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DH1 — Fostering innovation and conserving.

How Islington actually applies DH1: who leans on it, where it bites hardest, and how often it's invoked. The policy text is the rule; this is the behaviour.

DH1 is a published Islington planning policy. This page records where it appears in the council's published planning decisions.

Cited under: Islington Local Plan (adopted)

Islington · DH1
Where DH1 is quoted — by ward
Fewer ~0
More citations ~3
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re-scopes the headline figures and the trend
5
times cited
in parsed decision notices
72%
appeal survival
41 dismissed · 16 allowed at appeal
3 of 22
officer reach
14% of officers recorded in this period
Barnsbury
top hotspot ward
3 citations
What this policy is about

Policy DH1 requires development to be innovative, protect heritage and enhance the borough's character. It applies to all development in Islington. The Council will support innovative approaches that meet Local Plan objectives, resist development that harms heritage, and conserve or enhance heritage assets.

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

The policy — as adopted

Fostering innovation and conserving

and enhancing the historic environment ................................................................................................. 245 Policy DH2: Heritage assets ................................................................................................................................. 248 Policy DH3: Building heights ................................................................................................................................ 257 Policy DH4: Basement development ............................................................................................................. 264 Policy DH5: Agent-of-change, noise and vibration ............................................................................ 267 Policy DH6: Advertisements ................................................................................................................................. 270 Policy DH7: Shopfronts ...............................................................................................................................................271 Policy DH8: Public art ................................................................................................................................................ 272 Strategic infrastructure .................................................................................................... 273 Policy ST1: Infrastructure Planning and Smarter City Approach ................................................ 273 Policy ST2: Waste......................................................................................................................................................... 275 Policy ST3: Telecommunications, communications and utilities equipment .................. 276 Policy ST4: Water and wastewater infrastructure.................................................................................277 Monitoring ........................................................................................................................... 278 Appendices .......................................................................................................................... 282 Appendix 1: Marketing and vacancy criteria ........................................................................................... 282 Appendix 2: Noise and vibration ...................................................................................................................... 286 Appendix 3: Transport Assessments and Travel Plans..................................................................... 292 Appendix 4: Cycle parking standards .......................................................................................................... 295 Appendix 5: Local views ......................................................................................................................................... 300 Appendix 6: Public open spaces; SINCs, historic green spaces and adventure playgrounds .................................................................................................................................311 Management Policies DPD ................................................................................................................................... 323 Appendix 8: Glossary and abbreviations................................................................................................... 327 Appendix 9: Housing Trajectory ........................................................................................................................ 370 1 What is the role of the Local Plan?

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

How it lands
20% in approvals · 80% in refusals
5 citations in the selected period
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Where it bites
Barnsbury3
St Mary's & St James'2
What cites it — application types
all years on record · click a slice to filter
What it means in practice

Not filled in yet. This will hold how officers actually argue DH1 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

DH1 appears most often in Barnsbury, St Mary's & St James'. It appears across 3 of 22 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
20%
in approvals
1 citations
80%
in refusals
4 citations

This shows the decision reports in which DH1 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 DH1 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
72% survival
41 dismissed · 16 allowed · 2 split — 59 PINS appeal decisions cite DH1

From Planning Inspectorate decision letters that cite DH1. Dismissed = the council's refusal stood, the policy held; allowed = overturned. The tighter join — this borough's own refusals citing DH1 traced to their specific appeals — is still to come.

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