diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 50e1bde..4a96da3 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -457,9 +457,14 @@ job:
    a false gate as rollback after CloudFormation owns a role.
 
 The apply roles explicitly deny role lifecycle/trust/boundary/managed-policy
-changes, `PassRole`, secret and parameter reads, CloudFront/S3 create and
-delete (including OAC mutation), and deletion of inline role or bucket
-policies. `UpdateDistribution` is allowed on the exact pinned distribution ARN.
+changes, `PassRole`, secret and parameter reads, CloudFront/S3 create, and
+(for dev and staging) CloudFront/S3 delete including OAC mutation and bucket
+policy deletion. The tf-poc apply role is the exception: it keeps create
+denied and allows destroy of the exact rehearsal bucket (including object
+versions), distribution `E73KH1SPNFL00`, OAC `E14MP8Z5YRWO93`, function
+`us-east-1shocfrontendtfpocSpaRewrite4B1A4F5F`, and A/AAAA in
+`Z10433621DH3UOWM8663D`. It still does not delete `githubdeploy-*`; SCP
+`ProtectDeploymentPrincipalLifecycle` denies that for HCP principals. `UpdateDistribution` is allowed on the exact pinned distribution ARN.
 `CreateInvalidation` and `GetInvalidation` are allowed on that same ARN so the
 Terraform invalidation action can run. `GetObject`/`GetObjectTagging`/`PutObject`/`PutObjectTagging` on
 `.release/current` lets Terraform own the release pointer, including the
diff --git a/lib/terraform-substrate/shoc-frontend-resources.ts b/lib/terraform-substrate/shoc-frontend-resources.ts
index 098998b..342e633 100644
--- a/lib/terraform-substrate/shoc-frontend-resources.ts
+++ b/lib/terraform-substrate/shoc-frontend-resources.ts
@@ -230,6 +230,93 @@ const frontendReadPolicy = (
   };
 };
 
+const infrastructureReplacementDenyActions = (
+  environment: FrontendEnvironment,
+): string[] => {
+  const createOnly = [
+    "cloudfront:CreateDistribution",
+    "cloudfront:CreateFunction",
+    "cloudfront:CreateOriginAccessControl",
+    "s3:CreateBucket",
+  ];
+  if (environment.key === "tf-poc") {
+    // Destroy needs Delete* and the Put/Delete calls Terraform uses to
+    // remove versioning, encryption, ownership, and public-access configs.
+    return createOnly;
+  }
+  return [
+    ...createOnly,
+    "cloudfront:DeleteDistribution",
+    "cloudfront:DeleteFunction",
+    "cloudfront:DeleteOriginAccessControl",
+    "cloudfront:UpdateOriginAccessControl",
+    "s3:DeleteBucket",
+    "s3:DeleteBucketEncryption",
+    "s3:DeleteBucketOwnershipControls",
+    "s3:DeleteBucketPolicy",
+    "s3:DeleteBucketPublicAccessBlock",
+    "s3:PutBucketOwnershipControls",
+    "s3:PutBucketPublicAccessBlock",
+    "s3:PutBucketVersioning",
+    "s3:PutEncryptionConfiguration",
+  ];
+};
+
+const frontendPocDestroyStatements = (
+  environment: FrontendEnvironment,
+): Record<string, unknown>[] => {
+  if (environment.key !== "tf-poc") {
+    return [];
+  }
+  const siteBucketArn = bucketArn(environment.bucketName);
+  return [
+    {
+      Sid: "DestroyExactPocBucket",
+      Effect: "Allow",
+      Action: [
+        "s3:DeleteBucket",
+        "s3:DeleteBucketEncryption",
+        "s3:DeleteBucketOwnershipControls",
+        "s3:DeleteBucketPolicy",
+        "s3:DeleteBucketPublicAccessBlock",
+        "s3:GetBucketVersioning",
+        "s3:ListBucket",
+        "s3:ListBucketVersions",
+        "s3:PutBucketOwnershipControls",
+        "s3:PutBucketPublicAccessBlock",
+        "s3:PutBucketVersioning",
+        "s3:PutEncryptionConfiguration",
+      ],
+      Resource: siteBucketArn,
+    },
+    {
+      Sid: "DestroyExactPocBucketObjects",
+      Effect: "Allow",
+      Action: [
+        "s3:DeleteObject",
+        "s3:DeleteObjectVersion",
+        "s3:GetObject",
+        "s3:GetObjectVersion",
+      ],
+      Resource: `${siteBucketArn}/*`,
+    },
+    {
+      Sid: "DestroyExactPocCloudFront",
+      Effect: "Allow",
+      Action: [
+        "cloudfront:DeleteDistribution",
+        "cloudfront:DeleteFunction",
+        "cloudfront:DeleteOriginAccessControl",
+      ],
+      Resource: [
+        distributionArn(environment.distributionId),
+        functionArn(environment.functionName),
+        originAccessControlArn(environment.originAccessControlId),
+      ],
+    },
+  ];
+};
+
 const frontendApplyPolicy = (
   environment: FrontendEnvironment,
 ): Record<string, unknown> => ({
@@ -269,25 +356,7 @@ const frontendApplyPolicy = (
     {
       Sid: "DenyInfrastructureReplacement",
       Effect: "Deny",
-      Action: [
-        "cloudfront:CreateDistribution",
-        "cloudfront:CreateFunction",
-        "cloudfront:CreateOriginAccessControl",
-        "cloudfront:DeleteDistribution",
-        "cloudfront:DeleteFunction",
-        "cloudfront:DeleteOriginAccessControl",
-        "cloudfront:UpdateOriginAccessControl",
-        "s3:CreateBucket",
-        "s3:DeleteBucket",
-        "s3:DeleteBucketEncryption",
-        "s3:DeleteBucketOwnershipControls",
-        "s3:DeleteBucketPolicy",
-        "s3:DeleteBucketPublicAccessBlock",
-        "s3:PutBucketOwnershipControls",
-        "s3:PutBucketPublicAccessBlock",
-        "s3:PutBucketVersioning",
-        "s3:PutEncryptionConfiguration",
-      ],
+      Action: infrastructureReplacementDenyActions(environment),
       Resource: "*",
     },
     {
@@ -403,6 +472,7 @@ const frontendApplyPolicy = (
         },
       },
     },
+    ...frontendPocDestroyStatements(environment),
   ],
 });