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Garages to the north of Aberford Gardens, Woolwich, London, SE18 4NZ

25/1067/FFull planning permissionApproved
Full

Approved on 25 November 2025

18 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Demolition of garages and substation and construction of seven (7) new residential dwellings (Use Class C3) and substation with associated hard and soft landscaping, cycle parking, refuse storage and associated external alterations.

Submitted
10 April 2025
  1. Received10 Apr
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided25 Nov

Decided in 229 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a planning application for demolition at Garages to the north of Aberford Gardens, Woolwich, London, SE18 4NZ. Greenwich has handled 577 applications of this type. This one was decided in 229 days, 25 weeks longer than Greenwich's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 62 applications across CHARLTON HORNFAIR. We hold 1,521 applications in total for the SE18 postcode area.

71% of full planning permission applications at Royal Borough of Greenwich were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
SE18 4NZ
Application type
Full planning permission

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Woolwich Common
  • 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, 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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© 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.

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Source: Greenwich

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