need to travel, prioritises sustainable transport modes
and supports a modal shift from private cars, in accordance with
OPDCs Sustainable Transport Hierarchy
c. supports the creation of healthy streets
d. delivers an efficient and smart transport network
e. delivers new and enhances existing routes, connecting new and
existing communities
f. embeds transport infrastructure into the built environment and
carefully plans and coordinates utility infrastructure provision as part
of delivery of the transport network

SP6: Connecting people and places

SP7: Green and

Blue Infrastructure
Proposals should support the delivery of the spatial vision by delivering and/or
contributing towards a varied and high quality green and blue infrastructure
network that:
a. Provides for the needs of people living, working and visiting the area.
Proposals should deliver and/or contribute to public, communal and private
spaces by:
i. Protecting and enhancing existing green and blue spaces
ii. Providing new green and blue spaces that meet the needs of the
development and address existing deficiencies in terms of their quantum,
quality and function

b. Provides for the needs of nature by:

i. Protecting and enhancing existing biodiversity
ii. Delivering and/or contributing to new and diverse nature habitats
c. Successfully integrates with the wider green and blue infrastructure network,
including the Grand Union Canal and Wormwood Scrubs Common

SP7: Green and Blue Infrastructure

SP8: Built Environment

Proposals should support the delivery of the spatial vision by

delivering high quality design that:

a. Delivers higher densities and tall buildings in areas of high public

transport access and at appropriate Destination Areas
b. Contributes positively to the setting of sensitive locations, including
designated and undesignated heritage assets, open spaces and
existing residential communities

SP8: Built Environment

SP9: Integrated delivery

Proposals should support the delivery of the spatial vision by supporting an integrated
approach to the delivery of development and infrastructure that:
a. contributes appropriately and proportionately towards required area and, as
applicable, site-wide infrastructure at a rate and scale sufficient to support the areas
development and growth and, where applicable, connects into area and site-wide
infrastructure and enables the connection of others into such infrastructure
b. safeguards land required to deliver area and site-wide infrastructure
c. is being appropriately phased to fit in with the programmed delivery of other
development and infrastructure for the area and site-wide and that impacts,
including construction, are being appropriately mitigated

d. where appropriate, is accompanied by Infrastructure Delivery Strategy

e. supports an integrated approach to the design, construction and management of the
proposed development
f. is appropriately designed so that the built form would not unduly restrict and would
complement development on adjacent and connected sites

SP9: Integrated delivery

SP9: Integrated delivery

Relationship to
development
management policies
Spatial
Vision
Place and
Cluster
Visions
SP1

SP2

SP3

SP4

SP5

SP6

Places & clusters

Housing
Town centre and community uses
Employment
Design
Transport
Environment and utilities
Delivery and implementation

SP7

SP8

SP9

4. Places, clusters
and site allocations

Definitions

Places

Provides spatially specific vision and policy guidance for each place
Provides place wide and location specific guidance (outside of clusters)
Centred around an indicative policy map, other illustrations including an
extract of the illustrative masterplan
Supported by justification text
Identifies locations of clusters and site allocations but does not provide
guidance for them
Avoids repetition between the different places

Clusters

Clusters are smaller areas where movement routes meet, groups of

active uses are located and/or where important local
heritage/environmental assets are located
Cluster policies enable the Local Plan to focus on these key locations
and enable the place policies to focus on broader guidance
Provides fine-grain spatially specific vision and policy guidance for each
cluster. Avoid repetition between other clusters and place policies

Site allocations

Provides information to demonstrate delivery of homes and

employment floorspace targets for 0-5 and 5-10 years.
Identifies social and physical infrastructure reflecting the Infrastructure
Delivery Plan

Places

Clusters

OLD OAK SOUTH

Signpost to
SA section

Place vision
XXX
PX Old Oak South
Proposals should support the
delivery of the cluster vision by:

SA1: Site allocation

A. Policy text

I. Policy text

SA2: Site allocation

H. Policy text

G. Policy text

DRAFT

CX: Cluster
F. Policy text

Signpost to
cluster section

Signpost to
SA section

L A U N D RY L A N E
Cluster vision
XXX
CX Laundry Lane
Proposals should support the
delivery of the cluster vision by:

DRAFT
A. Policy text

J. Policy text

B. Policy text
I. Policy text

C. Policy text

H. Policy text

D. Policy text

G. Policy text
F. Policy text

E. Policy text

Supported by
justification text

Current site allocations

Site allocations

North Kensington Gate (North and South)

Addresses
93-97a Scrubs Lane, 115-129A
Scrubs Lane
Size
0.29
Current use
Light industrial
Policy
Scrubs Lane Place
designations
New homes
210
New jobs
140
Social and
Publicly accessible open space
green
(XX ha)
infrastructure
Phasing
2017-2022

DRAFT

5. QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSION

6. NEXT STEPS

Next steps

SECOND
PRE-CONSULTATION
EVENT

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