Policy information sourced from Hackney Local Plan 2033

PP4 Stamford Hill

Strategic Principles

Where appropriate development should:

  • Create high quality urban design in Stamford Hill that enhances its distinctive local character, celebrates its diverse community and seeks to enhance its architectural and landscape merits through a fine-grained approach that promotes positive change and maximises the use of underdeveloped sites.
  • Provide new and extended homes with a range of dwelling types, sizes and tenures to sustain mixed and balanced communities, with a particular focus on housing for large families and single people.
  • Maximise the benefits of Crossrail 2 and other improvements to public transport to support growth and existing communities.
  • Address deficiencies in children’s play provision in the northern and southern parts of the area.
  • Contribute to improving the network of streets and footpaths to make walking and cycling safe and pleasant and reduce traffic congestion in the Stamford Hill area, particularly around Oldhill Street and Dunsmure Road.
  • Create new jobs, employment workspace and affordable workspace, diversify the economy in the Stamford Hill area and increase employment rates.
  • Improve connections between existing open spaces within the Stamford Hill area with a particular focus on east west links to improve accessibility between Woodberry Downs and the Lea Valley Regional Park.
  • Improve the retail function of Stamford Hill Broadway, Stoke Newington (north), Dunsmure Road and Old Hill Street as vibrant and mixed use shopping centres that are attractive and accessible to all, and meet the needs of the local Community.
  • Create an accessible, distinctive and vibrant town centre at Stamford Hill Broadway that builds on its distinct architectural quality and is a cultural destination for visitors, to promote flexible mixed-use development in the Stamford Hill town centre and increase the range of shops, restaurants, cafes and employment opportunities.
  • Facilitate interaction between people of different social, ethnic and religious affiliation.
  • Provide additional school places for the Stamford Hill community and to provide new opportunities for adult learning and to ensure that people who live and work in Stamford Hill have access to local educational, training, health and community facilities to meet their day-to-day needs.
  • Promote the health and well-being of local people by supporting active lifestyles and reducing health inequalities.
  • Support the development of cultural and religious facilities, arts, and leisure and entertainment opportunities for all

For more information please see the Hackney Local Plan 2033