Policy information sourced from the Hounslow Local Plan Part 1

ED3 - HOTELS AND VISITOR ACCOMMODATION

Our approach

We will promote new visitor accommodation in appropriate locations to support local businesses and to enhance the London Borough of Hounslow’s tourism offer.

We will achieve this by

  • Supporting proposals for visitor accommodation where they contribute to the area’s economic role or tourism offer; and
  • Directing proposals for visitor accommodation to the borough’s four town centres, and considering proposals in other locations based on sequential and impact assessments as set out in Policy TC3;

We will expect development proposals to

  • Seek to locate in one of the borough’s four town centres. Where suitable locations within town centres are not available, edgeof-town centre sites that are well connected to the town centre or sites within large neighbourhood centres should be chosen;
  • Demonstrate through a sequential assessment that there are no available sites in a nearby town centre, an edge-of-towncentre location or a large neighbourhood centre where visitor accommodation is proposed in out-of-centre locations, with preference for sites that are well connected to town centres;
  • Demonstrate that they do not harm the vitality and vibrancy of nearby town centres;
  • Take available opportunities to support the area’s economic role or tourism offer where the sequential assessment for outof-centre development has been satisfied, by incorporating ancillary facilities such as conference/meeting spaces, restaurants or gyms;
  • Demonstrate that they do not have adverse impacts on residential amenity; and
  • Have good access to public transport and sufficiently mitigate the impacts of increased trip generation that may result from a new or expanded hotel development.

For more information please see the Hounslow Local Plan Part 1