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34 — Building height.

How Westminster actually applies 34: who leans on it, where it bites hardest, and how often it's invoked. The policy text is the rule; this is the behaviour.

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

Cited under: Westminster Local Plan (adopted)

Westminster · 34
Where 34 is quoted — by ward
Fewer ~0
More citations ~76
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re-scopes the headline figures and the trend
432
times cited
in parsed decision notices
appeal survival
no PINS appeal decisions cite it
59 of 75
officer reach
79% of officers recorded in this period
Abbey Road
top hotspot ward
76 citations
What it means in practice

Not filled in yet. This will hold how officers actually argue 34 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

34 appears most often in Abbey Road, West End, Knightsbridge And Belgravia. It appears across 59 of 75 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
88%
in approvals
379 citations
11%
in refusals
46 citations

This shows the decision reports in which 34 appears. It does not yet claim that the policy caused those outcomes; 7 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 34 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 34. 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 Westminster 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.