Policy information sourced from Newham Local Plan 2018
SP8 Ensuring Neighbourly Development
Proposals that address the following Strategic Principles, Spatial Strategy and Design, Management and Technical criteria will be supported:
- Strategic principles and Spatial Strategy
- All development is expected to achieve good neighbourliness and fairness from the outset by avoiding negative and maximising positive social, environmental and design impacts for neighbours on and off the site;
- The benefits of development and regeneration will be spread beyond the context of individual development proposals, in accordance with convergence aims;
- Change brought about by development must not cause problems for existing lawful neighbours, otherwise known as an ‘agent of change’ approach; and
- The Council encourages innovative approaches to achieving neighbourliness.
- Design, Management and Technical Criteria
- Compliance with the standards and due regard to the importance of the technical guidance in Table 4 where they are relevant to development proposals, will be expected to promote neighbourliness in addressing the need to:
- Ensure integration with the street scene including consideration for advertisements and signage; boundary treatments; parking provision; external storage; plant housing and the quality of materials;
- Create a safe and secure environment by reducing the likelihood of antisocial behaviour, promoting public safety (including road safety), improving security and lessening the fear of crime in accordance with policies SP1, SP2 and SP3;
- Ensure that buildings and other spaces likely to involve the congregation of people are well managed and address the street and neighbourhood in terms of character and orientation, legibility, inclusivity and an obvious and welcoming access;
- Protect and enhance accessibility, local connectivity and permeability;
- Prevent the loss of, and where possible enhance on and off site green infrastructure, including public open space, private amenity space, trees and woodland in accordance with policies SC1, SC4, and SC5, SP2 and INF6 & 7;
- Avoid creating or exacerbating off-site flood risk in accordance with policies SP9, SC3 and SC5;
- Protect the locality from adverse microclimate effects (such as wind tunnelling) in accordance with policies SP4 and SP7;
- Minimise impacts of development’s interference with broadcasting and other telecommunications services;
- Encourage the use of sustainable transport and minimise parking stress in the neighbourhood including the provision of publicly accessible car club spaces and electric car charging points in accordance with policy INF2;
- Achieve a high standard of access, egress and circulation for all, including through the provision for waste, recycling and bicycle storage facilities; the siting of parking provision and design legibility;
- Avoid unacceptable exposure to light (including light spillage), odour, dust, noise, disturbance, vibration, radiation and other amenity or health impacting pollutants in accordance with policy SP2;
- Ensure adequate access to daylight and sunlight in accordance with policy SP3;
- Minimise overlooking and loss of privacy, overshadowing, and overbearing impact; and
- Make appropriate provision for communal spaces and private amenity spaces (e.g. bedrooms and places of retreat) in multiple-user buildings (including HMOs) and should take into account any losses incurred.
- Compliance with the standards and due regard to the importance of the technical guidance in Table 4 where they are relevant to development proposals, will be expected to promote neighbourliness in addressing the need to:
For more information please see the Local Plan 2018