Policy information sourced from The London Plan 2021
SD1 Opportunity Areas
- To ensure that Opportunity Areas fully realise their growth and regeneration potential, the Mayor will:
- provide support and leadership for the collaborative preparation and implementation of planning frameworks that:
- set out a clear strategy for accommodating growth
- assist in delivering specific infrastructure requirements that unlock capacity for new homes and jobs
- support regeneration
- are prepared in an open and timely manner
- encourage the strategic remediation of contaminated land
- bring together the range of investment and intervention needed to deliver the vision and ambition for the area
- support and implement adopted planning frameworks, in order to give them appropriate material weight in planning decisions
- ensure that his agencies (including Transport for London) work together and with others to promote and champion Opportunity Areas, and identify those that require public investment and intervention to achieve their growth potential
- ensure that Opportunity Areas maximise the delivery of affordable housing and create mixed and inclusive communities
- ensure that Opportunity Areas contribute to regeneration objectives by tackling spatial inequalities and environmental, economic and social barriers that affect the lives of people in the area, especially in Local and Strategic Areas for Regeneration
- monitor progress in delivering homes, jobs and infrastructure, taking action where necessary to overcome any barriers to delivery
- ensure that development facilitates ambitious transport mode share targets.
- provide support and leadership for the collaborative preparation and implementation of planning frameworks that:
- Boroughs, through Development Plans and decisions, should:
- clearly set out how they will encourage and deliver the growth potential of Opportunity Areas
- support development which creates employment opportunities and housing choice for Londoners
- plan for and provide the necessary social and other infrastructure to sustain growth and create mixed and inclusive communities, working with infrastructure providers where necessary
- recognise the role of heritage in place-making
- establish the capacity for growth in Opportunity Areas, taking account of the indicative capacity for homes and jobs in Table 2.1
- support and sustain Strategic Industrial Locations (SIL) and other industrial capacity by considering opportunities to intensify and make more efficient use of land in SIL, in accordance with Policy E4 Land for industry, logistics and services to support London’s economic function, Policy E5 Strategic Industrial Locations (SIL), Policy E6 Locally Significant Industrial Sites and Policy E7 Industrial intensification, co-location and substitution, co-location and substitution
- include ambitious transport mode share targets
- support wider regeneration and ensure that development proposals integrate into the surrounding areas, in accordance with Policy SD10 Strategic and local regeneration
- ensure planning frameworks are informed by public and stakeholder engagement and collaboration at an early stage and throughout their development
- work with the Mayor, local communities and other stakeholders to review appropriate locations and identify new Opportunity Areas. These should be distinct and significant locations that have capacity for at least 5,000 new jobs and/or 2,500 new homes
- take appropriate measures to deal with contamination that may exist.
For more information please see The London Plan 2021