HILLINGDON UNITARY DEVELOPMENT PLAN - London Borough ...

y women than by men (because the responsibility for domestic and caring work usually falls to women)
but are so poorly located and unsuited to their needs that they are inconvenient or even inaccessible to
many women. The lack of an adequate range of services is compounded by a lack of facilities such as
creches, baby changing and feeding rooms and good, safe play areas. New shops, offices and other
buildings can be made accessible and safe for almost everybody by making proper provision at the design
stage for these types of facility and for ramped entrances, easily opened doors, door and aisle widths
suitable for wheelchairs, pushchairs and prams, counter heights suited to the needs of shoppers in
wheelchairs, lifts to all floors and accessible toilets. Paragraphs 14.30 and Policy AM13 refer to a range of
mobility measures to improve accessibility. The Local Planning Authority will having regard to the
provisions of Circular 1/97, endeavour to secure access and mobility measures in association with new
development, particularly in town and local centres.
R16 THE LOCAL PLANNING AUTHORITY WILL ONLY PERMIT PROPOSALS FOR
SHOPS, BUSINESS USES, SERVICES, COMMUNITY AND OTHER FACILITIES OPEN TO
THE PUBLIC IF THEY INCLUDE ADEQUATE PROVISION FOR ACCESSIBILITY, IN
PARTICULAR THOSE OF ELDERLY PEOPLE, PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, WOMEN AND
CHILDREN. WHERE APPROPRIATE TO THE SCALE AND NATURE OF THE
DEVELOPMENT PROPOSED, NEW DEVELOPMENT SHOULD INCLUDE:-
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
SAFE AND CONVENIENT ACCESS BY PUBLIC AND PRIVATE TRANSPORT
AND ON FOOT;
SAFE AND CONVENIENT MEANS OF PHYSICAL ACCESS TO ALL FLOORS;
FACILITIES FOR CHILD AND BABY CARE ACCESSIBLE FOR MALE AND
FEMALE CARERS; AND
TOILETS ACCESSIBLE TO PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES;
AND HAVE REGARD TO THE MEASURES SET OUT IN POLICIES AM13 (i) - (iv) AND R17.
Planning Obligations
9.32 Chapter 2 of this Plan identified the constraints on public expenditure and stressed the importance
of the Local Authority's role of promoting partnerships and enabling development to take place to meet the
identified needs of the community. Specific reference was made to local planning authorities seeking to
enter into planning obligations with developers. Circular 1/97 notes that “the provision of community
facilities e.g. reasonable amounts of small areas of open space, social, educational, recreational or sporting
facilities, may be acceptable, provided that such facilities are directly related to the development proposal,
the need for them arises from its implementation, and they are related in scale and kind” (Circular 1/97,
para. B10). In accordance with this guidance, the Local Planning Authority will seek in appropriate cases
to supplement the provision of recreation and community facilities (see Chapter 10, Local Economy, Policy
LE7).
R17 THE LOCAL PLANNING AUTHORITY WILL, WHERE APPROPRIATE, SEEK TO
SUPPLEMENT THE PROVISION OF RECREATION OPEN SPACE, FACILITIES TO
SUPPORT ARTS, CULTURAL AND ENTERTAINMENT ACTIVITIES, AND OTHER
COMMUNITY, SOCIAL AND EDUCATION FACILITIES THROUGH PLANNING
OBLIGATIONS IN CONJUNCTION WITH OTHER DEVELOPMENT PROPOSALS.
London Borough of Hillingdon Unitary Development Plan