Policy information sourced from Barnet Local Plan Core Strategy DPD September 2012

CS1: Barnet’s Place Shaping Strategy – Protection, Enhancement and Consolidated Growth – the Three Strands Approach

Barnet’s place shaping strategy is to concentrate and consolidate housing and economic growth in well located areas that provide opportunities for development, creating a quality environment that will have positive economic impacts on the deprived neighbourhoods that surround them. The key diagram sets out the areas where we expect housing and economic growth.

The council, along with its partners, will focus major housing and economic growth in the most suitable locations and manage it to ensure that we deliver sustainable development, while continuing to conserve and enhance the distinctiveness of Barnet as a place to live work and visit. An appropriate level of transportprovision will be provided as the regeneration schemes roll out.

We will seek the highest standards of urban design in order to generate development proposals of landmark quality and create an accessible safe and attractive environment for people who live in, work in or visit Barnet’s areas of housing and economic growth.

We will only support proposals for tall buildings in the strategic locations we have identified in Core Strategy Policy CS5 subject to them not having an unacceptably harmful impact on their surroundings.

We will work with partners and other relevant organisations to secure ‘critical’, ‘necessary’ and ‘preferred’ infrastructure as set out in Barnet’s Infrastructure Delivery Plan and ensure that new development funds infrastructure through S106 and other funding mechanisms.

As our focus of housing and employment growth we will promote opportunities on the west side of the borough in the strategically identified North West London – Luton Coordination Corridor. We will promotethe following regeneration and development areas in the west of the borough:

  • Brent Cross – Cricklewood Regeneration Area – 5,510 new homes by 2026
  • Colindale Regeneration Area – 8,100 new homes by 2026
  • Mill Hill East Development Area – 2,100 new homes by 2026

Core Strategy Policy CS3 sets out the areas where we expect:

  • In the range of 22,000 new homes to be delivered between 2011/12 and 2021/22 to meet the ten-year housing target in the London Plan
  • In the range of 28,000 new homes to be delivered between 2011/12 and 2025/26 as Barnet’s 15 year housing target

Core Strategy Policy CS4 sets out our aim to create successful communities by providing quality homes and housing choice

Consolidated growth will be complemented by:

Protection of

  • Green Belt and Metropolitan Open Land that covers over one third of Barnet
  • Core Strategy Policy CS5 sets out how we will ensure that development helps to protect and enhance Barnet’s heritage and character
  • Core Strategy Policy CS7 sets out how in order to create a greener Barnet we will enhance and protect our open spaces.

Enhancement of

  • priority town centres (Chipping Barnet, Edgware, Finchley Church End and North Finchley) where we will promote mixed use development in accordance with the place making policies set out within the Core Strategy;
  • the historic suburban environment comprising 16 conservation areas, over 2,200 listed buildings and registered historic parks and gardens
  • Core Strategy Policy CS5 sets out how we will, through Residential Design Guidance SPD, develop a framework to protect and enhance those high quality suburbs not protected by conservation area designation.
  • Core Strategy Policy CS6 sets out how we will realise development opportunities in town centres in order to promote them as successful and vibrant places
  • Core Strategy Policy CS8 sets out how in order to provide opportunity for economic advancement we will ensure a strong and prosperous Barnet.

For more information please see Local Plan Core Strategy DPD September 2012