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A-Z of London Planning 2018-19 A-Z of London Planning WSP UK Ltd www.wsp.com Photography copyright © Shutterstock, Manesh Ravji, Cristina Morisson Please send any comments to: [email protected] Disclaimer This report has been produced on the basis that the content contained within is, to the best of our knowledge, accurate at the time of publication (Summer 2019). Readers are advised that this data will become less accurate with the passing of time and that Indigo Planning does not accept any liability for the accuracy of the information contained herein. This report is the copyright of Indigo Planning Limited. It may not be used, referred to, reproduced or transmitted in whole or in part by anyone else without the express agreement of WSP UK Limited. WSP UK Limited is a private registered company, registered in England, number 2078863. Registered office WSP House, 70 Chancery Lane, WC2A 1AF. © WSP | Indigo 2019 v Foreword Planning for successful property development and regeneration in London is a complex business. Many facets influence the capital’s property market, from socio-economics to viewing corridors, and from public transport connectivity to local context and politics. The layers of London planning, with devolved city-wide governance through the Greater London Authority combined with the unique character and ambitions of each London borough, means that accessing and understanding key data is vital. But there’s a lot of data, which is why we produced the A-Z of London Planning – so that development professionals can access high level ‘need to know’ information at-a-glance. We’ve updated the key data, and now republish the A-Z of London Planning, following the coming together of WSP and Indigo. The joining of our two consultancies is based on the shared desire to become the leading planning consultancy in the UK, proactively engaging with clients and the industry on the most pressing planning issues. We’re committed to ensuring London’s future growth is sustainable and inclusive, responding to the need for new housing and employment, and for the right infrastructure to support existing and new communities. Ian Liddell, Managing Director, Planning & Advisory Nick Belsten, Executive Director Planning Consultancy Planning Consultancy Highly Commended BUILT WINNER Bond of the Year Award of the Year Award Planning Consultancy Street public realm Winner 2015 Winner 2017 of the Year Award 2018 improvement project vii Key contacts London T 020 3848 2500 Ian Liddell Alex Andrews Managing Director, Planning & Advisory Technical Director [email protected] [email protected] Philip Villars Simon Neate Managing Director Chairman [email protected] [email protected] Mathew Mainwaring Sean McGrath Executive Director Executive Director [email protected] [email protected] Nick Belsten Andrew Pepler Executive Director Executive Director [email protected] [email protected] Aaron Peate Greg Dowden Director Director [email protected] [email protected] Mark Teasdale Director [email protected] Manchester T 0161 200 5000 Leeds T 0113 380 0270 Birmingham T 0121 329 1560 viii ix Contents London Borough Map Introduction 1 Source: GLA Planning Visualising Connectivity 6 How to Read 8 Inner London Outer London Greater London Authority 12 Boroughs Barking and Dagenham 18 Barnet 22 Bexley 26 Enfield Brent 30 Bromley 34 Barnet Camden 38 Harrow Haringey City of London 42 Waltham Redbridge Forest Havering Croydon 46 Hillingdon Hackney Ealing 50 Brent Camden Barking Islington and Dagenham Enfield 54 Ealing Newham City of Tower Hammersmith Greenwich 58 Westminster Hamlets and Fulham Hackney 62 Kensington City of and Chelsea London Greenwich Hammersmith and Fulham 66 Hounslow Haringey 70 Lambeth Bexley Wandsworth Southwark Harrow 74 Richmond Lewisham Havering 78 Hillingdon 82 Merton Hounslow 86 Kingston Bromley Islington 90 Sutton Croydon Kensington and Chelsea 94 Kingston upon Thames 98 Lambeth 102 Lewisham 106 Merton 110 Newham 114 Redbridge 118 Richmond upon Thames 122 Southwark 126 Sutton 130 Tower Hamlets 134 Waltham Forest 138 Wandsworth 142 City of Westminster 146 Sources 150 www.wsp.com Haringey Bexley Richmond upon Kensington and Chelsea 278,451 244,760 Thames 156,726 London 195,846 City of London 9,401 Hammersmith Kingston Population Treemap and Fulham upon Camden ONS Mid-Year Population Estimates 2016 Greenwich Thames 246,181 Sutton 179,654 279,766 176,107 202,220 Westminster Redbridge 247,614 299,249 Islington Barking and Merton 232,865 Dagenham 205,029 206,460 Harrow 248,752 Lewisham 301,867 Waltham Forest Hackney Hounslow Havering 275,843 273,526 271,139 252,783 Hillingdon 302,471 Brent Lambeth Bromley Wandsworth Southwark Tower 328,254 327,910 326,889 316,096 313,223 Hamlets 304,854 Barnet Croydon Ealing Newham Enfield 386,083 382,304 343,196 340,978 331,395 1 Introduction This is an update to the first instalment of our A-Z of London Planning. This serves as a go-to for anyone working within, or with an interest in the London property market. Using data taken from government departments, the GLA and multiple other sources, as well as local insights from our team of in-house specialists, this directory has been designed as a visual overview of the demographic, socio-economic and planning traits defining each of the 32 Boroughs, the City of London and the Greater London Authority. Our aim for this guide was to produce a high-level, easy-to-digest summary of the crucial facets of London planning. It covers topics such as housing delivery, planning performance, population change and planning policy – all of which can be benchmarked against other UK cities. Since statistics are continually changing, this guide represents a snapshot of policies and statistics in time, rather than a definitive record. We have used indicators and data that we feel most accurately represent each of the Boroughs. Our methodology and visualisation methods are explained in the How To Read section (page 8). Since the document was first published, WSP announced the acquisition of Indigo Planning in April 2019. Together, it brings over 110 experienced and creative planning professionals operating across the property and infrastructure sectors, throughout the UK. Indigo has long been a leader in the UK planning market, having been awarded RTPI Planning Consultancy of the Year in 2017 and 2015. Shortlisted in each of the last six years, in May 2018, Indigo was recognised as a ‘Highly Commended Planning Consultancy of the Year Award’ at the RTPI Awards. 2 Introduction Introduction 3 Why London? London is the undisputed economic centre of International found that London was the most delivering housing on a mass scale. London has the City of London. These profiles also provide the UK and a global powerhouse. Home to attractive city in Europe for businesses and consistently fallen short of its annual housing an insight into how each is likely to cope with 19.9% of England’s jobs, 22.7% of the UK’s total employees to locate to, beating Paris, Dublin target, contributing to increasing average their share of London’s housing target. For Gross Value Added (GVA), and a higher GVA per and Zurich. London competes with rental prices, which outpace wages and a example, high density Inner London Boroughs head than any other region of the UK at £43,629 international centres, not only as a centre for particularly visible homelessness crisis. with large amounts of protected land and few compared to the next highest of £27,847 per its more prominent sectors, such as financial remaining large brownfield sites are likely to try head for the South East. To put this in context, services and insurance, but also as a hub for Adding another layer of complexity, housing to build upwards in strategic locations such as the GLA Economics report Economic Evidence creative industries, as a tourist destination and undersupply is occurring at a time when Westminster and Paddington. Base for London 2016 calculated that if London increasingly as a global leader in life sciences consumer habits are changing. The traditional was a nation, its overall economic output would and financial technology (FinTech). development model has been disrupted by new The housing sections also give an idea of the place it as the eighth largest economy in Europe trends in the rental market, such as co-living scale of the challenge facing outer London – ahead of Sweden and Belgium. London’s continued appeal as a place to locate and build-to-rent, and shifts to the housing boroughs. Bromley for example, is a traditionally new business is tied up with its attractiveness patterns of specific demographics. For suburban Borough with a population density of As well as being the beating heart of the UK as a place to live. The supply of affordable and example, retired communities are increasingly 22 people per hectare. The housing targets economy, London also competes with a small high-quality housing is a central component of interested in city centre apartment living and hinted at in the new draft of the London Plan, cadre of international cities with high- this, and one of London’s most significant the market has yet to fully meet such demand. will require the Borough’s housing completion performing globalised economies, such as New challenges going forward. Despite national and rate to shift from 641 to 1424. Taken alone this York, Tokyo and Paris. As of 2016, London was local efforts, London has suffered from a The Borough profiles provide a detailed insight means little, but when you factor in that 51% of estimated to have 1.7 million high-skill jobs, decades-long housing shortfall, a result of into the particular housing circumstances of Bromley's land is protected by Green Belt compared to 1.2 million in New York and 0.63 long-run population growth, a restricted land each, detailing the cost, density and tenure designation, the scale of the challenge million in Paris.