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LP52 — Public Transport and Infrastructure.

How Wandsworth actually applies LP52: who leans on it, where it bites hardest, and how often it's invoked. The policy text is the rule; this is the behaviour.

LP52 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 · LP52
Where LP52 is quoted — by ward
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officer reach
1% of officers recorded in this period
Shaftesbury & Queenstown
top hotspot ward
1 citations
What this policy is about

Policy LP52: The Council will promote major transport infrastructure schemes. Development on sites used for sustainable transport functions is only permitted if there's no strategic need, alternative provision is made, and stakeholders are consulted. New developments must meet Healthy Street objectives and provide riverside walks and access.

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

The policy — as adopted

Public Transport and Infrastructure

A. The Council will promote major transport infrastructure schemes including Crossrail 2, Clapham Junction expansion, the Northern Line Extension to Battersea, improved rail links between South London and Heathrow, suburban rail services, highway improvement schemes, and new pedestrian and cyclist bridges to be delivered by other parties including Government, TfL, public transport companies and private developers. 1. Development of sites that would compromise land used for sustainable transport functions, including intermodal freight interchanges, rail and bus, and active travel infrastructure will only be permitted where: a. there is no current or future strategic or operational need; or b. alternative provision is made; and c. consultation has been undertaken with operators, owners and stakeholders. B. Development will be expected to meet all Healthy Street objectives (see Policy LP49 (Sustainable Transport)) and: 1. provision is made for riverside walks and access at least six metres wide (Thames) or at least three metres wide (Wandle), and appropriate to the scale of development, along the entire river frontage except for safety, operational or nature conservation reasons; 2. any new accesses linking the riverside walk to the surrounding area are at least three metres wide; 3. riverside walks should where possible allow for provision of cycling, ensuring pedestrian safety; and 4. the Environment Agency has been consulted for all developments adjacent to a watercourse. C. Commercial heliport facilities will be restricted to the existing heliport site. Further new commercial heliport sites will not be permitted. D. Due to the growing digitisation of the private vehicle hire industry, the provision of new minicab (private hire) offices will not be allowed however redevelopment of existing offices will be allowed provided they: 1. do not adversely impact traffic congestion, local parking problems, residential amenity, safety, or footways; and 2. “At any time” stopping restrictions are already in place.

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

How it lands
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2 citations in the selected period
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Where it bites
Shaftesbury & Queenstown1
Battersea Park1
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 LP52 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

LP52 appears most often in Shaftesbury & Queenstown, Battersea Park. It appears across 1 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
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This shows the decision reports in which LP52 appears. It does not yet claim that the policy caused those outcomes; 1 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 LP52 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 LP52. 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 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.