{"id":446,"date":"2019-11-12T17:44:31","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T17:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldoakneighbourhoodforum.org\/?p=446"},"modified":"2019-11-12T17:44:31","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T17:44:31","slug":"viability-of-opdc-local-plan-questioned-by-inspector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldoakneighbourhoodforum.org\/?p=446","title":{"rendered":"Viability of OPDC Local Plan questioned by Inspector"},"content":{"rendered":"

Planning Inspector Paul Clark published on September 16th an ‘interim report’ on his Examination of the OPDC Draft Local Plan.\u00a0 \u00a0This followed the public session of the Examination on July 18th, at which Cargiant and OPDC argued their differing views on the viability and realism of major housing development on Cargiant’s landholdings at Old Oak North.\u00a0 \u00a0The Inspector’s report can be found here\u00a0id-33_interim_findings_on_viability_of_cargiant_site_allocation<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Inspector has generally sided with Cargiant’s documentation and arguments on the complex land valuation issues involved and has concluded that compulsory purchase of OPDC land and\/or ‘extinguishment’ of the Cargiant business is not the right way forward.\u00a0 He has therefore removed much of the Cargiant land from the Draft Local Plan, and directed that the housing and employment targets in the OPDC Local Plan be reduced accordingly.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cargiant’s view of events can be found at the link below.\u00a0 \u00a0They have repeated their earlier view that OPDC is wasting large sums of public money on an ill-conceived set of plans for Old Oak and that\u00a0\u201cIt is now time to stop throwing good money after bad.”\u00a0 \u00a0PressStatement.EiP.19.09.17.ISSUED.jp[39376]<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

This set of decisions by the Inspector will require further major revisions to the Draft Local Plan, on top of other ‘major modifications’ that have emerged during the Examination.\u00a0 \u00a0Another round of public consultation on the Plan will be needed (the fourth).\u00a0 \u00a0OPDC still hope to see the Local Plan adopted in the early part of 2020 but this is looking increasingly unlikely.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

During the London Assembly sessions at which OPDC Chair Liz Peace and Interim Chief Executive David Lunts answered questions, it emerged that the \u00a3250m of Housing Infrastructure Funding awarded by Government to the OPDC last March remains subject to several ‘challenging’ conditions being met before the grant is paid.\u00a0 Not least of these conditions is that the OPDC Draft Local Plan is supported by Planning Inspector Paul Clark.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The content of the OPDC’s HIF bid, and the conditions attached, have not been published and remain confidential.\u00a0 The Old Oak Neighbourhood Forum has been pursuing since March a FoI\/EIR request with OPDC and GLA.\u00a0 This request has so far been refused twice.\u00a0 \u00a0We have sent a further letter refining what documentation we most wish to see\u00a0OONF to OPDC on EIR. July 2019 final<\/a>\u00a0and hope that the key HIF document is made available before we have to refer the matter to the Information Commissioner.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

London Assembly Member Caroline Pidgeon has also asked the Mayor of London why this funding application cannot be made public.\u00a0 See\u00a0here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Meanwhile the Mayor\u00a0 has approved a further \u00a310m budget from GLA resources (see MD2493)<\/a>\u00a0for OPDC to continue to carry out work on its plans for Old Oak North.\u00a0 \u00a0This adds to the \u00a329m spent to date by OPDC since 2015.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Planning Inspector Paul Clark published on September 16th an ‘interim report’ on his Examination of the OPDC Draft Local Plan.\u00a0 \u00a0This followed the public session of the Examination on July 18th, at which Cargiant and OPDC argued their differing views on the viability and realism of major housing development on Cargiant’s landholdings at Old Oak … Continue reading “Viability of OPDC Local Plan questioned by Inspector”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldoakneighbourhoodforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldoakneighbourhoodforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldoakneighbourhoodforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldoakneighbourhoodforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldoakneighbourhoodforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oldoakneighbourhoodforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448,"href":"https:\/\/oldoakneighbourhoodforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions\/448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldoakneighbourhoodforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldoakneighbourhoodforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldoakneighbourhoodforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}