Construction Management Plans in Haringey

Haringey has no named code of construction practice and no CMP pro-forma. Construction impacts are controlled through planning conditions instead: a Construction Management Plan, usually incorporating a Construction Logistics Plan, approved before work starts, and on larger schemes separate demolition and construction environmental management plans with an Air Quality and Dust Management Plan. The policy basis is still the 2017 Local Plan, because Haringey’s New Local Plan has not yet been adopted. Here is what the conditions ask for, and the licences and lead times that sit alongside them.

How Haringey Secures a CMP

Haringey’s planning conditions are imposed under the 2017 Local Plan: the Strategic Policies (2013, with alterations adopted on 24 July 2017) and the Development Management DPD adopted on 24 July 2017. Haringey consulted on a Draft New Local Plan from 10 October to 19 December 2025 and says it will consult on a Proposed Submission version in the second half of 2026, followed by examination, so the 2017 policies remain the ones a CMP is assessed against.

Haringey’s Planning Obligations SPD (March 2018) states that for most forms of development the council will usually impose a condition requiring a Construction Management Plan before any work commences, typically covering the hours of construction, site access, the times of HGV movements, safety procedures and environmental mitigation such as wheel washing and watering to suppress dust. The council will also typically require the site to be registered with the Considerate Constructors Scheme before works start, with proof of registration sent to the council.

The CMP is not a validation requirement: Haringey’s local validation list, in force since 29 August 2024, does not include a CMP or CLP among the documents needed to register an application. The plan is written after permission, against the wording of the condition. A 2025 Haringey permission for an industrial scheme in Tottenham, for example, carries a “Construction Management Plan (including Construction Logistics Plan)” condition, to be approved before development commences, which asks for:

• The routing of excavation and construction vehicles, including a response to other major building works nearby and local works on the highway
• The estimated peak number and type of vehicles per day and per week
• Estimates of the number and type of parking suspensions required
• Measures to protect pedestrians and other highway users from construction activity on the highway

Environmental Management Plans, Review and Fees

On larger schemes the CMP is joined by environmental management plans. Haringey’s Air Quality Action Plan 2025–2030 commits the council to referring construction and demolition environmental management plans and dust management plans to its pollution team for review at the discharge stage, and to securing air quality, AQDMP and NRMM conditions on every major application. Haringey publishes no timescale for discharging a CMP condition and charges no separate CMP review fee: the cost is the national discharge-of-conditions fee, £309 per request or £89 for householder development from 1 April 2026.

In the 2025 Tottenham permission, a second condition means demolition cannot begin until a Demolition Environmental Management Plan (DEMP) is approved, and other development cannot begin until a Construction Environmental Management Plan (CEMP) is approved. Each plan must include:

• A construction method statement identifying the stages of work and how they will be carried out
• Working hours, limited to 8am–6pm Monday to Friday and 8am–1pm on Saturdays unless otherwise agreed in writing with the council
• The plant and machinery to be used, and an unexploded ordnance survey
• The waste management strategy and community engagement arrangements
• Any acoustic hoarding, external lighting, and a temporary drainage strategy with a pollution prevention plan
• An Air Quality and Dust Management Plan (AQDMP) following the Mayor’s 2014 dust and emissions SPG, with a dust risk assessment, confirmation of NRMM registration and an inventory of the NRMM on site

Construction Working Hours in Haringey

Haringey’s noise pages state that loud noise from building sites and home improvements can take place 8am–6pm Monday to Friday and 8am–1pm on Saturdays. The hours informative attached to Haringey permissions adds that, under the Control of Pollution Act 1974, construction work audible at the site boundary is restricted to those hours and not permitted at all on Sundays or bank holidays, and the same hours can also be imposed as a condition or written into the DEMP and CEMP, varied only with the council’s written agreement. Haringey publishes no Section 61 prior consent guidance or application form on its website, so any proposal for out-of-hours or unusually noisy work should be raised early with the council’s pollution team.

Basements in Haringey

Policy DM18 of the Development Management DPD permits new basements and basement extensions only where the applicant can demonstrate that they will not harm the structural stability of the building, its neighbours or the adjoining highway, increase flood risk, or harm the character of the area, neighbours’ amenity or the natural and historic environment, and, beneath gardens, will not threaten valued trees and will keep adequate soil depth. Two criteria apply to the construction phase itself: the works must not harm pedestrian, cycle, vehicle or road safety, disrupt bus operations, significantly increase congestion or place unreasonable inconvenience on neighbours, and they must minimise noise, vibration and dust for their full duration.

Haringey’s validation list requires a Basement Impact Assessment with every application for a new basement or a basement extension, and the DPD says the stages of the BIA should be carried out by qualified and recognised independent assessors, paid for by the applicant. In a 2023 audit commissioned by the council, a BIA was assessed following the London Borough of Camden’s Basements planning guidance. Light wells are considered separately, including whether they would remove more than 50% of a front garden.

Air Quality, Dust and NRMM

The whole of Haringey is an Air Quality Management Area for nitrogen dioxide and PM10. Policy DM23 requires air quality assessments for all major development and refers to the Mayor’s Control of Dust and Emissions SPG (2014) for construction and demolition. The validation list asks for an Air Quality Assessment and a Dust and Emissions Assessment, including Non-Road Mobile Machinery, with every major application, together with a Waste Management Plan identifying the volume and type of demolition and construction waste. Haringey enforces the London NRMM Low Emission Zone, which its Air Quality Action Plan notes has required Stage IV across Greater London since January 2025; sites must be registered at nrmm.london, with registration evidence, an NRMM inventory and service logs kept on site for inspection.

Growth Areas, Stadium Events and Conservation Areas

Strategic Policy SP1 directs most of Haringey’s growth to three Growth Areas: Wood Green, Tottenham Hale and North Tottenham (including Northumberland Park, the Tottenham Hotspur stadium and High Road West). For major development in a Growth Area, the Planning Obligations SPD expects obligations that coordinate construction standards across sites, with developers working together to provide and fund a construction coordinator, or paying a financial contribution to secure one. Section 106 agreements also carry a monitoring contribution, typically 5% of the value of the obligations up to £50,000 plus £500 for each non-financial obligation, and schemes of 10 or more homes or 1,000 sq m or more of non-residential floorspace take on construction-phase employment obligations: at least 20% of the on-site workforce should be Haringey residents, with one apprentice per £3 million of development cost and a £1,500 support fee per apprentice.

On Tottenham Hotspur event days, Haringey makes temporary traffic orders that introduce no-stopping clearways and suspend parking on surrounding N17 streets such as White Hart Lane and Pretoria Road, so delivery schedules near the stadium need checking against the event calendar. Elsewhere, the borough has 28 conservation areas, including Highgate, Crouch End, Muswell Hill and the five conservation areas of the Tottenham High Road Historic Corridor, and a heritage statement is required with applications affecting conservation areas and listed buildings.

Highways Licences, Suspensions and Road Closures

Scaffolding, hoarding, container and crane licences are issued by Haringey’s highway licences team, which confirms the fee after approval for payment by bank transfer. Current charges and lead times include:

• Scaffolding or hoarding: £560 per three months, plus a £109.20 inspection fee, a deposit of £109.20 per square metre of highway enclosed and a £109.20 deposit handling fee; £5 million public liability cover, 2.5m headroom and at least 1.5m of clear footway in busy areas (1.2m may be accepted elsewhere)
• Mobile cranes: £625 per day, after a site visit that normally takes at least 5 working days, with £10 million public liability cover; static crane and boom oversail licences cost £960
• Containers: £260, plus £140.40 per week on the carriageway, for up to three months
• Skips and building materials: £125 (£140 for both), applied for at least 5 working days ahead and valid for up to 28 days, with skips no larger than 5m by 2m and never on the pavement
• Parking bay suspensions: £80 per car space per day plus a £280 administration fee, applied for online at least 2 weeks ahead, for up to six months, and enforced only during the controlled parking zone’s hours
• Temporary traffic orders for road closures: £3,724.97, applied for at least 8 weeks ahead and lasting no more than 18 months, with at least one week’s advance warning to residents and drivers

How CMP Construct Helps in Haringey

CMP Construct prepares council-compliant Construction Management Plans across Haringey and more than 20 London boroughs. We draft most plans within 7–10 working days, submit in the format Haringey Council expects, and handle officer comments through to discharge of your condition. Where your condition also asks for a Construction Traffic Management Plan (CTMP), a Construction Logistics Plan (CLP) or a Construction Environmental Management Plan (CEMP), we produce them as one consistent package. New to the process? Start with our complete guide to Construction Management Plans or see what a CMP costs.

Official Haringey Guidance

The council documents below set out Haringey Council's own requirements. We work to these day to day; they are linked here so you can verify any requirement directly:

• Haringey Local Validation List (August 2024)
• Haringey Development Management DPD (July 2017): Policies DM18 and DM23
• Haringey Planning Obligations SPD (March 2018)
• Haringey scaffolding, hoarding, container and crane licences

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