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Land adjacent to and including the former Stone Foundries, 669A Woolwich Road and the VIP Industrial Estate, Charlton, London, SE7 8SL

26/2370/EIAScoping Opinion (EIA)Approved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 14 October 2026

Council decision: Approve

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Request for an Environmental Impact Assessment Scoping Opinion under Regulation 15 of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 (as amended) comprising a 100,000 sqm Gross External Area (GEA) data centre with ancillary offices, internal plant, and substations, alongside up to 10,000 sqm GEA of mixed-use space including Use Classes E(g)(i-iii), B2, B8, and F2(a-c). The scheme includes varied massing across the site, ranging from the retained Stone Foundry at 17 m AOD and an SME building at 22 m AOD, up to an office building at 32 m AOD, a data centre with a maximum of 45 m AOD.

Received
7 August 2026
Public comments
0 · last counted 19 October 2026
Ward
CHARLTON VILLAGE & RIVERSIDE
  1. Received7 Aug
  2. Validated7 Aug
  3. Consult.11 Sep
  4. Target
  5. Decided14 Oct

Decided in 68 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Land adjacent to and including the former Stone Foundries, 669A Woolwich Road and the VIP Industrial Estate, Charlton, London, SE7 8SL. Greenwich has handled 669 applications of this type. This one was decided in 68 days, 12 days 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 88 applications across CHARLTON VILLAGE & RIVERSIDE. We hold 424 applications in total for the SE7 postcode area.

77% of outline 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
SE7 8SL
Application type
Scoping Opinion (EIA)
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Not Available

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 August 2026
Last date for comments
11 September 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent address
hgh Consulting, 13-14 Welbeck Street, W1G 9XU

Planning decision

Case officer
Jonathan Hartnett

Additional information

Documents
9
Constraints
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site

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

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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.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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Source: Greenwich

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