Policy information sourced from the Brent Local Plan
BE3 Local Employment Sites and Work-Live
Local Employment Sites have an important role to play in ensuring that a range of employment premises are available to meet employment needs, including ensuring the need for additional industrial floorspace capacity is met in the borough. The council will require their retention. Where possible their use for research and development, light industrial, general industrial or storage and distribution will be intensified. The Council will only allow the release development of Local Employment Sites for nonemployment uses where:
- continued wholly employment use is unviable; or
- development increases the amount of workspace as well as retaining the existing employment use or provides that additional workspace as affordable studio, research and development, light industrial or general industrial workspace, with maker space in light industrial use prioritised to meet demand; or
- the site is allocated for development.
Where criterion 1).or 3. is being used to justify the release, the maximum viable replacement of the existing employment floorspace will be sought.
Where criterion 2. applies, if within the existing or emerging creative clusters of Harlesden, Wembley Growth Area, Willesden Green, Alperton Growth Area, Kilburn, Kensal Green, Neasden, Queen’s Park, Burnt Oak Colindale Growth Area, and Church End Growth Area, affordable workspace is to be provided on-site. Elsewhere, if affordable workspace is considered unlikely to be successful, financial contributions will be secured to provide equivalent affordable workspace elsewhere.
Work-Live units will be acceptable where they are managed by an organisation committed to their use primarily for employment, as evidenced by a management plan. Loss of Work-Live units to residential will be resisted.
For more information please see the Brent Local Plan