Policy information sourced from Barking and Dagenham Adopted Core Strategy

POLICY CE4: MIX AND BALANCE OF USES WITHIN DESIGNATED EMPLOYMENT AREAS

The Dagenham Dock employment area will be developed and promoted as a Sustainable Industries Park, with an increased emphasis on high technology manufacturing and processing industries (B2 and to a lesser extent B1b/c (research and development)) and a consequent control over the development of further warehouse and distribution uses. Proposals to establish recycling and reprocessing activities and other industries in the environmental business sector are particularly encouraged within the Dagenham Dock area.

Other employment areas should comprise an appropriate mix of employment uses, including B1 (Light Industry), B2 (General Industry) and in certain locations B8 (Storage and Distribution).

The most appropriate location for additional B8 uses is on designated employment land south of the A13 (except Dagenham Dock), where locational advantages associated with transport infrastructure, proximity to the River Thames and the reduced impact on residential areas are greatest.

Applications for large scale (1000 square metres or above) warehousing and/or transport uses will normally be refused in employment land north of the A13 and at Dagenham Dock.

The Wharves set out in the table below will be safeguarded for freight related purposes. The redevelopment of any safeguarded wharf will only be accepted if it is no longer and could never be made viable for cargo-handling, as set out in the London Plan. Wherever possible and appropriate, employment uses should seek to use these in order to utilise the River Thames for the transport of freight. Proposals which would frustrate or prevent the continuing or future use of a safeguarded wharf will not be permitted.