The now proposed 'amended scheme' (or 'hybrid scheme') offers:
Significant place-making and architectural benefits including the creation of a new active high street and river front uses, opening up of the Site through creation of new publicly accessible open and green spaces, and high-quality architecture which incorporates historic buildings. This includes:
- New publicly accessible, local facilities including:
- Cinema
- Hotel
- Community facilities including a boat house
- Shops and restaurants
- Additional leisure facilities including a new water sports centre
- Access to the Thames River for the first time in two hundred years and a new towpath that will be available to the public 24/7
- Green and ecological credentials of the scheme including:
- Around 400 new trees to be planted across the site
- A commitment to maximise carbon emissions savings to meet current London Plan requirements
- Biodiversity
- Support for electrical vehicles with a minimum provision of 20% of parking bays fitted with active charging points and the potential for an additional 20-30% to be added
- New planting and boosted carbon sequestration, whereby carbon is captured in trees and plants
- Use of photovoltaic panels to generate electricity locally
- Use of air source and ground source heat pumps to generate carbon-free heating and cooling
- Enhanced air quality
- New public squares and plazas to encourage community interaction
- Around 1,100 new homes, including ‘affordable housing’ making a significant contribution to the delivery of housing in London
- New pedestrian and cycle routes through the site including enhancing the existing towpath and creating a new expansive link from the station and Mortlake Green through to the river
- Transport improvements including highways works, contributions to bus facilities and improvements to the level crossing
- High-quality landscaping
- Just under 4 hectares of public amenity space (3.93 Ha) excluding the towpath (including accessible ‘OOTLI’ areas - Other Open Land of Townscape Importance)
- Just over 7,500 m2 of children’s play space (7,534 m2)
- Provision of a minimum of 2,454 long stay and 284 short stay cycle parking spaces across the development in excess of policy requirements
- A sustainable transport plan for the overall scheme
- The preservation and retention of heritage buildings across the site with the buildings and historic assets brought back into active use
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