Policy information sourced from Hackney Local Plan 2033

LP12 Meeting Housing Needs and Locations for New Homes

  • The Council will plan to deliver a minimum of 1,330 homes per year up to 2033 by encouraging development on small sites and through allocating sites for residential use, increasing the supply of genuinely affordable homes, alongside community facilities through high quality urban neighbourhoods, to meet Hackney’s needs. Housing growth is planned to take place in and around Shoreditch (7,000 homes), in the north of the Borough at Woodberry Down/Stamford Hill (around 3,000 homes), around Dalston (around 2,000 homes) and Hackney Central (around 3,000 homes), and along the Borough’s Enhanced Corridors identified in Map 1: Key Diagram.
  • The Council will create the conditions for growth and to seek to meet the identified housing need of 1,750 new homes per year by 2033 by bringing forward new growth areas such as Clapton, Homerton and along key growth areas/corridors.
  • The Council will support the development of small sites to meet the housing need. Infill housing development and innovative approaches to housing delivery on small sites will be supported subject to meeting other development plan policies.
  • Self-contained residential units are the priority residential land use in the Borough and type of land use for which there is the greatest need. Proposals involving the provision of other forms of residential accommodation including student housing, visitor accommodation and alternative forms of accommodation will only be permitted whereapplicants can demonstrate that it is not feasible to deliver C3 residential development on site.

For more information please see the Hackney Local Plan 2033