CT1 — Improving alternatives to car use.
How Kensington And Chelsea actually applies CT1: who leans on it, where it bites hardest, and how often it's invoked. The policy text is the rule; this is the behaviour.
CT1 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 CT1 requires high trip generating development to improve transport accessibility, reduce car parking and congestion, and provide alternative transport options. This applies to all new development in the borough, and the council will resist new public car parks and developments that compromise road safety or reduce access to public transport. The council will support developments that provide step-free access to transport, improve public transport links, and enhance walking and cycling infrastructure.
Plain-English summary of the adopted policy text below. The full text is the rule; this is the gist.
Improving alternatives to car use
Verbatim from the adopted Kensington And Chelsea plan · source document. The council's published plan is the authoritative version.
185 citations in the selected period
Not filled in yet. This will hold how officers actually argue CT1 case by case, classified from their decision reports — the classification pass hasn't run. Nothing is paraphrased in its place.
CT1 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 CT1 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 CT1 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 CT1. Dismissed = the council's refusal stood, the policy held; allowed = overturned. The tighter join — this borough's own refusals citing CT1 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.