Policy information sourced from Bexley Core Strategy
Policy CS12 Bexley’s future economic contribution
Bexley will continue to play a key role in contributing to London’s economic growth and prosperity. As such, the Council will ensure a sufficient and appropriately located provision of employment land to meet the borough’s existing and future requirements. It will promote sustained economic and employment development by:
- making the most efficient use of Bexley’s land, ensuring a balance between the needs of business and industry and other land-uses that are integral to building sustainable communities, including housing;
- safeguarding existing employment land and identifying in future policy documents, such as a development plan document that deals with detailed sites and policies, the 43 to 50 hectares of employment land that the Council will consider for a sensitively managed transfer to other sustainable uses;
- promoting Belvedere Employment Area and Bexleyheath town centre as the borough’s principal locations for employment,
- supporting the growth and intensification of employment around the towns of Erith, Crayford, Sidcup and Welling, as well as the borough’s other district and neighbourhood centres;
- identifying in future policy documents, such as a development plan document that deals with detailed sites and policies, the sites that will be safeguarded in conjunction with London Plan designations, such as Strategic Industrial Locations, as Bexley’s key locations for industry and employment; and
- seeking to secure development proposals that enhance and better integrate transport accessibility between Bexley’s housing and employment locations, particularly in Opportunity Areas and other places where deprivation exists.
For more information please see the Bexley Core Strategy