CE6 — Noise and Vibration.
How Kensington And Chelsea actually applies CE6: who leans on it, where it bites hardest, and how often it's invoked. The policy text is the rule; this is the behaviour.
CE6 is a published Kensington And Chelsea planning policy. This page records where it appears in the council's published planning decisions.
Cited under: Kensington And Chelsea Local Plan (adopted)
Policy CE6: Noise and Vibration - The Council will control noise and vibration impacts from new developments and existing sources. It will require careful design and layout to protect sensitive developments, resist developments that fail to meet noise standards, and protect tranquil areas. Developers must also address land contamination and employ a competent person to investigate and mitigate risks.
Plain-English summary of the adopted policy text below. The full text is the rule; this is the gist.
Noise and Vibration
Verbatim from the adopted Kensington And Chelsea plan · source document. The council's published plan is the authoritative version.
167 citations in the selected period
Not filled in yet. This will hold how officers actually argue CE6 case by case, classified from their decision reports — the classification pass hasn't run. Nothing is paraphrased in its place.
CE6 appears most often in Brompton and Hans Town, Royal Hospital, Abingdon. It appears across 37 of 76 officers recorded in this period. The map shows the pattern for the selected period.
This shows the decision reports in which CE6 appears. It does not yet claim that the policy caused those outcomes.
Not filled in yet — the classification pass over the citing passages hasn't run. When it has, this shows why CE6 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 CE6. Dismissed = the council's refusal stood, the policy held; allowed = overturned. The tighter join — this borough's own refusals citing CE6 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.