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Lea Bridge & Leyton Vision Waltham Forest Lea Bridge & Leyton Vision Consultation Report Final Report June 2017 REPORT STRUCTURE Content Page 1. Introduction 3 2. Public Consultation (Events, Online Portal, Emails) & Responses 3 3. Responses from Stakeholders 15 4. 3rd Party Representations 25 5. Objections to building on MOL 45 6. Summary of Consultation Outcomes 56 7. Planning Status of Vision 59 8. Changes to the Vision as Result of consultation 60 9. Council’s detailed Responses 62 9.1 Transport 63 9.1.1 Congestion 63 9.1.2 Parking 63 9.1.3 Enjoy Waltham Forest – Walking and Cycling 64 9.1.4 Bus Services 65 9.1.5 Rail Projects 65 9.1.6 Sustainable Car Initiatives 66 9.1.7 Air Quality 66 9.2 Potential Height and Density Issues 67 9.3 Provision of Affordable Housing 67 9.4 Access to Green Space and Parks 68 9.5 Provision of Social Infrastructure 69 9.6 Shops and Shop Front Improvements 70 9.7 Access and New Links 71 9.8 Urban Design and Public Realm Improvements 72 9.9 Business and Work Space 73 9.10 Night Time Economy including retention of Pubs 73 9.11 Metropolitan Open Land (MOL) 74 9.12 Flooding Issues 75 10. Next Steps 75 Annex A Full report on comments received during public consultation 76 & Council’s Responses B Consultation Flyer 193 C Consultation Email 193 D Consultation Website 194 E Consultation Questionnaire 195 F Some presentation slides for consultation events 196 G Agenda for Business Round Table Event on 10 January 2017 197 H Petition 198 2 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 The Lea Bridge and Leyton area is a key borough growth area which has recently experienced strong development pressure, particularly for potential residential schemes. The Council has decided to produce a “Vision” document to inform the new Local Plan, building on the previous draft Northern Olympic Fringe (NOF) Area Action Plan (AAP) which was consulted on to issues and options stage, but not ultimately adopted. 1.2 The Lea Bridge and Leyton Vision document is intended to positively position the area in the context of a range of changes in London and the South East region, to consider opportunities to provide reinvigorated communities along with new homes, jobs and key facilities in the three areas of Lea Bridge, Church Road and Leyton. The ambitious regeneration Vision could see the creation of c. 4,000 new homes along with retaining and improving business space capable of generating new local jobs. Improved transport connections, green spaces, new schools and healthcare, all form part of the Council’s vision. 1.3 The Vision document is not a planning document and has little weight in planning terms. It is a high level vision of how the area could develop and change over the next 10 years. The Council has started work on reviewing the Local Plan and will be consult on the Direction of Travel later in 2017. The Lea Bridge and Leyton Vision area will be taken forward as part of that review scheduled for adoption by 2020. Any planning applications which come forward earlier would have to be considered on their own merits against current adopted policies and the National Planning Policy Framework. 2. PUBLIC CONSULTATION & RESPONSES 2.1 A Lea Bridge and Leyton “Lea Valley Eastside” Vision document was consulted on via an online portal for an 8 week public consultation period from 1st December 2016 to 31st January 2017. During this time, the document was published on the Council’s website and was made available to the public through the Council’s online consultation portal. See consultation publicity material at Annexes B, C, D and E. Over 13,000 flyers publicising the exhibitions and consultation exercise were delivered to all homes and businesses in the Lea Bridge and Leyton wards, GP surgeries, local libraries and other public access points including café’s and Leyton Orient Supporters Club. An editorial piece was published in Waltham Forest News on 5 December, along with adverts publicising the six public exhibitions in three editions on 5, 19 December and 9 January. A questionnaire (see Annex E) asking respondents to submit their comments on the draft vision was produced and made available to the public on the Council’s website, as well as the Council’s online consultation portal. The web link to the consultation portal was also published on the flyer (see Annex B). 3 In total 228 responses were received during the consultation period through the consultation portal (online questionnaire) individually comprising c. 1,000 comments. Please find all comments and Council responses in Annex A. 2.2 In addition, 10 consultation events were held at public venues in the area. The dates, venues and attendance at the events is shown below: Event Date, Time, Venue & Type Total Saturday 7 January, 10.30am-1.30pm, Lea Bridge Library, Lea Bridge Road, E10 7HU – Exhibition 64 Monday 9 January, 2.30pm - 4.30pm, St. Joseph’s Primary School, Marsh Lane, E10 7BL - 22 Exhibition Monday 9 January, 6:30pm - 7:30pm, Score Centre, 100 Oliver Rd, E10 5JY – Leyton Community Ward 9 Forum Tuesday 10 January, 9.30-12.30, Leyton Orient Football Club – Round Table, Business 13 Tuesday 10 January, 3.30pm-6.30pm, Lammas School, 150 Seymour Rd, E10 7LX - Exhibition 14 Wednesday 11 January, 5.30pm - 8.30pm, Score Centre, 100 Oliver Rd, E10 5JY - Exhibition 17 Thursday 12 January, 5.30pm - 8.30pm Lea Bridge Library, Lea Bridge Road, E10 7HU – Exhibition 16 Saturday 14 January, 10.30am - 1.30pm, Score Centre, 100 Oliver Rd, E10 5JY - Exhibition 38 Monday 16 January, 5.30pm - 8.30pm, Score Centre, 100 Oliver Rd, E10 5JY – Round Table, 16 Community, Faith and Voluntary Organisations Wednesday 18th January, 6.30pm - 8.30pm Lea Bridge Library, Lea Bridge Road, E10 7HU – Lea Bridge 30 Community Ward Forum Total 239 2.3 During the consultation period, over 170 people attended the six public exhibitions. The Vision plans were shown on banners, and people were able to ask questions of council staff and consultant team members. People were encouraged to fill out the online questionnaire. Paper copies of the questionnaire were also made available to be completed during or after the events, and the Vision document was displayed and available. 2.4 Two round table events were held, one aimed at businesses in the Vision area and the second event aimed at community, voluntary sector and faith groups in the Vision area. A presentation (see Annex F) was given by the Director of Strategic Planning and Development followed by a Question & Answer session. The discussions were facilitated by council officers in groups at the tables. 74 businesses were invited - 16 people attended the business event 82 organisations were invited - 30 people attended the Community, Voluntary Sector and Faith Groups event. 4 Comments received at the Community, voluntary and faith sectors consultation event are shown below. The report is structured to show detailed comments in section 9 below from page 62 onwards. The relevant Council response section number is shown in the right hand column below. Organisation Comments Council’s Response Save Lea Marshes The plans will mean more people. Green spaces are more Comment noted. valuable and we are categorically against. Please refer to section 9.11 Markhouse Corner Pleased to see a vision articulated as we were against 97 Lea Support noted. The & Lea Bridge Bridge Road so it is a good move to have this. Concerned as to Vision has been Residents how much the flood risk has been taken into account. amended to add Association clarification. Pumphouse Potential to enhance the community infrastructure in the North Comment noted. Museum of the area, utilising the Pump House Museum to do this. Please refer to section 9.5 Markhouse Corner Pleased to be given the opportunity to discuss the whole area Comments noted. & Lea Bridge rather than a piecemeal approach. LVRP held a previous Please refer to Residents consultation suggesting 3 sites for the new ice rink; the existing sections 9.4 and 9.11 Association site, bringing it forward towards Lea Bridge Road, the Waterworks Site and the Olympic Park site. People wanted it at the Waterworks site. Now it transpires that the LVPRA are prepared to sell for development. This never came up and it feels a bit underhand. We’re in favour of keeping and increasing green space. The same thing applies to Leyton Football Club site. Lea Valley Keen to learn when discussions commenced between LVPRA Comments noted. Federation and LBWF. Park authority planning framework is out of date, The Lee Valley but there is a requirement to include the park plan into the Regional Park local development framework. Authority is a key stakeholder in the Lea Bridge and Leyton area and as such was engaged fully as part of the consultation process. Consideration of the park plan will be included as part of the review of the Local Plan. Pumphouse Pump House Museum is just across from St. James Ward, which Comments noted. Museum/Lea Valley has been receiving lots of funding. Previous promises for the Any S. 106 monies Heritage Alliance regeneration of Markhouse Ward have not been delivered. collected to mitigate Keen to understanding future S106 opportunities as individual regeneration thus far seems like a missed opportunity. Running developments will be the W19 bus to Lea Bridge Station would solve the problem of related to the impact people getting from Waltham Stow to Stratford. of the specific scheme. Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) will be collected and used in line with infrastructure 5 projects as listed on the Regulation 123 list.
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