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South Norwood Leisure Centre 164 Portland Road South Norwood London SE25 4PT

25/00202/FULFull planning permissionApproved
Full

Approved on 5 August 2025

Council decision: Permission GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
Boundary © HM Land Registry, © Ordnance Survey · details

This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

Use of an undercroft and forecourt as an outdoor gym incidental to a principal use of the leisure centre as a gym (Use Class E(d)), and Associated alterations including installation of artificial turf, lighting, fencing, pergolas and speakers

Received
21 January 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Woodside
  1. Received21 Jan
  2. Validated6 May
  3. Consult.20 Jun
  4. Target1 Jul
  5. Decided5 Aug

Decided in 91 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at South Norwood Leisure Centre 164 Portland Road South Norwood London SE25 4PT. Croydon has handled 3,635 applications of this type. This one was decided in 196 days, 20 weeks longer than Croydon's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 74 applications across Woodside. We hold 1,185 applications in total for the SE25 postcode area.

79% of full applications at London Borough of Croydon were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
SE25 4PT
Application type
Full planning permission
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 May 2025
Consultation expiry
20 June 2025
Consultation start
20 May 2025
Neighbour consultation start
28 May 2025
Neighbour consultation end
20 June 2025
Target decision date
1 July 2025
Permission expires
5 August 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent
SHW
Agent address
Corinthian House 17 Lansdowne Road Croydon CR0 2BX United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Appeal history

3371940
Dismissed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 4 December 2025Dev Type: Other minor developmentsReason: Refusal

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13490161
Comments
0
Documents
11
Constraints
30

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Brownfield land register: 239 Portland RoadRegister site at or near this address
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

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

Also checked, none recorded (21)

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 and heritage coasts.

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: Croydon

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