The recent Full Brent Council Meeting formally adopted the new Local Plan which provides a framework for developments in the borough until 2041. The Local Plan contains many elements that have have been controversial including the projected population increase and amount of housing, density of housing, tall building policy and so-called intensification corridors which allow new build on roads that currently are low rise.
Now that the Plan has been adopted residents' groups will find it much harder to challenge specific developments at the Planning Committee stage and committee members will find their hands tied to a large extent.
The grounds for a Judicial Review are narrowly defined:
This extract from the Adopted Local Plan sums up some of the issues that concern residents.
This is the announcement on the Brent Council website. To assess the overall policies click on 'Adopted Local Plan (basic version):
The Brent Local Plan 2019-2041 was adopted by Full Council on 24 February 2022.
This replaced the Brent Core Strategy 2010, Brent Site Allocations Plan 2011, Wembley Area Action Plan 2015 and Development Management Policies Plan 2016 which have been formally revoked.
We will however retain these documents on the website until the 6-week period for applications for judicial review of the adoption decision has passed, or if such requests have been made, they are resolved.
In advance of a final ‘glossy’ version of the plan being available, we have produced a basic version of the Local Plan incorporating all modifications. This will be subject to further minor modifications. These will address things such as page numbering, the insertion of figures and infographics identified in the text similar to those in the submitted plan, as well as appropriate photographs.
- Adopted Local Plan (basic version)
- Local Plan Adoption Statement
- Local Plan Integrated Impact Assessment Adoption Report.
The interactive Local Plan Policies Map that accompanies the Local Plan 2019-2041 is not yet ready to view. PDFs of the submitted Policies Map are available to view on the links below.
The policies map that accompanies the revoked Local Plan has been retained on the website as an aid in the meantime, as a number of the policy designation boundaries remain the same.
- Revoked Local Plan policies map
- Draft Local Plan policy map (all layers)
- Draft Local Plan policy map (development areas)
- Draft Local Plan policy map (environmental protection, heritage, employment, and article 4)
- Draft Local Plan policy map (open space, flood zones and shopping)
- Schedule of policies map modifications
If you need further help in identifying the policy designations related to a particular site, please contact us by emailing planningstrategy@brent.gov.uk setting out the address, or a redline map boundary of the site.
Distopia on Brent
ReplyDeleteThe mad BLP rush is interesting. A pre-pandemic design BLP, during Sars Covid-19 pandemic consulted and then decided. So, a BLP design as if the pandemic never happened- Development Colonial market business as usual but economic crisis intensified.
ReplyDeleteI am a consumer of Growth Area zoning experimentations since 2010, GA is suspended at national level, yet proceeding in Lone Star Brent? Intensification Corridors look like they will form tall 'screens' to conceal neglect and abandonment behind them to create more market land fill opportunities.
Dystopia is way too optimistic.
It will be interesting to see the new Brent Policies Map for South Kilburn, as its useless at present because so much is happening (total market) on its 48 zoned hectares, that colonial want to 2041 remains unclear to residents.
Only one Brent Councillor voted against this new Brent Local Plan.
ReplyDeleteShame on the few Labour Councillors we truly believed had a conscience and would vote against it but instead voted in favour - simply can't understand their reasons for this.
And shame on the Tories who abstained from the vote.
Please remember this info a few years to come when every bit of Brent has been built on!
Revoking past plans is government covering up its tracks on (denying and disappearing) numerous social, health and parks/ recreation infrastructure investment faked pledges made to local people inside massive population growth zones. Supplementary Planning Documents are not planning required either. New BLP site allocations require nothing beyond water supply and drainage improvements and that based on no Growth Area Strategic Flood Risk Assessment. While other giant sites on public land don't even exist in this new BLP (or in the previous BLP), my guess is nothing planning required?
ReplyDeleteNew BLP procedure was massively impacted by Covid lockdowns and disruptions. While war with Russia, means that maybe British Islands shell companies selling GA leases galore is perhaps soon over and the forces absolute ruling Growth will be made 100% transparent?
Brent Queens Park up on the hill is protected, but giant Maida Vale Conservation Area sewage flooded from a Brent GA projectile upstream, may choose like STRA to fund a Judicial Review of the new BLP?
Another question is why New BLP is pursuing planning policy ideas which are at national level since 2021 suspended and unlikely to ever become law in the new Planning Bill of late 2022/23. The proposed brutal human rights abuse 3 zones system for England (protection, renewal and build whatever zones) is scrapped at national level, yet gleefully continues in Brent? Mandatory housing targets will also be abandoned in the new bill, with pressure growing for families to be housed in the UK's half million plus empty homes (currently kept empty as investments) – it's become environment protection essential to utilise these homes.
Brent and Westminster Residents Had No Lawyers.
ReplyDeleteReferring here to the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004……
Survey of Area 13(1) There is no Strategic Flood Risk Assessment of the South Kilburn Growth Area (same applies to the other 7 Brent Growth Areas).
(3) Higher tier changes in the new planning bill (which the BLP is based on) are government suspended. Another fail as Local should not over-rule National planning policy.
(5) Is City of Westminster consulted on the actual SKGA/ TBZ and its build on its entire natural parks flood defences for Central London as new sites (both revealed and concealed?)
14 A (4) Current estate land uses are Brent landowner ignored and denied without residents being consulted. A clear fail as describing all current land uses as they really are 2022 would re-plug South Kilburn back into both London Plan and to National policies.
15 BLP doesn't relate cohesively to higher tier planning policies.
Preparation
19 (2)a) New BLP was prepared based on a national planning bill policies which have been suspended since September 2021 and Covid pandemic assisted this unfair preparation too as residents could not appear before Plan Inspectors inspite of this being the most 'Local out there' plan of anywhere in England.
24) Conformity with regional plan (London Plan)? Not as regards Brent Growth Areas. South Kilburn is kept entirely under the LP radar.
33 A) Duty to co-operate in relation to planning of sustainable development- with no Strategic Flood Risk Assessment for South Kilburn Growth Area Tall Buildings zoned 48 hectares zoned (and the other 7 Brent GA's), currently a fail.
“Making the best use of the land”
ReplyDeletesounds good in PDF form, but in practice, forget it.
The land upon which Chalk-Hill estate was built, neglected, demolished and rebuilt
in the laughable name of “regeneration” and has now become a dumping ground for litter, household furniture, cigarette stubs, amyl nitrite canisters, shopping trolleys from the local Asda superstore.
“Making the best use of the land”, yeah right.
“Making the best use of the land”
ReplyDeletesounds good in PDF form, but in practice, forget it.
The land upon which Chalk-Hill estate was built, neglected, demolished and rebuilt
in the laughable name of “regeneration” is becoming a dumping ground.
Yes, the land upon which, “high quality flats” were supposed to be built, courtesy of the former Lib Dem Councillor, Paul Lorber, has been allowed to become a place in which litter, household furniture, cigarette stubs, amyl nitrite canisters, shopping trolleys from the local Asda superstore, is strewn from one end to the other, with apparent impunity.
The council that stood by in the past while “the land wasn't made the best of”, hasn't changed.
Lo, and behold, Chalk-Hill, and Bridge Road, (at the present time, ) from an environmental perspective, are anything other than positive examples of Brent council “Making the best use of the land.”