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The Rivoli Apartments, 59 Ladywell Road, London, SE13 7UT

DC/25/141949Commercial to Residential Prior ApprovalRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 10 December 2025

Delegated (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 the ground floor office/ meeting room from (Use Class E) into a self-contained flat (Use Class C3) at Unit E, The Rivoli Apartment, 59 Ladywell Road SE13.

Received
27 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Ladywell
Agent
GA Architects
  1. Received27 Oct
  2. Validated27 Oct
  3. Consult.22 Dec
  4. Target22 Dec
  5. Decided10 Dec

Decided in 44 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at THE RIVOLI APARTMENTS, 59 LADYWELL ROAD, LONDON, SE13 7UT. Lewisham has handled 1,023 applications of this type. This one was decided in 44 days, 12 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 7UT
Application type
Commercial to Residential Prior Approval
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 October 2025
Consultation expiry
5 November 2025
Neighbour consultation start
4 November 2025
Last date for comments
22 December 2025
Target decision date
22 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
GA Architects
Architect profile
G.A. ARCHITECTS LTD
Agent address
17 Novar Close, Orpington, London Borough of Bromley, BR60XA

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
5 November 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14422903
Comments
0
Documents
15
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.

  • Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)
  • Conservation area: St Marys
  • Article 4 direction: Small HMO Northern Extension+1 more

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

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, 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

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© 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.

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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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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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