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1 Bowman's Lea, London, SE23 3TL

DC/26/142564Lawful 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) and Class A of Schedule 2, Part 1 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) for the conversion of existing garage to an internally attached living space with replacement of the garage door at 1 Bowman's Lea, SE23

Received
2 January 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Forest Hill
  1. Received2 Jan
  2. Validated2 Jan
  3. Consult.27 Feb
  4. Target27 Feb
  5. Decided21 Jan

Decided in 19 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a garage at 1 BOWMAN'S LEA, LONDON, SE23 3TL. Lewisham has handled 1,023 applications of this type. This one was decided in 19 days, 5 weeks quicker than Lewisham's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 181 applications across Forest Hill. We hold 2,610 applications in total for the SE23 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
SE23 3TL
Application type
Lawful Development Certificate proposed
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 January 2026
Last date for comments
27 February 2026
Target decision date
27 February 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14596190
Comments
0
Documents
6
Constraints
4

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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