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Consultation Statement (Submission) November 2019 2 Consultation Statement (Submission) November 2019 Table of contents 1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................... 4 2 Regulation 19 consultation process ........................................................................................... 6 2.1 Notification ................................................................................................................................ 6 Website .................................................................................................................................... 6 Emails ...................................................................................................................................... 6 Social media ............................................................................................................................ 6 Hard copies ............................................................................................................................. 7 2.2 Coverage .................................................................................................................................. 7 Media coverage ....................................................................................................................... 7 Scrutiny Committee ................................................................................................................ 8 Petitions................................................................................................................................... 8 2.3 Representors ..................................................................................................................... 8 Submission of representations .............................................................................................. 8 Representors and representations received .......................................................................... 9 2.4 Full representations ............................................................................................................ 9 3 Key issues and how these have been taken into account......................................................... 10 3.1 Context & Objectives ........................................................................................................ 10 3.2 Spatial Strategy Policies ................................................................................................... 12 3.3 Housing Policies ............................................................................................................... 22 3.4 Economy & Employment Policies ..................................................................................... 26 3.5 Connections Policies ........................................................................................................ 35 3.6 Environment Policies ........................................................................................................ 42 3.7 Design & Heritage Policies ............................................................................................... 46 3.8 Implementation & Monitoring ............................................................................................ 56 3.9 Appendix 1: Key Development Sites ................................................................................. 58 3.10 Appendix 3: Schedule of Strategic Policies ....................................................................... 60 3.11 General comments on the City Plan ................................................................................. 61 3.12 Comments on meeting the legal duties of producing a Local Plan ..................................... 62 3.13 Comments on meeting the duty to co-operate in producing a Local Plan ........................... 63 Appendix 1 Consultation website (Reg 19 consultation, 2019).......................................................... 64 Appendix 2 Planning policy website (Reg 19 consultation, 2019)...................................................... 66 Appendix 3 Statement of Representations Procedure (Reg 19 consultation, 2019) ........................... 67 Appendix 4 Notice email (Reg 19 consultation, 2019) ...................................................................... 71 Appendix 5 Second email (Reg 19 consultation, 2019)..................................................................... 72 Appendix 6 Articles in newspapers (Reg 19 consultation, 2019) ....................................................... 73 Appendix 7 Letters received in relation to the “Petition to: not extend the Victoria Opportunity Area beyond the boundary adopted in the London Plan” .......................................................................... 79 Appendix 8 Consultation form (Reg 19 consultation, 2019) .............................................................. 97 Appendix 9 Respondents (Reg 19 consultation, 2019) ................................................................... 108 Endnotes ....................................................................................................................................... 115 3 Consultation Statement (Submission) November 2019 1 Introduction This document summarises the Regulation 19 consultation undertaken for the full revision to Westminster’s City Plan. This statement has been prepared to meet legal requirementsi and accompanies the Regulation 19 Publication Draft City Plan in its submission to the Secretary of State. It also helps inform the independent Inspector appointed to examine the plan and advise whether it is ‘sound’. The Westminster City Plan was first adopted in November 2013 and has been subject to several partial revisions. The latest version of the City Plan was adopted in November 2016 and includes the Special Policy Areas and Policies Map Revision, as well as the previously adopted Basements revision and the Mixed-Use revision. This full revision of the City Plan updates the strategic planning policies in the City Plan and fully replaces saved policies from the Unitary Development Plan (2007). It takes account of several years of engagement and consultation with the purpose to update Westminster’s planning policies. Initially, detailed development management policies were being developed as a separate Development Plan Document (DPD) to be called the ‘City Management Plan’ (CMP). Consultation on policies intended to form this separate DPD have informed the policies in the Regulation 19 Publication Draft City Plan. The council published a Consultation Statement to accompany the Regulation 19 version of the Plan in June 2019. That statement covered the consultation responses at the formal consultation stagesii but also other planning policy consultation processes run by the council. It also set out who was consulted, for how long and 2013-2015 2017 Informal Booklets 2017 Consultation Tall and High Buildings 2018 Regulation 18 Informal Statutory 2019 Consultations City Plan Consultation 2019-2040 Regulation 19 Informal Statutory Consultation Consultation i Regulation 22 of the Town and Country Planning (Local Development) (England) Regulations 2012 (“The Regulations”), Section 110 of the Localism Act 2011 (and explanatory notes), Section 33A of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (as amended), Part 2 of the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2012 and National Planning Policy Framework (2018). ii Regulation 18, which notifies people of our intention to revise the plan and Regulation 19 which is the formal, pre-submission consultation 4 Consultation Statement (Submission) November 2019 how they were invited to make representations. A summary of the key issues raised by the responses to the different consultation processes was also provided and details as to how these representations have been considered in the Regulation 19 Publication Draft City Plan. This Consultation Statement covers the statutory Regulation 19 consultation on the Regulation 19 Publication Draft City Plan that took place between 19th June and 31st July 2019. It explains how the consultation process was run, presents a summary of key issues and finally explains all raised issues and how these have been taken into account when preparing the submission of the Westminster City Plan. All consultations have been carried out in compliance with the council’s Statement of Community Involvementiii. iii This is a legal requirement under Regulation 19 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (as amended) 5 Consultation Statement (Submission) November 2019 2 Regulation 19 consultation process A draft City Plan 2019-2040 was published under Regulation 19 consultation between 19th June and 31st July 2019, for a period of just over six weeks. The goals of the statutory consultation were to obtain the views of Westminster’s stakeholders, residents and statutory consultees as to whether the council´s Regulation 19 Publication Draft City Plan (2019) for Westminster has been produced in accordance with the council’s duty-to-cooperate, is legally compliant and meets the “test of soundness”, as set out in the National Planning Policy Framework. 2.1 Notification Website The council’s website advertised this stage of consultation on the page relating to the consultation process (a screenshot of the website is attached as Appendix 1). The Revision to Westminster’s City Plan (a screenshot of the website is