2) Development is required to demonstrate how it will address the priorities and principles within these opportunity areas as well as the Central sub-area. Development that is within or part of a site allocation is required to deliver the identified land uses, infrastructure requirements and design and delivery principles.

3) The majority of new housing and employment provision within the borough will be focussed within the Isle of Dogs and South Poplar opportunity area, principally within Canary Wharf and Northern Isle of Dogs. Significant amounts of new housing will also be delivered in the City Fringe and Lower Lea Valley (including those sites which form part of the Poplar Riverside Housing Zone programme) opportunity areas.

4) The borough’s town centres will continue to be the focus of shopping, leisure, cultural and community activities and will include a broad range of uses that are accessible to a significant number of people via foot, cycle or public transport.

5) The continued growth of Canary Wharf (as defined on Figure 5) will be promoted to support its strategic role as a metropolitan centre serving the needs of the neighbourhood and the wider area, and to better integrate the public realm and development opportunities with adjoining areas around Poplar and the Isle of Dogs.

6) Canary Wharf and the City Fringe will continue to act as a key focus for financial and business services. Biotech, life sciences and digital industries will be primarily concentrated in the City Fringe opportunity area (including Whitechapel) to support the development of the Tech City and Med City clusters, and a new civic centre will be developed on the site of former Royal London Hospital at Whitechapel.

7) Development will be required to support the delivery of significant new infrastructure to support growth within the four sub-areas, including:

For more information please see the Local Plan