LONDON PLAN ANNUAL MONITORING REPORT 10, 2012-13 MARCH 2014 LONDON PLAN 2011 IMPLEMENTATION FRAMEWORK ANNUAL MONITORING REPORT 10 COPYRIGHT GREATER LONDON AUTHORITY March 2014 Published by Greater London Authority City Hall The Queen’s Walk More London London SE1 2AA www.london.gov.uk enquiries 020 7983 4100 minicom 020 7983 4458 Crown Copyright All rights reserved. GLA 10032216 (2014) Front cover photo: Eleanor Ward/GLA Copies of this document are available from http://www.london.gov.uk/priorities/planning /research- reports/monitoring-london-plan Updated July 2014 to reflect revised long term empty homes returning to use figures. Amendments have been made to the following pages: 2, 4, 21-22, 60-63 and 88-89. LONDON PLAN ANNUAL MONITORING REPORT 10, 2012-13 MARCH 2014 ANNUAL MONITORING REPORT 10 CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1 CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 7 Scope and purpose of the AMR 8 The London Development Database 9 The London Plan and its Implementation 10 Further Alterations to the London Plan 10 CHAPTER TWO PERFORMANCE AGAINST KPI TARGETS 13 KPI 1 Maximise the proportion of development taking place on previously developed land 14 KPI 2 Optimise the density of residential development 17 KPI 3 Minimise the loss of open space 19 KPI 4 Increase the supply of new homes 21 KPI 5 An increased supply of affordable homes 23 KPI 6 Reducing health inequalities 27 KPI 7 Sustaining economic activity 28 KPI 8 Ensure that there is sufficient development capacity in the office market 29 KPI 9 Ensure that there is sufficient employment land available 32 KPI 10 Employment in outer London 33 KPI 11 Increased employment opportunities for those suffering from disadvantage in the employment market 35 KPI 12 Improving the provision of social infrastructure and related services 37 KPI 13 Achieve a reduced reliance on the private car and a more sustainable modal split for journeys (public /private transport modal split) 39 KPI 14 Achieve a reduced reliance on the private car and a more sustainable modal split for journeys (zero traffic growth) 40 KPI 15 Achieve a reduced reliance on the private car and a more sustainable modal split for journeys (increased bicycle modal share) 42 KPI 16 Achieve a reduced reliance on the private car and a more sustainable modal split for journeys (increased passenger and freight transport on the Blue Ribbon Network 43 KPI 17 Increase in the number of jobs located in areas of high PTAL values 45 KPI 18 Protection of biodiversity habitat 46 KPI 19 Increase in municipal waste recycled or composted and elimination of waste to landfill by 2031 48 KPI 20 Reduce carbon dioxide emissions through new development 50 KPI 21 Increase in energy generated from renewable sources 52 KPI 22 Increase in urban greening 53 KPI 23 Improve London’s Blue Ribbon Network 54 iii KPI 24 Protecting and improving London’s heritage and public realm 56 CHAPTER THREE ADDITIONAL PERFORMANCE MEASURES AND STATISTICS 59 Housing and Design 60 Environment and Transport 102 Planning 111 CHAPTER FOUR OTHER CONTEXTUAL DATA SOURCES 123 CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUSIONS AND LOOKING AHEAD 129 CLAREDALE STREET (TOWER HAMLETS) KARAKUSEVIC CARSON ARCHITECTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ANNUAL MONITORING REPORT 10 i This Annual Monitoring Report (AMR) jobs, opportunities and facilities. provides information about progress being made in implementing the policies and iv Different KPIs contribute to measuring the addressing the objectives and policies of performance of the London Plan against the London Plan (published in July 2011), these six objectives; by showing how London is performing against 24 indicators identified in Chapter Objective 1 – KPIs 1,2,4,5,6,12,14 8 of the Plan. Although this is the tenth Objective 2 – KPIs 2,7,8,9,10,12,17,24 AMR published by the Mayor, it is the third Objective 3 – KPIs 2,5,10,11,12,15 using the KPIs in the 2011 London Plan. Objective 4 – KPIs 1,3,15,19,22,23,24 Objective 5 – KPIs 1,3,18,19,20,21,22,23 ii Chapter 2 provides greater detail on each Objective 6 – KPIs 1,13,14,15,16,17 of the 24 Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), and the table below summarises v Overall, the performance is positive: 14 progress against each of these KPIs. The KPI targets are met or heading in the right KPIs are not policies; they have been direction, while 5 have not been met or are chosen as yardsticks to show the direction heading the wrong way. For 5 KPI targets of travel in implementing the London Plan, the performance is mixed. The performance and the extent of change, to help monitor against the individual Objectives is progress and identify areas where policy summarised as follows: changes may need to be considered. Objective 1- A city that meets the iii The London Plan sets six strategic challenges of economic and population objectives to be delivered by its detailed growth policies. These are that London should be: vi A very high proportion of new residential Objective 1- A city that meets the developments in London continues to be challenges of economic and population built on previously developed land and growth, increasingly at appropriate densities within the density matrix range. 26,600 dwellings Objective 2- An internationally competitive were completed in 2012/13 against the and successful city, 32,210 ten year average annual target. The gap in life expectancy between the most Objective 3- A city of diverse, strong, and least deprived Londoners continues to secure and accessible neighbourhoods, decrease. Objective 4- A city that delights the Objective 2 - An internationally senses, competitive and successful city Objective 5- A city that becomes a world vii Employment across London showed strong leader in improving the environment, growth over the period 2011-2012, with an increase of 196,000 and the overall Objective 6- A city where it is easy, safe employment rate increasing as well. The and convenient for everyone to access office pipeline remains healthy and B1 3 office development continues largely significantly. Carbon dioxide emissions in locations with high public transport savings are above target and there has accessibility. Whilst the rate of loss of been an increase in renewable energy industrial land decreased relative to the output. The area of green roofs in the previous year, the rate remains above the CAZ has increased significantly over the monitoring benchmark in the London past few years. There has been little loss Plan and the Mayor’s Land for Industry of approved sites for nature conservation SPG. This trend will need to be monitored (0.87 ha) and this is slightly below the closely. figure from the previous year. Objective 3- A city of diverse, strong, Objective 6- A city where it is easy, safe secure and accessible neighbourhoods and convenient for everyone to access jobs, opportunities and facilities viii Employment specifically in Outer London has increased by 79,000 between 2011 and xi Public transport use continues to grow 2012 and the gap in the employment rate annually, while private car use and between Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic road traffic across London continue (BAME) groups and the white population to decline. Office development largely has narrowed. Lone parent income support continues in locations with high public has decreased, although slightly less than transport accessibility. In terms of the outside London. The increase in pupil/ use of London’s waterways for transport teacher ratios is marginal and reflects passengers numbers are up. a wider national trend. Net affordable housing completions remain below target with the three-year average affordable homes share down by 1% on the previous year. Objective 4- A city that delights the senses ix There has been a reduction in the percentage of designated heritage assets at risk across all categories. Progress with river restoration activities is on target, and there has been little loss of designated open space, under 0.6 ha. In terms of cycling, 10,000 more trips were recorded than in the previous year. Objective 5- A city that becomes a world leader in improving the environment x Waste recycling rates continue to go up and landfilling continues to go down ANNUAL MONITORING REPORT 10 TABLE 1.1 KPI PERFORMANCE OVERVIEW KPI TARGET COMMENT Maintain at least 96 per cent of Approved units 2.2% above target, 1 new residential development to be +/- but completions fallen to 0.3% below on previously developed land target Still below target, but significant Over 95 per cent of development increase within the density matrix 2 to comply with the housing density +/- range from 40% in previous year to location and the density matrix 58% No net loss of open space Loss recorded, but with under 0.6 ha 3 designated for protection in LDFs - insignificant and new open space not due to new development recorded Average completions of a minimum 4 of 32,210 net additional homes per - 18% below target year Below target. Three-year average Completion of 13,200 net affordable homes share of overall 5 additional affordable homes per - conventional housing provision down year by 1% on previous year Reduction in the difference in life expectancy between those living in Differences reduced very slightly on 6 the most and least deprived areas + previous year of London (split by gender) Increase in the proportion of Increase of almost 1% on previous year 7 working age London residents in + and reduction in gap between London employment 2011-2031 and the rest of UK Stock of office permissions to be at 8 least three times the average rate of + Stock of permissions seven times starts over