SHAPING THE BOROUGH Waltham forest local plan (LP2) Draft Site Allocations Document (Regulation 18) September 2020 London Borough of Waltham Forest Local Plan Site Allocations - Waltham Forest Draft Local Plan (Regulation 18) Translation Translation London Borough of Waltham Forest Local Plan Site Allocations - Waltham Forest Draft Local Plan (Regulation 18) Contents Foreword 1 Introduction 1 Introduction and Background 3 2 Methodology and Approach to Site Selection 5 Site Allocations South Waltham Forest 7 Central Waltham Forest 82 North Waltham Forest 145 SA01 - Leyton Mills Retail Park 7 SA02 - New Spitalfields Market 10 SA03 - Bywaters, Leyton 13 SA04 - Osier Way 16 SA05 - The Score Centre 19 SA06 - Gas Holders 22 SA07 - Lea Bridge Station Sites 1, 2 and 3 25 SA08 - Former Leyton F.C. Football Ground 28 SA09 - Estate Way 31 SA10 - Low Hall Depot 34 SA11 - Leyton Leisure Lagoon 37 SA12 - Tesco, Bakers Arms 40 SA13 - Stanley Road Car Park 43 SA14 - 806 Community Place, High Road Leyton 46 SA15 - Leyton Bus Depot 49 SA16 - The Territorial Army Centre 52 SA17 - Whipps Cross University Hospital 55 SA18 - Joseph Ray Road 58 SA19 - Church Lane Car Park, Leytonstone 61 SA20 - Tesco, Leytonstone 64 SA21 - Matalan, Leytonstone 67 SA22 - Avenue Road Estate and Thorne Close 70 SA23 - Cathall Leisure Centre, The Epicentre Community Centre, Jubliee Centre, (also known as Leytonstone Leisure Centre & West Community Centre) 73 SA24 - B&M Site 76 London Borough of Waltham Forest Local Plan Site Allocations - Waltham Forest Draft Local Plan (Regulation 18) SA25 - Norlington Road Sites 79 SA26 - Walthamstow Central Bus Station 82 SA27 - The Mall 85 SA28 - St James Quarter 88 SA29 - High Street Sainsbury©s 91 SA30- Wilkos, Walthamstow High Street 94 Contents SA31- Osborne Grove 97 SA32 - Stow Car Wash & Valeting and Walthamstow Trades Hall 100 SA33 - 152-154 Blackhorse Road 103 SA34 - 1 Blackhorse Lane 106 SA35 - Webbs Site 109 SA36 - 59-69 Sutherland Road 112 SA37- Wood Street Library 115 SA38 - Fellowship Square (Town Hall Campus) 118 SA39 - Sterling House, Willow House and Homebase 121 SA40 - Hylands Road Phase 1 and 2 124 SA41 - Crown Lea 127 SA42 - Wood Street Station Site 130 SA43 - Travis Perkins 133 SA44 - Brandon Road Car Park 136 SA45 - Priory Court 139 SA46 - 234-240 Billet Road 142 SA47 - Sainsbury©s Car Park and Adjacent Sites 145 SA48 - Cork Tree Retail Park 148 SA49 - Morrisons Supermarket and Car Park 151 SA50 - Sainsburys, Hall Lane 154 SA51 - Former South Chingford Library site 157 SA52 - Albert Corner 160 SA53 - Motorpoint, Sewardstone Road 163 SA54 - Lea Valley Motor Company 166 SA55 - 60-74 Sewardstone Road 169 SA56 - Budgens and Gresham Works, North Chingford 172 SA57 - UKPN Site 175 SA58 - Chingford Library and Assembly Hall 178 SA59 - North City Motors, North Chingford 181 SA60 - Royal Epping Forest Golf Club 184 SA61 - Chingford Station Car Park and Bus Terminal 187 SA62 - 472-510 Larkshall Road and James Yard 190 SA63 - Shell Garage, Highams Park 193 SA64 - Larkswood Leisure Centre, Nursery and land to rear of Larkswood Leisure Centre 196 SA65 - Pear Tree House 199 London Borough of Waltham Forest Local Plan Site Allocations - Waltham Forest Draft Local Plan (Regulation 18) Contents London Borough of Waltham Forest Local Plan Site Allocations - Waltham Forest Draft Local Plan (Regulation 18) 1 Foreword Waltham Forest is a place where people want to live, raise a family and start a business. The Local Plan plays an important role in making these dreams a reality, while ensuring the unique character of the borough is protected and enhanced. Our priority as a Council is to plan for future growth so that development makes a lasting and positive impact on communities and opens new opportunities for our people. This links to our three overarching priorities as Foreword a Council: · Safer cleaner streets · Ensuring a decent roof over the heads of our residents · Improving the life chances of all our residents To do this effectively, we need to ensure we promote the right development in the right places at the right scale, creating attractive sustainable neighbourhoods as well as new economic opportunities. When adopted, the Site Allocations Document will represent Part 2 of the Council's Local Plan. It complements the Strategic Policies document (Part 1) of the Local Plan. It identifies key or strategic sites identified to have in total the capacity for redevelopment to provide circa 19,000 new homes. As background, the Council's Local Plan is built around six core golden threads: · Increasing housing delivery. Creating liveable places, · Ensuring growth is sustainable and supported by infrastructure, · Building on the unique strengths of the borough and carrying forward its cultural legacy, · Promoting the economy to improve life chances for all residents, students and workers, · Protecting and enhancing the natural environment, and · Ensuring land optimisation and driving investment. The proposed land allocations in this document seek to address the needs of the local community over the next 15 years, including the delivery of new high quality, genuinely affordable homes, new jobs and employment space, thriving cultural neighbourhoods and town centres, infrastructure provision, preserving the environment and addressing climate change. Although in most cases the existing use of these sites may be long-established, the allocation of a site for a particular use does not necessarily imply that the existing use would be lost or discontinued. To make more efficient use of land, the intention is to retain the existing use London Borough of Waltham Forest Local Plan 2 Site Allocations - Waltham Forest Draft Local Plan (Regulation 18) Foreword while providing additional uses. Furthermore, the allocation of a site for a proposed use does not also imply that planning permission will be automatically granted. Proposals submitted for planning permission will be considered on their individual merits. In this round of public consultation, we are now seeking your comments on the proposals contained in this document. This is the first round of public consultation on the preparation of this document and it is the opportunity for our residents and communities to give their views on the scope of sites in their areas to be brought forward for new homes. Comments made will be carefully considered before the final version is prepared. Thank you for your interest and participation. Cllr Miller - Portfolio Lead Member for Economic Growth and Housing Development London Borough of Waltham Forest Local Plan Site Allocations - Waltham Forest Draft Local Plan (Regulation 18) 3 1 Introduction and Background 1.1 Waltham Forest is experiencing significant change, and post-Covid19, the borough is going through accelerated shifts of economic recovery. To make this happen, the Waltham Forest Local Plan 2020 sets targets to deliver 27,000 additional homes and 52,000sqm of employment floorspace in Waltham Forest by 2035. Waltham Forest is an attractive and sustainable place for growth, however there is only a limited amount of land available and we need to ensure that where development takes place, it makes the most efficient use of land and buildings and responds to local character, and the needs and aspirations of residents. 1.2 The Site Allocations Development Plan Document is part of the Local Plan. This document allocates sites where the Council considers development could come forward and it sets out the parameters within which these sites should be redeveloped. What are Site Allocations? 1.3 Site Allocations set out what uses and development the Council would prefer to be delivered on a range of sites across the borough. Each Site Allocation sets out the preferred use or mix of uses as well as any policy criteria or guidance relevant to the development of the site. Introduction and Background Relationship to other documents and strategies 1 1.4 The Local Plan comprises two parts. Local Plan Part 1 (LP1) sets out the strategic policies and development management policies for delivering development across the borough. Local Plan Part 2 is this document - the Site Allocations Development Plan Document. It identifies key sites for redevelopment across the borough. It complements the Strategic Policies Document (LP1). Accordingly, both documents should be read together. Other documents supporting the Local Plan include Supplementary Planning Documents (SPDs), Planning Obligations SPD, Affordable Housing and Viability SPD and Urban Design SPD. These documents are being prepared and will be published for consultation when ready. How to have your say 1.5 Publication of the Draft Site Allocations DPD is in accordance with Regulation 18 of the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2012.This represents the first round of public consultation on the preparation of a Development Plan Document. 1.6 The Council is inviting representations on the Draft Site Allocations Document. Comments made will be carefully considered before the next iteration of the Plan is prepared for final consultation.We want to hear your views on the proposals contained in the document and whether you agree with the Council's preferred approach. The consultation period starts on Friday 25 September and ends on Monday 14 December 2020 at 5 pm. 1.7 There are a number of ways you can respond to this consultation. We would prefer to receive your comments via our online consultation portal: London Borough of Waltham Forest Local Plan 4 Site Allocations - Waltham Forest Draft Local Plan (Regulation 18) 1 http://walthamforest-consult.limehouse.co.uk Introduction and Background 1.8 If you do not have internet access, this document is available to read as a paper copy in all Waltham Forest Libraries. You can then complete a consultation response form and return to: Planning Policy Team, First Floor, The Magistrates, 1 Farnan Road, E17 4NX If you have any question, or experience any difficulties submitting your representations, please contact us by email [email protected].