Ben Hopkinson @Ben_A_Hopkinson
Policy Researcher @BritainRemade benhopkinson.substack.com London Joined June 2014-
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There's 2,095 hectares of industrial land within walking distance of tube/rail stations where building new housing is banned. That's 15 Hyde Parks worth of land! The Mayor needs to de-designate this land in the London Plan and get building the homes Londoners need!
There's 2,095 hectares of industrial land within walking distance of tube/rail stations where building new housing is banned. That's 15 Hyde Parks worth of land! The Mayor needs to de-designate this land in the London Plan and get building the homes Londoners need!
The new @LGHFabians Homes for London report includes a lot of great ideas to help alleviate London's housing crisis. Happy that @J_D_89 and I were able to add thoughts on estate renewal, building in the best connected areas, and using London's land better conciliocomms.com/stories/homes-…
New: London has a shortage of homes, but it doesn't have a shortage of golf courses. In fact, London’s 95 golf courses take up more land than the entire borough of Brent. Here's the case for building on some of them. samdumitriu.com/p/homes-or-golf
New: How London can boost growth, cut rents and cut emissions by making it easier to build in the right places. London's housing shortage is brutal, but lessons from New Zealand and Texas show it's a solvable problem. samdumitriu.com/p/how-to-get-l…
The costs of implementing a second staircase policy rule are 293 times more than the benefits! We need to scrap this poorly-thought out rule that would unnecessarily limiting housing being built. You can more about this here: samdumitriu.com/p/against-bann…
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Bold polemic by @Sam_Dumitriu & @Ben_A_Hopkinson advocating redeveloping large swathes of London’s SIL* for resi,, though sensible specific conclusions are for intensification & co-location; like, for example, Segro’s new Grand Union, which isin Park Royal open.substack.com/pub/samdumitri…
@AntBreach Is there an externality that means we shouldn’t use market prices to judge?
There are some well-connected locations where London Mayor regulation requires they be used as biscuit factories and Deliveroo depots. They can’t be used for homes even though they’d rent for 5x or 10x more. This should be changed.
Could some of London’s industrial land be better used for homes, asks @Sam_Dumitriu: samdumitriu.com/p/does-london-…
This is one of the many ideas in Get London Building, Britain Remade's plan to end London's housing shortage. You can read the full thing here: britainremade.co.uk/getlondonbuild…
3. The Mayor should modify the London Plan to permit higher densities on industrial sites when it makes co-location viable.
2. The Mayor should explicitly support councils swapping Strategic Industrial Land to sites with better access to the road network and actively identify sites unsuitable for brownfield development with good access to the strategic road network to facilitate SIL swaps.
1. De-designate all parts of the Park Royal Industrial Area within walking distance of tube or rail stations and use a Mayoral Development Order to permit car-independent development at Parisian densities on the site.
So, what should the Mayor do? Here's three suggestions.
Co-locating light industrial uses and housing can be costly, but it's possible. And projects building at higher densities (e.g towers) can make it possible. Take this project next to the Blackwall Tunnel in Greenwich. mordenwharf.com
But there's a problem. The land swap was refused because planning officers said it didn't comply with London Plan. 5,000 homes near a new train station cannot be built as a result. enfielddispatch.co.uk/setback-for-me…
For example, Enfield council’s Meridian Water development aims to deliver 10,000 homes near a newly-built rail station. Half of those homes would be delivered on Strategic Industrial Land with existing users getting a new site nearby with better road access.
And importantly, we can help industrial users without banning development altogether. Industrial land swaps can allow for re-development of industrial sites without reducing the amount of space available for businesses.
"Having Amazon warehouses within London cuts miles travelled, reducing congestion and emissions." True to some extent, but this is an expensive way to cut emissions. And it must be balanced against the large reductions in household emissions that can be achieved by building…
And it should be noted that London's is currently failing to build enough homes to keep up with job growth. x.com/sam_dumitriu/s…
London isn’t building enough homes to keep up with demand. In fact, for every 10 jobs London has added in the last decade, the capital has only built three homes. How bad has it got and how do we get London building? (Thread)
"Strategic Industrial Locations are the workplace for tens of thousands of Londoners." Yes, but it does not follow that the jobs would disappear if the site was redeveloped. Some industrial users would move to cheaper parts of the UK, while others would find ways of co-locating…
So what's the case for keeping it industrial? Let's run through the main arguments.
There's plots of land like this all around London. In fact, if we released all the remaining Strategic Industrial Location land within 10 minutes walking distance of a station for development at terraced house density, we could build 157,000 new homes for Londoners.
If just the part of Park Royal Industrial Area within 10 minutes walk of a tube or train station was developed to Parisian densities (400 dwellings per hectare), it could deliver 135,000 new homes.
Take the Park Royal Industrial Area, which is a vast collection of warehouses that contains more than 338 hectares of land within walking distance of a tube station. It will also soon have the UK’s largest and best-connected rail hub Old Oak Common.
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