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246 Amesbury Avenue London Lambeth SW2 3BL

25/04026/LDCPCertificate of Lawful Use proposedApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 20 February 2026

Council decision: Grant PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for a Certificate of Lawful Development (Proposed) for the confirmation of a ground floor room use as a home office incidental.

Received
31 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Streatham Hill East
  1. Received31 Dec
  2. Validated31 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target25 Feb
  5. Decided20 Feb

Decided in 51 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at 246 Amesbury Avenue London Lambeth SW2 3BL. Lambeth has handled 400 applications of this type. This one was decided in 51 days, 5 days quicker than Lambeth's typical decision time. The site is in the Leigham Court Estate conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 26 applications across Streatham Hill East. We hold 1,982 applications in total for the SW2 postcode area.

81% of outline applications at London Borough of Lambeth were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
SW2 3BL
Application type
Certificate of Lawful Use proposed
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
31 December 2025
Target decision date
25 February 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
4
Constraints
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Leigham Court Estate
  • Article 4 direction: Leigham Court EstatePart of the site
  • Heritage at Risk Register: Leigham Court Estate, Streatham
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, tree preservation orders, 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

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