1 Sydenham Park, London, SE26 4EE

DC/20/118056Approval of Details (Following Full PP)Refused

Prior approval

Proposal

Details submitted in support of Conditions 1 (Construction Management), 2 (Residential Sound Insulation scheme), 3 (Refuse and Recycling), & 4 (Bicycle Storage) of Prior Approval DC/18/105614 dated 28 March 2018 for the change of use of 1 Sydenham Park, London SE26 from Use Class B8 (Storage or Distribution) to Use Class C3 (residential) consisting of 10 x 1 bed flats, pursuant with Class P, Part 3, Schedule 2 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 (as amended).

Received: 20 August 2020
Decided: 5 November 2020 · Refused
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: London Borough of Lewisham
Ward: Forest Hill

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

ReceivedSubmitted20 Aug
ValidatedValidated21 Aug
Consult.Consultation16 Oct
TargetTarget Date16 Oct
DecidedDecided5 Nov

Decided in 76 days (council typically 56)

8 weeks typical decision time in Lewisham88% of conditions applications approved

This is an application to discharge conditions at 1 SYDENHAM PARK, LONDON, SE26 4EE. Lewisham has handled 792 applications of this type and approves 84% of them, typically deciding them in 56 days. This one was decided in 77 days, 3 weeks longer than Lewisham's median. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 11 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 196 applications across Forest Hill. We hold 2,147 applications in total for the SE26 postcode area.

Application Details

Reference

DC/20/118056

Address

1 SYDENHAM PARK, LONDON, SE26 4EE

Postcode

SE26 4EE

Local Authority

Lewisham

Application Type

Approval of Details (Following Full PP)

Scale / Size

Small

Decision Status

Rejected

Current Status

Decided

Ward

Forest Hill

Applicant & Agent

Agent

Oakman Architecture Ltd

Agent Address

GU.2.07, 332 Ladbroke Grove, Grand Union Studios, W10 5AS

Planning Application Dates

Date Received

20 August 2020

Target Decision Date

16 October 2020

Date Decided

5 November 2020

Date Validated

21 August 2020

Date Submitted

20 August 2020

Last Date for Comments

16 October 2020

Planning Decision

Decision

Refused

Decided By

Delegated

Statutory Period

56 days

Publicity

Appeal

Additional Information

Comments

Documents

Coordinates

51.431940, -0.057932

Enriching application data

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Source: Lewisham

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Planning history at this site

10 other applications at this property, newest first.

Planning constraints

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

Conservation area: Sydenham Park
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 (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.

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