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DM13 — Refuse and recycling.

How Croydon actually applies DM13: who leans on it, where it bites hardest, and how often it's invoked. The policy text is the rule; this is the behaviour.

DM13 is a published Croydon planning policy. This page records where it appears in the council's published planning decisions.

Cited under: Croydon Local Plan (adopted)

Croydon · DM13
Where DM13 is quoted — by ward
Fewer ~0
More citations ~27
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re-scopes the headline figures and the trend
198
times cited
in parsed decision notices
94%
appeal survival
162 dismissed · 11 allowed at appeal
33 of 67
officer reach
49% of officers recorded in this period
South Croydon
top hotspot ward
27 citations
What this policy is about

Policy DM13 requires developments to sensitively integrate refuse and recycling facilities within the building envelope or landscape, ensuring they are visually screened, safe, accessible, and provide adequate space for temporary waste storage. This applies to all developments, with a waste management plan required for major developments and those generating large amounts of waste. The Council will resist developments that do not meet these requirements.

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

The policy — as adopted

Refuse and recycling

Key supporting documents DM13.1 To ensure that the location and design of refuse and recycling facilities are treated as an integral element of the overall design, the Council will require developments to: • The Mayor Of London’s Housing Supplementary Planning Guidance (March 2016) a. Sensitively integrate refuse and recycling facilities within the building envelope, or, in conversions, where that is not possible, integrate within the landscape covered facilities that are located behind the building line where they will not be visually intrusive or compromise the provision of shared amenity space; • British Standards BS 5906:2005 – Waste management in buildings – Code of practice b. Ensure facilities are visually screened; • 2010 No.2214 Building and Buildings, England and Wales – The Building Regulations 2010 c. Provide adequate space for the temporary storage of waste (including bulky waste) materials generated by the development; and d. Provide layouts that ensure facilities are safe, conveniently located and easily accessible by occupants, operatives and their vehicles. • The Building Regulations 2000 – Approved Document H, Drainage and Waste Disposal (2000 edition) DM13.2 To ensure existing and future waste can be sustainably and efficiently managed the Council will require a waste management plan for major developments and for developments that are likely to generate large amounts of waste. How the policy works Technical considerations Design considerations 6.136 It is important that refuse facilities are located in an area where they are easily accessible to all residents, including children and wheelchair users. This would include the provision of a safe route for those on foot as well as ensuring facilities are located on a hard level surface. Facilities must also be easily accessible for waste collectors.

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

How it lands
9% in approvals · 91% in refusals
198 citations in the selected period
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Where it bites
South Croydon27
Fairfield14
Purley And Woodcote11
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 DM13 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

DM13 appears most often in South Croydon, Fairfield, Purley And Woodcote. It appears across 33 of 67 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
9%
in approvals
17 citations
91%
in refusals
181 citations

This shows the decision reports in which DM13 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 DM13 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
94% survival
162 dismissed · 11 allowed · 1 split — 174 PINS appeal decisions cite DM13

From Planning Inspectorate decision letters that cite DM13. Dismissed = the council's refusal stood, the policy held; allowed = overturned. The tighter join — this borough's own refusals citing DM13 traced to their specific appeals — is still to come.

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Citations, officer spread, ward and application-type counts parsed from published Croydon 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.