Policy information sourced from the Kensington and Chelsea Local Plan
CK1 Social and Community Uses
The Council will ensure that social and community uses are protected or enhanced throughout the borough and will support the provision of new facilities.
To deliver this, the Council will:
- provide a new academy for the communities of North Kensington;
- permit new, and the expansion of existing, social and community uses which predominantly serve, or which provide significant benefits to, borough residents, except where the proposal results in a shared or communal residential/social and community entrance;
- apply the following sequential approach:
- protect land and/or buildings where the current use is or the last use was a social or community use, for re-use for the same, similar or related use;
- permit the change of use of land and/ or buildings where the current or last use was a social or community use from one social and community use to another social and community use which predominantly serves, or which provides significant benefits to borough residents and where it is demonstrated that there is a greater benefit to the borough resulting from this change of use;
- permit enabling development on land and of buildings where the current use is or the last use was a social and community use in order to: significantly improve that use; provide another social and community use on site; significantly improve or provide new social and community uses elsewhere within the borough and where it can be demonstrated that there is a greater benefit to the borough resulting from this enabling development.
For more information please see the Kensington and Chelsea Local Plan