Draft Local Plan Regulation 18 Consultation January 2015 www.lbhf.gov.uk/localplan Hammersmith & Fulham Council Draft Local Plan 2015 LB Hammersmith and Fulham Contents 1 Introduction 3 2 Hammersmith and Fulham 7 3 Challenges 11 4 Spatial Vision 21 5 Strategic Objectives 27 6 Regeneration Area Strategies 29 Old Oak Regeneration Area 31 White City Regeneration Area 45 Hammersmith Regeneration Area 59 Fulham Regeneration Area 73 South Fulham Regeneration Area 81 7 Borough-wide Policies 91 Meeting Housing Needs and Aspirations 91 Local Economy and Employment 113 Town and Local Centres 120 Community Facilities, Leisure and Recreation 144 Green and Public Open Space 154 River Thames and Grand Union Canal 163 Design and Conservation 172 Environmental Issues, including Tackling and Adapting to Climate Change 191 Transport and Accessibility 210 8 Delivery and Implementation of the Local Plan 227 9 Planning Contributions and Infrastructure 231 10 Monitoring 235 11 Glossary 237 12 Appendices 251 Appendix 1 - Summary of the Local Plan Sustainability Appraisal 251 Appendix 2 - Town and Local Centre Hierarchy 253 Appendix 3 - Open Space Hierarchy 256 Appendix 4 - Nature Conservation Areas and Green Corridors 259 Appendix 5 - Archaeological Priority Areas 261 Appendix 6 - Local Plan Monitoring Indicators 262 LB Hammersmith and Fulham Draft Local Plan 2015 Contents Appendix 7 - Infrastructure Schedule 270 Draft Local Plan 2015 LB Hammersmith and Fulham 3 Introduction 1 1 Introduction Purpose of this document 1.1 This document has been produced in connection with the council’s decision to prepare and adopt a new Hammersmith and Fulham Local Plan. In accordance with Regulation 18 of the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning (England) Regulations 2012 it has specifically been published to invite representations about the proposed content of the new document. The document has benefited from the results of pre-Regulation 18 engagement with stakeholders on issues and options for review undertaken from July to September 2013. 1.2 The document includes proposed policy options, but representations will particularly assist in the identification of possible alternative options and any new issues and will also contribute to further sustainability appraisal prior to preparing the proposed submission version of the Local Plan. The document is accompanied by associated proposed revisions to the adopted Proposals Map as well as a number of supporting background papers, such as the sustainability appraisal report. 1.3 Representations may be made on the draft Local Plan policies and the Proposal Map changes as well as on any alternatives, including those within the sustainability appraisal. What is a Local Plan? 1.4 The Local Plan is a development plan document and is part of the Government’s planning policy system introduced by the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004. 1.5 When adopted, the Local Plan will be used, together with the London Plan, to help shape the future of the borough and to determine individual planning applications and deliver development. It will be supplemented by supplementary planning documents (SPDs) which will need to be in conformity with the Local Plan. The Local Plan will replace the existing Core Strategy and Development Management Local Plan. 1.6 The Local Plan will set out the council’s long term vision for the borough, including seeing more people in decent, affordable homes in a stronger local economy that provides training and job opportunities for local residents. It will highlight the strategic objectives for the borough, focussing on the key planning issues to be addressed, and include a delivery strategy for achieving these objectives. It will identify the major regeneration areas, including new policies for the Old Oak Regeneration Area. It will allocate strategic sites for development which are considered crucial to the achievement of the Local Plan, including new site policies for the Hammersmith Flyunder and the Imperial Gasworks National Grid site. 1.7 The document will set out as far as practicable when, where and by whom actions will be taken, identifying the council and its partners where relevant. 1.8 All the planning documents that the Council is producing, and their production timeframe, are set out in the borough’s Local Development Scheme (LDS). The LDS and all the borough’s planning documents may be viewed on the link to the Council’s website below: www.lbhf.gov.uk/localplan 4 LB Hammersmith and Fulham Draft Local Plan 2015 1 Introduction The Local Plan's relationship with other policies and strategies 1.9 The Local Plan will build upon the existing Core Strategy and Development Management Local Plan. Although a number of existing Core Strategy regeneration area policies will be amended or, in the case of Park Royal, replaced, many other policies will remain substantially the same as those included in the existing Core Strategy and Development Management Local Plan. 1.10 The Local Plan will provide a clear way forward for the regeneration of the borough. It will closely relate to the council’s housing and regeneration strategies and its Corporate Plan. The policies will also reflect effective cooperation that has taken place with strategic partners, such as the GLA, neighbouring boroughs and Hammersmith and Fulham Clinical Commissioning Group on cross-boundary issues, for example the regeneration areas that overlap with other boroughs. National Policy and the London Plan 1.11 The Local Plan must be consistent with national policy, produced by the Department for Communities and Local Government in the form of the National Planning Policy Framework, supporting Guidance Notes and Circulars. The Local Plan also needs to be in general conformity with regional guidance, produced by the Mayor of London and policies set out in the London Plan. 1.12 National policy is continually being produced and updated. In addition, the Draft Further Alterations to the London Plan have recently been subject to examination with proposed publication in early 2015. As new policies emerge, the Local Plan will need to take account of them. Sustainability Appraisal 1.13 Development Plan Documents must be subject to sustainability appraisal (SA) which is an integral part of the plan preparation process. SA involves identifying and evaluating a plan’s impacts having regard to social, environmental and economic impacts and helps to ensure that the plan accords with sustainable development principles. Sustainability appraisal incorporates the requirements of the European Directive 2001/42/EC on the ‘assessment of effects of certain plans and programmes on the environment’ (SEA Directive). 1.14 Appendix 1 of this draft Local Plan provides a summary of the findings of the SA undertaken so far. The full SA, which includes the evaluation of the draft Local Plan policies and reasonable alternatives, is published separately as a supporting background document. What happens next? 1.15 The Council will consider the representations received on this draft Local Plan document and on the sustainability appraisal and will take these into account when preparing the policies and proposals for the proposed submission version of the Local Plan. 1.16 The Council will advertise the proposed submission of the Local Plan and notify all those who have made representations on previous consultations. There will be a 6 week period when comments can be made on the submission Local Plan which will be forwarded to an independent Planning Inspector who will chair an Examination in Public (EIP). Draft Local Plan 2015 LB Hammersmith and Fulham 5 Introduction 1 1.17 After the EIP, the Inspector will publish a report. The Council will then formally adopt the Local Plan and revoke the existing Core strategy and Development Management Local Plan. Adoption is scheduled for Spring 2016. Key stages in the production of Development Plan Documents 6 LB Hammersmith and Fulham Draft Local Plan 2015 1 Introduction Draft Local Plan 2015 LB Hammersmith and Fulham 7 Hammersmith and Fulham 2 2 Hammersmith and Fulham The Place 2.1 It is important that the strategy for the future development of Hammersmith & Fulham is based on an understanding of the area as it is now, the challenges that need to be addressed and the opportunities that exist. The summary below outlines the key features of the borough and the challenges that the Local Plan seeks to address. The Area 2.2 Hammersmith and Fulham is an Inner London borough in a strategic location on the transport routes between the City and Heathrow. The borough is oriented north-south with most major transport links, both road and rail carrying through traffic east-west across the borough. Some of the busiest road junctions in London are located in the borough at Hammersmith Broadway, Shepherds Bush and at Savoy Circus and the borough suffers disproportionately from the effects of through traffic. However north-south transport links are limited. 2.3 The borough benefits from a long frontage along the River Thames (7km/4 ½ miles) and from a section of the Grand Union Canal in the north of the borough. These waterways enhance the environment and character of the borough and provide the potential for further benefit to the borough. 2.4 It is an area of contrasts, of wealth and poverty, and of attractive environments, many of which are protected by conservation designations and other areas that are less attractive and that need improvement. 2.5 It has at least four distinct areas each with their own character - Fulham, Hammersmith, Shepherds Bush and the area to the north of Wormwood Scrubs – the College Park/Hythe Road area. There are five designated regeneration areas which overlap with these areas and which will transform much of the borough in the years ahead as new housing, employment and supporting infrastructure is built. The People 2.6 The population of Hammersmith and Fulham has risen by over 10% from 165,242 in 2001 to 182,500 in 2011.