The Planning Committee is scheduled to meet to discuss a reserved matters application concerning the Beam Park development, and to confirm the minutes of their previous meeting. The main focus of the meeting will be on the Beam Park Phase B Reserved Matters application, which includes the construction of 405 dwellings and associated amenities.

Beam Park Phase B Reserved Matters

The committee will be asked to consider an application for reserved matters relating to Beam Park Phase B, application number 25/01203/REM. The application seeks approval for access, appearance, landscaping, layout, and scale, following outline approval 22/01048/OUTSRM. The proposed development includes 405 dwellings, associated residential amenities, landscaping, car parking and streets at the Former Site of Assembly Plant, Beam Park Development Site, Thames Avenue, Dagenham.

The application also seeks to partially discharge conditions relating to unit numbers and housing mix, development phasing, design codes, wind microclimate analysis, and decarbonisation strategy.

The planning officer, Alex Tayler, has recommended that the committee:

• Agree the reasons for approval as set out in the report.
• Delegate authority to the Strategic Director of Inclusive Growth to approve the reserved matter details, subject to conditions.
• Delegate authority to the Strategic Director of Inclusive Growth to discharge conditions 6, 11, 12, 33 and 55c of outline planning permission 22/01048/OUTSRM in relation to Phase B only.

The report pack notes that the wider application site is a 21.3-hectare brownfield land, historically associated with the Ford Motor Company. It forms part of the wider Beam Park site, with the remainder located in the London Borough of Havering.

The key planning history includes planning permission 22/01048/OUTSRM, which was granted for a hybrid consent in 2023. This included:

Stand-alone hybrid planning application facilitating remasterplanning of that part of the previously consented Beam Park development falling within LBBD (previous scheme phases 2B to 8, LBBD reference 19/01241/OUT as amended), to include residential development; a primary school & commercial uses; energy network infrastructure; open space; public realm with hard & soft landscaping; children's play space; flood compensation areas; car & cycle parking; highway works and associated engineering operations.

The current proposal comprises a Reserved Matters Application and the partial discharge of several planning conditions for Phase B. It would provide 405 dwellings, split into 341 flats across two blocks (ranging from 4 to 14 storeys in height) and 64 houses of 2 to 3 storeys. Associated landscaping, amenity space, car parking, roads, cycle storage, and residents' facilities are also proposed.

The proposed unit and tenure mix for Phase B is:

• Apartments Private: 133 units
• Apartments Affordable Rent: 45 units
• Apartments Intermediate: 158 units
• Houses Private: 16 units
• Houses Affordable Rent: 2 units
• Houses Intermediate: 0 units

The 405 proposed units comprise 124 one-bedroom (31%), 147 two-bedroom (36%), 106 three-bedroom (26%) and 28 four-bedroom (7%) homes. This includes 10% wheelchair accessible homes.

The proposal provides 12% London Affordable Rent¹ (social housing) and 40% Shared Ownership² (intermediate housing), resulting in an affordable housing provision of 51% by habitable room.

All units are expected to exceed or meet the Nationally Described Minimum Space Standards and have access to private amenity space. 77% of units would be dual aspect with no single aspect north facing units.

The residential accommodation will be supported by 111 car parking spaces (ratio 0.27). There will be five short stay visitor spaces and 13 disabled bays. Provision is made for deliveries via on-street bays, and a car club space will also be provided.

A total of 613 cycle parking spaces are proposed with the houses having dedicated cycle storage areas and the apartments having secure spaces provided in appropriately sized stores (493 in total). There will also be visitor spaces (12 short stay spaces).

A total of 3,205 sqm of communal amenity space is provided, incorporating on-site play. This area is designed as a multi functioning area providing flood attenuation, open space, play and ecological enhancement. The phase will also accommodate a total of 3,205sqm of play provision.

The Reserved Matters details are submitted following Condition 14 of planning permission 22/01048/OUTSRM. This consent also sets out that the details required by the following conditions must be provided as part of each Reserved Matters submission:

• 6 (Unit Numbers and Housing Mix)
• 11 (Development Phasing)
• 12 (Design Codes)
• 33 (Wind Microclimate Analysis)
• 55c (Decarbonisation Strategy)

The key issues outlined in the report pack are:

1. Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
2. Principle of Development
3. Dwelling Mix, Quality of Accommodation and Affordable Housing
4. Design (Including Crime and Fire Safety)
5. Impacts to Neighbouring Amenity
6. Landscaping, Play, Biodiversity and Sustainable Drainage
7. Sustainable Transport, Construction Impacts and Waste Management
8. Energy and Sustainability
9. Environmental Protection (Air Quality, Noise and Contamination)
10. Discharge of Conditions

The report pack notes that the Environment Agency has an outstanding objection relating to flood risk, and that the Strategic Director of Inclusive Growth has been asked to only approve the reserved matter details if this objection is withdrawn.

Minutes

The committee will be asked to confirm the minutes of the meeting held on 15 October 2025.