LP34 — Managing Land for Industry and Distribution.
How Wandsworth actually applies LP34: who leans on it, where it bites hardest, and how often it's invoked. The policy text is the rule; this is the behaviour.
LP34 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 · LP34
Where LP34 is quoted — by ward
Fewer ~0More citations ~4
Showingre-scopes the headline figures and the trend
8
times cited
in parsed decision notices
80%
appeal survival
4 dismissed · 1 allowed at appeal
6 of 67
officer reach
9% of officers recorded in this period
Wandle
top hotspot ward
4 citations
What this policy is about
This policy protects and supports land for industrial and distribution uses, including light industry, general industry, and storage. It safeguards specific areas like Strategic Industrial Locations, requiring replacement industrial floorspace in redevelopment and encouraging intensification. In other locations, industrial uses will be retained, and new or intensified industrial premises supported, with mixed-use developments acceptable if industrial floorspace is provided or marketing evidence shows no industrial use is viable.
Plain-English summary of the adopted policy text below. The full text is the rule; this is the gist.
The policy — as adopted
Managing Land for Industry and Distribution
Providing Industrial Land and Premises
A. The Council will support the use of land and premises for industry and distribution in appropriate locations, falling within the following uses:
1. Light industry (falling within Use Class E (giii));
2. General industry (B2);
3. Storage and logistics/distribution (B8);
4. Flexible hybrid industrial space;
5. Secondary materials, waste management and aggregates;
6. Utilities infrastructure;
7. Land for suitable transport functions, including intermodal freight interchanges, rail and bus infrastructure;
8. Research and development of industrial and related products or processes (falling within Use Class E (gii)); and
9. Sui generis uses that relate to, and are necessary to support, the operation of sites of an industrial nature.
Strategic Reservoir of Industrial Land
B. A strategic reservoir of industrial land, comprised of the borough’s Strategic Industrial Locations (SILs) and Locally Significant Industrial Areas (LSIAs), will be protected and retained. In these locations:
1. Uses identified in Part A will be supported. Where necessary, proposals may be subject to the use of planning conditions or Section 106 planning obligations in order to protect the industrial function of the land.
2. The redevelopment of sites must provide at least the full replacement of existing industrial floorspace, in accordance with those uses identified in Part A.
3. The intensification of sites for industrial purposes through increased floorspace will be strongly encouraged. Landowners should, where appropriate, work with those of adjacent sites in order to make the most efficient use of land.
4. Development proposals for other uses in these locations will not be supported, except in the following circumstances and provided that the use does not erode the effective operation of the industrial function of the SIL or LSIA:
a. In the Battersea Design and Technology Quarter, SME office accommodation and research and development uses will be appropriate on upper floors, if it would result in the intensification of industrial uses on the site. Such development must accord with the Area Strategy and relevant Site Allocation. If the existing use of the site is solely or predominantly for office use, redevelopment must provide for new industrial uses on the ground floor, unless this would result in harm to a heritage asset and/or would cause material harm to the amenity of neighbouring occupiers or the operations of neighbouring uses.
b. In other locations, offices and other non-industrial uses will only be supported where they are ancillary to the use of the site or premises for one or more of the industrial uses identified in Part A.
c. In limited instances, non-industrial uses may be appropriate in these locations if they are small-scale and cater for the local needs of people working in the area.
Industrial Land and Premises in Other Locations
C. In order to meet the identified need for industrial land and premises, the Council will seek to retain these where they are located outside of the strategic reservoir (SILs and LSIAs). The redevelopment of sites, including former industrial land, to provide intensified or new industrial premises will be supported in the following locations:
1. Economic Use Intensification Areas (EUIAs).
2. Economic Use Protection Areas (EUPAs).
3. Focal Points of Activity.
4. On sites allocated for industrial use (including as part of mixed-use schemes) in the Area Strategies and/or Site Allocations.
5. Existing industrial land and premises that are not otherwise designated.
D. Proposals for mixed-use developments, including residential, on sites within the locations identified in Part C will be supported, where:
1. industrial, storage or distribution floorspace is provided, in accordance with Policy LP35 (Mixed Use Economic Development on Economic Land), and where all other relevant criteria of this policy have been met; or
2. there is no reasonable prospect of the site being used for the industrial and related purposes set out in Part A of this policy, as demonstrated through the submission of evidence that a full and proper marketing exercise of the site, for a period of at least 18 months, has been undertaken in line with the requirements set out at Appendix 1 of this Plan.
New Covent Garden Market
E. The primary function of New Covent Garden Market, and the railway arches immediately adjacent to it, as a wholesale retail facility will be protected. The principle of the consolidation and reconfiguration of New Covent Garden Market will be supported, subject to it being clearly demonstrated that the operational requirements of the market as a whole would not be compromised.
Verbatim from the adopted Wandsworth plan · source document. The council's published plan is the authoritative version.
How it lands
25% in approvals · 75% in refusals 8 citations in the selected period
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Not filled in yet. This will hold how officers actually argue LP34 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
LP34 appears most often in Wandle, Balham, Trinity. It appears across 6 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
25%
in approvals
2 citations
75%
in refusals
6 citations
This shows the decision reports in which LP34 appears. It does not yet claim that the policy caused those outcomes.
Reason · role · consequence
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From Planning Inspectorate decision letters that cite LP34. Dismissed = the council's refusal stood, the policy held; allowed = overturned. The tighter join — this borough's own refusals citing LP34 traced to their specific appeals — is still to come.
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.