H1 — Stepped housing target for strategic sites delivery.
How Newham actually applies H1: who leans on it, where it bites hardest, and how often it's invoked. The policy text is the rule; this is the behaviour.
H1 is a published Newham planning policy. This page records where it appears in the council's published planning decisions.
Cited under: Newham Local Plan (adopted)
The policy sets a stepped housing target for 31 Strategic Sites, requiring 13,760 units in the short term (2018/19-2022/23), 19,760 units in the medium term (2023/24-2027/28), and 9,460 units in the long term (2028/29-2032/33). This applies to Strategic Sites and the council will resist development that does not meet these targets.
Plain-English summary of the adopted policy text below. The full text is the rule; this is the gist.
Stepped housing target for strategic sites delivery
Verbatim from the adopted Newham plan · source document. The council's published plan is the authoritative version.
365 citations in the selected period
Not filled in yet. This will hold how officers actually argue H1 case by case, classified from their decision reports — the classification pass hasn't run. Nothing is paraphrased in its place.
H1 appears most often in Forest Gate South, Plaistow South, Manor Park. It appears across 18 of 29 officers recorded in this period. The map shows the pattern for the selected period.
This shows the decision reports in which H1 appears. It does not yet claim that the policy caused those outcomes; 5 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 H1 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 H1. Dismissed = the council's refusal stood, the policy held; allowed = overturned. The tighter join — this borough's own refusals citing H1 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.