These pages provide planning guidance that complements policy contained within Westminster's Development Plan. They are intended to assist those wishing to prepare and submit planning applications in Westminster.
Guidance documents on this page have either been adopted as Supplementary Planning Documents (SPDs) or Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPGs) and are material considerations when assessing planning applications in Westminster. These documents do not introduce new policies and therefore do not have the same status as the policies within Westminster's Development Plan.
Following adoption of City Plan 2019-2040 in April 2021, the council is working on new SPDs that will provide updated guidance on how to implement policies in both the new City Plan 2019-2040 and new London Plan 2021. Since April 2021, the council has adopted two new SPDs – the Environment SPD and the Planning Obligations and Affordable Housing SPD. A full schedule of the SPDs the council is working on at the moment, can be found in our Local Development Scheme. A number of older SPDs and SPGs will still remain relevant until any new guidance is produced, and are therefore also included here for completeness.
On these pages you can find:
- New Supplementary Planning Documents (SPDs), adopted to complement policies within Westminster's Development Plan
- Other Supplementary Planning Documents (SPDs) and Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPGs), that were originally adopted to complement previous planning policies, but have been retained as they still provide useful guidance to support the implementation of more recently adopted City Plan policies.
- Conservation Area Audits (also adopted as SPDs or SPGs) and other area-based guidance, organised by alphabetical order.
- Information on upcoming Supplementary Planning Documents.
Other informal guidance documents that have not been formally adopted as SPDs or SPGs, but can still be a material consideration, can be found in the Other Planning Guidance webpage. Documents in the Evidence and Monitoring webpages also provide background information that may be helpful to applicants.
