Policy information sourced from the Tower Hamlets Local Plan
D.EMP3 Loss of employment space
1) Development resulting in the net loss of employment floorspace within Preferred Office Locations, Local Industrial Locations and the Strategic Industrial Location will not be supported.
2) Development should not result in the net loss of viable employment floorspace outside of the designated employment locations cited in Part 1 above or Local Employment Locations (LELs), except where they:
- provide evidence of active marketing over a continuous period of at least 24 months at a reasonable market rent which accords with indicative figures, or
- provide robust demonstration that the site is genuinely unsuitable for continued employment use due to its condition; reasonable options for restoring the site to employment use are unviable; and that the benefits of alternative use would outweigh the benefits of employment use.
3) Proposals involving the loss or reduction of employment floorspace within LELs must also demonstrate that alternative employment uses would not be viable and the loss of employment floorspace would not compromise the operation and viability of the wider LEL.
For more information please see the Local Plan