Policy information sourced from Redbridge Local Plan

LP17: Delivering Community Infrastructure

The Council will support new growth with appropriate community infrastructure in a timely and efcient manner by:

  • Supporting new and replacement development or enhancement of existing facilities;
  • Supporting and promoting an alternative community use where the existing community use has ceased and where the alternative use can demonstrate a local need and that there is no undue impact on the amenity of existing residents or the highway network;
  • Supporting community infrastructure on the upper foors of key retail parades provided they are accessible to residents with disabilities;
  • Supporting community infrastructure as part of mixed use development;
  • Supporting and facilitating the expansion of existing schools and health facilities where a clear need can be demonstrated, in addition to the provision of new and expanded facilities on sites identifed in Appendix 2 and the Infrastructure Delivery Plan;
  • Safeguarding existing waste sites in the borough and delivering the ELWA Joint Waste Development Plan (2012) to support sustainable waste management in the sub-region;

Where proposals involve the loss of infrastructure this will only be supported where:

  • It is clearly demonstrated that there is no longer a need, within the local community for the existing use or for reuse of the building or site for any other community use; or
  • The building is no longer suitable; or
  • The facilities in the building are being re-provided elsewhere in the borough.

New community infrastructure should be located in or on the edge of the borough’s town centres. The provision of new or extended community infrastructure outside of town centres will only be supported where they are local in nature and scale, where a local need can be demonstrated and where there is no undue impact on the amenity of existing residents or highway network;

The dual use of existing and new community infrastructure will be supported in areas of good accessibility in order to create community hubs ofering a range of services, subject to satisfactory management arrangements being put in place; and

The Council will require that new development be accompanied by proposals for the provision of the community infrastructure required to meet the needs arising from that development. The Council will secure delivery of community infrastructure within Opportunity Sites in accordance with the policies of Section 3 and Appendix 1 of the Plan. Within the Investment and Growth Areas, the Council will seek to secure new community infrastructure, where appropriate, as part of mixed use proposals and the key infrastructure listed in policies LP1A – LP1E. The Council will seek necessary funding of new community infrastructure, including, where appropriate, from development proposals, in accordance with policy LP41 and Appendix 2 of the Plan.

Implementation

The Council will update its Infrastructure Delivery Plan (IDP) annually to provide an up-to-date assessment of the need for all types of community infrastructure;

The Council will co-ordinate its own internal services and work with external agencies to align community infrastructure forward planning with population growth and housing construction as proposed in the Infrastructure Delivery Plan. External agencies include (but are not limited to) the NHS, Education Funding Authority, TfL, Metropolitan Police, Thames Water, National Grid, Highways Agency and Redbridge Clinical Commissioning Group;

The Council will keep under review the level and application of its Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) Charging Schedule to maximise receipts to help fund infrastructure provision without undermining the viability of the development other policies in this plan seek to encourage; and

Work with the East London Waste Authority (ELWA) to implement the Waste Plan DPD.

For more information please see the Local Plan