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31 Oatlands Road Enfield EN3 5LJ

25/01454/CEUCert of Lawful Use/Operation - ExistingRefused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 19 May 2025

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Use of property as a house in multiple occupancy (HMO) since purchase in November 2005.

Received
17 April 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Brimsdown
  1. Received17 Apr
  2. Validated17 Apr
  3. Consult.18 May
  4. Target10 Jun
  5. Decided19 May

Decided in 32 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 31 Oatlands Road Enfield EN3 5LJ. Enfield has handled 201 applications of this type. This one was decided in 32 days, 2 weeks quicker than Enfield's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 152 applications across Brimsdown. We hold 2,955 applications in total for the EN3 postcode area.

74% of amendment applications at London Borough of Enfield were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
EN3 5LJ
Application type
Cert of Lawful Use/Operation - Existing
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 April 2025
Consultation expiry
18 May 2025
Neighbour consultation start
24 April 2025
Neighbour consultation end
18 May 2025
Last date for comments
18 May 2025
Target decision date
10 June 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
54 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13913469
Comments
0
Documents
3
Constraints
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Article 4 direction: Borough wide
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

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: Enfield

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