Supplementary Planning Guides

Industrial Capacity

Overview

This Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG) provides guidance on the implementation of policies relating to industrial capacity in the Mayor’s London Plan (Consolidated with Alterations since 2004).

The SPG is focused on the implementation of London Plan Policies 2A.10 and 3B.4 to manage, promote and, where appropriate, protect Strategic Industrial Locations (SILs) as London’s main reservoir of industrial capacity to accommodate industry and other activities with similar land use needs (including logistics, waste management, utilities and transport functions). It also provides guidance on the implementation of strategic policy to manage the protection, release or enhancement of industrial sites outside the SILs including Locally Significant Industrial Sites (LSIS) and other industrial sites not categorised as SIL or LSIS.

The approach to the management of industrial capacity set out in this SPG is designed to address the Plan’s broader concerns including those to secure efficient and effective use of land, environmental improvement and wider sustainability objectives, especially those to tackle climate change.

The SPG provides guidance to:

• ensure an adequate stock of industrial capacity to meet the future needs and functional requirements of different types of industrial and related uses in different parts of London
• plan, monitor and manage the release of surplus industrial land so that it can better contribute to strategic and local planning objectives, especially those to provide more housing (including affordable housing) and in appropriate locations provide social infrastructure and contribute to town centre renewal