Canada Water Area Action Plan November 2015 1 Proposals sites referred to in the AAP Cover photo of library: © Peter Durant 2 Contents PART 1 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................. 6 1.1 What is the Canada Water AAP? ...................................................... 6 1.2 What are we trying to achieve? ......................................................... 6 1.3 What will change? ............................................................................. 8 1.4 Other important documents you need to know about ........................ 8 1.5 Supporting documents for the Canada Water AAP ......................... 10 1.6 Finding your way around the AAP ................................................... 10 PART 2 CANADA WATER TODAY ............................................................. 11 2.1 Characteristics of the AAP area ....................................................... 11 2.2 Challenges and opportunities .......................................................... 12 2.3 Working with our neighbours ........................................................... 14 PART 3 OUR STRATEGY FOR CANADA WATER .................................... 16 3.1 What we are trying to achieve ......................................................... 16 3.2 The themes and objectives (how we will achieve our vision) ........... 18 PART 4 THE POLICIES .............................................................................. 20 4.1 Introduction ...................................................................................... 20 4.2 Shopping: A genuine town centre and local facilities ....................... 20 4.3 Transport: improved connections .................................................... 25 4.4 Leisure: a great place to visit, relax in and have fun ........................ 35 4.5 Places: better and safer streets, squares and parks ........................ 39 4.6 Providing more and better homes .................................................... 56 4.7 Enhanced social and economic opportunities .................................. 64 PART 5 PLACES AND SITES IN CANADA WATER .................................. 70 5.1 Introduction ...................................................................................... 70 5.2 Places .............................................................................................. 70 5.3 Proposals sites .............................................................................. 75 PART 6 ………………………………………………………………………….. 77 DELIVERING THE AAP ............................................................................. 77 6.1 Introduction ...................................................................................... 77 6.2 Progressing committed developments ............................................. 77 6.3 Working with partners ...................................................................... 77 6.4 Infrastructure plan ............................................................................ 79 6.5 S106 Planning obligations ............................................................... 82 6.6 Regularly reviewing progress .......................................................... 83 6.7 Risk .................................................................................................. 83 PART 7 APPENDICES ................................................................................ 86 7.1 Appendix 1: Relationship between the AAP, the core strategy, the Southwark Plan and Southwark supplementary planning documents ........ 86 7.2 Appendix 2: Monitoring Framework ................................................. 97 7.3 Appendix 3: Infrastructure projects ................................................ 103 7.4 Appendix 4: Schedule of proposals sites ....................................... 107 3 Index of policies Policy 1: Shopping in the town centre ...................................................................... 20 Policy 2: Cafes and restaurants in the town centre .................................................. 23 Policy 3: Important shopping parades...................................................................... 23 Policy 4: Small scale shops, restaurants and cafes outside the town centre ............ 24 Policy 5: Markets ..................................................................................................... 24 Policy 6: Walking and cycling .................................................................................. 25 Policy 7: Public transport ......................................................................................... 28 Policy 8: Vehicular traffic ......................................................................................... 29 Policy 9: Parking for retail and leisure...................................................................... 32 Policy 10: Parking for residential development in the Core Area.............................. 33 Policy 11: Leisure and entertainment ...................................................................... 35 Policy 12: Sports facilities ........................................................................................ 35 Policy 13: Arts, culture and tourism ......................................................................... 36 Policy 14: Streets and public spaces ....................................................................... 39 Policy 15: Building blocks ........................................................................................ 39 Policy 16: Town centre development ....................................................................... 40 Policy 17: Building heights in the core area ............................................................. 43 Policy 18: Open spaces and biodiversity ................................................................. 47 Policy 19: Children’s play space .............................................................................. 51 Policy 20: Energy .................................................................................................... 53 Policy 21: New homes ............................................................................................. 56 Policy 22: Affordable homes .................................................................................... 57 Policy 23: Family homes.......................................................................................... 58 Policy 24: Density of developments ......................................................................... 61 Policy 25: Jobs and business space ........................................................................ 64 Policy 26: Schools ................................................................................................... 65 Policy 27: Community facilities ................................................................................ 66 Policy 28: Early years .............................................................................................. 66 Policy 29: Health facilities ........................................................................................ 66 Policy 30: Higher education and student housing .................................................... 68 Policy 31: Albion Street ........................................................................................... 70 Policy 32: Lower Road ............................................................................................ 73 Policy 33: Proposals sites........................................................................................ 75 Policy 34: s106 Planning obligations and the community infrastructure levy ............ 82 Index of figures Figure 1: The location of the Canada Water action area ....................................... 6 Figure 2: The boundaries of the AAP area ............................................................ 8 Figure 3: The inter-relationships between spatial scale and the local plan ............ 9 Figure 4: Canada Water AAP key diagram.......................................................... 17 Figure 5: The boundaries of the town centre ....................................................... 21 Figure 6: The current pedestrian and cycle network ............................................ 26 Figure 7: Indicative improvements to the pedestrian and cycle network .............. 27 Figure 8: Improvements to the road network ....................................................... 30 Figure 9: Tall buildings strategy .......................................................................... 45 Figure 10: The network of open spaces in the AAP area ...................................... 49 Figure 11: Existing and Proposed play spaces in the AAP area ........................... 52 Figure 12: Canada Water strategic district heating network ................................. 54 Figure 13: Canada Water core area and urban and suburban density zones ....... 62 Figure 14: Albion Street ....................................................................................... 71 Figure 15: Lower Road ...................................................................................... 74 4 Figure 16: Decathlon site (Site C), Surrey Quays Shopping Centre and overflow car park 111 Figure 17: 24-28 Quebec Way ........................................................................ 114 Figure 18: Quebec Industrial Estate ................................................................ 116 Figure 19: Site E, Mulberry