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70 Lea Bridge Road, Hackney, London, E5 9QD

2025/1273Certificate of Lawful Development Existing/ProposedApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 6 August 2025

Council decision: Grant

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Lawful Development Certificate for erection of rear dormer and outrigger extension and 3 no. front rooflights

Received
2 June 2025
Ward
Lea Bridge Ward
  1. Received2 Jun
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided6 Aug

Decided in 65 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 70 Lea Bridge Road, Hackney, London, E5 9QD. Hackney has handled 677 applications of this type. This one was decided in 65 days, 9 days longer than Hackney's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 134 applications across Lea Bridge Ward. We hold 1,742 applications in total for the E5 postcode area.

89% of amendment applications at London Borough of Hackney were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
E5 9QD
Application type
Certificate of Lawful Development Existing/Proposed

Planning application dates

Validated
2 June 2025

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Article 4 direction: London borough of Hackney
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: 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.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2025
    7 Aug

    Change of use from dwellinghouse (Class C3) to an HMO (Use Class C4)

    ApprovedAmendment2025/1789

Source: Hackney

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