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140-142 Lee High Road, London, SE13 5PR

DC/25/141010Full planning permissionApproved
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Approved on 29 July 2026

24 conditions

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Proposal

Demolition of former Ambulance Station and the construction of a five storey building, comprising a ground floor commercial unit (Use Class E) and self-contained flats (Use Class C3), together with the provision of refuse and cycle storage and all associated works at 140-142 Lee High Road, SE13 and subject to a Unilaterial Undertaking pursuant to S106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended) dated 29 July 2026.

Submitted
13 August 2025
  1. Received13 Aug
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided29 Jul

Decided in 350 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a planning application for demolition at 140-142 LEE HIGH ROAD, LONDON, SE13 5PR. Lewisham has handled 335 applications of this type. This one was decided in 350 days, 42 weeks longer than Lewisham's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 166 applications across Blackheath. We hold 980 applications in total for the SE13 postcode area.

78% of full planning permission 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 5PR
Application type
Full planning permission

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)
  • Article 4 direction: Small HMO Northern Extension

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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© 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.

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Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2023
    10 Nov

    Demolition of former Ambulance Station at 140-142

    RefusedFull Planning PermissionDC/23/133818

Source: Lewisham

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