81 Lewisham High Street, London, SE13 5JX
Approved on 8 August 2024
Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Application for Prior Approval under Schedule 2, Part 3, Class MA of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 (as amended) for the conversion of the existing Class E (Commercial, Business and Service) to create 2 self-contained units at 81 Lewisham High Street SE13 - subject to a Unilateral Undertaking pursuant to S106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended) dated 7 August 2024.
- Received
- 21 March 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- London Borough of Lewisham
- Ward
- Blackheath
- Agent
- Beamish Planning Consultancy
- ReceivedReceived21 Mar
- ValidatedValidated22 Mar
- Consult.Consultation24 Apr
- TargetTarget Date17 May
- DecidedDecided8 Aug
Decided in 139 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application at 81 LEWISHAM HIGH STREET, LONDON, SE13 5JX. Lewisham has handled 1,023 applications of this type. This one was decided in 140 days, 12 weeks longer than Lewisham's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 167 applications across Blackheath. We hold 980 applications in total for the SE13 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
- SE13 5JX
- Application type
- Commercial to Residential Prior Approval
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Does NOT need to go to BCAP
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 22 March 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 24 April 2024
- Consultation end
- 24 April 2024
- Neighbour consultation start
- 21 May 2024
- Neighbour consultation end
- 24 April 2024
- Last date for comments
- 17 May 2024
- Target decision date
- 17 May 2024
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Beamish Planning Consultancy
- Agent address
- Apartment 231, River Crescent, Waterside Way, Nottingham, NG2 4RE
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Advertisement expiry
- 24 April 2024
- Site notice start
- 14 May 2024
- Site notice end
- 24 April 2024
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Article 4 direction: Lewisham Major Centre+1 more
- Brownfield land register: 1 Myron PlaceRegister site at or near this address
- 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.
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Source: Lewisham
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