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35 Nightingale Grove, London, SE13 6HE

DC/25/141026Lawful Development Certificate existingApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 20 November 2025

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for a Lawful Development Certificate (existing) submitted under Section 191 of the Town & Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended) for the use as a MOT testing centre (Sui-generis) at 35 Nightingale Grove SE13.

Received
4 August 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Hither Green
  1. Received4 Aug
  2. Validated18 Sep
  3. Consult.13 Nov
  4. Target13 Nov
  5. Decided20 Nov

Decided in 63 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 35 NIGHTINGALE GROVE, LONDON, SE13 6HE. Lewisham has handled 365 applications of this type. This one was decided in 108 days, 7 weeks longer than Lewisham's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 128 applications across Hither Green. We hold 980 applications in total for the SE13 postcode area.

80% of amendment 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 6HE
Application type
Lawful Development Certificate existing
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
18 September 2025
Last date for comments
13 November 2025
Target decision date
13 November 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
75 Stapleton Road, Bexleyheath, Kent, DA7 5QF

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14226554
Comments
0
Documents
6
Constraints
6

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: Land at Nightingale Grove and Maythorne CottagesRegister 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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© 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.

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Source: Lewisham

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