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Damaged, Derelict or Degraded Land
3.34 At the present time, all damaged and derelict land within the Borough lies within the Green Belt.
These areas detract from the visual amenity of the Borough and their presence may inhibit other proposals
through the presence of migrating landfill gas and/or a contaminated groundwater regime. The Council
will normally be supportive of proposals to restore or reclaim derelict or damaged land subject to other
relevant policy considerations. It is the overall aim of the Council to enable the satisfactory restoration and
reclamation of all derelict and damaged land within the Borough.
3.35 In exceptional circumstances, the Local Planning Authority has in the past allowed a limited
amount of building in excess of that usually acceptable under Policy OL1. This has only been accepted in
areas subject to Green Belt policy, in very special circumstances where it has been demonstrated that the
land has not been satisfactorily restored, that a pollution hazard (e.g. leachate, landfill gas) could not be
eliminated or contained through the introduction of measures normally accepted in the Green Belt, or
through the application of any practicable measures on individual sites, including the enforcement of
planning conditions relating to restoration and aftercare. In these cases, the Local Planning Authority
required the development scheme to include large scale environmental and amenity gains commensurate
with the extent of building envisaged. This has included large scale reclamation works involving highly
contaminated sites, installing modern pollution containment control measures, planting and landscaping of
despoiled or derelict Green Belt land, and the creation of additional areas of public open space or new
opportunities for public access, or bringing into an appropriate Green Belt use land already within the
Green Belt but where the authorised use was incompatible with Green Belt policy. The extent and volume
of building was limited strictly to that necessary to finance a satisfactory standard of land restoration and
landscaping.
3.36 The Local Planning Authority undertook a comprehensive survey (1993) of derelict and damaged
land within the Borough, identifying all such land and outlining the problems and constraints perceived.
(See Figure 3) The survey contains a more detailed analysis of this subject and provides guidance
supplementary to the Unitary Development Plan. Areas included in the Borough boundary post April 1994,
will be surveyed in the review of the Plan.
OL21 THE LOCAL PLANNING AUTHORITY WILL SUPPORT PROPOSALS TO
RECLAIM/RESTORE DAMAGED, DERELICT AND OTHERWISE DEGRADED LAND
SUBJECT TO SUCH PROPOSALS ACCORDING WITH THE POLICIES OF THIS PLAN AND
OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS.
TABLE 3.5 DERELICT AND DAMAGED LAND
Derelict;
Minet Estate (east of Hayes By-Pass).
Land east of Stockley Road.
Church Hill, Harefield.
Land south of Packet Boat Lane, Cowley Peachey.
The Lizzards, Trout Lane.
West of Stockley Road, West Drayton.
Thorney Mill Road, West Drayton.
Costain's Site, Holloway Lane.
Wise Lane Farm, Harmondsworth.
North of Moor Lane, Harmondsworth.
South of Old Bath Road, Colnbrook.
Longford Moor, Upper Ditch, Colnbrook.
South of Moor Lane, Harmondsworth.
Home Farm, Moor Lane, Harmondsworth.
London Borough of Hillingdon Unitary Development Plan