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CL4 — - Heritage Assets – Listed Buildings, Scheduled Ancient Monuments and Archaeology.

How Kensington And Chelsea actually applies CL4: who leans on it, where it bites hardest, and how often it's invoked. The policy text is the rule; this is the behaviour.

CL4 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)

Kensington And Chelsea · CL4
Where CL4 is quoted — by ward
Fewer ~0
More citations ~23
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re-scopes the headline figures and the trend
136
times cited
in parsed decision notices
57%
appeal survival
20 dismissed · 15 allowed at appeal
37 of 76
officer reach
49% of officers recorded in this period
Brompton and Hans Town
top hotspot ward
23 citations
What this policy is about

Policy CL4 aims to preserve and enhance the borough's heritage assets, including listed buildings, scheduled ancient monuments, and archaeology. It requires the preservation of special architectural features of listed buildings and the preservation of listed buildings within the borough. This policy applies to all listed buildings and archaeological assets in the borough, and the council will resist appeals where the preservation of these assets is cited as the reason for refusal.

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

The policy — as adopted

- Heritage Assets – Listed Buildings, Scheduled Ancient Monuments and Archaeology

CL4(a) & The Borough’s heritage assets will be The number of listed buildings in the Annual (b) preserved or enhanced throughout the borough. plan period. The number of buildings on the ‘Buildings at Risk’ register. CL4(c), Preserve special architectural features of Percentage of appeals where CL4(c) Annual (d), (f) listed buildings. or (d) cited as the reason for refusal. CL4(e) Preserve or enhance the listed buildings within the Borough. Percentage of appeals for the change Annual of use of listed building where CL4(e) cited as the reason for refusal. Historic England Listed Buildings and Buildings at Risk registers. Acolaid development management administration system. Acolaid development management administration system. Policy Target CL4(g) The Borough’s archaeological assets will Percentage of appeals where CL4(g) be preserved throughout the plan period. cited as the reason for refusal.

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

How it lands
74% in approvals · 26% in refusals
136 citations in the selected period
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Where it bites
Brompton and Hans Town23
Royal Hospital17
Queen's Gate17
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 CL4 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

CL4 appears most often in Brompton and Hans Town, Royal Hospital, Queen's Gate. It appears across 37 of 76 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
74%
in approvals
100 citations
26%
in refusals
36 citations

This shows the decision reports in which CL4 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 CL4 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
57% survival
20 dismissed · 15 allowed · 3 split — 38 PINS appeal decisions cite CL4

From Planning Inspectorate decision letters that cite CL4. Dismissed = the council's refusal stood, the policy held; allowed = overturned. The tighter join — this borough's own refusals citing CL4 traced to their specific appeals — is still to come.

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Citations, officer spread, ward and application-type counts parsed from published Kensington And Chelsea 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.