Policy information sourced from the Isle of Dogs Neighbourhood Plan

ES1 – USE OF EMPTY SITES

To support Sustainable Development in the Area and the productive use of available land:

  • Applications for Strategic Development should submit a feasibility study for one or more potential meanwhile uses on their sites (including for existing buildings) which could be implemented – whether by the applicant or by third parties – if the development is not begun in accordance with the substantive planning application for more than twelve months after gaining final planning consent
  • An obligation will be made part of any Section 106 agreement on Strategic Developments within the Area, stating that the length of planning permission will be extended to five years if the developer takes reasonable endeavours to make the site available for a meanwhile use within twelve months of the substantive planning application gaining consent. If such reasonable endeavours are not made, the permission will remain at three years.
  • If a proposed meanwhile use requires planning permission, this will be the subject of a separate planning permission.
  • Such meanwhile uses should be for one or more of the following purposes, subject to site specific constraints:
  • Temporary pocket parks
  • Affordable workspace or housing
  • Temporary farmers’ markets or commercial markets
  • Pop-up retail and/or restaurants
  • Cultural and sporting activities
  • Public art and lighting installations
  • Other purposes agreed with LBTH

Such sites should be used for meanwhile uses on the basis that they can be recalled by the developer to build out the development in accordance with the substantive planning application, on reasonable notice in the context of the meanwhile use to which each site has been put.

For more information please see the Neighbourhood Plan