HILLINGDON UNITARY DEVELOPMENT PLAN - London Borough ...

movement and parking and will review the need for further lorry parking and will also, wherever possible,
reduce the environmental intrusion of lorries.
14.41 RPG3 asks local planning authorities to ensure, where practicable, multi-modal freight access for
new development. Promotion of the use of rail and canals for the carriage of freight is consistent with
many of the other policies of this Plan including those relating to environment and operational efficiency of
road space and the Council will give support where appropriate to developers and freight operators seeking
grants under Sections 139 and 140 of the Railways Act 1993 or other relevant legislation and will give the
utmost priority to transferring freight from road to rail or canal wherever this would reduce the
environmental problems associated with road freight.
AM18 WHERE APPROPRIATE, IN DEVELOPMENTS ADJOINING THE GRAND UNION
CANAL THE LOCAL PLANNING AUTHORITY WILL SEEK TO SECURE CANALSIDE
FACILITIES FOR CANAL BORNE FREIGHT, AS WELL AS FOR RECREATION, AMENITY
AND NATURE CONSERVATION.
Implementation
14.42 The access and movement policies of this UDP, being based on Central Government guidance in,
particularly, PPG13 and RPG3, form the basis for other transport related initiatives. These include the
Council's Transport and Economic Regeneration Strategies, which detail the policies and proposals (see
Chapters 10 and 15) on which, respectively, bids for Transport Supplementary Grant and Single
Regeneration Budget funds are based.
14.43 Apart from the Council-promoted schemes associated with these strategies, the development of
proposals by other bodies, particularly in the private sector, in accordance with the policies of this plan will
help achieve the Council's access and movement objectives. In this context the Local Planning Authority
seeks, where appropriate, planning obligations to achieve benefits to the community, related to the scale
and type of development proposed, in accordance with Policies Pt 1.39 and R17 of this Plan. These could
include improvement of the environment; the safe circulation of traffic; and ensuring that the development
does not cause net unrecoverable public expenditure.
London Borough of Hillingdon Unitary Development Plan