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Sydenham School, Dartmouth Road, London, SE26 4RD

DC/15/092736Approval of Details (Following Full PP)Approved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 23 October 2015

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Details of signage submitted in compliance with Condition (5) of the planning permission DC/12/80654 dated 29 October 2012 (as amended) for the demolition of existing buildings at Sydenham School, Dartmouth Road SE26 with the exception of the original c1917 main school building (Block G) which will undergo reconfiguration and refurbishment works, together with the construction of up to four storey plus lower ground floor buildings, comprising (9042 sq m) D1 floor space with internal linkages, new pedestrian entrance, alterations to the existing vehicle entrance and exit routes, new car park to provide 60 car parking spaces, cycle spaces, associated landscaping to include hard play area, ball courts and associated facilities including 2 external amphitheatres, installation of external lighting, Solar Panels and the construction of green and brown roofs.

Received
22 June 2015
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Forest Hill
  1. Received22 Jun
  2. Validated28 Aug
  3. Consult.23 Oct
  4. Target23 Oct
  5. Decided23 Oct

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at SYDENHAM SCHOOL, DARTMOUTH ROAD, LONDON, SE26 4RD. Lewisham has handled 792 applications of this type. This one was decided in 123 days, 10 weeks longer than Lewisham's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 181 applications across Forest Hill. We hold 2,166 applications in total for the SE26 postcode area.

89% of conditions 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 4RD
Application type
Approval of Details (Following Full PP)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Does NOT need to go to BCAP

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 August 2015
Last date for comments
23 October 2015
Target decision date
23 October 2015

Applicant and agent

Agent
Savills
Agent address
33 Margaret Street, London, W1G 0JD

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
6

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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