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168 Devonshire Road, London, SE23 3SZ

DC/16/099299Lawful Development Certificate proposedRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 27 January 2017

Delegated (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 roof extension, and an extension to the rear roof slope of 168 Devonshire Road, SE23, together with the insertion of 2 rooflights to the front roof slope.

Received
29 November 2016
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Forest Hill
Agent
Barnes Design
  1. Received29 Nov
  2. Validated2 Dec
  3. Consult.27 Jan
  4. Target27 Jan
  5. Decided27 Jan

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for an extension at 168 DEVONSHIRE ROAD, LONDON, SE23 3SZ. Lewisham has handled 1,023 applications of this type. This one was decided in 59 days, 3 days longer than Lewisham's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 181 applications across Forest Hill. We hold 2,610 applications in total for the SE23 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
SE23 3SZ
Application type
Lawful Development Certificate proposed
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 December 2016
Last date for comments
27 January 2017
Target decision date
27 January 2017

Applicant and agent

Agent
Barnes Design
Agent address
The Mitre Studios, 98 Charlmont Road, London, SW17 9AB

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
4
Constraints
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: Forest Hill
  • Article 4 direction: Forest Hill Article 4(3) Direction+1 more
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage 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.

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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