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Ground Floor (Part) Woodcock House 1 Gibbard Mews Wimbledon Village London SW19 5BY

24/P1931PA - Office (B1(a) ) to Residential (C3 ) - Conversion - Class J, Part 3, Sched. 2Approved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 4 September 2024

Council decision: Prior Approval GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

APPLICATION FOR PRIOR APPROVAL IN RESPECT OF THE PROPOSED CHANGE OF USE FROM OFFICE (CLASS E) TO RESIDENTIAL (CLASS C3) TO CREATE 1 X SELF CONTAINED FLAT.

Received
12 July 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Village
  1. Received12 Jul
  2. Validated31 Jul
  3. Consult.23 Aug
  4. Target23 Aug
  5. Decided4 Sep

Decided in 35 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Ground Floor (Part) Woodcock House 1 Gibbard Mews Wimbledon Village London SW19 5BY. Merton has handled 637 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days. The site is in the Wimbledon Village conservation area, with 8 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 405 applications across Village. We hold 2,555 applications in total for the SW19 postcode area.

79% of outline 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
SW19 5BY
Application type
PA - Office (B1(a) ) to Residential (C3 ) - Conversion - Class J, Part 3, Sched. 2
Development type
Dwellinghouses
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
31 July 2024
Consultation expiry
23 August 2024
Consultation start
8 August 2024
Consultation end
23 August 2024
Last date for comments
28 August 2024
Target decision date
23 August 2024
Application expires
5 September 2024
Permission expires
4 September 2027

Planning decision

Statutory period
36 days

Publicity

First advertised
8 August 2024

Additional information

Documents
15

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Wimbledon Village+1 more
  • Listed building: Grade II: Ashford HouseOn or next to this site · +2 more
  • 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 (20)

flood storage areas, 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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Source: Merton

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