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DP3221/JS 2 March 2018 Dear Sir, the DRAFT LONDON PLAN Representations on Behalf of the Owners of Battersea Power Station We DP3221/JS 2 March 2018 Sadiq Khan (Mayor of London) Draft London Plan GLA City Hall London Plan Team Post Point 18 FREEPOST RTJC-XBZZ-GJKZ London SE1 2AA Dear Sir, THE DRAFT LONDON PLAN Representations on behalf of the owners of Battersea Power Station We write on behalf of our client, Battersea Project Land Company Limited (‘BPLC’), to submit representations to the above consultation for your consideration. BPLC is currently delivering the redevelopment of Battersea Power Station and surrounding sites, to create a new sustainable town centre for LB Wandsworth in the CAZ. When it is complete, the BPS masterplan will have provided commercial floorspace to support 17,000 permanent jobs, including 150,000sq m of Grade A offices, 75,000sq m of retail and cafes/restaurants, hotels and leisure space and a major new entertainment venue, as well as more than 4,000 new homes. It represents a significant investment into the London economy, driving the delivery of the Vauxhall, Nine Elms and Battersea Opportunity Area (‘VNEB OA’) through a contribution of approximately £245m to fund local and strategic transport infrastructure. This sum is principally to fund the Northern Line Extension (‘NLE’), which BPLC are accommodating on site, but approximately £10m is also being contributed to Crossrail 1 through MCIL1, despite this not being in place when the masterplan was originally granted planning permission in 2011. In addition to the masterplan, BPLC’s development manager BPSDC also acts as development manager for the Cringle Dock Waste Transfer Station (‘WTS’), alongside the site’s owners Western Riverside Waste Authority. Planning permission has been granted for the redevelopment of the site to provide a new WTS with enabling development above. BPLC strongly supports the strategic planning role performed by the GLA, and by extension the London Plan as a tool to promote development in London. Battersea Power Station’s regeneration, and the wider regeneration within the Nine Elms Opportunity Area, is the result of successful close collaboration between strategic and local authorities, under the auspices of a Development Plan that promotes the delivery of new homes and jobs. The Draft London Plan, published in December 2017, needs to provide the same positive and supportive environment for development so that London can continue to be a place that people want to visit, reside, work and invest, and so that it can meet the myriad of challenges it faces in fulfilling these various roles. We support the ambition of the Draft London Plan and its vision for our great city, but have concerns that the desired outcomes may not be achieved as intended and set our detailed comments below within this context. Battersea Power Station as a strategic development site The Battersea Power Station site has a long history and has been subject to a number of failed attempts at redevelopment. Over a 30 year period, the sheer complexity of the site and cost of delivery has seen off several determined developers; it is arguably the most challenging development project in London. Because of the significant challenges in bringing this project forward, a flexible planning framework and collaborative approach have been essential in stimulating and facilitating the project. In order to continue delivery over a 15 year period, certainty is critical. BPLC purchased the site in September 2012 out of administration following the collapse of the previous developer and finally commenced delivery of this ambitious project, 30 years after the Power Station was decommissioned. The investment decision made by the international consortia was based on a set of planning obligations and parameters contained in the Outline Planning Permission, and the continuation of development remains dependent on those obligations and parameters. Where such obligations or parameters are changed without an understanding of their wider impact or an ability to compensate for any additional impacts, the delivery of an already challenging project becomes even more challenging and less certain. As London relies more and more on strategic sites and major multi-phase regeneration schemes such as Battersea Power Station to provide the homes and jobs it needs, the particular factors involved in successfully delivering such projects over a long period of time become ever more important, and the imposition of policies and rules that place greater risk on these schemes has the potential for an ever greater impact on the delivery of the objectives of this Draft Plan. Use of Section 73 As highlighted above, the Battersea Power Station masterplan will be delivered over a 15 year period. Inevitably on such a large project, changes need to be made and, to date, these have been done via Section 73 amendment applications to the original Outline planning permission. The decision to purchase the Power Station site was made on the basis of the planning obligations and parameters of the approved Outline planning permission. There is significant concern by the owners of the site that the Mayor will seek to renegotiate the original consent when a future S73 amendment application is submitted. Such a scenario could call into question the merits of the original decision to invest in the project and its future delivery. RECOMMENDATION: That the Mayor makes it explicitly clear that new policies will not be applied to historic permissions where they are being amended by Section 73 applications and that new policies shall only be applied to the relevant amendments. Chapter 1 – Planning London’s Future (Good Growth Policies) We support the principle of Good Growth, with all six policies working together with equal importance to deliver the best overall form of development. Policy GG4 – Delivering the Homes Londoners Needs There is an inherent tension between elements A and B of this policy. Delivering more homes overall requires a measured approach to affordable housing, ensuring that viability and delivery factors for each site, and in particular for larger, more complex regeneration projects, are taken into account. 2 Whilst providing as much affordable housing as possible is of unquestionable importance, requiring a level of affordable housing that goes beyond that which a development can viably provide has the potential to impact on the delivery of all homes. An unviable scheme will not proceed. We do not consider that this would be beneficial for London, and therefore encourage a measured approach to affordable housing requirements. Part E of this policy seeks to establish ambitious and achievable build-out rates at the planning stage, incentivizing build-out milestones. We do not agree with introducing stipulations on build out rates through the planning system, as they add yet another matter for negotiation and more requirements for development schemes to meet. It is unlikely that build-out rates can be set with confidence by a developer at the planning stage, when a scheme is not sufficiently progressed to enable realistic predictions. Notwithstanding our objection, if build out rates are to be set through the planning process, we would encourage further clarity on what incentives may be provided, but would strongly discourage any suggestion of penalties if build-out milestones forced upon a developer at the planning stage are not subsequently achieved. Setting build out rates will not succeed unless the procedural hurdles to delivery are also reduced – this includes the burden of information and documentation imposed by the planning system, and in this regard the Draft London Plan promises to impose more burden than the current Plan which could impact negatively on delivery. We would, however, note that Battersea Power Station is an example of what is required in order to maintain a fast pace of delivery despite economic and other challenges. Developments must be allowed to respond to conditions and adapt their build out rates to suit a variety of factors. Ambitious build-out rates may be difficult to achieve and will have implications that the planning system will need to address. RECOMMENDATION: Either remove the requirement to establish ambitious and achievable build out rates or clarify how their achievement is to be incentivized. Policy GG5 – Growing a good economy We support the promotion of London’s economic development, but question why affordable housing is included as element D in this policy when policy GG4 already identifies the strategic requirements for new housing. Economic development needs to be given appropriate weight in the Plan, rather than being relegated behind the provision of affordable homes. RECOMMENDATION: Remove the reference to affordable housing in Part D. Chapter 2 – Spatial Development Patterns Policy SD1 – Opportunity Areas We support the continued promotion of Opportunity Areas. In particular, we support the requirement of A.4) to ensure that the Mayor’s agencies, including Transport for London, work together with others to promote and champion Opportunity Areas. We further support element A.7’s commitment to take action where necessary to overcome barriers to delivery, but would note that this strategic commitment needs to inform the setting of more detailed policies – in particular H6 and its supporting text at paragraph 4.6.13, which indicates that boroughs may want to set localized affordable housing thresholds for Opportunity Areas. Many already have, and these will continue to have weight where they have been set through the Local Plan process. The Draft London Plan should
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