CC4 — Heritage.
How Hounslow actually applies CC4: who leans on it, where it bites hardest, and how often it's invoked. The policy text is the rule; this is the behaviour.
CC4 is a published Hounslow planning policy. This page records where it appears in the council's published planning decisions.
Cited under: Hounslow Local Plan (adopted)
Policy CC4: Protects and enhances the borough's heritage assets, including listed buildings, conservation areas, and historic landscapes. This policy applies to all heritage assets in the borough. The council will resist development that would harm these assets and support development that preserves and enhances them.
Plain-English summary of the adopted policy text below. The full text is the rule; this is the gist.
Heritage
Verbatim from the adopted Hounslow plan · source document. The council's published plan is the authoritative version.
48 citations in the selected period
Not filled in yet. This will hold how officers actually argue CC4 case by case, classified from their decision reports — the classification pass hasn't run. Nothing is paraphrased in its place.
CC4 appears most often in Bedfont, Chiswick Homefields, Hounslow Heath. It appears across 12 of 22 officers recorded in this period. The map shows the pattern for the selected period.
This shows the decision reports in which CC4 appears. It does not yet claim that the policy caused those outcomes; 3 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 CC4 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 CC4. Dismissed = the council's refusal stood, the policy held; allowed = overturned. The tighter join — this borough's own refusals citing CC4 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.