CC3 — Water and flooding.
How Camden actually applies CC3: who leans on it, where it bites hardest, and how often it's invoked. The policy text is the rule; this is the behaviour.
CC3 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 CC3 requires development to incorporate water efficiency measures, avoid harm to the water environment, and consider flood risk in areas prone to flooding. The Council will resist development in flood-prone areas and protect existing drinking water and foul water infrastructure. This applies to all development in Camden.
Plain-English summary of the adopted policy text below. The full text is the rule; this is the gist.
Water and flooding
Verbatim from the adopted Camden plan · source document. The council's published plan is the authoritative version.
44 citations in the selected period
Not filled in yet. This will hold how officers actually argue CC3 case by case, classified from their decision reports — the classification pass hasn't run. Nothing is paraphrased in its place.
CC3 appears most often in Hampstead Town, Belsize, Holborn & Covent Garden. It appears across 24 of 57 officers recorded in this period. The map shows the pattern for the selected period.
This shows the decision reports in which CC3 appears. It does not yet claim that the policy caused those outcomes; 11 citations sit outside the approval/refusal split.
Not filled in yet — the classification pass over the citing passages hasn't run. When it has, this shows why CC3 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 CC3. Dismissed = the council's refusal stood, the policy held; allowed = overturned. The tighter join — this borough's own refusals citing CC3 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.