OLD OAK AND PARK ROYAL OPPORTUNITY AREA PLANNING FRAMEWORK ADOPTED NOVEMBER 2015 1 INFORMATION Copyright Euan Mills Greater London Authority Ian Moxon November 2015 Michael Mulhern Claire O’Brien Published by Kim Tagliarini Greater London Authority Colin Wilson City Hall The Queens Walk Transport for London More London Richard Carr London SE1 2AA Richard McGreevy Contact Photography tel: 020 7983 5552 Tom Simpson email: [email protected] Peter Farnham twitter: @OldOakParkRoyal Andrew Holt Franck Allais Website www.london.gov.uk/opdc Acknowledgements Greater London Authority & Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation Ajit Atwal Jasper den Boeft Tom Cardis Peter Farnham Rachel Flowers Victoria Hills Levent Kerimol Max Middleweek 2 Figure 1: Old Oak and Park Royal Opportunity Areas boundary 3 MAYOR’S FOREWORD will reach 11 million by 2050. Housing provision is poised to become London’s next new major is perhaps the biggest issue that London will centre, helping to provide much needed new face over the coming decades. homes and jobs for the capital and helping to facilitate the regeneration of surrounding areas. London’s growing population will need to be The Old Oak area could accommodate 24,000 supported by an expanded employment offer. homes and 55,000 jobs while Park Royal, the London has continued to consolidate and UK’s largest industrial estate and a vital cog strengthen its position as the globe’s leading in the London economy, will continue to be business centre. In order to retain the capital’s protected and enhanced to provide an additional position, it is critical that we enable London to 1,500 homes and 10,000 jobs. Development grow and expand its employment base and on the scale that we will see at Old Oak and skills and diversify into new growing economic Park Royal will of course have far reaching sectors. benefits, providing a major regeneration boost to surrounding communities. The Old Oak and Old Oak and Park Royal will play perhaps the Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC) most crucial role of any regeneration area in will work tirelessly to ensure that the benefits London over the next 20 to 30 years in delivering are secured and shared with local residents and these much needed new homes and jobs. business, existing and future. It is essential that Thanks to the colossal investment being made in we plan sensibly for this growth and that we do it High Speed 2 and Crossrail, the area is set to be now. There is no time to waste. transformed through the creation of a transport super-hub at Old Oak Common. The station, I am therefore delighted to introduce this which will be the size of London Waterloo, will document, which forms an important first step have unprecedented connections – just 10 in laying the foundations for OPDC’s Local Boris Johnson minutes from Central London and Heathrow Plan, which will set out the blueprint for years Mayor of London Airport and 38 minutes from Birmingham. to come. I am hugely excited about the future of this area, which will do so much to address This Opportunity Area Planning Framework sets London’s growth needs, has enormous potential In February 2015, London’s population out a proactive strategy to capitalise on this step to implement new state of art and sustainable reached a new high of 8.6m people, exceeding change in transport accessibility to redevelop technologies and will surely be one of London’s the previous record set back in 1939. Our city’s Old Oak and regenerate Park Royal. This is a most exciting areas in which to live, work and population is set to continue expand, with development opportunity of national importance play. current estimates predicting that its population that could redefine this part of west London. It 4 Figure 2: Grand Union Canal 5 SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS The OAPF is supported by the following Habitats Regulations Assessment Old Oak Strategic Transport Study documents. These documents have been Screening (HRA) used to inform the content of this planning The strategic transport study provides a framework: The Conservation of Habitats and Species high level evidence base and appraisal of Regulations 2010 implements the European proposed transport measures to support Strategic Environmental Assessment Council Directive 92/43/EEC on the the growth aspirations at Old Oak and Park Screening (SEA) Conservation of Natural Habitats and Wild Royal. Whilst the Study identifies a strategic Fauna and Flora (known as the ‘Habitats package of complementary measures, The SEA fulfils the requirements for a SEA Directive’) in England and Wales. This responding to a series of major proposed screening in a manner that incorporates the Directive requires the assessment of plans transport infrastructure schemes, including requirements of the European Union’s SEA and projects for their potential to effect sites HS2, Crossrail and Overground, it does not Directive (2001/42/ EU) and the transposing of European nature conservation importance. provide detail on specific schemes. This UK Regulations. allows flexibility to be incorporated into plans Community Charter and recognises that the proposals are still Integrated Impact Assessment (IIA) in the early stages of development and that A Community Charter has been developed they will be refined as the proposals for Old The IIA fulfils the requirements for with local communities groups to demonstrate Oak and Park Royal take shape. Additional Sustainability Appraisal (SA) and Strategic the Old Oak and Park Royal Development analysis will be undertaken and more Environmental Assessment (SEA) (in a Corporation’s (OPDC)’s commitment to detailed transport measures identified as the manner that incorporates the requirements of meaningful and transparent community Opportunity Area is taken forward. the European Union’s SEA Directive (2001/42/ engagement that will help to shape the EU) and the transposing UK Regulations). regeneration of Old Oak and enhancement Park Royal Atlas The approach also fulfils the requirements of Park Royal. for Health Impact Assessment, Equalities The Park Royal Atlas presents a detailed Impact Assessment and Community Safety The Charter’s role is to clearly set out when, overview of the businesses located IN Park Impact Assessment. This approach avoids how and with whom community engagement Royal in late 2013 / early 2014. It records the the need to undertake and report on will be carried out over the coming years. It employment activities and analyses business separate assessments, seeks to reduce any is a critical document to help engage with activities in terms of their sector, size, space duplication of assessment work and benefits existing and future communities. It aspires to typologies, clustering and supply chains. The from a shared understanding of the policies. foster a participatory approach to ensure local Park Royal Atlas is informing the production people are empowered to directly influence of an Employment Land Review, which is the development of planning policy and the currently being undertaken by the GLA. The future of the area. Park Royal Atlas was nominated for the Royal Town Planning Institute ‘Excellence in Planning to Create Economically Successful Places’ Award in 2015. 6 CONTENTS 2. VISION & 3. LAND USE 4. DESIGN 5. OLD OAK 1. INTRODUCTION OBJECTIVES STRATEGY STRATEGY STRATEGY PAGE PAGE PAGE PAGE PAGE 9 21 27 35 43 6. PARK ROYAL 7. WORMWOOD 8. TRANSPORT 9. ENVIRONMENT 10. DELIVERY STRATEGY SCRUBS STRATEGY STRATEGY STRATEGY STRATEGY PAGE PAGE PAGE PAGE PAGE 95 107 113 131 143 11. GLOSSARY APPENDIX ONE CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS Provides a contextual background to the Old Oak PAGE and Park Royal area. 163 7 Figure 3: View of Old Oak & Park Royal looking west 8 8 1. INTRODUCTION 9 DOCUMENT STATUS Legal Status NPPF 1.1 This Opportunity Area Planning LONDON PLAN Framework (OAPF) provides supplementary SPGS AND OAPFS detail to the planning policies contained within OLD OAK AND Mayor of London’s London Plan (2015) in the PARK ROYAL form of Supplementary Planning Guidance OAPF (hereafter referred to as SPG). This OAPF OPDC OTHER BOROUGH WEST LONDON should be read in conjunction with the LOCAL PLAN LOCAL PLANS WASTE PLAN Mayor’s London Plan and does not seek to NEIGHBOURHOOD replicate all policies in the London Plan. PLANS OPDC OTHER BOROUGH 1.2 This OAPF has been prepared SUPPLEMENTARY SUPPLEMENTARY in accordance with the Greater London PLANNING PLANNING DOCUMENTS DOCUMENTS Authority Acts 1999 and 2008, the National vision as to how this area could develop as a Planning Policy Framework and National Figure 4: Legal status and relationship with planning policy documents result of significant new transport infrastruc- Planning Guidance. ture. Work from the Vision and associated public consultation responses have been Relationships with other documents Relationship with the Vision for Old Oak, 2013 used to inform the more detailed work includ- ed in this OAPF. Relationship with the London Plan (2015) 1.4 In 2013, the GLA, in collaboration with 1.3 The London Plan forms part of the Transport for London (TfL) and the London Development Plan and all policies in the De- Boroughs of Brent, Ealing and Hammersmith velopment Plan must be considered as part and Fulham consulted on ‘Old Oak – A Vision of any development proposals. London Plan for the Future’, which demonstrated how land policy will continue to apply across Old Oak around the planned High Speed 2 Old Oak and Park Royal. This OAPF provides supple- Common station could be redeveloped to de- mentary guidance to those existing policies liver 19,000 home and 90,000 jobs. Over 600 in the London Plan. consultation responses were received. 1.5 This document was not a planning policy document but it did set out an early shared 10 Relationship with the Park Royal Oppor- 1.9 The programme for OPDC’s Local Plan is pared in line with all relevant planning policy re- tunity Area Planning Framework, 2011 set out below and is contained within OPDC’s quirements.