Policy information sourced from Newham Local Plan 2018
S9 Cumulative Impact
Proposals which address the following strategic principles, spatial strategy and technical criteria will be supported:
- Strategic principles
- All development proposals will be expected to avoid creating or adding to problematic cumulative impacts, helping instead to engender healthy, successful places, creating sustainable development, by recognising the cumulative effect individual units and specific uses can have on the success of places.
- Spatial Strategy
- Within the following areas of cumulative impact concern (Table 5) particular impacts should not be added to, and should preferably be ameliorated.
| Area | Impact of Concern | More Detailed Policy Requirements |
|---|---|---|
| Air Quality Management Area(s) (AQMAs) | An increase in the concentration of specified pollutants or increased exposure to them. | SP2 & SC5 |
| Water Quality Stress Zones | Water quality. | SC4 & SC3 |
| Critical Drainage Areas and Flood Zones 2 and 3 | Run off and flood risk from surface water run-off or fluvial and tidal sources | SC3 |
| Areas of Parks Deficiency | Distance to parks of particular sizes and any loss of parks, or their functionality, or other loss of open space/blue ribbon assets that provides compensation for lack of park access of a particular type. | INF7 |
| Congestion Zones | Congestion. | SP3, SP7 and INF2 |
| Licensing Saturation Policy Zones | Crime and Disorder; Public Nuisance; Protection of Children from Harm. | SP2 and SP6 |
| Health and Safety Executive Consultation Zones | Risk to people from Major Hazard Sites and Pipelines. | SP2 |
| Public Safety Zone (Airport) | Risk to life by presence of people. | INF1, SP2 |
- Design & Technical Criteria
- In town centres, the need to ensure that:
- Within Primary Shopping Frontages (as shown on the Policies Map), 70% of units are in A1 use.;Note: A unit comprises a single frontage premises in accordance with street naming and numbering; and
- At least two-thirds of town centre leisure uses are to be ‘Quality leisure’ uses. Units in Class D2, A4 or A3 use should therefore account for at least 67% of leisure uses, and Class A5 uses, amusement arcades and betting shops should not account for more than 33%; and
- In all areas, the need to avoid over-concentrations of specific uses (currently betting shops, takeaways, and nightly-stay hostels) by ensuring that:
- Linear concentrations:
- No more than two of the same specified uses are adjacent to each other; and
- There is a separation distance of at least two units in other uses between pairs (or groups if more than two units) in the same specified use; or
- Area concentrations:
- There are no more than three premises in the same specified use within 400m of each other; and
- A 400m catchment drawn around a proposed specified use does not overlap with any more than two other catchment areas drawn around existing, committed or proposed units in the same specified use.
- Linear concentrations:
- In town centres, the need to ensure that:
For more information please see the Local Plan 2018