DMD1 — Securing high-quality design.
How Barking And Dagenham actually applies DMD1: who leans on it, where it bites hardest, and how often it's invoked. The policy text is the rule; this is the behaviour.
DMD1 is a published Barking And Dagenham planning policy. This page records where it appears in the council's published planning decisions.
Cited under: Barking And Dagenham Local Plan (adopted)
Not filled in yet. This will hold how officers actually argue DMD1 case by case, classified from their decision reports — the classification pass hasn't run. Nothing is paraphrased in its place.
DMD1 appears most often in Longbridge, Chadwell Heath, Whalebone. It appears across 18 of 27 officers recorded in this period. The map shows the pattern for the selected period.
This shows the decision reports in which DMD1 appears. It does not yet claim that the policy caused those outcomes.
Not filled in yet — the classification pass over the citing passages hasn't run. When it has, this shows why DMD1 was used, whether it supported approval or refusal, and what changed as a result. No conclusion is shown until that classification has been checked.
From Planning Inspectorate decision letters that cite DMD1. Dismissed = the council's refusal stood, the policy held; allowed = overturned. The tighter join — this borough's own refusals citing DMD1 traced to their specific appeals — is still to come.
Atlas intelligence summarises patterns and observations from published planning records. Past decisions do not indicate how any future application will be determined. Every application is assessed on its own merits, having regard to the proposal, site, evidence and policies applying at the time. This information is provided for general information only and is not planning, legal, financial or professional advice.