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79 Darfield Road, London, SE4 1ES

DC/25/142487Lawful Development Certificate proposedApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 21 January 2026

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for a Lawful Development Certificate (proposed) submitted under Section 192 of the Town & Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended) relevant and Classes B and C of Schedule 2, Part 1 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) for the construction of an L-shaped dormer and installation of 2 front rooflights at 79 Darfield Road, SE4.

Received
18 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Crofton Park
Agent
SELCOM BUILDING SERVICES LTD
  1. Received18 Dec
  2. Validated13 Jan
  3. Consult.10 Mar
  4. Target10 Mar
  5. Decided21 Jan

Decided in 8 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a dormer extension at 79 DARFIELD ROAD, LONDON, SE4 1ES. Lewisham has handled 1,023 applications of this type. This one was decided in 34 days, 3 weeks quicker than Lewisham's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 138 applications across Crofton Park. We hold 647 applications in total for the SE4 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
SE4 1ES
Application type
Lawful Development Certificate proposed
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 January 2026
Last date for comments
10 March 2026
Target decision date
10 March 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
SELCOM BUILDING SERVICES LTD
Agent address
98 BROCKLEY RISE, FOREST HILL, LONDON, SE23 1LN

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14576769
Comments
0
Documents
4
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
  • 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

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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: Lewisham

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