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42 Cator Road Sydenham London SE26 5DS

25/00898/FULL6Full App (Householder Development)Approved
Householder

Approved on 22 May 2025

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Demolition of existing side and rear extension and construction of single storey side extension and part one/two storey rear extension. Loft Conversion with rear hip to gable roof, conservation rooflights and Juliet balcony to rear. Elevational alterations to include new rendering and full window replacement. Widening of existing vehicle access onto Cator Road

Received
13 March 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Penge And Cator
Agent
FRIEL ARCHITECTS
  1. Received13 Mar
  2. Validated31 Mar
  3. Consult.23 Apr
  4. Target26 May
  5. Decided22 May

Decided in 52 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at 42 Cator Road Sydenham London SE26 5DS. Bromley has handled 8,588 applications of this type. This one was decided in 70 days, 2 weeks longer than Bromley's typical decision time. The site is in the Cator Road, Sydenham conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 2,165 applications in total for the SE26 postcode area.

77% of full applications at London Borough of Bromley were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
SE26 5DS
Application type
Full App (Householder Development)
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
31 March 2025
Consultation expiry
7 May 2025
Consultation start
2 April 2025
Consultation end
23 April 2025
Neighbour consultation start
2 April 2025
Neighbour consultation end
23 April 2025
Last date for comments
7 May 2025
Target decision date
26 May 2025
Permission expires
22 May 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent
FRIEL ARCHITECTS
Architect profile
FRIEL ARCHITECTS LTD
Agent address
Unit F, Damsel House Dragonfly Place London Greater London SE4 2FN United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
16 April 2025
Advertisement expiry
7 May 2025
Site notice start
9 April 2025
Site notice end
30 April 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13829770
Documents
31
Constraints
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Cator Road, SydenhamPart of the site
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, 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

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© 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.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2025
    15 May

    T1 Conifer - Remove to ground level.

    ApprovedTrees in Conservation Areas25/01905/TREE

Source: Bromley

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