Lower Lea Valley Planning Framework

This Lower Lea Valley Opportunity Area Planning Framework was agreed by the Mayor in January 2007 and sets out his strategic planning vision for the Lower Lea Valley. It can be downloaded in full below.

The Valley will be the main location for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Park and is one of the most exciting and challenging urban regeneration opportunities in Britain, with the potential to accommodate up to 40,000 new homes and provide 50,000 new jobs.

The Framework builds on the planning policies set out in the London Plan for an area of nearly 1450 hectares, extending from the Thames in the south to Leyton in the north, straddling the borders of Newham, Tower Hamlets, Hackney and Waltham Forest.

The Lower Lea Valley is currently characterised by large areas of derelict industrial land and poor housing. Much of the land is fragmented, polluted and divided by waterways, overhead pylons, roads and railways. The Opportunity Area Planning Framework builds on the area’s unique network of waterways and islands and sets out how the Valley can be transformed to become a fully integrated, sustainable, mixed use city district.

Lower Lea Valley Planning Framework PDF (3.83MB)

For ease of downloading, the document is also available as two smaller files:

Lower Lea Valley Planning Framework part 1 PDF (2.26MB)
Lower Lea Valley Planning Framework part 2 PDF (1.59MB)

Lower Lea Valley Planning Framework RTF (text only, 663KB)

Summary
A shorter summary document is available:

Lower Lea Valley Planning Framework summary PDF (3.6MB)
Lower Lea Valley Planning Framework summary RTF (text only, 75KB)

Consultation
A public consultation draft of the Lower Lea Valley Planning Framework was published in May 2006; the consultation period ended on 1 September 2006.

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