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40 Crescent Road, Woolwich, London, SE18 7BN

25/3770/CECert. of Lawful Use/Dev -EXISTINGApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 4 March 2026

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

Certificate of Lawfulness (Existing) is sought for the use of ground and first floors of the property as an HMO (Use Class C4) since the 21st of September 2018. The Article 4 direction which would prevent this form of Permitted Development was not implemented until the 27th of September 2018.

Received
10 November 2025
Ward
WOOLWICH COMMON
Agent
Town Planning Expert
  1. Received10 Nov
  2. Validated10 Nov
  3. Consult.5 Jan
  4. Target
  5. Decided4 Mar

Decided in 114 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 40 CRESCENT ROAD, WOOLWICH, LONDON, SE18 7BN. Greenwich has handled 149 applications of this type. This one was decided in 114 days, 8 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 WOOLWICH COMMON. We hold 1,521 applications in total for the SE18 postcode area.

86% of amendment 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 7BN
Application type
Cert. of Lawful Use/Dev -EXISTING
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Woolwich & Thamesmead

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 November 2025
Last date for comments
5 January 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Town Planning Expert
Agent address
Room 204 Technopole, Kingston Cres, Portsmouth, PO2 8FA

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14468935
Documents
5
Constraints
1

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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 (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.

Associated applications

  1. 2025
    10 Nov

    Certificate of Lawfulness (Existing) is sought for the use of ground and first floors of the property as an…

    This applicationApprovedAmendment25/3770/CE
  2. 2025
    6 Nov

    Certificate of Lawfulness (Existing) is sought for use of the basement as a self contained dwelling within…

    ApprovedLawful development: Existing useFiled alongside25/3734/CE

Source: Greenwich

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