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Policy.

The policies that actually decide outcomes in Waltham Forest — 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.

1,340 citations1,350 reports parsedWaltham Forest Local Plan (adopted…
Waltham Forest · policy map
Where policy is quoted most — by ward
Fewer ~0
More citations ~112
At a glance
1,340[1]
Total citations
across 1,350 officer reports
32%[1]
Citations on refusals
borough baseline — see the In refusals column
Waltham Forest Local P[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
53 · Delivering High Quality Design
506
57 · Amenity
269
59 · Advertisements, Hoardings and Signage
54
80 · Trees
33
72 · Conservation Areas
33
56 · Residential Space Standards
32
79 · Biodiversity and Geodiversity
32
93 · Waste Management
23
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What kind of ground gets cited[1]
Housing delivery5%
Design & heritage46%
Amenity21%
Highways & transport3%
Sustainability3%
Other grounds21%

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

The policies that decide outcomes — Waltham Forest

Every plan policy recurring in Waltham Forest 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
53 — Delivering High Quality Design50618% · 0.6×—subscriber data
57 — Amenity26926% · 0.8×—subscriber data
59 — Advertisements, Hoardings and Signage542% · 0.1×—subscriber data
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Citation counts from Waltham Forest 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 Waltham Forest 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
Waltham Forest Local Plan (adopted)
1,340 report mentions
The hierarchy
National — NPPFpage pending
Strategic — London Planpage pending
Local — Waltham Forest plan →
What wins here — approval rate by application type[2]

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

Householder
78%
Lawful development
78%
Full / major planning
69%
Conditions & amendments
85%
Prior approval
39%
Listed building
94%
Grounds for refusal at committee[3]

Why the planning committee refuses applications, from 11 refusals in the loaded minutes. Committee refusals are relatively few — most decisions are settled by officers.

Policy Conflict
9
Design Character
8
Neighbour Impact
3
Transport Highway
3
Amenity
2
Overdevelopment
1
Heritage Conservation
1
S106 Obligations
1
Policies cited on refusal — borough-wide[4]

The policies most often cited on Waltham Forest refusal notices — the official refusal side of the citation record above.

DM4 and DM29 of the Waltham Forest Local Plan96×
DM4, DM29 and DM32 of the Waltham Forest Local Plan48×
53 of the adopted Waltham Forest Local Plan46×
policies DM4 and DM29 of the Waltham Forest Local Plan38×
DM4 and DM32 of the Waltham Forest Local Plan36×
CS2, CS13 and CS15 of the Waltham Forest Local Plan33×
CS13 and CS15 of the Waltham Forest Local Plan32×
57 of the adopted Waltham Forest Local Plan32×
CS2 and CS15 of the Waltham Forest Local Plan30×
DM4 and DM29 of the adopted Waltham Forest Local Plan30×

284 high-confidence refusal notices parsed for Waltham Forest.

Sources & method
  1. [1]Policy citations, per-policy officer counts and ward citation counts — parsed from 1,353 published Waltham Forest 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 — Waltham Forest's substantive decision record. · methodology
  3. [3]Committee refusal grounds and committee-cited policies — published Waltham Forest 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.