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17-19 Wellington Street, SE18 6PQ

25/4166/CECert. of Lawful Use/Dev -EXISTINGRefused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 27 March 2026

Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness (Existing) is sought for the use of a temporary structure to sell baked potatoes, sandwiches, soft drinks, tea and coffee.

Received
4 December 2025
Ward
WOOLWICH ARSENAL
  1. Received4 Dec
  2. Validated2 Feb
  3. Consult.19 Mar
  4. Target
  5. Decided27 Mar

Decided in 53 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 17-19 Wellington Street, SE18 6PQ. Greenwich has handled 149 applications of this type. This one was decided in 113 days, 8 weeks longer than Greenwich'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 119 applications across WOOLWICH ARSENAL. We hold 1,520 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 6PQ
Application type
Cert. of Lawful Use/Dev -EXISTING
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Woolwich & Thamesmead

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 February 2026
Consultation expiry
19 March 2026
Consultation start
26 February 2026
Consultation end
19 March 2026
Neighbour consultation end
19 March 2026
Last date for comments
30 March 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Flat 3, 46 Northumberland Park, DA8 1HQ

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
19 March 2026

Additional information

Documents
5
Constraints
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

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, 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: Greenwich

Contains public sector information from the Planning London Datahub, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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