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18 Litchfield Avenue Morden SM4 5QS

23/P2184Full Planning PermissionRefused
Full

Refused on 11 September 2023

Council decision: Refuse PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

APPLICATION FOR THE ERECTION OF SINGLE STOREY FRONT, SIDE AND REAR EXTENSIONS ANDTHE ERECTION OF A DETACHED OUTBUILDING

Received
11 August 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Lower Morden
  1. Received11 Aug
  2. Validated14 Aug
  3. Consult.6 Sep
  4. Target22 Sep
  5. Decided11 Sep

Decided in 28 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for an outbuilding at 18 Litchfield Avenue Morden SM4 5QS. Merton has handled 1,116 applications of this type. This one was decided in 31 days, 4 weeks quicker 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).

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Application details

Postcode
SM4 5QS
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Development type
Development monitoring information not needed
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 August 2023
Consultation expiry
6 September 2023
Consultation end
6 September 2023
Last date for comments
6 September 2023
Target decision date
22 September 2023
Application expires
6 October 2023

Planning decision

Statutory period
53 days

Additional information

Documents
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • 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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