The following sites are safeguarded as areas of light industry and research and development uses within class B1(b) and B1(c) of the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 2005:
(i) Quayside Road*
(iii) Radcliffe Court
(iv) 183-215 Radcliffe Road
(v) Site bounded to the east by Paget Road and to the west by Albert Road north
(vi) Brunswick Square industrial area
(vii) College Street Site*
(viii) Mountbatten Industrial Estate
(ix) The Corner of Redbridge Causeway and Gover Road
(x) Test Lane north
(xi) Northbrook Industrial Estate
(xii) Trinity Industrial Estate
(xiii) Marine Technology Centre*
(xiv) Pitt Road Industrial Estate
(xv) Corner site - Park Road and 53-75 Millbrook Road East
(xvi) Land rear of 174 Empress Road*
(xvii) Sites adjacent to Empress Road Industrial Park*
(xviii) The Solent Business Centre*
(xix) The T.A.V.R site*
In any redevelopment proposals, General Industrial and storage and distribution uses and offices (Class B1a, B2 and B8 of the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 2005 will not be permitted in these locations.
View REI11 on the proposed modifications map here.
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These are predominantly small industrial estates which provide a valuable resource to the city of industrial units/ workshops for light industrial use. Light industrial uses include the research and development of products/ processes and any industrial use that can be carried out adjacent to a residential area without detriment to the amenity of that area by reason of noise, vibration, smell, fumes, smoke, soot, ash, dust/ grit. These light industrial sites provide a vital contribution to the local economy by offering local employment opportunities and their protection will ensure that accommodation suitable for local and start-up business is retained.
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The Local Plan, through employment site allocation, has sought to provide for a range of employment uses. Office uses tend to be traffic-generators and are best located in areas highly accessible by all modes of transport. Therefore within the city centre, areas have been identified as the focus of major office development and uses (Policies REI 15, REI 16 and as part of mixed use development within certain Major Sites and Areas (Part 3). The sites identified in Policy REI 11 in terms of size, location and constrained vehicular access through residential areas means that the development and change of use to offices (Class B1(a)) will be resisted in these locations. It is acknowledged that most research and development and light industrial premises are likely to have ancillary office accommodation and elements of B1(a), Bl(b) and B1(c) are likely to take place in the same building.
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Some of the industrial premises have lawful uses for a broad range of industrial and commercial activities, the policy does not restrict the continued use of these activities. Should individual or groups of premises come forward for comprehensive redevelopment then the Council will seek to restrict industrial uses to B1(b) and B1(c) only.
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The council will resist over-intensification of all uses unless the development proposals can demonstrate that they will not adversely affect the amenity of the surrounding land uses.
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Sites marked with an asterisk * are sites wholly/ partly within an area identified on the Environment Agency's indicative flood risk map as at risk from tidal flooding. With any development/ redevelopment further investigation is required as to the extent, nature and risk of flooding and any development will need to be of an appropriate design and with an appropriate minimum level of protection which can be maintained during the lifetime of the development (refer to Policy SDP 20).
Southampton City Council
