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Policy.

The policies that actually decide outcomes in Havering — how often each is cited in the officers' own reports, where it bites hardest, and who leans on it. The plan text is the rule; this is the behaviour.

765 citations326 reports parsedHavering Local Plan (adopted)
Havering · policy map
Where policy is quoted most — by ward
Fewer ~0
More citations ~26
At a glance
765[1]
Total citations
across 326 officer reports
100%[1]
Citations on refusals
borough baseline — see the In refusals column
Havering Local Plan[1]
Development plan
most-cited framework in reports
CIL (residential)
schedule not yet sourced
5-year land supply
position statement not yet sourced
Citations by policy — what gets invoked 🔒click a policy — reshapes the map
7 · Residential design and amenity
230
26 · Urban design
202
24 · Parking provision and design
59
10 · Garden and backland development
38
34 · Managing pollution
37
8 · Houses in Multiple Occupation
26
23 · Transport Connections
23
27 · Landscaping
21
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What kind of ground gets cited[1]
Housing delivery32%
Design & heritage38%
Highways & transport3%
Sustainability1%
Other grounds27%

Grounds classified from each policy's own cited title. Click a slice — reshapes the map.

The policies that decide outcomes — Havering

Every plan policy recurring in Havering officer reports, ranked by how often it's cited. Click a policy for its full record — and the officer who leans on it most.

PolicyCitationsIn refusalsAppeal survivalCites it most
7 — Residential design and amenity230100% · 1.0×subscriber data
26 — Urban design202100% · 1.0×subscriber data
24 — Parking provision and design59100% · 1.0×subscriber data
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Citation counts from Havering officer reports.[1] “In refusals” = share of a policy's citations that sit on refusals; × = that share against the borough average (needs 20+ citations). Appeal survival = of PINS appeal decisions citing the policy, the share dismissed (refusal held); a rate needs 5+ decisive appeals, fewer show the count. Methodology →

The borough framework

The development-plan documents Havering officers actually cite, counted across parsed reports. CIL and land-supply figures aren't sourced yet and are shown as pending, not estimated.

Most cited
Havering Local Plan (adopted)
765 report mentions
The hierarchy
National — NPPFpage pending
Strategic — London Planpage pending
Local — Havering plan
What wins here — approval rate by application type[2]

Bar = volume · figure = approval rate, across Havering's substantive decisions.

Full / major planning
72%
Lawful development
0%
Conditions & amendments
67%
Householder
39%
Prior approval
38%
Listed building
72%
Grounds for refusal at committee[3]

Why the planning committee refuses applications, from 16 refusals in the loaded minutes. Committee refusals are relatively few — most decisions are settled by officers.

Amenity
7
Neighbour Impact
4
Policy Conflict
4
Design Character
4
Overdevelopment
2
Environmental
1
Heritage Conservation
1
Policies cited on refusal — borough-wide[4]

Havering's decision-notice parsing doesn't have enough high-confidence coverage yet to publish a borough-wide refusal-citation breakdown.

Sources & method
  1. [1]Policy citations, per-policy officer counts and ward citation counts — parsed from 359 published Havering officer reports (delegated and committee), joined to the canonical application record for wards. Approvals included — refusal notices alone only show the refusal side.
  2. [2]Approval rate by application type — Havering's substantive decision record. · methodology
  3. [3]Committee refusal grounds and committee-cited policies — published Havering planning-committee minutes. · committee record
  4. [4]Borough-wide refusal-notice policy citations — decision-notice parsing (high-confidence notices only).
Methodology is published in full so every number is traceable to its primary source.