Policy information sourced from Camley Street Neighbourhood Development Plan

CS EM1 - Employment Floorspace Provision

Development proposals involving the redevelopment and/or intensification of existing employment sites:

  1. Should ensure that an equivalent amount of employment floorspace is maintained and preferably increased where feasible.
  2. Should ensure that a significant proportion of any new employment floorspace in a major development proposal would meet the varied operational requirements of light and general industry (B1c and B2), storage and logistics/ distribution (B8), flexible (B1c/B2/B8) hybrid space, and space for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises.
  3. Should consider providing additional class B use space for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), where feasible, a proportion of which should be suited to meeting both start-ups and move-on space; and
  4. Should ensure that a proportion of the employment space is provided at affordable rents, where viable

Where affordable workspace is provided on-site, management by a specialist provider should be considered to support existing and small businesses. The provider should be identified prior to implementation of the development, in order to ensure that the space caters for specific needs.

The development of employment premises and sites for nonbusiness use will be resisted unless the criteria a. and b. in Policy E2 of the Camden Local Plan are met.

For more information please see the Neighbourhood Plan