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The London Plan July 2011 – RTF version
• Industrial Business Parks (IBP) which are particularly suitable for
activities that need better quality surroundings including research and
development, light industrial and higher value general industrial, some
waste management, utility and transport functions, wholesale markets
and small scale distribution.
IBPs are not intended for primarily large scale office development. Where
office development is proposed on an IBP, this should not jeopardise local
provision for light industrial accommodation where there is demand for these
uses. SILs perform a particular role in London’s industrial land supply (see
Policy 4.4) in accommodating strategically important logistics, waste
management and transport functions as well as meeting other and more local
needs including provision of relatively affordable workspace.
2.80 SILs are given strategic protection because their scale and relatively
homogenous character means they can accommodate activities which
elsewhere might raise tensions with other land uses. Most are over 20
hectares in size although in some areas, especially parts of west and southwest
London where there is particular pressure on industrial land, smaller
locations, for example of 10 hectares, can be of strategic importance.
Typically, SILs are located close to the strategic road network and many are
also well located with respect to rail, river and canals and safeguarded
wharves which can provide competitive advantage and address broader
transport objectives.
2.81 SILs are important in supporting the logistics system and related
infrastructure which are essential to London’s competitiveness 16 . In 2007 the
London logistics sector’s output was £8 billion (3.4 per cent of London’s total
output) and it directly employed over 220,000 people (5.2 per cent of London’s
employees) 17 . The Mayor will work with authorities in the wider south-east to
secure adequate provision including inter-modal freight interchanges to
ensure effective logistics provision throughout the city region.
2.82 Within London, and informed by TfL’s Freight Plan 18 , strategic logistics
provision should continue to be concentrated on PILs, related to the trunk
and main road network and to maximise use of rail and water based
infrastructure. Innovations to make more effective use of land should be
encouraged and there is particular need to develop consolidation centres and
accommodate freight break bulk points more efficiently as a part of the
freight hierarchy. It will be particularly important to secure and enhance
strategic provision in west London, especially at Park Royal and near
Heathrow; in east London, north and south of the Thames; in the Upper Lea
Valley in north London and in the Purley Way/ Beddington area to the
south.
2.83 The boundaries of SILs should be defined in LDFs taking into account
strategic and local assessments of supply and demand for industry and joint
16 Transport for London. London Freight Plan. Sustainable Freight Distribution. A Plan for London.
TfL, 2007. URS, GVA Grimley, Cranfield SLSCM. Demand and Supply of Land for Logistics in
London. GLA, 2007
17 GLA Economics. Working Paper 37: London’s Logistics Sector. GLA, 2009
18 Transport for London. London Freight Plan Sustainable Freight Distribution. A Plan for London.
TfL, 2007
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