Comment

Representation ID: 13945

Received: 01/11/2021

Respondent: D2 Planning Limited

Policy CEN1 - The Black Country Centres

London & Cambridge Properties Limited (LCP) is one of the UK’s largest property owners of retail and industrial, managing a portfolio in excess of 16 million sq ft which is held predominantly for long term investment purposes.
LCP own a number of retail centres in the Black Country Local Plan Area and are keen to play an active part in the emerging Development Plan process in order to inform the requisite planning authorities of their property holdings in their receptive areas.
They own the following retail centres: -
Churchill Shopping Centre Dudley
Aldridge Shopping Centre Aldridge
Astle Retail Park West Bromwich
Wulfrun Shopping Centre Wolverhampton
Park Place Shopping Centre Walsall
Quinton Court Shopping Centre Walsall
Rayner Parade Wolverhampton
35-47 High Street Brierley Hill
Centre House Aldridge
Scott Arms Sandwell
The Moors Shopping Centre Walsall
Dudley Street Sedgley

LCP want to ensure that all of these retail holdings are identified within either Town Centre, Tier One or Tier Two or Three centres. LCP will be ontinuing to invest in these centres and require policies to be flexible to allow a range of uses including retail, leisure and residential.
Emerging policies must be flexible given the ongoing difficult conditions with the retail sector at the moment.