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159 Rushey Green, London, SE6 4BJ

DC/25/141143Commercial to Residential Prior ApprovalApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 28 November 2025

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Prior Approval under Schedule 2, Part 3, Class MA of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 (as amended) for the change of use of part-ground, first and part-second floors from (Use Class E) to residential (Use Class C3) to provide 5 self-contained flats at 159 Rushey Green SE6.

Received
15 August 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Rushey Green
Agent
Coldrife Planning Services Limited
  1. Received15 Aug
  2. Validated15 Aug
  3. Consult.10 Oct
  4. Target10 Oct
  5. Decided28 Nov

Decided in 105 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 159 RUSHEY GREEN, LONDON, SE6 4BJ. Lewisham has handled 1,023 applications of this type. This one was decided in 105 days, 7 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 160 applications across Rushey Green. We hold 1,059 applications in total for the SE6 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
SE6 4BJ
Application type
Commercial to Residential Prior Approval
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 August 2025
Neighbour consultation start
19 August 2025
Last date for comments
10 October 2025
Target decision date
10 October 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Coldrife Planning Services Limited
Agent address
8, Credenhill Street, London, SW16 6PR

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14247111
Comments
0
Documents
27
Constraints
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Article 4 direction: Catford Major Centre+1 more
  • 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

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© 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

Contains public sector information from the Planning London Datahub, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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