Policy information sourced from the Kensington and Chelsea Local Plan

CR3 Street and Outdoor Life

The Council will require opportunities to be taken within the street environment to create ‘places’ that support outdoor life, inclusive to all, adding to their attractiveness and vitality. To deliver this the Council will:

Markets:

  • require proposals for new, and extensions to existing, markets on public highways:
    • where a highway is to be closed for the duration of the market, that it is demonstrated there are sufficient alternative vehicular routes and that vehicle access outside market hours is maintained;
    • to maintain amenity;
    • to submit waste management plans as part of a planning application.
  • require new isolated street trading pitches to contribute to the character and appearance of the street, have no adverse impact on existing shops and residential amenity and to allow for the safe and secure passage of pedestrians;

Pavements:

  • maintain the free, safe and secure passage of pedestrians;
  • require proposals for tables and chairs on the highway to maintain the primary function as public footway allowing for the free, safe and secure passage of pedestrians;

Temporary Use of Open Spaces:

  • require that the occasional use of parks, gardens and open spaces for special events will be wellmanaged, and that in the duration, frequency and scale of the event has no adverse impact upon:
    • local residential amenity;
    • the setting of historic listed buildings;
    • the setting of registered Parks and Gardens;
    • the character and appearance of conservation areas;
    • the predominant use as open space, taking the cumulative impact into account;
    • the road network.
  • require an Events Management Plan and a Management Strategy for repeated use of an open space to be submitted as part of a planning application.

For more information please see the Kensington and Chelsea Local Plan