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24 Whittell Gardens, London, SE26 4LN

DC/15/092153Lawful Development Certificate proposedApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 1 December 2015

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Lawful Development Certificate (Proposed) in respect of the construction of a hip to gable extension and a roof extension to the rear roof slope incorporating a Juliet balcony, together with the insertion of two rooflights to the front roof slope at 24 Whittell Gardens, SE26.

Received
11 May 2015
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Sydenham
Agent
MAD-Design
  1. Received11 May
  2. Validated30 Sep
  3. Consult.25 Nov
  4. Target25 Nov
  5. Decided1 Dec

Decided in 62 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for an extension at 24 WHITTELL GARDENS, LONDON, SE26 4LN. Lewisham has handled 1,023 applications of this type. This one was decided in 204 days, 21 weeks longer than Lewisham'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 112 applications across Sydenham. We hold 2,166 applications in total for the SE26 postcode area.

75% of outline applications at London Borough of Lewisham were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
SE26 4LN
Application type
Lawful Development Certificate proposed
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Does NOT need to go to BCAP

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 September 2015
Last date for comments
25 November 2015
Target decision date
25 November 2015

Applicant and agent

Agent
MAD-Design
Agent address
24 Arthurdon Road, Crofton Park, London, SE4 1JU

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
11
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.

  • Article 4 direction: Small HMO Northern Extension
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

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.

Source: Lewisham

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