C1 — Health and wellbeing.
How Camden actually applies C1: who leans on it, where it bites hardest, and how often it's invoked. The policy text is the rule; this is the behaviour.
C1 is a published Camden planning policy. This page records where it appears in the council's published planning decisions.
Cited under: Camden Local Plan (adopted)
Policy C1 requires new developments to contribute to healthier communities by creating high-quality, safe, and accessible places. This includes incorporating measures to reduce health inequalities and conducting a Health Impact Assessment for major development schemes. The council will support the provision of new or improved health facilities and protect existing ones.
Plain-English summary of the adopted policy text below. The full text is the rule; this is the gist.
Health and wellbeing
Verbatim from the adopted Camden plan · source document. The council's published plan is the authoritative version.
3 citations in the selected period
Not filled in yet. This will hold how officers actually argue C1 case by case, classified from their decision reports — the classification pass hasn't run. Nothing is paraphrased in its place.
C1 appears most often in Frognal & Fitzjohns, Highgate, Belsize. It appears across 3 of 57 officers recorded in this period. The map shows the pattern for the selected period.
This shows the decision reports in which C1 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 C1 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 C1. Dismissed = the council's refusal stood, the policy held; allowed = overturned. The tighter join — this borough's own refusals citing C1 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.