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318 Lewisham High Street, London, SE13 6JZ

DC/25/141837Commercial to Residential Prior ApprovalApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 5 December 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 G of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 (as amended) for the change of use of the first, second and third floors from commercial (Use Class E) into 2 self-contained flats (Use Class C3) at 318 Lewisham High Street SE13.

Received
16 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Ladywell
  1. Received16 Oct
  2. Validated16 Oct
  3. Consult.11 Dec
  4. Target11 Dec
  5. Decided5 Dec

Decided in 50 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 318 LEWISHAM HIGH STREET, LONDON, SE13 6JZ. Lewisham has handled 1,023 applications of this type. This one was decided in 50 days, 6 days quicker 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 169 applications across Ladywell. We hold 980 applications in total for the SE13 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
SE13 6JZ
Application type
Commercial to Residential Prior Approval
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 October 2025
Consultation expiry
29 October 2025
Neighbour consultation start
12 November 2025
Last date for comments
11 December 2025
Target decision date
11 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Firstplan
Agent address
Broadwall House, 21 Broadwall, London, SE1 9PL

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
29 October 2025
Site notice start
29 October 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14320156
Documents
14
Constraints
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: St Marys
  • Article 4 direction: Lewisham Major Centre+1 more
  • Brownfield land register: 9 Whitburn RoadRegister site at or near this address
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage 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

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

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