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Q13 — Cycle storage.

How Lambeth actually applies Q13: who leans on it, where it bites hardest, and how often it's invoked. The policy text is the rule; this is the behaviour.

Q13 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 · Q13
Where Q13 is quoted — by ward
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More citations ~38
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re-scopes the headline figures and the trend
443
times cited
in parsed decision notices
88%
appeal survival
21 dismissed · 3 allowed at appeal
51 of 70
officer reach
73% of officers recorded in this period
Clapham Town
top hotspot ward
38 citations
What this policy is about

Policy Q13 requires all new developments to provide cycle storage that is integrated, accessible, secure, and safe. The council will assess small-scale flat conversions for adequate cycle storage and support storage in front gardens or within flats where feasible. Cycle storage must meet London Cycling Design Standards and the London Plan's minimum standards.

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

The policy — as adopted

Cycle storage

A. Cycle storage in all development (including conversions) should be: i. fully integrated into proposals from the initial design stage; ii. directly and conveniently accessed from outside the building; iii. accessible, attractive, secure and safe to use; iv. either in individual lockers, or in stores shared by groups of immediate neighbours; v. covered, fully ventilated, robustly constructed and easy to maintain; vi. be fully compliant with the London Cycling Design Standards; and vii. inclusive, allowing for different user needs and different types of cycles.  To table of contents Lambeth Local Plan 2020–2035 | Section 10: Quality of the Built Environment B. When considering small-scale flat conversions and intensification of use the council will: i. assess whether there is scope to provide adequate cycle storage provision when assessing unit numbers/site layouts (and may seek a reduction in unit numbers in order to accommodate suitable cycle storage provision); ii. support cycle storage in front gardens/forecourts only where it does not compromises visual amenity or access; iii. support storage within flats where there is a dedicated storage place, fire safety is not compromised, accessibility is convenient and it does not result in cycles being stored externally such as on a balcony or roof; and iv. consider the removal of an on-street parking bay in favour of an on-road cycle store to be shared between residents where it can be shown that there is no other practical alternative due to site constraints. The cost, including the opportunity cost of kerbside space, is to be borne by the development. C. All cycle storage should be fully compliant with the minimum standards set out in the London Plan and exceed these where a high demand for cycling is expected.

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

How it lands
75% in approvals · 25% in refusals
443 citations in the selected period
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Where it bites
Clapham Town38
Streatham St Leonard's28
Knights Hill22
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 Q13 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

Q13 appears most often in Clapham Town, Streatham St Leonard's, Knights Hill. It appears across 51 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
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Why it is cited — and what follows
75%
in approvals
333 citations
25%
in refusals
109 citations

This shows the decision reports in which Q13 appears. It does not yet claim that the policy caused those outcomes; 1 citations sit outside the approval/refusal split.

Reason · role · consequence

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Does it hold up? — appeal performance
88% survival
21 dismissed · 3 allowed — 24 PINS appeal decisions cite Q13

From Planning Inspectorate decision letters that cite Q13. Dismissed = the council's refusal stood, the policy held; allowed = overturned. The tighter join — this borough's own refusals citing Q13 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.