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of new housing developments, and that local authorities should operate
on the basis that applications for development should be allowed
having regard to the Development Plan and all material considerations,
unless the proposed development would cause demonstrable harm to
the interests of acknowledged importance.
The policy statement underlines the fact that the planning system can
deliver high quality, mixed use developments characterised by
compactness, mixed-use and dwelling types, affordable housing, a
range of employment uses, leisure and community facilities and a high
standard of design. The emphasis is also on the use of planning
conditions to control development and also to make the best use of
brownfield sites.
6.4 Planning Policy Statement 3 – Housing:
Planning Policy Statement 3 underpins the delivery of the
Government’s strategic housing policy objectives and the goal to
ensure that everyone has the opportunity to live in a decent home,
which they can afford in a community where they want to live.
6.5 Planning Policy Guidance 13 – Transport:
Planning Policy Guidance Note 13 (PPG13) stresses the reliance of the
past on the private car. The guidance note encourages alternative
means of travel which would have less environmental impact. It
suggests the location of new housing in urban areas, and the optimum
use of under-used sites and the promotion of new rail links and other
improvements to public transport. One of the main objectives of this
piece of Central Government thinking is to reduce the number of car
movements and usage.
6.6 Planning Policy Statement 23 – Planning and Pollution Control
The policies in this statement and the advice in the accompanying
Annexes (Annex 1: Pollution Control, Air and Water Quality and Annex
2: Development on Land Affected by Contamination) should be taken
into account by Regional Planning Bodies (RPBs) and Local Planning
Authorities (LPAs) in preparing Regional Spatial Strategies (RSSs) and
Local Development Documents (LDDs).
6.7 They are also material to decisions on individual planning applications.
38(6) of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 requires
planning decisions to be made in accordance with the development
plan unless material considerations indicate otherwise. The
development plan in Lambeth is the London Plan (‘consolidated with
Alterations since 2004’ published in February 2008), the Lambeth Core
Strategy (adopted 19 January 2011), and the remaining saved policies
in the ‘Lambeth Unitary Development Plan (UDP) 2007: Policies saved
beyond 5 August 2010 and not superseded by the LDF Core Strategy