Policy information sourced from the Fitzrovia West Neighbourhood Plan
GS2: Creating New Green and Open Spaces
- All new major development should incorporate appropriate and well-designed new open or green space where possible. Appropriate provision should include living roofs, living walls and ecologically sensitive landscaping.
- Where major development is proposed, a landscape plan should be submitted identifying the provision of trees and ecologically sensitive landscaping and promoting biodiversity wherever appropriate. This shall:
- ensure adequate space is provided in new developments both above and below ground for tree planting and greening where appropriate, and seek infrastructure changes as part of new developments to allow for future tree planting, such as seeking diversion of below ground services or creating wider pavements by the use of pavement build outs;
- include living and green roofs, gardens, the planting of additional trees, sustainable urban drainage systems and rain gardens, green walls and soft landscaping wherever they are structurally viable and will have no adverse impacts on heritage assets. Evidence of proposed maintenance arrangements should be submitted, particularly with sensitive landscaping such as green roofs and green walls;
- incorporate where appropriate measures to promote biodiversity, such as swift bricks and bat boxes.
- In order to create further public amenity space and improve the public realm, the conversion of existing streets as set out in Figure 8 below shall be actively supported. Streets selected for this policy shall:
- Provide for pedestrian, cycling or shared use, landscaping and play streets;
- Identify opportunities to apply principles of ‘healthy streets’;
- Encourage the use of visually attractive paving, landscaping and street furniture;
- Rationalise, remove, and where necessary, relocate residents’ parking provision.
For more information please see the Neighbourhood Plan