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The White House Whalebone Lane North, Chadwell Heath, Romford, Barking And Dagenham, RM6 5QT

23/00317/CLUPLawful Development Certificate (Proposed Use)Approved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 27 April 2023

Council decision: Lawful (Certificate)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Application for a lawful development certificate (proposed) for the c hange of use from single use dwelling (Class C3(a)) to supported living home (Class C3(b)).

Received
2 March 2023
Ward
Chadwell Heath
  1. Received2 Mar
  2. Validated10 Mar
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided27 Apr

Decided in 48 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at The White House Whalebone Lane North, Chadwell Heath, Romford, Barking And Dagenham, RM6 5QT. Barking and Dagenham has handled 1,110 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 137 applications across Chadwell Heath. We hold 735 applications in total for the RM6 postcode area.

87% of outline applications at London Borough of Barking and Dagenham were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
RM6 5QT
Application type
Lawful Development Certificate (Proposed Use)
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 March 2023
Application expires
5 May 2023

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
20

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Article 4 direction: HMO Article 4
  • Green belt: Barking and Dagenham
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Barking and Dagenham

Contains public sector information from the Planning London Datahub, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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