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Flat 7 Elizabeth Court Dudley Drive Morden SM4 4RH

23/P1444Full Planning PermissionRefused
Full

Refused on 25 August 2023

Council decision: Refuse PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

FORMATION OF VEHICULAR CROSSOVER WITH ACCESS TO HARDSTANDING IN FRONT GARDEN AREA, TO CREATE OFF STREET PARKING FOR FLAT 7

Received
26 May 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Lower Morden
  1. Received26 May
  2. Validated6 Jul
  3. Consult.29 Jul
  4. Target11 Aug
  5. Decided25 Aug

Decided in 50 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Flat 7 Elizabeth Court Dudley Drive Morden SM4 4RH. Merton has handled 1,116 applications of this type. This one was decided in 91 days, 5 weeks longer than Merton's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 79 applications across Lower Morden. We hold 679 applications in total for the SM4 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).

Based on decided applications received in the last 3 years.See what's approved near your address

Application details

Postcode
SM4 4RH
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Development type
Development monitoring information not needed
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 July 2023
Consultation expiry
29 July 2023
Consultation start
6 July 2023
Consultation end
29 July 2023
Last date for comments
29 July 2023
Target decision date
11 August 2023
Application expires
25 August 2023
Permission expires
25 August 2023

Planning decision

Statutory period
50 days

Appeal

Appeal date
30 January 2024
Appeal result
Appeal Dismissed 03-05-2024

Appeal history

3331698
Dismissed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 3 May 2024Dev Type: Householder developmentsReason: Refusal

Additional information

Documents
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

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 (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: Merton

Contains public sector information from the Planning London Datahub, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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