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4 Malham Road, London, SE23 1HF

DC/25/139956Full Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 4 August 2025

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of garden centre (sui generis) to builders' merchant (sui generis), and refurbishment and reconfiguration of adjacent existing builders' merchant (sui generis) including external works to the existing warehouse, new yard layout including revised external storage arrangements including storage racking and covered storage with secure compound and canopy, revised car parking and servicing arrangements, and associated works at 4 Malham Road SE4

Received
29 April 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Crofton Park
  1. Received29 Apr
  2. Validated30 Apr
  3. Consult.25 Jun
  4. Target25 Jun
  5. Decided4 Aug

Decided in 96 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 4 MALHAM ROAD, LONDON, SE23 1HF. Lewisham has handled 2,816 applications of this type. This one was decided in 97 days, 6 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 138 applications across Crofton Park. We hold 2,610 applications in total for the SE23 postcode area.

85% of full 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 1HF
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 April 2025
Neighbour consultation start
13 May 2025
Last date for comments
25 June 2025
Target decision date
25 June 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Quod
Agent address
21 Soho Square, London, W1DP 3QP

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13941676
Comments
0
Documents
27
Constraints
9

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
  • 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

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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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