Places That Work
In collaboration with GVA and Dan Hill and with contributions from Centre for London and S333 Architecture + Urbanism, 00 is launching Places that Work - a report on the how London can meet its growth challenges by mixing a wide range of employment spaces with residential and other uses.
The research identifies the scale of the opportunity for a 'New London Mix" to deliver an additional 20% of light industrial employment capacity alongside new homes in London.
The ‘New London Mix’ is focussed on the significant delivery potential of mixing a wide range of commercial space with residential and other uses, which should complement simply protecting or intensifying industrial land for solely employment use. This approach can create significant local benefits by retaining and growing existing and new businesses, allowing for additional much-needed homes to be delivered and underpinning an inclusive and sustainable model for urban growth.
This report explores how the ‘New London Mix’ can be provided both in existing industrial areas where the new London Plan might allow limited land release for mixed development if no net loss was achieved. However, perhaps more crucially, it considers how this mix would work in spaces that traditionally sit outside of employment areas, such as the edge of town centres, in estate regeneration or in transport-led housing growth areas, to not only protect employment land, but also in-effect create it.
The potential scale is significant with a future opportunity to deliver 4 million sq m of space as part of this mix, in many areas it can already be shown to be viable, either today or with minor improvements to current market conditions.
