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38 Westbury Road, Penge, London, SE20 7QH

26/00038/LDCLawful development: Proposed useApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 27 February 2026

Council decision: PROPOSED USE/DEVELOPMENT IS LAWFULDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Single storey rear extension (where prior approval was not required under ref 25/05407/NOT) LAWFUL DEVELOPMENT CERTIFICATE (PROPOSED)

Received
7 January 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Penge & Cator
  1. Received7 Jan
  2. Validated7 Jan
  3. Consult.30 Jan
  4. Target30 Jan
  5. Decided27 Feb

Decided in 51 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a single storey rear extension at 38 WESTBURY ROAD, PENGE, LONDON, SE20 7QH. Bromley has handled 2,558 applications of this type. This one was decided in 51 days, 5 days quicker than Bromley's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 125 applications across Penge & Cator. We hold 378 applications in total for the SE20 postcode area.

77% of outline 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
SE20 7QH
Application type
Lawful development: Proposed use
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 January 2026
Consultation expiry
30 January 2026
Consultation end
30 January 2026
Target decision date
30 January 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
23 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14604970
Documents
14

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • 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 (22)

flood storage areas, conservation 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

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: Bromley

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

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