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EPR was appointed as a part of the consutants Team to assist Tower Hamlet planning department in preparing the City Fringe Area Action Plan. Our role was to provide a Masterplan Vision for the next 10-20 years for the City Fringe Area.

The Tower Hamlets City Fringe (THCF) is a lively, mixed-use area immediately east of the City of London. Its social, economic and urban character make the action plan relevant and appropriate for its future planning.

The purpose of the City Fringe Area Action Plan (CFAAP) is to:

  • Provide a detailed framework for planning and appropriate intervention by the public and private sectors that will fast forward renewal of the area in the period to 2016 and help to achieve the priorities of the Council's Community Plan.
  • Provide a mandate for the planning authority to coordinate the actions of other agencies responsible for infrastructure and services, to achieve the future vision for the area.
  • Recognise and resolve competing needs. It addresses the commercial needs of the City of London, but in a way that also provides opportunities, improved living conditions and enhanced quality of life for those living in the City Fringe area. It also provides for new housing opportunities, a substantial proportion of which will be affordable, and protects and enhances historic and architecturally important buildings and conservation areas.
  • Accommodate and coordinate future growth in the area. The London Plan, published by the Greater London Authority in June 2002, and more recently the findings of the Panel's Report on the Plan, designate Bishopsgate/South Shoreditch and Whitechapel/Aldgate as 'Opportunity Areas'. These are centres for significant employment and housing growth. These two areas have been allocated targets in the London Plan of a minimum of 30,000 new jobs and a minimum of 1,500 new housing units by 2016. Not all of this growth will be provided in the THCF area, but much of it will be. The CFAAP must identify the amount and distribution of a significant proportion of these targets and their interrelationships, outline specific site allocations and set a timetable for the implementation of the proposals.

Client: Tower Hamlets