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Lambeth

Lambeth approved 77.8% of the applications it decided, 9.2% below the England average.

Approved

77.8%

England 87%

Decided on time

93.4%

Inside the statutory period

Applications a year

1,919

Decided in the reporting year

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Against the country

Harder than the average.

The England benchmark is 87%. It is the share of decided applications that were approved, so a withdrawal counts as neither. Source: MHCLG Live Table P120A (England, rolling 12-month).

What we hold, and what we do not

Lambeth

77.8%

England

87%

Standard-method local housing need: 2,523 dwellings a year.

The rules here

What this authority decides against.

An application is judged against the adopted development plan unless material considerations say otherwise. This is that plan, and the levy that comes with it.

Local planLambeth Local Plan 2020-2035
Adopted2021-09-22

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What Wren does here

22.2% of applications here are refused.

Lambeth decided 1,919 applications in the reporting year, and refused about 22.2% of them. A refusal is usually a document problem rather than a scheme problem: the policy that governs it was not addressed, or the evidence it asks for was not there.

Wren drafts against Lambeth Local Plan 2020-2035, a chartered planner reads the draft and signs it under their own indemnity, and a case manager files it and chases it. A householder application is £499, and Lambeth's own statutory fee is separate and paid by you directly to them.

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