DRAFT LOCAL PLAN CONSULTATION DOCUMENT DECEMBERDECEMBER 2013 2013 3 CONTENTS DRAFT LOCAL PLAN CONSULTATION DOCUMENT Introduction 1. Spatial Portrait of the Legacy Corporation Area 8 2. The Policy Context 29 3. Vision and Objectives 35 4. Strategic Policies 39 5. Business, Economy & Employment 45 6. Housing 65 7. Historic and Built Environment 83 8. Infrastructure 95 9. Natural Environment 103 10. Transport and Connectivity 127 11. The Sub Areas – Introduction 144 12. Sub Area 1 – Hackney Wick and Fish Island 146 13. Sub Area 2 – North Stratford and Eton Manor 167 14. Sub Area 3 – Central Stratford and the Southern Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park 181 15. Sub Area 4 – Pudding Mill, Bromley-by-Bow and Mill Meads 201 16. Delivery and Implementation 214 17. Glossary 217 18. Glossary for Themed Maps 225 19. Abbreviations 227 20. Index of Policies 228 All maps within this document: © Crown Copyright 1999. Reproduced from Ordnance Survey Land-Line data with the permission of the controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. Ordnance Survey and Land-Line are registered trademarks. 4 HACKNEY WICK STRATFORD BROMLEY-BY-BOW Open space, sport, Areas of Main rail leisure industry corridors Major growth Town Major areas centre roads Integrated Main railway Rivers and growth areas stations canals 5 FOREWORD FOREWORD The London 2012 Games left a legacy in the hearts of millions, and bequeathed world-class venues and parkland in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The Park, in the heart of east London, is surrounded by some of the capital’s most exciting and fast changing districts – where creativity, entrepreneurialism and a young population are laying the foundations for growth and prosperity, to replace the long-term patterns of deprivation. This plan sets out a blueprint for how this area of London – the London Legacy Development Corporation’s planning area – can fulfil its potential as London’s most important regeneration project for the next 25 years, accommodating the mix of homes, business space and public amenities that will meet the needs of local people and London as a whole, embedding the achievement of the Olympic Games and opening a new chapter of success. I want the Legacy Corporation to work in partnership with the local Boroughs to make this a place of national and international significance, a fulcrum of growth that will attract international investment, and become the place of choice for business, cultural and sporting activity. Waterways, parklands and new centres and neighbourhoods will link to surrounding communities, to offer opportunity for all. The seeds of growth have now been sown: Westfield Stratford City is already providing 10,000 new jobs; The International Quarter will provide a commercial hub offering thousands more; iCITY at Hackney Wick is already home to BT Sport, and will provide more than 3,600 jobs in the long-term. New opportunities being explored include cultural, exhibition and museum space and events, as well as new universities and research institutes (to complement Loughborough University’s facilities in iCITY and the new University Square Stratford campus in Stratford Town Centre). Along with the business and commercial hubs, these can cement and accelerate the transformation of this part of east London. The London Legacy Development Corporation’s Local Plan will set out the land use and planning vision, policies and proposals that support this transformational change, guiding development aspirations and proposals so that they contribute to the creation of this significant, sustainable and vibrant series of new neighbourhoods and centres. I would encourage you to respond to this consultation and help to shape the principles and policy directions in this document into a Local Plan that sets the scene for this change and reflects the views and aspirations of those who already live and work or have invested in the area. Boris Johnson Mayor of London 6 7 DRAFT LOCAL PLAN CONSULTATION DOCUMENT INTRODUCTION In 2012, the Mayor of London established the London Legacy Development Corporation. The purpose of the Legacy Corporation is: “To promote and deliver physical, social, economic and environmental regeneration of the Olympic Park and its surrounding area, in particular by maximising the legacy of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, by securing high-quality sustainable development and investment, ensuring the long-term success of the facilities and assets within its direct control and supporting and promoting the aim of convergence”. As the Local Planning Authority for its area, the Legacy Corporation is required to prepare a Local Plan. The Local Plan sets out the Legacy Corporation’s strategy for the sustainable development of its area as a whole, including the general amount, type and location of new development it considers could take place and the policies to which applications for planning permission should conform in order to meet these objectives. This is a non-statutory stage of consultation on the draft Local Plan, with this document setting out the form that the Legacy Corporation considers the Plan should take, and provides an opportunity for views to be expressed on the direction of the vision, objectives, policies and proposals before it is finalised for its ‘Publication Stage’. Comments made at this stage will be taken into account as the plan is finalised for its Publication Stage. This final version of the Local Plan will then be subject to its further consultation after which it will then be subject to an Examination into its soundness, held by an independent planning inspector. This non-statutory stage of public consultation starts on 2 December 2013 and ends on 7 February 2014. A consultation response form is available with this document to help you respond. Consultation responses should be sent to the following postal or email address no later than the end date of the consultation. Postal address: Local Plan Consultation, Planning Policy & Decisions Team London Legacy Development Corporation, Level 10, 1 Stratford Place, Montfichet Road, London, E20 1EJ. Email address: [email protected] Telephone: 0203 288 1800 The draft Local Plan and related material can be viewed on the Legacy Corporation website at www.londonlegacy.co.uk/the-local-plan Paper copies of the consultation documents are available on request and can also be viewed at the Legacy Corporation office reception at the above address. 8 DRAFT LOCAL PLAN CONSULTATION DOCUMENT SPATIAL PORTRAIT OF THE LEGACY 1. CORPORATION AREA THE REGIONAL CONTEXT – THE STRATEGIC ROLE OF THE LEGACY CORPORATION AREA WITHIN LONDON 1.1 The Legacy Corporation area is located within east London, approximately four miles from the Central Activities Zone. It lies at a key strategic location with proposed connections to Europe via the Eurostar from Stratford International Station and Crossrail which will provide fast links across London and beyond once completed. 1.2 The Legacy Corporation area also sits at the meeting point of the London-Stansted- Cambridge-Peterborough growth corridor and the Thames Gateway growth corridor. Within London, the area is directly connected to the major business and growth hubs of Central London, Canary Wharf and the Royal Docks. 1.3 Identified by the Mayor as one of London’s key future growth points, probably the most important for the next 25 years, particularly within Policy 2.4 of the London Plan (The 2012 Games and their Legacy), the area, in combination with much of its immediate surroundings, provides a significant land resource for meeting part of the need for housing and employment that will be generated by the projected growth of London within the Plan period. Falling also within the Lower Lea Valley Opportunity Area, the strategy for growth of the area within this Plan is therefore designed to meet the local need of those living within the area but also to develop a series of places that are part of their surroundings and provide opportunities for housing, employment, business and leisure for those living in the surrounding communities and more widely in the growth boroughs, while also providing a London-wide strategic resource within the context of the overall growth of London. 9 SPATIAL PORTRAIT OF THE LEGACY CORPORATION AREA 1.4 The potential of the area to provide for identified needs goes beyond the development of land; the social, economic and environmental characteristics of the area mean that the Legacy Corporation’s role is also to deliver wider benefits for the local area, London and beyond. 1.5 East London has some of the highest levels of deprivation in England. In 2010 the English Indices of Deprivation ranked Hackney as the most deprived borough, followed by Newham and Tower Hamlets ranking second and third and Waltham Forest seventh1. This provides a useful context to the area, demonstrating why the legacy of the Games in terms of improving the life chances of residents is key to the aims and remit of the London Legacy Development Corporation. 1.6 In order to address the issues faced by many living within the most deprived wards of the then Host Boroughs (now growth boroughs), the Government, the Mayor of London and the boroughs in 2009 agreed a Strategic Regeneration Framework2 (SRF) of public sector action to address the level of disadvantage evident in those communities in comparison to those living in London as a whole. It identified seven core themes: • Creating a coherent and high-quality city within a world city region. • Improving educational attainment, skills and raising aspirations. • Reducing worklessness, benefit dependency and child poverty. • Homes for all. • Enhancing health and wellbeing. • Reducing serious crime rates and anti-social behaviour. • Maximising sports legacy and increasing participation. 1.7 As shown in Chapter 2, underlying the SRF is the concept of ‘Convergence’ which is the ambition that over a 20-year period residents of the Host Boroughs would achieve the average expected in successful communities.