FAQs
What is a place type?
In The London Plan, land use designations are called place types. All land within the city has an identified place type. Place types regulate the permitted uses, allowed intensity, and form requirements at a high level.
What is The London Plan?
The London Plan is the official plan for our city. It's the policy framework for all planning and development in London.
What is zoning?
The Zoning By-law No.Z.-1 regulates zoning for our city and must adhere to The London Plan. Zones follow place types but with strict delineation and more precise policies.
Zoning is a planning tool that helps to implement an official plan's policies by managing the permitted use, intensity and form of development.
Use - the kinds of activities or types of businesses that can operate at a site or building. A use could be something like residential, office, or commercial.
Form - the physical design of a site or building. Form could include rules on things like location of parking, setbacks, site layout or massing for buildings.
Intensity - the level of activity of density for a building or site. This could be measured in a variety of ways, such as floor plate area, building height, dwelling units per hectare, parking spaces, or number of bedrooms.