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T2 — Walking.

How Lambeth actually applies T2: who leans on it, where it bites hardest, and how often it's invoked. The policy text is the rule; this is the behaviour.

T2 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 · T2
Where T2 is quoted — by ward
Fewer ~0
More citations ~6
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re-scopes the headline figures and the trend
66
times cited
in parsed decision notices
63%
appeal survival
5 dismissed · 3 allowed at appeal
28 of 70
officer reach
40% of officers recorded in this period
Brixton Windrush
top hotspot ward
6 citations
What this policy is about

Policy T2: Walking in Lambeth requires development proposals to improve pedestrian environments, reduce road danger, and promote walking. This includes providing safe, direct, and attractive routes, improving footways to minimum standards, and retaining existing pedestrian routes. The council will support proposals that meet these requirements and resist those that do not.

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

The policy — as adopted

Walking

A. Lambeth will support the delivery of a programme of public realm improvements designed to create attractive places that encourage economic and social activity, improve conditions for pedestrians, and make walking a safer, healthier, quicker, more direct and attractive form of travel. B. In line with the hierarchy set out in Local Plan policy T1(c), Lambeth will promote walking by giving greater priority to pedestrians in the use of road space, introducing appropriate motor traffic management measures, reducing road danger from other transport modes and through improvements to signage and way-finding. C. Development proposals should deliver an improved environment for pedestrians, appropriate to the scale and nature of the proposal with particular regard to accessibility, safety, convenience and directness of movements, including provision of new routes and desire lines, and enhancement of existing routes with reference to the Lambeth Healthy Routes Plan. All development should reduce road danger, to help deliver ‘Vision Zero’ in the borough. Major development proposals should identify key routes and destinations and assess existing and predicted pedestrian flows to, through and from the site. They should provide safe, direct, and attractive routes that accommodate these flows and will be expected to provide improvements that will encourage additional walking trips, including, where appropriate, Legible London signage. Development proposals should facilitate the improvement of footways to minimum standards where these are not currently met, including through the provision of land for adoption as highway, and enable footway widening where increased footfall is expected. Reductions in footway space will not be permitted. D. Pedestrian routes should normally be provided at street level, and Lambeth will seek opportunities to replace existing subways and footbridges with safe routes at street level. Planning applications must ensure that existing pedestrian routes and public rights of way are retained and where appropriate improved. Where new routes that will improve permeability are identified, rights of way should be secured for these. E. The council is committed to ensuring that the physical environment in Lambeth, including all our streets, is fully accessible to all. Provision for pedestrians should therefore be inclusive and prioritise people with disabilities and particular mobility needs.

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

How it lands
44% in approvals · 56% in refusals
66 citations in the selected period
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Where it bites
Brixton Windrush6
Oval5
Brixton North5
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 T2 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

T2 appears most often in Brixton Windrush, Oval, Brixton North. It appears across 28 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
44%
in approvals
29 citations
56%
in refusals
37 citations

This shows the decision reports in which T2 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 T2 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
63% survival
5 dismissed · 3 allowed — 8 PINS appeal decisions cite T2

From Planning Inspectorate decision letters that cite T2. Dismissed = the council's refusal stood, the policy held; allowed = overturned. The tighter join — this borough's own refusals citing T2 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.