Policy information sourced from the Kensington and Chelsea Local Plan
CF1 Location of New Shop Uses
The Council will ensure vital and viable town centres through a town centre first approach to new retail floorspace.
To deliver this the Council will:
- support the creation of new shops and new shop floorspace within town centres;
- require new retail development with a floor area of 400sq.m (gross external) or more to be located within existing and proposed town centres, or where no suitable sites can be identified within these centres, within sites immediately adjoining them;
- permit new shops (A1) of less than 400sq.m (gross external) in areas of retail deficiency as shown on the plan within Chapter 18 (Keeping Life Local);
- support the establishment of new centres in the Latimer and Kensal areas to address identified retail deficiency and support the establishment of a new centre in the Earl’s Court and West Kensington Opportunity Area with retail provision to serve the day-to-day needs of the development. Any new centre must comply with the requirements of the NPPF, and be of a scale that does not have an unacceptable impact on existing centres;
- require, where proposals for new retail development do not comply with parts (a) to (d), that it is demonstrated either:
- that the development would meet the requirements of the sequential assessment; and that the development will not have an unacceptable impact on existing centres; or
- that the new floorspace would underpin the Council’s regeneration objectives and the vitality of any existing centre will not be harmed and when within an Employment Zone, support the business function of that area.
For more information please see the Kensington and Chelsea Local Plan