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Focus on: Housing

The London Plan has identified Old Oak and Park Royal as an area with the potential to deliver 25,500 new homes. These homes will be built over the next 20 plus years and will create a new suburb and community in London.

OPDC is the Local Planning Authority for the area and our role is to make sure that new housing is in the right places and is supported by the correct levels of transport infrastructure, schools and health facilities. In order to achieve this ambition, we need to hear from you on are the type of housing that’s built, how affordable it is and whether it is should be for renting or buying.

There are 10 housing policies in the draft Local Plan, which set out what we think is needed to secure the housing and the long-term sustainable future of the area and communities proposed.

We need your feedback on these policies and we also want to capture any further ideas that you think OPDC should be considering to make this area an attractive place where people will want to live for generations to come. The 10 Housing policies are: (Click on any of the policy headings to find out more and leave your thoughts and feedback on the plans)

H1: Strategic Policy

  • Encourages the delivery of new housing
  • Encourages developments of a mix of housing types and tenures
  • Developments should be flexible and adaptable to meet future housing needs and innovation (e.g. smart technology)

    • H2: Housing Supply

  • Setting an annual target Promotes development on sites that are identified in the draft Development Capacity Study
  • Will seek supply from a range of sources (e.g. conversions, returning empty dwellings to use, new build, etc.)
  • Will support development of potential sites that have not yet been identified, these are called ‘windfall’ sites

    • H3: Housing Mix

  • New developments should aim to deliver a mix of housing of both affordable and homes for sale
  • Affordable housing mix should aim to achieve the mix identified in the draft Local Plan
  • Designs of new housing should be of the highest quality, deliver ‘lifetime neighbourhoods’ and provide for accessible and adaptable dwellings

    • H4: Affordable Housing

  • Sets out a number of principles for delivering affordable housing
  •  Explores a range of options for how affordable housing could be secured

    • H5: Existing Housing

  • Will work with the local boroughs to bring empty homes back into use
  • Resist the net loss of existing homes
  •  Permit conversions of existing homes under particular circumstances

    • H6: Housing in the Private Rented Sector

  • Professionally managed Private Rented Sector (PRS) is to supported, especially in the early stages of the development
  • New PRS will need to include an element of affordable housing
  • New PRS developments should be provided for a defined period with a review mechanism

    • H7: Housing with shared facilities

  • Should be delivered where there is an identified local need
  • Located in areas which can support the more intensive occupancy rates

    • H8: Specialist Housing

  • Contribute to the mix of housing in an area (e.g. sheltered housing schemes and extra care)
  • Support older people to live as independently for as long as possible in their own homes and then move to supported accommodation

    • H9: Gypsy and Traveller Accommodation

  • Needs to be a sufficient number of pitches/plots to meet existing and future needs
  • Support the health and wellbeing of occupiers of the site
  • Be accessible to transport and other support infrastructure

    • H10: Student Accommodation

  • Be of high quality design and size
  • Should be close to transport nodes
  • Must not result in the over-concentration of student accommodation in any one area and should be accompanied with management plans

    • Consultation Questions

    For each of the policy areas in the OPDC Local Plan, we need your views on the preferred policy option and/or whether any alternative options should be considered.

    Your feedback on housing is crucial to Old Oak and Park Royal’s future. So please provide comments on these policies online using this consultation platform . We would like your views across all of these policy options, but would like to highlight a few key policies that we would like your thoughts on specifically:

    H1: Strategic policies : What type of housing would you like to see at Old Oak and who do you think will/should live in this housing? 

    H2: Housing supply : What do you think will be the challenges with delivering (the type of housing you have identified in the previous question) over the next 20 years and what do you think we could do to overcome the challenges?

    H4: Affordable housing : Which of the four options for delivering Affordable Housing do you prefer? And why?

    Provide comments against these policies today .

    Posted on 24th March 2016

    by OPDC Team