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LP2 — General Development Principles.

How Wandsworth actually applies LP2: who leans on it, where it bites hardest, and how often it's invoked. The policy text is the rule; this is the behaviour.

LP2 is a published Wandsworth planning policy. This page records where it appears in the council's published planning decisions.

Cited under: Wandsworth Local Plan (adopted)

Wandsworth · LP2
Where LP2 is quoted — by ward
Fewer ~0
More citations ~311
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re-scopes the headline figures and the trend
3,734
times cited
in parsed decision notices
79%
appeal survival
49 dismissed · 13 allowed at appeal
43 of 67
officer reach
64% of officers recorded in this period
Balham
top hotspot ward
311 citations
What this policy is about

This policy requires new developments to include a mix of homes, jobs, and community facilities within walkable neighbourhoods. It also states that developments must not harm the amenity of neighbours or existing uses. Proposals will be supported if they avoid negative impacts on daylight, sunlight, privacy, visual intrusion, and noise, and consider infrastructure needs and utility services.

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

The policy — as adopted

General Development Principles

A. Development proposals must provide for a mix of uses, including for new homes of a mixed-tenure and type, employment opportunities and which deliver strong cultural, recreational, and social services and facilities to support daily life as part of walkable neighbourhoods. B. Development proposals must not adversely impact the amenity of existing and future occupiers or that of neighbouring properties, or prevent the proper operation of the uses proposed or of neighbouring uses. Proposals will be supported where the development: 1. avoids unacceptable impacts on levels of daylight and sunlight for the host building or adjoining properties (including their gardens or outdoor spaces); 2. avoids unacceptable levels of overlooking (or perceived overlooking) and undue sense of enclosure onto the private amenity space of neighbouring properties; 3. is not visually intrusive or has an overbearing impact as a result of its height, scale, massing or siting, including through creating a sense of enclosure; 4. would not compromise the visual amenity of adjoining sites; and 5. would not lead to detrimental effects on the health, safety and the amenity of existing and new occupiers, and the amenity of occupiers/users of nearby properties through unacceptable noise, vibration, traffic congestion, air pollution, light pollution, odours, land contamination, disturbances during construction and demolition, in accordance with Policy LP14. C. Development must demonstrate how it takes account of existing or planned social and transport infrastructure and contributes to the provision of additional infrastructure where necessary. D. Development must be adequately serviced with utility infrastructure related and appropriate to the development (including in relation to water supply, sewerage, drainage, waste management, telecommunications, broadband, heat, power and cooling) in accordance with policy LP22. E. Development must include sufficient waste and recycling storage facilities on-site unless there are exceptional circumstances, in which case off-site provision will be sought. Waste and recycling storage facilities should support the separate collection of dry recyclables, food waste and residual waste, and should be provided in accordance with the Council’s adopted ‘Refuse and recyclables in developments SPD’ (2014) or successor document. F. Development must take into account the operational needs of existing businesses and not prejudice the activities of existing uses/operations. G. The operational and servicing requirements of sites should be provided for on-site and access for maintenance, collections and deliveries avoids movement conflicts both within and beyond the site.

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

How it lands
89% in approvals · 6% in refusals
3,734 citations in the selected period
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Where it bites
Balham311
Thamesfield271
Northcote269
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 LP2 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

LP2 appears most often in Balham, Thamesfield, Northcote. It appears across 43 of 67 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
89%
in approvals
3,338 citations
6%
in refusals
226 citations

This shows the decision reports in which LP2 appears. It does not yet claim that the policy caused those outcomes; 170 citations sit outside the approval/refusal split.

Reason · role · consequence

Not filled in yet — the classification pass over the citing passages hasn't run. When it has, this shows why LP2 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
79% survival
49 dismissed · 13 allowed · 1 split — 63 PINS appeal decisions cite LP2

From Planning Inspectorate decision letters that cite LP2. Dismissed = the council's refusal stood, the policy held; allowed = overturned. The tighter join — this borough's own refusals citing LP2 traced to their specific appeals — is still to come.

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