Representation by Swanscombe Development LLP (Swanscombe Development LLP)
- Date submitted
- 29 March 2021
- Submitted by
- Non-statutory organisations
Swanscombe Development LLP is the freehold owner of significant extents of land at Swanscombe Peninsula and upon which the London Resort is proposed to be developed. The LLP has entered into an option agreement with London Resort Company Holdings Limited which will allow it to acquire from the LLP land necessary to deliver the London Resort. The LLP acknowledges receipt of the statutory S.56 notice which, as landowner, confers upon the LLP the status of interested party. The LLP supports the application. The London Resort provides for comprehensive regeneration of land at Swanscombe Peninsula and its environs. In doing so: 1. It will provide significant direct and indirect economic benefits at local, regional and national scales in an area of existing economic deprivation. 2. It will provide effective re-use of previously developed post-industrial land delivering on long-standing planning policy ambitions advocating the redevelopment of the Swanscombe Peninsula. 3. It will address existing geo-environmental considerations as relate to ground conditions and contamination. 4. It comprehensively addresses biodiversity and ecological matters including the ability to deliver an overall biodiversity net gain allied to appropriate and comprehensive ecological mitigation. 5. It is supported by investment in necessary infrastructure to serve the development, particularly in relation to transport. In the LLP’s view, the proposals provide an unparalleled opportunity to secure a step-change in economic development in this part of north Kent. The Peninsula has been consistently identified in local and regional planning policy as an opportunity site – an ambition to which the London Resort proposal positively responds. The proposal will deliver significant economic benefits in the short-term and long-term, including job creation during construction and operation, supply chain benefits and indirect and ongoing benefits through induced effects. The proposal comprehensively addresses the ecological, environmental and geotechnical considerations which arise on the Peninsula and provides an appropriate and long-term solution. Taken together, the benefits of the proposed development are considerable, and in the LLP’s view, should be granted consent. The LLP welcomes the opportunity to engage in the Examination process.