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Great West Corridor Local Plan Review GREAT WEST CORRIDOR LOCAL PLAN REVIEW PREFERRED OPTIONS CONSULTATION OCTOBER 2017 1 GREAT WEST CORRIDOR LOCAL PLAN REVIEW PREFERRED OPTIONS CONSULTATION CONTENTS OCTOBER 2017 Foreword 3 Consultation information 5 01 INTRODUCTION 9 05 PLACES 77 02 SETTING THE SCENE 21 P1 Great West Corridor West 80 03 VISION AND OBJECTIVES 35 P2 Great West Corridor Central 88 P3 Great West Corridor East 94 04 SPATIAL POLICIES 41 GWC1 Housing 44 06 DELIVERY AND MONITORING 103 GWC2 Employment Growth 50 APPENDIX 1: GWC3 Design and Heritage 56 SITE ALLOCATIONS 111 GWC4 Environmental Quality and Open Space 64 GWC5 Transport and Connectivity 70 GREAT WEST CORRIDOR Local Plan Review 1 Figure 0.01 Great West Corridor study area showing political wards Turnham Green Brentford Leader of the Council Councillor Steve Curran Chiswick Great West Corridor Riverside Osterley Syon FOREWORD The Council adopted its Local Plan in September 2015, and committed in the Plan to conduct two area reviews to look in detail at local improvements, investment and development opportunities to provide much needed housing and jobs in the Great West Corridor (Golden Mile) and West of Borough. In keeping with that commitment, it is with great pleasure that I am able to present here the Draft Consultation Great West Corridor Local Plan review (Great West Corridor Plan (GWCP)). This is being presented for consultation in parallel with a Draft Consultation West of Borough Local Plan Review (WoBP). The GWCP will shape the location and scale of development in this area of the Borough up to 2033. The Consultation Draft provides options for key policy areas which need to be considered by consultees, or indeed consultees are welcome to suggest alternative policies. Much care and attention has been taken in developing a Plan to make the most of the opportunities and tackle the regeneration needs and numerous challenges within the GWC area. Taking the existing Local Plan’s lead, the Plan provides a comprehensive place-making approach to the area, and seeks to provide opportunities for increased business location amongst a range of commercial sectors and thus the potential for more high quality jobs, housing opportunities including affordable housing to meet the needs of the Borough, an improved environment and improved connectivity to address the negative impacts of major roads crossing the area, and significantly better infrastructure. It seeks to improve the vibrancy and vitality of the area through introducing additional land uses other than business such as housing, retail and leisure uses, and to plan and ‘knit’ the area together to create a much more functional place. The Plan is highly aspirational, seeking to drive forward real change and provide opportunities for the area and the Borough. In order to meet those objectives of course there are challenges and difficult decisions and debates, particularly through a policy option of promoting higher density development and introducing an element of a mixed land use approach. However, I believe that if the Council is to achieve its regeneration ambitions for wider benefit of the Borough’s residents and businesses these difficult decisions need to be made. This Local Plan review has been shaped by ongoing consultation and engagement involving local people, businesses, community groups and external partners. Public consultation in late 2015/early 2016 has informed the key issues that need to be addressed in the area. For the GWCP a ward councillor ‘Members Working Group’ has helped to steer and shape the content of the Plan. I commend this Plan to you and look forward to engaging with you on your thoughts on the ambitious objectives, policy options and plans contained within it. Steve Curran GREAT WEST CORRIDOR Local Plan Review 3 Figure 0.02 Great West Corridor location plan Great West Corridor Heathrow Airport West of Borough Ashford Staines Egham Upon Thames Shepperton Weybridge 4 CONSULTATION INFORMATION OVERVIEW The Great West Corridor Plan (GWCP) will be This plan presents policy options and sets one of the key planning policy documents for out which of those options are preferred. that area. It will contain policies that will help However, policy options are only presented shape how the area will be developed over where it is considered that they are the next 15 years and once adopted will reasonable, avoiding the tendency in some comprise part of the Council’s Local Plan and Local Plans to present options for the sake of will be used in the determination of planning complying with guidance on the preparation applications. of Local Plan. This results in a more succinct and focused draft Plan for Consultation. Initial consultation with stakeholders on the However, this does not prevent consultees issues that need to be addressed by the Plan putting forward alternative policy options for was undertaken in late 2015/early 2016. This any of the policies in the Draft Plan, and the version of GWCP is a draft document for Council will consider those options proposed consultation under the Town and Country in depth. Planning Regulations (Local Planning) (England) 2012. It has been produced specifically for public consultation, which is an opportunity for you to have a say in shaping the content of plan. GREAT WEST CORRIDOR Local Plan Review 5 HOW TO GET INVOLVED PREVIOUS GREAT WEST Consultation is open from 16th October – CORRIDOR LOCAL PLAN 24th November 2017. Please ensure we have REVIEW CONSULTATION received your comments by 5pm on this day. As mentioned previously, a joint ‘issues’ This will not be your last chance to get consultation on West of Borough and Great involved – we will follow up feedback with West Corridor Plans were held 22nd local residents and businesses, and welcome December to 22nd February 2016 your input as the plan is developed, particularly at key consultation stages. The Council would like to thank those, who Methods of responding to the consultation submitted consultation responses to that are as follows. initial consultation. Further details on consultation responses received to date and Online form: how the representations have informed the https://www.hounslow.gov.uk/info/20034/ draft Plan are set out in the Consultation planning_policy/1545/local_plan_-_reviews Statement (2016) which is published on the Council website. Respond by email to: [email protected] Respond by post to: GWCP Consultation, Spatial Planning and Infrastructure Team, Civic Centre Lampton Road. Hounslow TW3 4DN PUBLIC EXHIBITION OR WORKSHOPS The Council will hold a number of exhibitions and workshops, to find out about when these are happening please visit: https://www.hounslow.gov.uk/info/20034/ planning_policy/1545/local_plan_-_reviews WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? Late Consultation on Following consultation on this draft Plan, a Summer Preferred Options Plan Consultation Statement will be produced 2017 (Regs 18) summarizing all responses and the changes made to the Plan. This Statement will accompany the next version of the Great West Corridor Plan, the ‘Publication’ version, Early Pre-submission which is currently scheduled to be produced Summer Consultation (Regs 19) in summer 2018. This will be consulted on 2018 for a statutory minimum period of six-weeks and will be the version of the plan the Council intends to submit to the Planning Inspectorate for Examination. Following Winter 2018 Submit to Secretary of consultation on the Publication version the State Council will make any changes as appropriate and necessary. Early 2019 Independent examination Spring/ ADOPTION Summer 2019 Figure 0.03 Local Plan Time-line to Adoption 7 7 01 INTRODUCTION 9 01 INTRODUCTION ADOPTED 2015 LOCAL PLAN GREAT WEST CORRIDOR PLAN COMMITMENTS 1.0 Hounslow’s Local Plan was adopted 1.1 As such, the document presented 1.3 Policy SV1 of the adopted Local Plan by the Council in September 2015 following here is the Draft Consultation Great West provides the commitment to the partial successful examination in public. The Local Corridor Local Plan review (Great West review of the Great West Corridor. It states Plan contains a number of strategic and Corridor Plan (GWCP)), under Regulation 18 that progressing a partial Local Plan review detailed policies to guide and manage of the Town and Country Planning (Local will; development within the Borough. It commits Planning) (England) Regulations 2012. This is the Council to conduct two partial area being presented for consultation for a six (a) Identify the extent of the Great West reviews to look in detail at local -week period in parallel with a Draft Corridor; improvements, investment and development Consultation West of Borough Local Plan (b) Determine the location and sustainable opportunities to provide much needed Review. An initial consultation on the issues quantum of additional employment and housing and jobs in the Great West Corridor that need to be covered by the Plan took residential development above existing (also sometimes refer to as the Golden Mile) place between December 2015 to February Local Plan levels for implementation and West of Borough. These were specific 2016. through new site allocations; recommendations of the Planning Inspector who examined the Plan in 2015. 1.2 The Local Plan review for the Great (c) Coordinate the delivery of public and West Corridor sets out the Council’s vision private investment in transport and plan for how that area will grow and infrastructure throughout the Great West develop over the next 15 years. The Plan is Corridor as identified in policy EC1; positive and aspirational, it sets out a range (d) Progress the designation of the Great of planning policies which will enable the West Corridor as an Opportunity Area successful delivery of thriving places that will through the review of the London Plan; support housing delivery, job creation and the provision of new infrastructures to serve the local community and new development.
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