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37 Whitford Gardens Mitcham CR4 4AB

24/P2445PA - Householder Class A extensions up to 6/8m long - Part 1, Sched. 2Approved
Householder

Approved on 30 September 2024

Council decision: Prior Approval Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

APPLICATION FOR PRIOR APPROVAL IN RESPECT OF THE PROPOSED ERECTION OF A SINGLE STOREY REAR EXTENSION WITH A DEPTH OF 4M, MAXIMUM HEIGHT OF 2.63M AND EAVES HEIGHT OF 2.5M.

Received
4 September 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Figges Marsh
  1. Received4 Sep
  2. Validated5 Sep
  3. Consult.28 Sep
  4. Target1 Oct
  5. Decided30 Sep

Decided in 25 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a single storey rear extension at 37 Whitford Gardens Mitcham CR4 4AB. Merton has handled 637 applications of this type. This one was decided in 26 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 49 applications across Figges Marsh. We hold 877 applications in total for the CR4 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
CR4 4AB
Application type
PA - Householder Class A extensions up to 6/8m long - Part 1, Sched. 2
Development type
Development monitoring information not needed
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 September 2024
Consultation expiry
28 September 2024
Consultation end
28 September 2024
Last date for comments
28 September 2024
Target decision date
1 October 2024
Application expires
15 October 2024
Permission expires
30 September 2027

Planning decision

Statutory period
40 days

Additional information

Documents
6

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

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