Policy information sourced from Wandsworth Core Strategy
IS 6 Community services and the provision of infrastructure
The Council will support the provision and/or improvement of facilities for community services including education and childcare, health and social welfare, police and other emergency services and the prison service. It will work with partner organisations to support the provision of adequate, high quality social and community facilities by:
- Resisting the loss of social and community facilities unless there is no current or future demonstrable need.
- Seeking to secure the provision of new, or improvements to existing, social and community facilities.
- Supporting the dual use of social, educational and community facilities, particularly the use of schools after hours, for a mix of sporting, social, cultural and recreational uses.
- Supporting the provision of improved health services, including mental health care, GP and local hospital services, having regard to scale of development and public transport availability.
The provision of infrastructure including transport, particularly improvements to public transport and facilities for walking and cycling, utilities, telecommunications, waste and recycling facilities, water and sewerage capacity will be supported. The provision of the infrastructure necessary to support development set out in the Strategy, particularly in the areas identified for major change, will be sought as identified in the Infrastructure Delivery Schedule which will be updated annually in the Authority Monitoring Report. The availability of infrastructure both existing and potential will be taken into account in considering development proposals.
The Council will support an enabling approach to the provision of public services, which allows them to be incorporated within developments as proposals are brought forward by partner organisations, with funding supported by the Community Infrastructure Levy and/or Legal Agreements where works on-site or in the vicinity are necessary to mitigate the impact of development, or to enable the delivery of the site, as detailed in the Council’s Planning Obligations Supplementary Planning Document.
The Council will work with Thames Water and Bazalgette Tunnel Limited to support the timely implementation of the Thames Tideway Tunnel project, including the connection of the combined sewer overflows in the borough in accordance with The Thames Water Utilities Limited (Thames Tideway Tunnel) Order 2014 as amended.
For more information please see the Wandsworth Core Strategy