Q20 — Statutory listed buildings.
How Lambeth actually applies Q20: who leans on it, where it bites hardest, and how often it's invoked. The policy text is the rule; this is the behaviour.
Q20 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)
Policy Q20: Statutory listed buildings - This policy requires that development proposals for statutory listed buildings must not harm their special architectural or historic interest. It applies to statutory listed buildings in Lambeth and the council will resist development proposals that would harm these buildings.
Plain-English summary of the adopted policy text below. The full text is the rule; this is the gist.
Statutory listed buildings
Verbatim from the adopted Lambeth plan · source document. The council's published plan is the authoritative version.
1,160 citations in the selected period
Not filled in yet. This will hold how officers actually argue Q20 case by case, classified from their decision reports — the classification pass hasn't run. Nothing is paraphrased in its place.
Q20 appears most often in Waterloo & South Bank, Kennington, Clapham Town. It appears across 63 of 70 officers recorded in this period. The map shows the pattern for the selected period.
This shows the decision reports in which Q20 appears. It does not yet claim that the policy caused those outcomes; 13 citations sit outside the approval/refusal split.
Not filled in yet — the classification pass over the citing passages hasn't run. When it has, this shows why Q20 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 Q20. Dismissed = the council's refusal stood, the policy held; allowed = overturned. The tighter join — this borough's own refusals citing Q20 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.