Supplementary planning guidance for London SPG
The London Plan is a statutory strategy required by the Greater London Authority Act 1999. It is prepared by the Mayor of London and provides a spatial development strategy setting out an economic, environmental, transport and social framework for the development of London.
The Mayor also publishes Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG) for London which provides additional details on policies set out in the London Plan. A range of Best Practice Guidance (BPG’s) are also published.
Supplementary Planning Guidance is provided where the level of guidance required is too detailed for inclusion in the development plan, or if a rapid policy response is needed to an emerging issue. It provides support for statutory development plans, but carries less weight than them when planning matters are considered and cannot create new policies.
Supplementary Planning Guidance includes:
- Accessible London: Achieving an Inclusive Environment.
- Affordable housing and viability SPG.
- The control of dust and emissions during construction and demolition.
- Town Centres.
- Shaping Neighbourhoods: Character and Context.
- Social infrastructure supplementary planning guidance.
- London Planning Statement.
- Sustainable Design and Construction.
- Safeguarded Wharves Review.
- Preparing Borough Tree and Woodland Strategies.
- Housing.
- Use of planning obligations in the funding of Crossrail, and the Mayoral Community Infrastructure Levy.
- Land for Industry and Transport.
- Shaping Neighbourhoods: Play and Informal Recreation.
- Olympic Legacy Supplementary Planning Guidance.
- Vauxhall Nine Elms Battersea Opportunity Area Planning Framework.
- All London Green Grid.
- London View Management Framework.
- London's Foundations.
- London World Heritage Sites - Guidance on Settings.
- East London Green Grid Framework.
- Planning for Equality and Diversity in London.
- Sustainable Design and Construction.
[edit] Find out more
[edit] Related articles on Designing Buildings Wiki
- Accessible London.
- Central activities zone supplementary planning guidance.
- Draft London Housing Strategy (blog November 2013).
- GLA Housing Design SPG.
- Local plan.
- London plan.
- London View Management Framework.
- Planning permission.
- Social infrastructure supplementary planning guidance.
- Supplementary planning documents.
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