38 — Basement development.
How Westminster actually applies 38: who leans on it, where it bites hardest, and how often it's invoked. The policy text is the rule; this is the behaviour.
38 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)
Not filled in yet. This will hold how officers actually argue 38 case by case, classified from their decision reports — the classification pass hasn't run. Nothing is paraphrased in its place.
38 appears most often in West End, St James's, Knightsbridge And Belgravia. It appears across 72 of 75 officers recorded in this period. The map shows the pattern for the selected period.
This shows the decision reports in which 38 appears. It does not yet claim that the policy caused those outcomes; 59 citations sit outside the approval/refusal split.
Not filled in yet — the classification pass over the citing passages hasn't run. When it has, this shows why 38 was used, whether it supported approval or refusal, and what changed as a result. No conclusion is shown until that classification has been checked.
No Planning Inspectorate appeal decisions on record cite 38. When one lands (the appeals table refreshes each weekday), the dismissed/allowed record appears here — never estimated.
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.