M25 Junction 28 Local Impact Report
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2021 M25 Junction 28 Local Impact Report LONDON BOROUGH OF HAVERING Guidance for the Development of the Local Impact Report ....................... 2 Executive Summary ................................................................................... 4 M25/28 Capacity Improvement Scheme .................................................. 18 Traffic Issues in the Borough ................................................................... 19 Road Safety ............................................................................................. 20 Borough Constraints Maps ...................................................................... 24 Details of the proposal relevant to the London Borough of Havering ....... 27 Relevant Planning History and Any Issues Arising .................................. 30 Relevant Development Plan Policies ....................................................... 35 Policy Compliance ................................................................................... 42 Topic Specific Issues ............................................................................... 50 Contaminated Land .................................................................................. 57 Built Heritage ........................................................................................... 59 Air Quality in Havering ............................................................................. 63 Noise ........................................................................................................ 67 Flood Risk and Drainage ......................................................................... 69 Non-Motorised Users ............................................................................... 70 Traffic and Transport ................................................................................ 77 Local Modelling Impacts .......................................................................... 78 Highways England Transport Assessment .............................................. 83 Highways Issues ...................................................................................... 85 Construction Traffic Issues ...................................................................... 86 Operational Phase Traffic Issues ............................................................. 89 Consideration of the Impact of the Proposed Articles and Requirements within the draft Development Consent Order ........................................... 95 Developing the Obligations ...................................................................... 98 1 Guidance for the Development of the Local Impact Report 1.1 PINS Guidance Guidance from the Planning Inspectorate (Advice note one: LIRs) provides a framework document for London Borough of Havering and its associated consultants to support the preparation of the LIR. PINS Guidance on LIRs is reproduced in part below. “The report should consist of a statement of positive, neutral and negative local impacts, but it does not need to contain a balancing exercise between positives and negatives; nor does it need to take the form of a formal committee report. The Examining Authority (ExA) will carry out a balancing exercise of relevant impacts, and these will include those local impacts specifically reported in the LIR. By setting out clearly evaluated impacts in a structured document, local authorities will assist the ExA by identifying local issues which might not otherwise come to its attention in the examination process. It will also be very helpful to have the local authority’s appraisal of the proposed development’s compliance with local policy and guidance. It would assist the ExA if the local authority is able to give its view on the relative importance of different social, environmental or economic issues and the impact of the scheme on them. Local authorities are well placed to appreciate the impacts of proposals, for example in terms of employment, local services, associated development, or DCO obligations under s174 of the 2008 Act. It will be important for the ExA to have the local authority’s views on DCO articles, requirements and DCO obligations. Where specific mitigation or compensatory measures are proposed by the applicant, by way of suggested DCO articles and requirements; or DCO obligations, these should be identified and commented upon. Local authorities should mention them explicitly. The same applies to DCO articles; requirements; and obligations that the local authority considers ought to be included. Parish councils, organisations and members of the public may have made representations to the local authority or directly to the applicant about the scheme (prompted, for example, by the applicant’s consultation). The LIR could include reference to these representations, but only where they are relevant to a particular local impact which the local authority itself wants to highlight. 2 National Policy Statements (NPSs) may be helpful to local authorities in preparing their LIRs as a guide to matters of local impact that are likely to be relevant to the determination of an application. There is, however, no need for the local authority to undertake an assessment of compliance with an NPS; this would duplicate the ExA’s role. Where a NPS is location specific, it will not be possible for all the local impacts of a development proposal to have been considered at the national policy development stage. In such instances, the LIR could assess local impacts not captured in the NPS process, for example on planning, landscape and highway matters. There may be local impacts on sensitive receptors not apparent at the NPS stage, stemming from, for example, the particular layout, design, scale and appearance, or access arrangements of the scheme. The LIR can cross refer to any Statement of Common Ground agreed between the applicant and the local authority. The ExA will encourage parties not to duplicate evidence submitted to it. It is open to the local authority to make representations to the ExA about an NSIP application separately from the LIR if it so chooses” PINS April 2012v2. 3 Executive Summary 2.1 Introduction This document forms the London Borough of Havering’s LIR and sets out the perceived positive, neutral and negative impacts of the scheme on the borough. It comments on the local policy compliance of the scheme and identifies issues that the scheme will create in the borough. Comments have also been made on the draft DCO itself and mitigation measures LB Havering considers would be appropriate to minimise the impact the scheme will have on the borough. At the time of writing this report, not all information has been available by the applicant. Once this information does become available, LB Havering intends to inform the ExA of its views in the form of written representations through the Examination timetable. 2.2 Borough Context Through its Corporate Plan, Havering has a ‘Vision’ for the borough that seeks to position Havering to take advantage of new and emerging opportunities for residents and business. The ‘Vision’ places Havering as a forward looking, exciting place to work, live and invest, well suited to meeting the London Mayor’s agenda for ‘Good Growth’. The ‘Vision’ has four linked themes: communities, places, opportunities and connections. Havering has been greatly encouraged by the strong reception of its ‘Vision’ within and beyond the borough. The Council has welcomed the positive response from the London Mayor and it is using the ‘Vision’ as a strong tool in discussions with stakeholders to secure the additional investment in infrastructure improvements that is needs to deliver it. Havering is located on the north eastern boundary of Greater London and is the third largest London Borough (43 square miles). Most of Havering is within the M25 with part of the east of the borough outside the M25 (Figure 1). 4 FIGURE 1 WIDER CONTEXT MAP Source: Approved Local Implementation Plan 2010 5 Figure 2 shows the proposed scheme in the context of Havering. The map shows Havering’s road network and Strategic Development Areas (SDA). FIGURE 2: LOCAL CONTEXT MAP Source Havering Local Plan 6 Havering has 18 electoral wards (Figure 3). It is mainly characterised by suburban development. Green Belt forms half of the borough. FIGURE 3 WARD MAP Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS); Produced by Public Health Intelligence Romford is Havering’s principal town and is identified as a metropolitan centre in the London Plan. Romford is identified as an Opportunity Area in the Publication London Plan (2020). The emerging Local Plan identifies Romford, Rainham and Beam Park as the key areas for growth over the period of the Plan (2016-2031). The Local Plan recognizes this through the designation of two Strategic Development Areas (SDA). The Romford SDA will accommodate a significant level of housing and economic growth alongside new and enhanced supporting infrastructure. Over the Local Plan period, the Council will support the delivery of 6,000 new high-quality homes in well managed residential and mixed-use schemes that provide attractive places to live and which are well integrated with the existing community. 7 The Rainham and Beam Park SDA provide the opportunity to establish an existing new residential neighbourhood linked to the delivery of a new railway station on the Essex Thameside Line at Beam Park. Further information on the Romford and Rainham and Beam Park SDAs can be found in Chapters 5 and 6 of the emerging Local Plan. Parts