Executive Summary

The Woolwich Town Centre SPD aims to overcome the shortfalls of the Woolwich Town Centre Masterplan produced in 2012. The choice to create an SPD was due to a number of reasons:

1. Firstly the masterplan in itself was not suited to a traditional masterplan format but instead read more as a framework, and due to the approach taken by the document writers in prioritising individual site allocations it has since resulted in piecemeal development as well as visual and social fracturing throughout the area.

2. Secondly the masterplan placed development over people, with little thought to partnerships or community involvement.

Due to these reasons this document does not aim to prioritise development at the expense of people and place and as such an SPD will be more appropriate as it gives builds upon existing policy and gives the reader more in depth design guidance that does not aim to be too prescriptive.

With this in mind this SPD will use a variety of tools to address the shortfalls of the 2012 Masterplan and achieve a vision that is able to re-connect and integrate the missing pieces that have been forgotten.