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Westminster's City Plan: Strategic Policies Westminster’s City Plan: Strategic Policies Consolidated Draft Version incorporating Basement Revision, Mixed Use Revision, Regulation 19 and Main Modifications Revision to Westminster's City Plan June 2016 Maps reproduced from Ordinance Survey mapping with the sanction of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, Crown Copyright. Unauthorised reproduction may lead to prosecution or civil proceedings. City of Westminster 2009 LA 100019597. Land Use Pie Charts for areas in Part III are based on 2010 pipeline data from Westminster City Council’s land use monitoring. FOREWORD Welcome to Westminster’s City Plan Westminster is unique. It is not only home to parliament, the Monarchy and Royal Parks, but also world class tourist attractions, London’s two International shopping centres, the highest number of historic buildings in the country, over 250,000 residents, and more businesses than the City and Canary Wharf combined. Westminster accommodates the lively West End, and areas dominated by offices and commercial uses; by nationally important tourism and cultural uses, and world famous specialist uses; all sitting cheek by jowl with residential areas and essential local community facilities. Westminster City Council is committed to providing an excellent service to this wide and varied community. In this plan we will build on the things we value: we will improve our neighbourhoods; provide enhanced opportunities for our local communities; and deliver sustainable economic growth. We will make Westminster the foremost world class city, with exemplary sustainable design. We are moving into a new era, where everyone can and should expect the best. Westminster’s City Plan will rise to the challenge of managing this unique and complex environment for the next 20 years. It sets out a vision for the future of our unique city: a future of opportunity, improvement, and carefully managed growth and change. Westminster’s City Plan has been produced in conjunction with key stakeholders, partners and the local community, and is the ‘spatial expression’ of our vision of the future, including priorities for delivering a better city and better lives and the delivering the Sustainable Community Strategy. It has been written to see us through the next 20 years, whatever they may hold: environmental challenges: complex and changing economic circumstances: and outstanding international events, to further enhance Westminster’s and London’s world class city status: to recognise its global importance: and increase its international competitiveness. I would like to thank all those involved in the production of this document and in the development of Westminster. We will continue to work with our partners, stakeholders, businesses and residents to deliver our vision, and achieve a city that we can all be proud of. Councillor Robert Davis DL Deputy Leader of Westminster City Council Cabinet Member for the Built Environment CONTENTS PART I: INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................... 1 Westminster’s Local Development Framework ......................................................................... 1 Westminster’s City Plan ............................................................................................................. 2 How to use this document ......................................................................................................... 4 PART II: A UNIQUE CITY ...................................................................................................... 5 The Local Context .......................................................................................................................... 5 Westminster at the heart of a global city ..................................................................... 5 Employment and the local economy ............................................................................. 5 Westminster’s Residents ............................................................................................... 7 Health and well-being ................................................................................................... 8 An Environment Fit for a World City ........................................................................... 10 A Unique City ............................................................................................................... 10 The Regional Context ....................................................................................................................12 Westminster’s Issues and Challenges ............................................................................................13 Accommodating strategic land uses within a unique Central London mix ................. 13 Strength of Westminster’s heritage assets ................................................................. 14 Lack of available land, housing, and competing land uses ......................................... 15 People pressure ........................................................................................................... 15 Inequalities including health inequalities.................................................................... 16 Adaptation to and mitigating climate change ............................................................ 17 Westminster’s Spatial Strategy .....................................................................................................19 Westminster’s Spatial Vision ................................................................................................... 19 Westminster’s Strategic Objectives ......................................................................................... 19 Westminster’s Spatial Strategy ................................................................................................ 21 PART III: LOCAL SPATIAL POLICIES ............................................................................... 28 The Central Activities Zone ...........................................................................................................28 Mixed Uses in the Central Activities Zone ................................................................... 30 Special Policy Areas ..................................................................................................... 36 Paddington Opportunity Area .................................................................................................. 39 Victoria Opportunity Area ........................................................................................................ 42 Tottenham Court Road Opportunity Area ............................................................................... 44 Core Central Activities Zone ..................................................................................................... 48 West End Special Retail Policy Area ............................................................................ 52 Marylebone and Fitzrovia ........................................................................................................ 56 Knightsbridge ........................................................................................................................... 58 Pimlico ...................................................................................................................................... 60 Royal Parks ............................................................................................................................... 62 North Westminster Economic Development Area .........................................................................64 Outside the CAZ and NWEDA ........................................................................................................69 PART IV: CITY-WIDE SPATIAL POLICIES ......................................................................... 74 Housing Provision .........................................................................................................................74 Optimising Housing Delivery .................................................................................................... 76 Meeting Housing Needs ........................................................................................................... 79 Affordable Housing ..................................................................................................... 81 Gypsies and Travellers ................................................................................................ 85 Business and Employment ............................................................................................................88 Employment ................................................................................................................ 91 Offices and Business Floorspace .............................................................................................. 92 Retail ........................................................................................................................................ 94 Tourism, Arts and Culture ........................................................................................................ 98 Arts and Culture .......................................................................................................... 98 Hotels and Conference Facilities ................................................................................. 99 Entertainment Uses 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