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LP27 — Housing Standards.

How Wandsworth actually applies LP27: who leans on it, where it bites hardest, and how often it's invoked. The policy text is the rule; this is the behaviour.

LP27 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 · LP27
Where LP27 is quoted — by ward
Fewer ~0
More citations ~61
Showing
re-scopes the headline figures and the trend
462
times cited
in parsed decision notices
71%
appeal survival
15 dismissed · 6 allowed at appeal
30 of 67
officer reach
45% of officers recorded in this period
Tooting Broadway
top hotspot ward
61 citations
What this policy is about

This policy requires all new homes to meet national space standards and specific London Plan requirements for design, accessibility, fire safety, and inclusivity. It also expects new homes to have windows on at least two sides, unless a single aspect is better, and to be 'tenure blind' meaning all homes look and feel the same regardless of ownership. Developments must also provide communal amenity and play spaces.

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

The policy — as adopted

Housing Standards

A. All new residential development, including new-build dwellings, conversions and change-of-use schemes where new dwellings are created, will be required to: 1. comply with the Nationally Described Space Standard; 2. meet all requirements for housing standards set out in the Policy D6 of the London Plan; 3. meet all requirements for accessible housing set out in the Policy D7 of the London Plan; 4. be designed to be inclusive, accessible and safe to all, in accordance with the requirements of Policy D5 of the London Plan; and 5. achieve the highest standards of fire safety, having regard to the requirements of Policy D12 of the London Plan. B. All new residential development will be expected to provide dual-aspect accommodation, unless it can be suitably demonstrated that a single aspect dwelling would provide for a more appropriate design solution than a dual aspect dwelling. Where such circumstances are demonstrated, all single aspect units should: 1. provide for an acceptable level of daylight for each habitable room, and optimise the opportunity for enabling direct sunlight; 2. ensure that the aspect is not predominantly north facing; 3. not face onto significant sources of air pollution and/or noise and vibration, and/or odours which would preclude opening windows; 4. provide a good level of natural ventilation throughout the dwelling via passive/non-mechanical design measures; and 5. ensure that future occupiers have a good level of privacy and do not experience adverse impacts from overlooking. C. Housing development must be designed to be ‘tenure blind’ to ensure that dwellings across all tenures are indistinguishable from one another in terms of quality of design and materials, space standards and access and that the provision of open space and amenities is accessible by occupiers within different tenures. Proposals will be required to demonstrate that this approach has been considered from the outset of the design process. D. Residential developments and mixed-use schemes incorporating a residential element will be expected to provide an appropriate amount of communal amenity space in accordance with the London Plan standards and children’s play space in accordance with Policy LP19 (Play Space).

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

How it lands
75% in approvals · 19% in refusals
462 citations in the selected period
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Where it bites
Tooting Broadway61
Lavender44
Balham36
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 LP27 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

LP27 appears most often in Tooting Broadway, Lavender, Balham. It appears across 30 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
75%
in approvals
348 citations
19%
in refusals
90 citations

This shows the decision reports in which LP27 appears. It does not yet claim that the policy caused those outcomes; 24 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 LP27 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
71% survival
15 dismissed · 6 allowed — 21 PINS appeal decisions cite LP27

From Planning Inspectorate decision letters that cite LP27. Dismissed = the council's refusal stood, the policy held; allowed = overturned. The tighter join — this borough's own refusals citing LP27 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.