HILLINGDON UNITARY DEVELOPMENT PLAN - London Borough ...

PR6 DEVELOPMENT IN RESPECT OF LAND ADJOINING THE DEFENCE RESEARCH
AGENCY SITE, WEST DRAYTON, AS IDENTIFIED ON THE PROPOSALS MAP, WILL BE
ACCEPTABLE IN PRINCIPLE FOR THE FOLLOWING USES:
(A)
(B)
RESIDENTIAL; OR
BUSINESS USES INCLUDING OFFICES AS PART OF A MIXED BUSINESS
AND RESIDENTIAL SCHEME;
SUBJECT TO OTHER POLICIES OF THIS PLAN.
IN ANY DEVELOPMENT THE FOLLOWING CONSIDERATIONS WILL BE TAKEN INTO
ACCOUNT:
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
(v)
THE ADEQUACY OF ACCESS VIA WARWICK ROAD AND THE
SURROUNDING ROAD NETWORK;
THE RELATIONSHIP OF EVERY PART OF THE SITE TO SURROUNDING
DEVELOPMENT, PARTICULARLY THE PART OF THE DEFENCE RESEARCH
AGENCY SITE WHICH REMAINS OPERATIONAL;
GROUND CONTAMINATION; AND
PROXIMITY TO THE RAILWAY AS A SOURCE OF NOISE.
THE SCOPE FOR INCLUDING AN AREA OF PUBLIC OPEN SPACE IN LIEU OF THE
EXISTING PRIVATE SPORTS GROUND.
Stockley
15.20 This part of the Borough has undergone significant improvement over the last decade and is now a
focal point, along with the town centres of Yiewsley/West Drayton and Hayes, for regeneration within the
Hayes/West Drayton Corridor. The location of commercial activity along the major east-west public
transport axis, provides the Borough with an excellent opportunity to improve the transport infrastructure in
the Stockley area and consequently release key sites for economic regeneration, such as Bourne Avenue,
Hayes. (See Policy PR7).
15.21 In December 1984 the Council granted planning permission for 140,000 m 2 of commercial
floorspace on an area on land north of the Grand Union Canal between Ironbridge Road and Dawley Road,
Yiewsley, which had previously been worked for minerals and filled with domestic, commercial and
industrial refuse. The area suffered from serious underground fires as a result of high levels of methane
gas, groundwater had become contaminated by leachate from the refuse which heavily polluted the Grand
Union Canal, and several non-conforming users were occupying sites in the area. Although within the
Green Belt, the appearance of the site was considered incapable of being maintained and improved to a
satisfactory standard through the introduction of uses normally acceptable in the Green Belt or through any
other practicable measures on individual sites. The planning permission has now been implemented as
Phase 1 of an acclaimed Business Park development known as Stockley Park. The consent for commercial
floorspace was subject to a legal agreement for the restoration of despoiled Green Belt land to provide
250 acres of public open space including, inter alia, an eighteen hole championship standard golf course
and a district park.
15.22 The whole of the area west of Phase 1, known as the Trident Site was also in the Green Belt and
has suffered from major contamination; part was occupied by non-conforming users. Planning permission
was granted for 18,000m² of commercial floorspace on 2 May 1990. This has not yet been implemented
and permission was granted again on 7 February 1996. It is a proposal of this plan that the area thereby
approved for business development be deleted from the Green Belt and identified as an Industrial and
Business Area.
London Borough of Hillingdon Unitary Development Plan