Sustainable growth priorities

4C.9 Safeguarded wharves on the Blue Ribbon Network

The Mayor will and boroughs should protect safeguarded wharves for cargo-handling uses, such as inter-port or transhipment movements and freight-related purposes and the transport of waste.

The Mayor will, and boroughs should, encourage appropriate temporary uses of vacant safeguarded wharves. Temporary uses should only be allowed where they do not preclude the wharf being re-used for cargo-handling uses. Development next to or opposite safeguarded wharves should be designed to minimise the potential for conflicts of use and disturbance.

The redevelopment of safeguarded wharves should only be accepted if the wharf is no longer viable or capable of being made viable for cargo handling. (The criteria for assessing the viability of wharves are set out in paragraph 4.163).