Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG)

The Council’s adopted Unitary Development Plan (UDP) is the statutory planning framework for Hackney setting out the ‘strategic’ and more detailed policies to guide the Council’s decisions on planning applications. The purpose of Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG) is to give additional guidance on how policies in the UDP will be interpreted and implemented.

SPG are drawn up within the framework provided by the Government’s Planning Policy Guidance Note 12: Development Plans (1999). SPG does not form part of the UDP, but needs to be consistent with it and with national and regional planning guidance. It does not have the same statutory importance in decision-making as a UDP, but as formally adopted planning policy it is a material consideration when decisions are made on planning applications.

The weight accorded to SPG when determining applications is increased if it has been prepared in consultation with the public and has been the subject of a Council resolution.

The Council’s existing SPG were produced between 1990 and 1998. The Government’s changes to the planning system through the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act will involve the replacement of SPG with Supplementary Planning Documents (SPDs). In the interim period, existing SPG will be saved as SPD.

The council’s existing SPG is listed below. Paper copies can be requested by contacting Planning reception on the number below

• SPG Note 1: New Residential Development (936 KB)
  February 1998 ( see also)
• SPG Note 2: Residential Conversions, Extensions and Alterations (1.46 MB)
  February 1998
• SPG: Sound insulation (to be read in conjunction with SPG 2)(1.46 MB)
  No Date
• SPG Note 3: Industry and Warehousing (465 KB)
  May 1987
• SPG Note 4: Advertisements (296 KB)
  May 1987 ( See also)
• SPG Note 5: Children’s Play (456 KB)
  May 1987
• SPG Note 6: Hotels (380 KB)
  May 1987
• SPG Note 7: Hostels (364 KB)
  May 1987
• SPG Note 8: Mini-cab offices (248 KB)
  May 1987
• SPG Note 9: Regent’s canal (616 KB)
  March 1988
• SPG Note 10: Restaurants, Public Houses, Hot Food Take-Aways (Class A3 Users) (320 KB)
  Feb 1988
• SPG Note 11: Access for people with disabilities (1.90 MB)
  Feb 1988
• SPG Note 12: Conservation (1.30 MB)
  Feb 1988
• SPG Note 13: Listed Buildings (876 KB)
  Feb 1988
• SPG Note 14: Shop fronts and shop signs (1.21 MB)
  May 1987
• Un-numbered SPG: Interim housing standards (349 KB)
  June 1992

In addition, two further planning documents have recently been adopted as SPG:

• Un-numbered SPG: Woodberry Down SPG
  Jul 2004
• Un-numbered SPG: Lower Lee Valley SPG
  Jul 2004

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