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31, Wakefield Street, N18 2AE

26/01699/FULFull planning permissionRefused
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Refused on 30 June 2026

2 reasons for refusal

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Proposal

Change of use from Use Class C3 (dwelling house) to a Class Sui Generis (HMO - house in multiple occupation) and single storey rear extension, rear dormer, outrigger dormer, with front rooflights and associated amenity, cycle and refuse storage.

Submitted
5 May 2026
  1. Received5 May
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided30 Jun

Decided in 56 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a planning application for a single storey rear extension at 31, Wakefield Street, N18 2AE. Enfield has handled 1,094 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days, 7 days longer than Enfield's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 216 applications across Upper Edmonton. We hold 689 applications in total for the N18 postcode area.

68% of full planning permission 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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Why it was refused

  1. The proposed development, by reason of the siting of ground floor bedrooms within an area at risk of surface water flooding, has failed to demonstrate that the development would be safe from flooding over its lifetime. In particular, the submitted Flood Risk Assessment does not satisfactorily address the required finished floor levels and flood resilience measures. The proposal is therefore contrary to Policies SI12 and SI13 of the London Plan (2021) and Policies DMD59, DMD61 and DMD62 of the Enfield Development Management Document (2014).
  2. The proposed development would, by reason of its substandard internal layout and inadequate sanitary provision at second-floor level, arising from insufficient floor-to-ceiling height, fail to provide suitable and usable facilities for the level of occupation proposed. The development would therefore fail to provide a high-quality standard of accommodation for future occupiers, contrary to Policy DMD5 of the Development Management Document (2014), Policy D6 of the London Plan (2021), the Nationally Described Space Standard (2015), and the Council's HMO Standards (2021).

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
N18 2AE
Application type
Full planning permission

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

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