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16 Westcoombe Avenue Raynes Park London SW20 0RQ

15/P0254Full Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 8 May 2015

Council decision: Grant Permission subject to ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

APPLICATION FOR CHANGE OF USE OF PART OF EXISTING DOMESTIC OFFICE OUTBUILDING (CLASS C3) AS AN ACUPUNCTURE PRACTICE (CLASS D1)

Received
19 January 2015
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Raynes Park
  1. Received19 Jan
  2. Validated10 Feb
  3. Consult.30 Apr
  4. Target19 Mar
  5. Decided8 May

Decided in 87 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for an outbuilding at 16 Westcoombe Avenue Raynes Park London SW20 0RQ. Merton has handled 1,116 applications of this type. This one was decided in 109 days, 8 weeks longer than Merton's typical decision time. The site is in the Westcoombe Avenue conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 144 applications across Raynes Park. We hold 1,803 applications in total for the SW20 postcode area.

86% of full applications at London Borough of Merton were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
SW20 0RQ
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Development type
Business
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 February 2015
Consultation expiry
30 April 2015
Consultation start
10 February 2015
Consultation end
30 April 2015
Last date for comments
2 May 2015
Target decision date
19 March 2015
Application expires
2 April 2015
Permission expires
8 May 2018

Planning decision

Statutory period
51 days

Publicity

First advertised
19 February 2015

Additional information

Documents
22

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)
  • Conservation area: Westcoombe Avenue

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

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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© 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.

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Associated applications

  1. 2015
    14 May

    APPLICATION FOR VARIATION OF CONDITION 3 ATTACHED TO LBM PLANNING APPLICATION 15/P0254

    ApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)15/P1870
  2. 2015
    19 Jan

    APPLICATION FOR CHANGE OF USE OF PART OF EXISTING DOMESTIC OFFICE OUTBUILDING (CLASS C3) AS AN ACUPUNCTURE…

    This applicationApprovedFull15/P0254

Source: Merton

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