Policy information sourced from the Havering Local Plan

16 Social infrastructure

The Council will work with infrastructure providers to support the provision of essential new services and improvement of existing facilities in Havering alongside residential development. The Council will make sure that new and existing residents will have access to a range of social infrastructure facilities by:

  • Supporting proposals for new and extended social infrastructure provided they:
    • Are accessible by public transport and active travel;
    • Are located within the community that they are intended to serve and incorporate an inclusive design;
    • Do not adversely impact on residential character and amenity;
    • Ensure highway safety, especially in regards to pedestrians and cyclists;
    • Explore the possibility to co-locate, in multiuse buildings with complimentary services; and
    • Are provided in flexible, adaptable and ‘healthy’ buildings.
  • Requiring major developments to provide new social infrastructure facilities as part of mixed-use developments where feasible, where a deficiency is identified through the Council’s Infrastructure Delivery Plan (IDP).

Applicants will be encouraged to consider funding arrangements for reasonable on-going maintenance costs.

Proposals which would result in a loss of social infrastructure in areas of defined need for that type of social infrastructure without realistic proposals for re-provision will not be permitted.

The suitability of redundant social infrastructure premises for accommodating other forms of social infrastructure for which there is a defined need in the locality should be assessed before alternative developments will be considered by the Council. The assessment should take account of site constraints and consider the feasibility and viability of retaining the site for alternative social infrastructure provision.

The Council will protect existing burial space provision as designated on the Policies Map to meet the need for burial space over the Plan period.

For more information please see the Havering Local Plan