HILLINGDON UNITARY DEVELOPMENT PLAN - London Borough ...

**RIGBY LANE/SWALLOWFIELD WAY/
BETAM ROAD/DAWLEY ROAD WEST,
HAYES
**MILLINGTON ROAD, HAYES
**SPRINGFIELD ROAD INDUSTRIAL
AREA, HAYES:
**PUMP LANE, HAYES:
BATH ROAD, HEATHROW:
HAYES BRIDGE, UXBRIDGE ROAD
HAYES:
BULL'S BRIDGE:
COVERT FARM, BEDFONT:
Bullsbrook Road, Beaconsfield Road,
Uxbridge Road
Bilton Way, Pasadena Close, Silverdale Road
Heathrow Boulevard, Skyport Drive, Penguin Books
Delamere Road, Westmount Centre,
triangular site to south of Uxbridge Road
Land between Yeading Brook and Grand Union
Canal (Paddington Branch)
Land bounded by Stanwell Road to the south and the
Great West Road to the east
Industrial, Warehousing and Business Development
10.9 LPAC's Supplementary Strategic Advice (November 1994) identified Strategic Employment Sites
across London. The majority of the Strategic Employment Sites in Hillingdon are Preferred Industrial
Locations (PIL) which are intended to provide the basis for ensuring the consolidation and growth of
existing large scale areas of manufacturing activity. RPG3 (revised) states that PILs and Industrial
Business Parks (which meet the needs of B1(b) and B1(c) activities) ‘should be especially considered when
planning or regenerating activities are contemplated and preference be given for retaining them for
employment uses’ (para 3.17). Over 75% of all the land within designated IBAs in the Borough falls
within this category (see Table 10.1) and as such defines Hillingdon's role and potential contribution to the
future of the West London economy. Within the Strategic Employment sites there are currently three
categories, of which all S.E. sites in the Borough fall into the Preferred Industrial Location (P.I.L.)
category. These "should reflect the needs of most B2 and, where appropriate, B8 industries in terms of
their access, layout, landscaping and cost requirements, as well as their relationship with other uses.
Proximity to the strategic road network (paragraph 5.54) and capacity for the sites to meet LPAC's
transport strategy will be particularly important. As well as defining new industrial areas, PIL's will
provide the basis for ensuring the consolidation and growth of existing large scale areas of manufacturing
activity." (Para. 3.30).
10.10 A 1995 survey of these 22 IBAs found that they had a combined area of over 400 hectares and a
total floorspace of approximately 2 million m². The majority of the IBAs are located in the south of the
Borough and particularly in the Hayes/West Drayton Corridor.
10.11 The Local Planning Authority has designated a series of Industrial and Business Areas (IBAs) as
the proposed locations for new industrial and warehousing development. These locations are the most
appropriate for accommodating employment generating uses in terms of access, layout and where there is a
need on amenity grounds to separate development from residential and other sensitive uses. The
characteristics of the IBAs vary considerably from traditional industrial estates to modern office and hightech
business parks. In order to ensure continuing diversity and provide a choice of sites to suit the
requirements of different occupiers, the Local Planning Authority considers that offices and other B1 Use
Class activities are acceptable in principle in IBAs. Other employment generating uses may also be
London Borough of Hillingdon Unitary Development Plan