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Q12 — Refuse and recycling.

How Lambeth actually applies Q12: who leans on it, where it bites hardest, and how often it's invoked. The policy text is the rule; this is the behaviour.

Q12 is a published Lambeth planning policy. This page records where it appears in the council's published planning decisions.

Cited under: Lambeth Local Plan (adopted)

Lambeth · Q12

Where Q12 is quoted — by ward

Fewer ~0

More citations ~35

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re-scopes the headline figures and the trend

327

times cited

in parsed decision notices

90%

appeal survival

9 dismissed · 1 allowed at appeal

52 of 70

officer reach

74% of officers recorded in this period

Clapham Town

top hotspot ward

35 citations

What this policy is about

Policy Q12 requires refuse and recycling storage to be integrated into the design, conveniently located, and meet certain standards. This applies to all refuse and recycling storage, including communal, commercial, and large-scale stores. The council will resist poorly designed or located storage facilities, but support those that meet the specified requirements.

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

The policy — as adopted

Refuse and recycling

A. The council will expect all refuse and recycling storage to: i.

fully integrate into the wider design from the outset;

ii.

be conveniently located for users and within the stipulated distances for collection;

iii.

have attractive heavy-duty, robustly detailed structures;

iv.

be fully ventilated;

v.

be large enough to accommodate the easy manoeuvring of refuse/ recycling containers and have sufficient space to accommodate any increased storage requirements; and

vi.

be secure and safe.

B. Additionally communal, commercial or large scale refuse stores should be: i.

located away from residential accommodation to avoid harm to amenity and outlook;

ii.

mechanically ventilated where necessary; and

iii.

have a water supply and drain to allow for wash down.

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

How it lands

79% in approvals · 20% in refusals
327 citations in the selected period

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Where it bites

Clapham Town35

Knights Hill18

Streatham St Leonard's16

Source

Adopted Lambeth plan (PDF) →

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 Q12 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

Q12 appears most often in Clapham Town, Knights Hill, Streatham St Leonard's. It appears across 52 of 70 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

14 Katherine Leftwich

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Why it is cited — and what follows

79%

in approvals

259 citations

20%

in refusals

66 citations

This shows the decision reports in which Q12 appears. It does not yet claim that the policy caused those outcomes; 2 citations sit outside the approval/refusal split.

Reason · role · consequence

Not filled in yet — the classification pass over the citing passages hasn't run. When it has, this shows why Q12 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

90% survival

9 dismissed · 1 allowed — 10 PINS appeal decisions cite Q12

From Planning Inspectorate decision letters that cite Q12. Dismissed = the council's refusal stood, the policy held; allowed = overturned. The tighter join — this borough's own refusals citing Q12 traced to their specific appeals — is still to come.

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Citations, officer spread, ward and application-type counts parsed from published Lambeth 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.