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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)

Kensington And Chelsea · CR6
Where CR6 is quoted — by ward
Fewer ~0
More citations ~7
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re-scopes the headline figures and the trend
61
times cited
in parsed decision notices
86%
appeal survival
6 dismissed · 1 allowed at appeal
28 of 76
officer reach
37% of officers recorded in this period
Redcliffe
top hotspot ward
7 citations
What this policy is about

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.

The policy — as adopted

Trees and landscape

The Council will require the protection of existing tr compliment existing or create new, high quality gre benefits. To deliver this the Council will: a. resist the loss of trees unless: i. the tree is dead, dying or dangerous; ii. the tree is causing significant damage to adja iii. the tree has little or no amenity value; iv. felling is for reasons of good arboricultural p b. resist development which results in the damage c. require where practicable an appropriate replace d. require that trees are adequately protected throu e. require new trees to be suitable species for the l surrounding landscape and townscape f. require landscape design to: i. be fit for purpose and function; ii. be of a high quality and compatible with the s iii. clearly defined as public or private space; iv. optimise the benefit to wildlife habitat; g. serve Tree Preservation Orders or attach planni amenity value that are threatened by developme Servicing 21.3.34 Servicing requirements add to the alread particularly harmful to the appearance an 21.3.35 The servicing of sites, including coach a street loading bays, are essential for a s is primarily residential in nature, there ar London which carry very high levels of tr traffic congestion, an impact on bus ope potential to create disturbance, particula Management Plan and/or Coach Manag movement of all service vehicles and mi residential amenity, road function and pe 21.3.36 The provision of servicing is a balancing the safe and efficient management of se hindered, while on the other, the Counci is not detrimental to the character or app amenity. As the nature of the borough is rees and the provision of new trees that een areas which deliver amenity and biodiversity acent structures; practise. e or loss of trees of townscape or amenity value; ement for any tree that is felled; ughout the course of development; location and to be compatible with the surrounding landscape, and townscape character; ing conditions to protect trees of townscape or ent. dy high demands on our roads and can be nd safe functioning of the street. and other vehicle parking, refuse storage and offsite to function as intended. Although the borough re several strategic traffic routes into and out of raffic. Servicing in the borough can give rise to erations, conflict with pedestrians, and has the arly in or adjacent to residential areas. A Servicing gement Plan will ensure the safe and effective inimise any potential negative impacts on edestrian safety. g act. On one hand, the Council needs to ensure ervicing vehicles so that the road network is not il wishes to ensure that the physical servicing area pearance of an area, or detrimental to residential s predominantly high density residential, the impacts of servicing can have a wider re strategic importance.

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

How it lands
95% in approvals · 5% in refusals
61 citations in the selected period
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Where it bites
Redcliffe7
Stanley7
Norland7
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 CR6 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

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.

Who cites it — case-officer spreadfrom parsed decision notices · click an officer
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Why it is cited — and what follows
95%
in approvals
58 citations
5%
in refusals
3 citations

This shows the decision reports in which CR6 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 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.

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Does it hold up? — appeal performance
86% survival
6 dismissed · 1 allowed · 1 split8 PINS appeal decisions cite CR6

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.

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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.