Watergate School, Lushington Road, London, SE6 3RJ

DC/25/140476Approval of details reserved by a condition (discharge)Approved

Discharge / amendments

Approved on 1 August 2025

Approximate site (title boundary)

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Proposal

Details submitted pursuant to Condition 5-Refuse of planning permission DC/24/134698 dated 25th October 2024 at Watergate School, Lushington Road SE6.

Submitted: 17 June 2025
Council: London Borough of Lewisham

ReceivedSubmitted17 Jun
ValidatedValidated
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided1 Aug

Decided in 45 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a planning application at WATERGATE SCHOOL, LUSHINGTON ROAD, LONDON, SE6 3RJ. Lewisham has handled 192 applications of this type. This one was decided in 45 days, 11 days quicker than Lewisham's typical decision time. There have been 15 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 49 applications across Bellingham. We hold 1,059 applications in total for the SE6 postcode area.

90% of approval of details reserved by a condition (discharge) 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: SE6 3RJ
Application type: Approval of details reserved by a condition (discharge)

Site constraints

Checking the site

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Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Article 4 direction: Small Houses in Multiple Occupation Article 4
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.

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15 other applications at this property, newest first.

Source: Lewisham

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