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18 Cator Road, Sydenham, London, SE26 5DS

26/00622/NOTPrior approval Part 1 Class A.1(ea): Larger home extensionApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 2 April 2026

Council decision: PRIOR APPROVAL IS NOT REQUIREDDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Single storey rear extension, extending beyond the rear wall of the original house by 8.00m, for which the maximum height would be 3.26m, and for which the height of the eaves would be 3.04m (42 Day Notification for Householder Permitted Development Prior Approval)

Received
17 February 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Penge & Cator
  1. Received17 Feb
  2. Validated26 Feb
  3. Consult.20 Mar
  4. Target20 Mar
  5. Decided2 Apr

Decided in 35 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a single storey rear extension at 18 CATOR ROAD, SYDENHAM, LONDON, SE26 5DS. Bromley has handled 2,558 applications of this type. This one was decided in 44 days, 12 days quicker 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. In the past year there have been 125 applications across Penge & Cator. We hold 2,166 applications in total for the SE26 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
SE26 5DS
Application type
Prior approval Part 1 Class A.1(ea): Larger home extension
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 February 2026
Consultation expiry
20 March 2026
Consultation end
20 March 2026
Target decision date
20 March 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
22 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14710722
Documents
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Cator Road, Sydenham
  • 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

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.

Associated applications

  1. 2026
    20 Feb

    Removal of chimney and construction of two storey side extension.

    ApprovedHouseholderFiled alongside26/00677/HPA
  2. 2026
    17 Feb

    Single storey rear extension, extending beyond the rear wall of the original house by 8.00m, for which the…

    This applicationApprovedOutline26/00622/NOT

Source: Bromley

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

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