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DM1 — Delivering High Quality Design (Haringey Development Charter).

How Haringey actually applies DM1: who leans on it, where it bites hardest, and how often it's invoked. The policy text is the rule; this is the behaviour.

DM1 is a published Haringey planning policy. This page records where it appears in the council's published planning decisions.

Cited under: Haringey Local Plan (adopted)

Haringey · DM1
Where DM1 is quoted — by ward
Fewer ~0
More citations ~318
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re-scopes the headline figures and the trend
2,827
times cited
in parsed decision notices
78%
appeal survival
138 dismissed · 38 allowed at appeal
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officer reach
dated officer activity needed
Highgate
top hotspot ward
318 citations
What this policy is about

All new developments must achieve high design standards and enhance the local area's character. The Council supports proposals that positively relate to neighbours, improve the area, address local feedback, ensure quality, and use sustainable design. Development should respect local building heights, scale, and materials, while integrating landscaping and protecting privacy and amenity for all.

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

The policy — as adopted

Delivering High Quality Design (Haringey Development Charter)

Delivering High Quality Design Haringey Development Charter A All new development and changes of use must achieve a high standard of design and contribute to the distinctive character and amenity of the local area. The Council will support design-led development proposals which meet the following criteria: a Relate positively to neighbouring structures, new or old, to create a harmonious whole; b Make a positive contribution to a place, improving the character and quality of an area; c Confidently address feedback from local consultation; d Demonstrate how the quality of the development will be secured when it is built; and e Are inclusive and incorporate sustainable design and construction principles. Design Standards Character of development B Development proposals should relate positively to their locality, having regard to: a Building heights; b Form, scale & massing prevailing around the site; c Urban grain, and the framework of routes and spaces connecting locally and more widely; d Maintaining a sense of enclosure and, where appropriate, following existing building lines; e Rhythm of any neighbouring or local regular plot and building widths; f Active, lively frontages to the public realm; and g Distinctive local architectural styles, detailing and materials. Landscaping C Development proposals shall demonstrate how the landscaping and planting are integrated into the development as a whole. The Council will expect development proposals to respond to: a Landform; b Levels, slopes and the fall of the ground; c Trees on and close to the site; d Landscaped boundary and treatments; and e Any other significant biodiversity (including prioritising native over invasive species) on or close to the site. Privacy and amenity D Development proposals must ensure a high standard of privacy and amenity for the development’s users and neighbours. The Council will support proposals that: a Provide appropriate sunlight, daylight and open aspects (including private amenity space where required) to all parts of the development and adjacent buildings and land; b Provide an appropriate amount of privacy to their residents and neighbouring properties to avoid overlooking and loss of privacy detrimental to the amenity of neighbouring residents and the residents of the development; and c Address issues of vibration, noise, fumes, odour, light pollution and microclimatic conditions likely to arise from the use and activities of the development.

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

How it lands
83% in approvals · 17% in refusals
2,827 citations in the selected period
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Where it bites
Highgate318
Fortis Green242
Crouch End226
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 DM1 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

DM1 appears most often in Highgate, Fortis Green, Crouch End. The map shows the pattern for the selected period.

Who cites it — case-officer spreadfrom parsed decision notices · click an officer

Needs each citation joined to the case officer who wrote it — arrives with officer-report parsing for Haringey.

Why it is cited — and what follows
83%
in approvals
2,353 citations
17%
in refusals
473 citations

This shows the decision reports in which DM1 appears. It does not yet claim that the policy caused those outcomes; 1 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 DM1 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
78% survival
138 dismissed · 38 allowed · 1 split — 177 PINS appeal decisions cite DM1

From Planning Inspectorate decision letters that cite DM1. Dismissed = the council's refusal stood, the policy held; allowed = overturned. The tighter join — this borough's own refusals citing DM1 traced to their specific appeals — is still to come.

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