Policy information sourced from Spelthorne Core Strategy and Policies Development Plan Document
EM1: Employment Development
The Council will maintain employment development by:
- retaining the following designated Employment Areas and supporting in principle proposals in these areas for employment development:
- Staines town centre
- Ashford town centre
- Shepperton centre
- Sunbury Cross centre
- Windmill Road, Sunbury
- Hanworth Road and Country Way, Sunbury
- Ashford Road, Littleton Road and Spelthorne Lane, Ashford
- London Road (East of Crooked Billet roundabout), Staines
- Bedfont Road, Long Lane, Stanwell (including Northumberland Close and Camgate Estate)
- BP Chertsey Road, Sunbury
- Shepperton Studios, Shepperton
- encouraging proposals for redevelopment and extensions that enable business needs to be met and make the most effective use of available employment land,
- refusing proposals that involve a net loss of employment land or floorspace in Employment Areas, unless the loss of floorspace forms part of a redevelopment that more effectively meets needs for an existing business operating from the site or the loss of employment land is part of a mixed use development on the site which results in no net loss of employment floorspace, or it can be clearly demonstrated that the maintenance of existing levels of employment floorspace on the site is unsustainable and unviable in the long term,
- allowing mixed use schemes in town centres where there is no net loss of employment floorspace.
For more information please see the Core Strategy and Policies Development Plan Document