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Royal Borough of Greenwich planning intelligence

Local Plan stage, adopted plan, plan period and published housing position for Royal Borough of Greenwich, read from the national planning data platform on 20/09/2026.

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Local Plan stage

Adopted

The adopted plan has passed its five-year review point, which affects the weight it carries.

Five-year supply

Data currently unavailable

Source: planning.data.gov.uk local-plan and local-authority datasets

Housing Delivery Test

42%

Source: planning.data.gov.uk local-plan and local-authority datasets

Annual housing requirement

2,595homes pa

Source: planning.data.gov.uk local-plan and local-authority datasets

Plan-making and delivery position

How favourable is this authority's position for promoting land right now?

  • Local Plan progressAdopted

    The plan has been formally adopted and forms part of the statutory development plan. Authorities must review plans at least every five years.

  • Five-year housing land supplyData currently unavailable

    No supply statement is published in our sources for this authority.

  • Housing Delivery Test42% delivered

    Below 75% — the presumption in favour of sustainable development applies.

  • Evidence coverage held82%

    3 planning documents indexed for this authority.

What does this mean?

Read the plan stage first: allocation routes narrow considerably once a plan reaches examination.

Source: planning.data.gov.uk, MHCLG Housing Delivery Test and authority evidence base · Updated: Sept 2026 · Confidence: 82% evidence coverage

Local Plan stage

Adopted

The plan has been formally adopted and forms part of the statutory development plan. Authorities must review plans at least every five years.

Submitting land: Promote through the next review, or on planning-balance grounds now.

The adopted plan has passed its five-year review point with no more advanced plan published, which affects the weight it carries in decision-making.

Published position

Local Plan stage
Adopted

The plan has been formally adopted and forms part of the statutory development plan. Authorities must review plans at least every five years.

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Open Government Licence) · dated 2014-07-30

Adopted development plan
Royal Greenwich Local Plan: Core Strategy with Detailed Policies

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Open Government Licence) · dated 2014-07-30

Emerging Local Plan
Data currently unavailable

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Open Government Licence)

Plan period
2013 to 2028

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Open Government Licence)

Housing figure in the plan document
38,925 homes

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Open Government Licence)

Annual housing requirement
2595 homes a year

Source: planning.data.gov.uk local-plan and local-authority datasets

Five-year housing land supply
Data currently unavailable

Source: planning.data.gov.uk local-plan and local-authority datasets

Housing Delivery Test
42%

Source: planning.data.gov.uk local-plan and local-authority datasets · dated 2026-08-17

Plan documents held nationally
3

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Open Government Licence)

Where a figure has not been published in our sources it is shown as data currently unavailable. It is never inferred or estimated.

Development pressure & opportunity outlook

A 0-100 index of how much pressure Royal Borough of Greenwich is under to release new land, built only from published evidence, followed by what that evidence means for promoting land here over the next 12-24 months.

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Ask the Local Plan reader

Ask a question about Royal Borough of Greenwich's indexed planning documents and get an answer with document, page and policy citations — never a summary without a source you can check.

What this means for a landowner

The plan stage tells you whether allocation is still realistically available. Early stages — evidence gathering and Regulation 18 — are when sites are selected, so a Call for Sites submission has the greatest effect. Once a plan reaches Regulation 19 or examination, the practical routes narrow to soundness representations, the next plan review, or an application relying on the authority's land supply position.

The housing figures matter for the same reason. An authority that cannot demonstrate a five-year supply, or that falls below the Housing Delivery Test thresholds, applies the presumption in favour of sustainable development differently — which is what practitioners mean by the tilted balance.

Common questions

What stage is the Royal Borough of Greenwich Local Plan at?
Adopted. The plan has been formally adopted and forms part of the statutory development plan. Authorities must review plans at least every five years.
Can I still submit land to Royal Borough of Greenwich?
Promote through the next review, or on planning-balance grounds now.
Can Royal Borough of Greenwich demonstrate a five-year housing land supply?
No five-year housing land supply figure is currently published in our sources for Royal Borough of Greenwich, so the position is reported as unavailable rather than assumed.

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This assessment is an automated planning intelligence report based on available public data. It does not constitute planning, legal, valuation or other professional advice and does not guarantee that planning permission will be granted.