LOCAL PLAN 2015 - 2030 Hounslow | Local Plan Hounslow | Local VOLUME ONE 1 OSTERLEY & BEDFONT CRANFORD & SPRING GROVE CHISWICK HESTON HOUNSLOW BRENTFORD ISLEWORTH HOUNSLOW WEST RIVER THAMES HANWORTH Hounslow | Local Plan Hounslow | Local FELTHAM 2 FOREWORD Hanworth ROAD CHISWICK This new Local Plan is the key document shaping the future spatial strategy of the London Borough of Hounslow for the next 15 years. It provides for significant growth in new housing and jobs to meet our residents’ needs, while requiring high quality sustainable development that protects the unique characteristics and historic assets of the borough that our local communities value. It will guide investment in new buildings and important infrastructure and prioritise transformation and regeneration, while LONDON ROAD protecting and enhancing valuable metropolitan open land, green belt and open space. The Local Plan has been prepared by drawing on the knowledge and aspirations of local residents, communities, businesses, and partner organisations. In the summer of 2013 we consulted you on the issues to be considered in preparing the Local Plan, and then went on to consult you on draft site allocations and several drafts of the Plan. Each draft was modified in response to the consultation comments received. The Local Plan was examined in public by a Government-appointed Planning Inspector BRENTFORD in the spring of 2015. With a few modifications the Plan was found ‘sound’ by the Inspector and was adopted by the Council on the 15th September 2015. The Plan will be used to guide development, investment and improvements in the borough, and to assess future planning applications, as well as provide a common tool for all service providers, community groups, developers, residents and businesses, to shape the borough into an even better place to live and work. The Plan is not, however, a static document. It will be continually reviewed to ensure it continues to meet the needs of the borough. The Plan commits the council to immediately start on 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. I hope you enjoy reading and using the Plan and look forward to a bright future for the borough. Hounslow | Local Plan Hounslow | Local Steve Curran OAD R ath B Councillor Steve Curran Leader of the Council and Cabinet Member for Corporate Strategy, Planning and Regeneration 3 CONTENTS - volume ONE 1 INTRODUCTION 8 4 economic DEVELOPMENT 76 Purpose, process and timetable 10 ED1 Promoting employment growth and development 78 Sustainability appraisal 11 ED2 Maintaining the borough’s employment 80 Policy & context 12 land supply National Planning Policy Framework 12 ED3 Hotels and visitor accommodation 86 London Plan 13 ED4 Enhancing local skills 88 Other strategies 14 Engagement 15 5 sustainable MIXED COMMUNITIES 90 2 Spatial Strategy 16 SC1 Housing growth 92 SC2 Maximising the provision of affordable housing 102 Spatial vision 18 SC3 Meeting the need for a mix of housing size and type 105 Delivery 19 SC4 Scale and density of new housing development 108 SV1 Great West Corridor 20 SC5 Ensuring suitable internal and external space 111 SV2 West of Borough 22 SC6 Managing building conversions and sub-division of 114 Supporting statement to the vision 24 the existing housing stock Objectives 30 SC7 Residential extensions and alterations 116 Spatial strategy key diagram 34 SC8 Specialist and supported housing 118 Spatial strategy for the ten districts 36 SC9 Gypsy and Traveller and Travelling Showpeople 120 SC10 Housing in Multiple Occupation, 122 58 hostels and bed & breakfast accommodation 3 TOWN CENTRES SC11 Student accommodation 124 TC1 Town and neighbourhood centre network 60 TC2 Ensuring the future vitality of town centres 65 6 CONTEXT AND CHARACTER 126 TC3 Managing the growth of retail and 68 other main town centre uses CC1 Context and character 128 TC4 Managing uses in town centres 71 CC2 Urban design and architecture 132 TC5 Managing neighbourhood centres and CC3 Tall buildings 136 isolated local shops 74 CC4 Heritage 140 CC5 Advertisement panels, hoardings and structures 146 Hounslow | Local Plan Hounslow | Local 4 CONTENTS - volume ONE 7 GREEN AND blue INFRASTRUCTURE 148 10 ENHANCING connectivity 214 GB1 Green Belt and Metropolitan Open Land 150 EC1 Strategic transport connections 216 GB2 Open space 153 EC2 Developing a sustainable local transport network 220 GB3 Open space in education use 157 EC3 Heathrow Airport 223 GB4 The Green Infrastructure Network 159 EC4 Telecommunications 225 GB5 Blue Ribbon Network 162 GB6 Residential moorings 166 11 226 GB7 Biodiversity 168 IMPLEMENTING THE strategy GB8 Allotments, agriculture and local food growing 171 IMP1 Sustainable development 228 GB9 Play space, outdoor sports facilities and burial space 173 IMP2 Delivering site allocations 229 IMP3 Implementing and monitoring the Local Plan 230 8 COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURE 176 CI1 Providing and protecting community facilities 178 CI2 Education and school places 180 CI3 Health facilities and healthy places 184 CI4 Culture and leisure facilities 187 CI5 Places of worship 189 9 environmental QUALITY 190 EQ1 Energy and carbon reduction 192 EQ2 Sustainable design and construction 194 EQ3 Flood risk and surface water management 197 EQ4 Air quality 200 Plan Hounslow | Local EQ5 Noise 202 EQ6 Lighting 205 EQ7 Sustainable waste management 207 EQ8 Contamination 208 EQ9 Hazardous substances 210 EQ10 Minerals 211 5 CONTENTS - volume TWO 12 SITE ALLOCATIONS 238 Site allocations overview 240 Site allocations in Isleworth 272 Site allocations in Chiswick 244 26 John Busch House and the Telephone Exchange 273 01 Dukes Meadow 245 27 Europa House 274 02 500 Chiswick High Road 246 28 Swan Court 275 03 Empire House 247 29 174 Twickenham Road 276 04 Hogarth Business Park 1 248 30 Rugby Road 277 05 Wheatstone House 249 31 Former West Thames College 278 Site allocations in Brentford 250 32 Nazareth House 279 06 BSkyB 251 Site allocations in Hounslow 280 07 Gillette 252 33 Royal Mail Delivery Office 281 08 Boston Manor House and Park 253 34 Bath Road 282 09 Gunnersbury Park 254 35 Bell Road 283 10 Reynard Mills 255 36 Central House 284 11 Albany Riverside 256 37 High Street Quarter 285 12 Alfa Laval 257 38 Hounslow House 286 13 Lionel Road 258 39 Kingsley Road 287 14 Brentford Football Club 259 40 Lampton Road 288 15 Brentford Police Station 260 41 London Road North 289 16 Commerce Road 261 42 London Road South - Site A 290 17 Brentford Waterside 262 43 London Road South - Site B 291 18 Morrisons Supermarket and Car Park 263 44 Civic Centre 292 19 Thames Water 264 45 Staines Road East 293 20 Alexandra House 265 46 Staines Road West 294 21 Brentford Bus Depot 266 47 Vacant Site, Hanworth Road 295 22 69-77 Boston Manor Road 267 48 Bus Garage 296 Site allocations in Osterley and Spring Grove 268 49 Upstage 297 23 632-652 London Road 269 50 Lampton House 298 24 Scout Hut at Star Road 270 51 Pears Road 299 25 South West of Gillette Corner 271 Hounslow | Local Plan Hounslow | Local 6 CONTENTS - volume TWO APPENDICES 318 Site allocations in Hounslow West 300 1 Implementation and monitoring framework 320 52 Cavalry Barracks 301 2 Glossary 334 53 Hounslow West Station 302 3 Infrastructure delivery schedule 2015 - 2030 338 54 Bombardier Aerospace 303 4 Town centre boundary maps and designations 352 55 Staines Road 304 5 Frontages in town and neighbourhood centres 356 56 Sutton Lane Indoor Bowls Club 305 Site allocations in Cranford and Heston 306 57 Heston Leisure Centre 307 58 Rectory Farm 308 59 Cranford Lane 309 60 Master Robert Hotel 310 Site allocations in Feltham 311 61 Feltham Arenas 312 62 Feltham Ex-Servicemens Club 313 63 Fern Grove 314 64 Ashmead Depot, Hounslow Homes 315 Site allocations in Hanworth 316 65 Hanworth Library 317 Note: Site numbering has been revised since the publication of the August 2014 Submission version and the October 2014 Illustrative Minor Changes version of this document. Hounslow | Local Plan Hounslow | Local 7 Hounslow | Local Plan Hounslow | Local 8 9 CHAPTER INTRODUCTION ONE Hounslow | Local Plan Hounslow | Local INTRODUCTION PURPOSE PROCESS 1.1 The Local Plan is a local development plan 1.2 The borough’s new Local Plan replaces all 1.3 The Local Plan has been prepared using document that sets out the council’s proposals of the policies and proposals in the Brentford Area feedback received through several consultations for the future development of the borough Action Plan (2009), the Employment Development stages (see below) before it was submitted over the next 15 years through a suite of new Plan Document (2008) and the saved policies in to the Secretary of State for independent planning policies. All local authorities are required the Unitary Development Plan (2007) and updates examination in August 2014. The examining to prepare a Local Plan with the objective of the policies map. The Local Plan process also Inspector assessed whether the Local Plan was contributing to the achievement of sustainable replaces the previous local development plan prepared in accordance with legal and procedural development, addressing the spatial implications terminology of Local Development Frameworks requirements, and whether the plan was ‘sound’. of economic, social and environmental change. led by a Core Strategy which the council had Following public hearings between February and previously been preparing. April 2015, the Inspector issued his report in July 2015, which concluded the Plan was sound, subject to modifications arising through the examination. timetable SEPTEMBER 2015 JAN - FEB 2015 AUGUST 2014 ADOPTION MARCH - APRIL 2014 EXamination OCTOBER 2013 SUBMISSION PROPOSED JUNE - July 2013 SUBMISSION REVISED SITE allocations Hounslow | Local Plan Hounslow | Local POLICY OPTIONS 10 INTRODUCTION sustainability APPRAISAL 1.4 The Local Plan has been subject to a number of statutory impact assessments, including Sustainability Appraisal (incorporating Strategic Environmental Assessment), Habitats Regulations Assessment and Equalities Impact Assessment.