Vauxhall Nine Elms Battersea Opportunity Area Planning Framework March 2012 Copyright Acknowledgements Greater London Authority Project Team Colin Wilson March 2012 Tava Walton Claire O’Brien Lee Campbell Published by Yogesh Patil Jasper den Boeft Greater London Authority Far more people than it is possible to City Hall thank individually have contributed to the The Queen’s Walk production of the framework. They include the major landowners and their planning, More London transport and design teams; officers of Transport for London, Design for London London SE1 2AA and English Heritage; consultants who have contributed to the various technical studies and reports; the design review team Enquiries 020 7983 4100 at Design Council CABE; and many others. Without them, neither the framework nor the Minicom 020 7983 4458 progress that has already been made towards its implementation would have been possible. www.london.gov.uk Special thanks go to present and past officers and members of Lambeth and Wandsworth Cover photograph © Colin Wilson Councils for their continuing hard work and commitment to the project; and to Urban Graphics and Z Mapping for their assistance with the production of the document itself. Vauxhall Nine Elms Battersea Opportunity Area Planning Framework March 2012 i Vauxhall Nine Elms Battersea Opportunity Area Planning Framework Mayor’s foreword I am delighted to introduce this Opportunity homes and 20-25,000 jobs, supported in developers, under the guidance of the Area Planning Framework for Vauxhall Nine transport terms by a two-station extension Strategy Board. Sir Simon Milton was an Elms Battersea. of the Northern line from Kennington to integral part of this process until his untimely Battersea via Nine Elms. It considers social death and I am sure he would be proud of London’s population is growing and so is infrastructure and open space requirements the progress made to date. I would like to its economy. The London Plan identifies and sets a section 106 tariff for infrastructure pay tribute to his immense contrbution to Opportunity Areas across the capital, provision, based on the recommendations bring forward one of the most significant identifying them as places in London with of a Development Infrastructure funding opportunity areas in Central London. the potential to accommodate substantial study. The framework also provides guidance numbers of new jobs and homes. Vauxhall on building heights in the context of local I look forward to continued joint working to Nine Elms Battersea is such an area. Its and strategic views and heritage assets, and address the challenges ahead, particularly location in the city’s Central Activities Zone, sets out environmental strategies for energy, the delivery of public realm and transport Boris Johnson, Mayor of London straddling the boundaries of the boroughs of waste, wharves and water. improvements including the Northern line Lambeth and Wandsworth, presents a unique extension and the linear park and the major set of challenges and opportunities that this The area has huge potential to make development proposals that will transform spatial planning framework seeks to address a significant contribution to London’s the Opportunity Area over the coming years. by guiding the future development of the economy. Considerable progress towards area. implementation of the framework has already been made since the consultation draft The framework describes the area today, was published, and development is already including its rich industrial heritage, which underway. This has been achieved through has so strongly influenced its character. collaborative and constructive working It sets out current issues relating to the between key stakeholders including Lambeth public realm, connectivity and legibility, and Wandsworth Councils, Transport for and identifies some challenging transport London, English Heritage, landowners and issues. It identifies capacity for 16,000 new Sir Simon Milton (1961-2011) Vauxhall Nine Elms Battersea Opportunity Area Planning Framework Contents Mayor of London ii Table of contents 1 Introduction 2. Policy context 3. Planning framework 4. Land use strategy 5. Housing and social infrastructure strategy 6. Transport strategy 7. Public realm strategy 8. Tall buildings strategy 9. Environmental strategies 10. Section 106 & CIL Technical Appendices TA1 – Socio-economic context TA2 – Built and heritage context TA3 – Views assessment TA4 – Transport and movement context TA5 – LDA energy master plan TA6 – Waste & wharves strategy TA7 – Water strategy TA8 - Development capacity study TA9 – Development infrastructure funding study report iii Vauxhall Nine Elms Battersea Opportunity Area Planning Framework Executive summary The project The GLA has prepared a planning framework and current indices of multiple deprivation, provide the evidence base for the public CAZ frontage at Vauxhall in line with LB of for the Vauxhall Nine Elms Battersea (VNEB) including income, employment, health and realm and tall buildings strategies set out in Lambeth’s aspirations for a small district Opportunity Area (OA) in partnership with disability, education skills and training and chapters 7 and 8 of this report respectively. centre set out in their UDP. the London Boroughs (LBs) of Lambeth crime and disorder. This data is set out in and Wandsworth, the London Development Technical Appendix 1 to the framework. Transport and movement context, which The development capacity study (TA9) Agency (LDA), Transport for London In addition, the planning framework also strongly define the physical character of assumed that all developments will meet the (TfL) and English Heritage. The GLA has identifies existing social infrastructure in and the OA, is set out in TA4 and considers the London Plan requirement for open space also worked with key landowners in the around the OA, including nurseries, schools, existing situation for all modes. TA4 identifies provision (on the basis of the Mayor’s SPG OA through a stakeholder consultation health centres, pharmacies, community accessibility and capacity issues throughout on children’s play space) and contribute process. This final version of the framework centres and libraries and spatial gaps in the OA including Vauxhall. These are to the provision of strategic open space supersedes the 2009 consultation draft. coverage for existing communities. assessed further in the VNEB transport study provision in the form of a linear park in Nine and chapter 6 of the framework. Elms, connecting Vauxhall to Battersea Power As part of the Opportunity Area Planning A thorough analysis of built and heritage Station. Framework (OAPF), the GLA and TfL has context is also provided in TA2 including In addition an energy strategy for the OA undertaken a major transport study in an overview of historic development, has been produced in consultation with key In addition, significant public realm conjunction with key stakeholders, which identification of heritage assets, analysis stakeholders. For further details refer to TA5 improvements and substantial social considers various options for improving of built form and urban grain, existing of this report. The GLA has also undertaken a infrastructure delivery are proposed to public transport accessibility within the OA and consented tall buildings, local views, waste & wharves strategy and water strategy support existing and new communities in on the basis of a development capacity land-use, land ownership, infrastructure included in TA6 and TA7 of this report the area. It is anticipated that new schools, study set out in Technical Appendix 9. The constraints, connectivity and location of respectively. health facilities, community centres and key findings of the transport study and its social infrastructure in the OA. On the basis libraries will be required. strategic recommendations are set out in of this analysis the existing character areas Proposed interventions The planning framework also sets out the chapter six of this report. of the OA are defined. English Heritage The planning framework supports the approach to tackling climate change through undertook a Historic Area Assessment of development in the OA. The key principles The OAPF is supplementary planning the OA (April 2009), which provided some delivery of a high density mixed use guidance to the London Plan. It sets out the development scenario comprising 16,000 include establishing a district heating very useful input to TA2 and assisted in the network in the OA, with the potential to link strategic policy framework for development definition of character areas in the OA. new homes and a range of 20,000 – 25,000 within the OA, articulating the key policy jobs. to Pimlico, Whitehall and Waterloo District directions established in the London Plan, TA2 also considers previous initiatives for the Heating Networks (DHNs). Lambeth’s Core Strategy and Wandsworth’s This assumes that 200,000 square metres area including a review of potential strategic The design and layout of the public realm Core Strategy and Site Specific Allocations of mixed use development is delivered interventions such as moving Nine Elms strategy provides the potential to integrate Document. Lane. throughout the OA including major office development in Nine Elms, plus an indicative flood risk mitigation with residential The planning framework also includes a 60,000 square metres of new CAZ frontage, intensification. Evidence base, research and analysis 160,000 square metres of new office