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The London Road Neighbourhood Area Redevelopment Plan is a document produced by the City of Lethbridge Planning Department. It is a planning guide that permits the designation of areas for redevelopment and adopting redevelopment plans for those areas. Further provisions require the area redevelopment plan to conform to the land use by-law and other statutory plan affecting the area.

The General Municipal Plan provides the City with the means of directing its future form, growth and development in a coordinated manner. Recognizing that some parts of the City may require special consideration due to particular circumstances (such as again, deterioration and pressures for change), the General Municipal Plan also indicates the areas for which further detailed studies are required.

The preparation of area redevelopment plans provides the level of detail necessary to meet the particular needs of these areas without the risk of contravening the general policies and overall objectives of the City.

The General Municipal Plan identifies the London Road Neighbourhood as an area requiring an area redevelopment plan, and the London Road Neighbourhood Area Redevelopment Plan has been accorded the highest priority.

The London Road Neighbourhood Redevelopment Plan outlines several Neighbourhood objectives:

1. To reduce the destabilizing effects on the Neighbourhood caused by the uncertainty about future municipal policies towards redevelopment.
2. To protect the low density character of the Neighbourhood, while accommodating, in suitable areas, some of the demand for higher density housing close to the downtown.
3. To meet the local commercial needs of the Neighbourhood, and to prevent the spread of downtown uses into the Neighbourhood and along 6th Avenue South.
4. To allow the location of community-oriented institutional uses in the Neighbourhood.
5. To improve the appearance of the Neighbourhood and to minimize or eliminate conflicts between residential and warehousing/storage uses.
6. To improve the safety, efficiency and convenience of roads and lanes, public transit, and pedestrian/cyclist movement.
7. To meet the increased and changing open space/recreation needs of the Neighbourhood.
8. To reasonably protect buildings of architectural and historical importance.