Harlow - PR1: Development within Employment Areas

Policy information sourced from the Harlow Local Development Plan 2020-2033 PDF.

PR1: Development within Employment Areas.

Development in existing Employment Areas, as identified on the Policies Map, will be supported where it is for the provision of offices, research and development, light or general industrial, warehouse or distribution within Use Classes B1, B2 and B8.

Development for Use Classes other than B1, B2 and B8 must meet the following criteria:

(a) evidence has been provided to demonstrate that the unit has been vacant and actively marketed to the satisfaction of the Council for at least one year and there is no prospect of Use Classes B1, B2 and B8 occupying the unit or any other more suitable alternative sites being available for the proposal;
(b) the development will materially increase the number of jobs for local residents;
(c) the development provides a complementary benefit to the employment area or an ancillary benefit to an existing business, and would not have an adverse effect on the overall provision of employment land;
(d) where the development is for the sub-division of units into smaller units, that the resulting unit is flexible and the division is reversible.

For more information, please visit Harlow’s Local Plan here.