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OS2 — Urban Greening.

How City Of London actually applies OS2: who leans on it, where it bites hardest, and how often it's invoked. The policy text is the rule; this is the behaviour.

OS2 is a published City Of London planning policy. This page records where it appears in the council's published planning decisions.

Cited under: City Of London Local Plan (adopted)

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What this policy is about

Policy OS2 requires all development proposals to include urban greening, with a focus on biodiverse green roofs, terraces, and walls. Major developments must demonstrate a minimum Urban Greening Factor score of 0.3 and submit a maintenance plan. The loss of existing green features is only permitted in exceptional circumstances.

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

The policy — as adopted

Urban Greening

1. The provision of urban greening should be integral to the design and layout of buildings and the public realm. a. All development proposals will be required to demonstrate the highest feasible levels of greening consistent with good design and the local context; b. The installation of biodiverse extensive or intensive green roofs, terraces and green walls will be sought, where appropriate, and new development should not compromise these elements on existing buildings located nearby; and c. The loss of green walls and roofs, in whole or in part, will only be permitted in exceptional circumstances. 2. Major development proposals will be required to: a. Include an Urban Greening Factor (UGF) calculation demonstrating how the development will meet the City’s target UGF score of 0.3 as a minimum; and b. Submit an operation and maintenance plan to demonstrate that the green features will be maintained and remain successful throughout the life of the building.

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

How it lands
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Where it bites
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What it means in practice

Not filled in yet. This will hold how officers actually argue OS2 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

OS2 appears most often in Cheap. It appears across 1 of 8 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
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This shows the decision reports in which OS2 appears. It does not yet claim that the policy caused those outcomes.

Reason · role · consequence

Not filled in yet — the classification pass over the citing passages hasn't run. When it has, this shows why OS2 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

No Planning Inspectorate appeal decisions on record cite OS2. When one lands (the appeals table refreshes each weekday), the dismissed/allowed record appears here — never estimated.

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Citations, officer spread, ward and application-type counts parsed from published City Of London 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.