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S.DH3 — Heritage and the historic environment.

How Tower Hamlets actually applies S.DH3: who leans on it, where it bites hardest, and how often it's invoked. The policy text is the rule; this is the behaviour.

S.DH3 is a published Tower Hamlets planning policy. This page records where it appears in the council's published planning decisions.

Cited under: Tower Hamlets Local Plan (adopted)

Tower Hamlets · S.DH3
Where S.DH3 is quoted — by ward
Fewer ~0
More citations ~103
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re-scopes the headline figures and the trend
473
times cited
in parsed decision notices
appeal survival
no PINS appeal decisions cite it
52 of 61
officer reach
85% of officers recorded in this period
Bow West
top hotspot ward
103 citations
What it means in practice

Not filled in yet. This will hold how officers actually argue S.DH3 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

S.DH3 appears most often in Bow West, Weavers, Spitalfields and Banglatown. It appears across 52 of 61 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
75%
in approvals
353 citations
25%
in refusals
120 citations

This shows the decision reports in which S.DH3 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 S.DH3 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

No Planning Inspectorate appeal decisions on record cite S.DH3. When one lands (the appeals table refreshes each weekday), the dismissed/allowed record appears here — never estimated.

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