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SC1 — Building Performance.

How Newham actually applies SC1: who leans on it, where it bites hardest, and how often it's invoked. The policy text is the rule; this is the behaviour.

SC1 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)

Newham · SC1
Where SC1 is quoted — by ward
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More citations ~3
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re-scopes the headline figures and the trend
17
times cited
in parsed decision notices
75%
appeal survival
6 dismissed · 2 allowed at appeal
7 of 29
officer reach
24% of officers recorded in this period
Plaistow South
top hotspot ward
3 citations
What this policy is about

Policy SC1 requires developments to address climate change, be resource-efficient, and promote local production. It applies to new developments and existing homes and buildings. The council will support proposals that meet these strategic principles and design criteria.

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

The policy — as adopted

Building Performance

SC1 - Environmental Resilience Proposals that address the following strategic principles, spatial strategy and design and technical criteria will be supported: 1. Strategic Principles: a. In design, construction, and operation, development must respond to the known effects of climate change, including the likelihood of extreme weather events, geohazard risks, increased water scarcity and warmer temperatures; b. Development must be resource-efficient, recognising the increasing pressure on resources due to population growth and environmental stress as well as the economic opportunities of ‘waste’; c. Bolster the Council’s wider resilience agenda, development will promote local production (notably food growing), procurement, and labour (see J3); d. Ameliorate past environmental degradation, (as evident in water quality, habitat loss and contaminated land) to enhance site potential and minimise future degradation; e. Encourage the take-up of opportunities to improve resource efficiency in existing homes and buildings through retrofitting, subject to the sensitivities identified in SP5; and f. Development should take advantage of linked opportunities in sustainable design and minimise conflict between different strands, notably through: i. The biodiversity, pollution control and flood-reduction benefits of surface water attenuation measures as per the SUDS hierarchy (see SC3); ii. The temperature-regulation and surface water attenuation benefits of biodiversity enhancements (see SC4); iii. Avoiding conflict with air quality objectives (see SC5); iv. The opportunity to integrate food growing, including consideration as a temporary use. 2. Spatial Strategy: a. Support implementation of the Thames River Basin Management Plan; b. Remediate gasholder sites for more beneficial use that would meet other aspirations of the plan; Newham Local Plan 2018 Sustainability c. Improve opportunities for food growing, including through the protection and creation of allotments and other local growing space; d. Make best use of locally-available energy sources (see SC2 and INF4); and e. Protect and enhance the ‘green grid’ (see INF6). 3. Design and technical criteria: a.

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

How it lands
0% in approvals · 100% in refusals
17 citations in the selected period
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Where it bites
Plaistow South3
Canning Town North2
Wall End2
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 SC1 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

SC1 appears most often in Plaistow South, Canning Town North, Wall End. It appears across 7 of 29 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
0%
in approvals
0 citations
100%
in refusals
17 citations

This shows the decision reports in which SC1 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 SC1 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
75% survival
6 dismissed · 2 allowed — 8 PINS appeal decisions cite SC1

From Planning Inspectorate decision letters that cite SC1. Dismissed = the council's refusal stood, the policy held; allowed = overturned. The tighter join — this borough's own refusals citing SC1 traced to their specific appeals — is still to come.

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