Policy information sourced from Barking and Dagenham Adopted Core Strategy
POLICY CM2: MANAGING HOUSING GROWTH
The Council will plan for a minimum annual housing growth of 1,190 additional homes in the ten year period to 2024/25. This equates to at least 17,850 new homes in Barking and Dagenham between 2010/11 and 2024/25.
The target will be met through:
- Residential development in the three Key Regeneration Areas:
- Major development at Barking Riverside.
- Delivering 6000 new homes in Barking Town Centre through redevelopment in line with the Barking Town Centre Area Action Plan.
- Developing a mixed urban community at South Dagenham.
- Identifying further housing and mixed use development site in the Site Specific Allocations DPD.
- Releasing surplus employment land from safeguarding to enable other types of development including housing.
- Encouraging the development of other underused previously developed land and properties within existing urban areas with high PTAL levels (levels 4-6).
- Where necessary pursuing land acquisition and assembly to support the above measures.
- Maximising the density of new developments, taking into account local context and other factors, in line with the guidance set out in the Urban Design Framework SPD, Barking Town Centre Area Action Plan Urban Design Guidelines SPD and the London Plan.
- Working to ensure that empty homes are brought back into use.
Additional housing will result in increased pressure on existing physical and social infrastructure. The need for additional infrastructure must therefore be met alongside new housing. The release and development of land allocated for residential development will be phased in order to ensure this happens. For larger schemes conditions or Section 106 agreements will be used to ensure physical and social infrastructure is delivered in step with the overall development and not left until the end.
For more information please see the Barking and Dagenham Adopted Core Strategy