[2024] UKUT 00146 (LC)

Fecha: 05-Jun-2024

The planning policy position at the valuation date

The planning policy position at the valuation date

37.

As far as relevant to the appeal the statutory development plan for the appeal site at the valuation date was the London Plan (March 2016), and the London Legacy Development Corporation Local Plan (July 2015) (‘the LLDC Local Plan’).

38.

The parties agreed that the most relevant London Plan policies are as follows:

• Policy 1.1 (Delivering the Strategic Vision and Objectives for London)

• Policy 2.4 (The 2012 Games and their Legacy)

• Policy 3.3 (Increasing Housing Supply)

• Policy 3.5 (Quality and Design of Housing Developments)

• Policy 3.8 (Housing Choice)

• Policy 3.9 (Mixed and Balanced Communities)

• Policies 3.10, 3.11 3.12, 3.13 (Affordable Housing)

• Policy 4.3 (Mixed Use Development and Offices)

• Policy 4.4 (Managing Industrial Land and Premises)

• Policy 7.4 (Local Character)

• Policy 7.7 (Location and Design of Tall and Large Buildings)

• Policy 7.8 (Heritage Assets and Archaeology).

39.

The parties agreed that the most relevant LLDC Local Plan policies are as follows:

• Policy SP.1: Building a strong and diverse economy

• Policy B1: Location and maintenance of employment uses

• Site Allocation – SA4.2 – Sugar House Lane

• Policy H1: Providing a mix of housing types

• Policy H2: Delivering affordable housing

• Policy BN.1: Responding to place

• Policy BN.4: Designing residential schemes

• Policy BN.5: Requiring Inclusive Design

• Policy BN.10: Proposals for tall buildings

• Policy BN.16: Preserving or enhancing heritage assets

• Policy S.8: Flood risk and sustainable drainage measures

• Policy 3.1: Stratford High Street Policy Area

• Policy 4.2: Bringing forward new connections to serve new development.

40.

A range of other planning policies and guidance were also identified as material considerations including the 2012 National Planning Policy Framework (‘NPPF’) and the Sugar House Lane Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Policy (2010).

41.

As regards the 2015 LLDC Local Plan, at the valuation date, the appeal site was within site allocation SA4.2 – Sugar House Lane. It was also within an Employment Cluster as a Locally Significant Industrial Site (B.1b7 under Policy B1), and as we have said was in the Sugar House Lane Conservation Area.