DMD37.
How Enfield actually applies DMD37: who leans on it, where it bites hardest, and how often it's invoked. The policy text is the rule; this is the behaviour.
DMD37 is a published Enfield planning policy. This page records where it appears in the council's published planning decisions.
Cited under: Local guidance / SPD
Not filled in yet. This will hold how officers actually argue DMD37 case by case, classified from their decision reports — the classification pass hasn't run. Nothing is paraphrased in its place.
DMD37 appears most often in Cockfosters, Town, Edmonton Green. It appears across 58 of 62 officers recorded in this period. The map shows the pattern for the selected period.
This shows the decision reports in which DMD37 appears. It does not yet claim that the policy caused those outcomes; 60 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 DMD37 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 DMD37. Dismissed = the council's refusal stood, the policy held; allowed = overturned. The tighter join — this borough's own refusals citing DMD37 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.