CR6 — Trees and landscape.
How Kensington And Chelsea actually applies CR6: who leans on it, where it bites hardest, and how often it's invoked. The policy text is the rule; this is the behaviour.
CR6 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 CR6: The Council will protect existing trees and create new ones to maintain high-quality green benefits. It will resist tree loss unless the tree is dead, dying, or dangerous, or felling is for good arboricultural practice. It will also resist development damaging trees, require tree replacement, and protect trees during development. New trees must be suitable species for the location and landscape, and landscape design must be of high quality and compatible with the surrounding landscape and townscape.
Plain-English summary of the adopted policy text below. The full text is the rule; this is the gist.
Trees and landscape
Verbatim from the adopted Kensington And Chelsea plan · source document. The council's published plan is the authoritative version.
61 citations in the selected period
Not filled in yet. This will hold how officers actually argue CR6 case by case, classified from their decision reports — the classification pass hasn't run. Nothing is paraphrased in its place.
CR6 appears most often in Redcliffe, Stanley, Norland. It appears across 28 of 76 officers recorded in this period. The map shows the pattern for the selected period.
This shows the decision reports in which CR6 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 CR6 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 CR6. Dismissed = the council's refusal stood, the policy held; allowed = overturned. The tighter join — this borough's own refusals citing CR6 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.