Policy information sourced from the Hounslow Local Plan Part 1

ED 1 - PROMOTING EMPLOYMENT GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT

Our approach

We will secure the business opportunities stimulated by the London Borough of Hounslow’s location close to Heathrow Airport and central London by ensuring that sufficient capacity is provided for anticipated sectors of employment growth. This will be accomplished by promoting new office-based employment in the borough’s four town centres, as well as employment based growth within the Great West Corridor Strategic Outer London Development Centre in co-ordination with improvements to the public transport infrastructure, and other strategically and locally significant locations for employment.

We will achieve this by

  • Proposing new employment uses on Allocated Sites identified in the Local Plan and its subsequent reviews;
  • Directing new offices to the borough’s four town centres; and
  • Directing new industrial/ warehousing and related development to the borough’s Strategic Industrial Sites, Locally Significant Industrial sites and other existing industrial sites.

We will expect development proposals to

  • Provide flexible space within residential units, particularly in town centres, that can be used for home working and start-up space wherever feasible; and
  • Provide incubator space appropriate for start-up businesses as part of employment related or town centre mixed use development proposals, subject to demand and viability considerations.

For more information please see the Hounslow Local Plan Part 1