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138A Sydenham Road, London, SE26 5JZ

DC/20/119027Approval of Details (Following Full PP)Approved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 4 January 2021

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Details submitted in compliance with Condition 4 (materials) of the planning permission (DC/20/118102) dated 09/10/20 for the change of use of the ground floor commercial unit at 138A Sydenham Road, SE26 from A1/A2 use to 1 x 1 bed and 1 x 2 bedroom unit (C3 use) with associated refuse and cycle storage and landscaping.

Received
2 November 2020
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Sydenham
Agent
March Design Associates
  1. Received2 Nov
  2. Validated11 Nov
  3. Consult.6 Jan
  4. Target6 Jan
  5. Decided4 Jan

Decided in 54 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at 138A SYDENHAM ROAD, LONDON, SE26 5JZ. Lewisham has handled 792 applications of this type. This one was decided in 63 days, 7 days longer than Lewisham's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 112 applications across Sydenham. We hold 2,167 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 5JZ
Application type
Approval of Details (Following Full PP)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Does NOT need to go to BCAP

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 November 2020
Last date for comments
6 January 2021
Target decision date
6 January 2021

Applicant and agent

Agent
March Design Associates
Agent address
Wren Mews, Lee High Road, London, SE13 5PH

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Article 4 direction: Small HMO Northern Extension
  • Brownfield land register: 150-152 Sydenham RoadRegister site at or near this address · +2 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, 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 and heritage coasts.

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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