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SP5 — Heritage and other Successful.

How Newham actually applies SP5: who leans on it, where it bites hardest, and how often it's invoked. The policy text is the rule; this is the behaviour.

SP5 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 · SP5
Where SP5 is quoted — by ward
Fewer ~0
More citations ~21
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re-scopes the headline figures and the trend
61
times cited
in parsed decision notices
61%
appeal survival
11 dismissed · 7 allowed at appeal
12 of 29
officer reach
41% of officers recorded in this period
Forest Gate South
top hotspot ward
21 citations
What this policy is about

Policy SP5 protects and enhances heritage and other successful place-making assets in Newham. It supports proposals that conserve and improve designated and non-designated heritage assets, and encourage innovation to secure their sustainable futures. This policy applies to all developments in Newham, particularly those affecting listed buildings, conservation areas, Scheduled Monuments, Historic Parks and Gardens, Areas of Townscape Value, and Archaeological Priority Areas.

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

The policy — as adopted

Heritage and other Successful

Place-making Assets Proposals which address the following strategic principles and spatial strategy and design and technical criteria in their concept, design and implementation will be supported: 1. Strategic principles and spatial strategy a. The value of heritage and other assets (natural, cultural, architectural, and infrastructural) which contribute to local character and successful places will be recognised by protection, conservation, and enhancement of the assets and their settings, and where appropriate, cultivation of new ones; b. Urban design should recognise the strengths and weaknesses of local character and seek to contribute positively to the composition of the townscape, achieving better integration and enhancement of new and old, natural and built environments, infrastructure and living environments; c. Designated and non-designated heritage assets will be conserved and enhanced, with any change to them based on an understanding of the nature of their significance and the contribution of their settings to that significance, seeking to increase their presence and encourage wider appreciation, ownership of, and access to them; d. Innovation will be encouraged to realise the value of assets and secure viable, sustainable and appropriate futures for them, particularly where they are underperforming/’at Risk’, reconciling this with the sensitivity to change presented by many (see also Policies SC2, SC4, INF6 and INF7); e.

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
61 citations in the selected period
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Where it bites
Forest Gate South21
Manor Park15
Green Street East4
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 SP5 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

SP5 appears most often in Forest Gate South, Manor Park, Green Street East. It appears across 12 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
61 citations

This shows the decision reports in which SP5 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 SP5 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
61% survival
11 dismissed · 7 allowed — 18 PINS appeal decisions cite SP5

From Planning Inspectorate decision letters that cite SP5. Dismissed = the council's refusal stood, the policy held; allowed = overturned. The tighter join — this borough's own refusals citing SP5 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.