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CC2 — Adapting to climate change.

How Camden actually applies CC2: who leans on it, where it bites hardest, and how often it's invoked. The policy text is the rule; this is the behaviour.

CC2 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)

Camden · CC2
Where CC2 is quoted — by ward
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More citations ~7
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re-scopes the headline figures and the trend
49
times cited
in parsed decision notices
50%
appeal survival
5 dismissed · 5 allowed at appeal
26 of 57
officer reach
46% of officers recorded in this period
Hampstead Town
top hotspot ward
7 citations
What this policy is about

Policy CC2 requires development to be resilient to climate change by adopting measures such as protecting green spaces, reducing surface water runoff, and incorporating bio-diverse roofs. Developments involving 5+ residential units or 500 sqm+ floorspace must demonstrate these measures in a Sustainability Statement. The Council promotes sustainable design and construction through measures such as using the Home Quality Mark and Passivhaus design standards.

Plain-English summary of the adopted policy text below. The full text is the rule; this is the gist.

The policy — as adopted

Adapting to climate change

The Council will require development to be resilient to climate change. All development should adopt appropriate climate change adaptation measures such as: a. the protection of existing green spaces and promoting new appropriate green infrastructure; b. not increasing, and wherever possible reducing, surface water runoff through increasing permeable surfaces and use of Sustainable Drainage Systems; c. incorporating bio-diverse roofs, combination green and blue roofs and green walls where appropriate; and d. measures to reduce the impact of urban and dwelling overheating, including application of the cooling hierarchy. Any development involving 5 or more residential units or 500 sqm or more of any additional floorspace is required to demonstrate the above in a Sustainability Statement. Sustainable design and construction measures The Council will promote and measure sustainable design and construction by: e. ensuring development schemes demonstrate how adaptation measures and sustainable development principles have been incorporated into the design and proposed implementation; f. encourage new build residential development to use the Home Quality Mark and Passivhaus design standards; g. encouraging conversions and extensions of 500 sqm of residential floorspace or above or five or more dwellings to achieve “excellent” in BREEAM domestic refurbishment; and h. expecting non-domestic developments of 500 sqm of floorspace or above to achieve “excellent” in BREEAM assessments and encouraging zero carbon in new development from 2019.

Verbatim from the adopted Camden plan · source document. The council's published plan is the authoritative version.

How it lands
80% in approvals · 0% in refusals
49 citations in the selected period
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Where it bites
Hampstead Town7
Highgate5
Belsize5
What cites it — application types
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What it means in practice

Not filled in yet. This will hold how officers actually argue CC2 case by case, classified from their decision reports — the classification pass hasn't run. Nothing is paraphrased in its place.

What the published record shows

CC2 appears most often in Hampstead Town, Highgate, Belsize. It appears across 26 of 57 officers recorded in this period. The map shows the pattern for the selected period.

Who cites it — case-officer spreadfrom parsed decision notices · click an officer
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Why it is cited — and what follows
80%
in approvals
39 citations
0%
in refusals
0 citations

This shows the decision reports in which CC2 appears. It does not yet claim that the policy caused those outcomes; 10 citations sit outside the approval/refusal split.

Reason · role · consequence

Not filled in yet — the classification pass over the citing passages hasn't run. When it has, this shows why CC2 was used, whether it supported approval or refusal, and what changed as a result. No conclusion is shown until that classification has been checked.

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Does it hold up? — appeal performance
50% survival
5 dismissed · 5 allowed — 10 PINS appeal decisions cite CC2

From Planning Inspectorate decision letters that cite CC2. Dismissed = the council's refusal stood, the policy held; allowed = overturned. The tighter join — this borough's own refusals citing CC2 traced to their specific appeals — is still to come.

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Citations, officer spread, ward and application-type counts parsed from published Camden decision notices (high-confidence parses, approvals and refusals), joined to the canonical application record. One citation = one decision citing the policy. See the policy overview for every policy cited.

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.