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LP55 — Biodiversity.

How Wandsworth actually applies LP55: who leans on it, where it bites hardest, and how often it's invoked. The policy text is the rule; this is the behaviour.

LP55 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 · LP55
Where LP55 is quoted — by ward
Fewer ~0
More citations ~15
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re-scopes the headline figures and the trend
139
times cited
in parsed decision notices
3 appeals
appeal survival
3 dismissed · 0 allowed at appeal — too few to rate
28 of 67
officer reach
42% of officers recorded in this period
Roehampton
top hotspot ward
15 citations
What this policy is about

Policy LP55 requires development proposals to protect and enhance biodiversity in Wandsworth by ensuring no adverse effect on designated sites, incorporating new habitats, delivering a net gain in biodiversity, and connecting to existing ecological networks. Development impacting priority species or habitats will only be permitted in exceptional circumstances where alternative sites are considered and impacts are mitigated.

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

The policy — as adopted

Biodiversity

A. The Council will protect and, where appropriate, secure the enhancement of the borough’s priority species, priority habitats and protected sites as well as the connectivity between such sites. This includes but is not limited to Special Areas of Conservation, Sites of Special Scientific Interest, Local Nature Reserves, Local Wildlife Sites and Sites of Importance to Nature Conservation. B. Development proposals will be required to protect and enhance biodiversity, through: 1. ensuring that it would not have an adverse effect on the borough's designated sites of habitat and species of importance (including buffer zones), as well as other existing species, wildlife, habitats and features of biodiversity value; 2. The incorporation and creation of new habitats or biodiversity features on development sites including through the design of buildings and use of Sustainable Drainage Systems where appropriate. Developments will be required to deliver a net gain in biodiversity, through the incorporation of ecological enhancements; 3. ensuring that new biodiversity features or habitats connect to the existing ecological and green and blue infrastructure networks and complement surrounding habitats; 4. enhancing wildlife corridors for the movement of species, including river, road and rail corridors, where opportunities arise; and 5. maximising the provision of ecologically functional habitats within soft landscaping. C. Development which would have an impact on priority species or priority habitat(s) will only be permitted in exceptional circumstances where: 1. it has been demonstrated that there is no alternative site layout or site that would have a less harmful impacts; and 2. the impact has been adequately mitigated either through on or off-site measures.

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

How it lands
89% in approvals · 4% in refusals
139 citations in the selected period
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Where it bites
Roehampton15
West Putney11
Wandsworth Common10
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 LP55 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

LP55 appears most often in Roehampton, West Putney, Wandsworth Common. It appears across 28 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
124 citations
4%
in refusals
6 citations

This shows the decision reports in which LP55 appears. It does not yet claim that the policy caused those outcomes; 9 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 LP55 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
— survival
3 dismissed · 0 allowed — 3 PINS appeal decisions cite LP55

From Planning Inspectorate decision letters that cite LP55. Dismissed = the council's refusal stood, the policy held; allowed = overturned. Too few decisive appeals for a rate — the counts are the record. The tighter join — this borough's own refusals citing LP55 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.