Policy information sourced from Newham Local Plan 2018

SP5 Heritage and other Successful Place-making Assets

Proposals which address the following strategic principles and spatial strategy and design and technical criteria in their concept, design and implementation will be supported:

  • Strategic principles and spatial strategy
    • The value of heritage and other assets (natural, cultural, architectural, and infrastructural) which contribute to local character and successful places will be recognised by protection, conservation, and enhancement of the assets and their settings, and where appropriate, cultivation of new ones;
    • Urban design should recognise the strengths and weaknesses of local character and seek to contribute positively to the composition of the townscape, achieving better integration and enhancement of new and old, natural and built environments, infrastructure and living environments;
    • Designated and non-designated heritage assets will be conserved and enhanced, with any change to them based on an understanding of the nature of their significance and the contribution of their settings to that significance, seeking to increase their presence and encourage wider appreciation, ownership of, and access to them;
    • Innovation will be encouraged to realise the value of assets and secure viable, sustainable and appropriate futures for them, particularly where they are under-performing/’at Risk’, reconciling this with the sensitivity to change presented by many (see also Policies SC2, SC4, INF6 and INF7);
    • In addition to heritage assets designated under other regimes – listed buildings, conservation areas (Table 3 below), Scheduled Monuments, Historic Parks and Gardens – the locations listed in Tables 1 and Table 2 below are designated as Areas of Townscape Value and Archaeological Priority Areas (all these are mapped in Figure 3.3 below).
  • Design and technical criteria
    • Proposals should refer to and draw on the borough’s Character Study (which includes details of Areas of Townscape Value) and where relevant, Conservation Area Appraisals and Management Plans and Archaeological Priority Areas to help identify heritage and other assets relevant to their scheme, and strengths and weaknesses of local character; and
    • The relevant consultation and investigation expectations that accompany an APA designation (set out by GLAAS) should be complied with.
Table 1 – Policy SP5: Areas of Townscape Value
IDArea Name
ATV1Wanstead Flats
ATV2Sebert Road
ATV3Manor Park
ATV4Forest Gate
ATV5All Saints Church, Church Street North*
ATV6Cheltenham Gardens, Henniker Gardens, Rancliffe Road
ATV7Canning Town
ATV8Winsor Terrace*
ATV9Bargehouse Road / Woolwich Manor Way*

* Note that ATV5, ATV8, ATV9 and the area surrounding West Ham Park may be taken forward as Conservation Areas within the plan period.

Table 2 – Policy SP5: Archaeological Priority Areas
Archaeological Priority Area IDArea Name
Tier 1
APA1.1Beckton WW2 Gun Emplacement
APA 1.2Fort Street
APA 1.3Prince Regent Lane
APA 1.4Stratford Langthorne Abbey
APA 1.5Woolwich Manor Way
Tier 2
APA 2.1East Ham
APA 2.2Green Street 18.51
APA 2.3Little Ilford
APA 2.4Plaistow
APA 2.5Plashet
APA 2.6Stratford
APA 2.7Upton
APA 2.8Wall End
APA 2.9West Ham
APA 2.10Beckton Sewage Works
APA 2.11Ilford Gaol
APA 2.12Stratford Railworks
APA 2.13Thames Ironworks
APA 2.14London to Colchester Roman Road
APA 2.15Manor Park to North Woolwich Roman Road
APA 2.16Newham Cemeteries
Tier 3
APA 3.1River Lea
APA 3.2River Roding
APA 3.3Royal Docks
APA 3.4Canning Town/Newham Way
APA 3.5Beckton
APA 3.6Wanstead Flats
Tier 4
APA 4.1Rest of the borough
Table 3 – Policy SP5: Conservation Areas
Durham Road Conservation Area
Woodgrange Estate Conservation Area
Three Mills Conservation Area
Romford Road Conservation Area
Forest Gate Town Centre Conservation Area
Stratford St Johns Conservation Area
University Conservation Area
East Ham Conservation Area
University Conservation Area

Further information on Historic Assets is available on the Council website:

Historic Buildings - https://www.newham.gov.uk/Pages/Services/Listed-buildings.aspx

Conservation Areas - https://www.newham.gov.uk/Pages/Services/Conservation-areas.aspx

Ancient Monuments - https://www.newham.gov.uk/Pages/Services/Historic-sites-and-monuments.aspx

For more information please see the Local Plan 2018