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CP30 — MAINTAINING AND IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF THE BUILT AND OPEN ENVIRONMENT All developments and interventions in the public realm must be high quality and design-l.

How Enfield actually applies CP30: who leans on it, where it bites hardest, and how often it's invoked. The policy text is the rule; this is the behaviour.

CP30 is a published Enfield planning policy. This page records where it appears in the council's published planning decisions.

Cited under: Enfield Local Plan (adopted)

Enfield · CP30
Where CP30 is quoted — by ward
Fewer ~0
More citations ~138
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re-scopes the headline figures and the trend
1,860
times cited
in parsed decision notices
74%
appeal survival
137 dismissed · 49 allowed at appeal
60 of 62
officer reach
97% of officers recorded in this period
Cockfosters
top hotspot ward
138 citations
What it means in practice

Not filled in yet. This will hold how officers actually argue CP30 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

CP30 appears most often in Cockfosters, Southgate, Palmers Green. It appears across 60 of 62 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
5%
in approvals
97 citations
91%
in refusals
1,684 citations

This shows the decision reports in which CP30 appears. It does not yet claim that the policy caused those outcomes; 79 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 CP30 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
74% survival
137 dismissed · 49 allowed · 2 split188 PINS appeal decisions cite CP30

From Planning Inspectorate decision letters that cite CP30. Dismissed = the council's refusal stood, the policy held; allowed = overturned. The tighter join — this borough's own refusals citing CP30 traced to their specific appeals — is still to come.

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