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9 Muirkirk Road, London, SE6 1BE

DC/26/142676Commercial to Residential Prior ApprovalRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 6 March 2026

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 ground floor offices (Use Class E) into a self-contained residential unit (Use Class C3) at 9 Muirkirk Road SE6.

Received
15 January 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Catford South
Agent
RT Drafting Solutions Limited
  1. Received15 Jan
  2. Validated15 Jan
  3. Consult.12 Mar
  4. Target12 Mar
  5. Decided6 Mar

Decided in 50 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 9 MUIRKIRK ROAD, LONDON, SE6 1BE. 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. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 154 applications across Catford South. 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 1BE
Application type
Commercial to Residential Prior Approval
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 January 2026
Neighbour consultation start
26 January 2026
Last date for comments
12 March 2026
Target decision date
12 March 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
RT Drafting Solutions Limited
Architect profile
RT DRAFTING SOLUTIONS LIMITED
Agent address
291 Main Road, Sidcup, DA14 6QL

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
23 January 2026

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14621112
Comments
0
Documents
9
Constraints
4

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: 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

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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