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5 Approach Road Raynes Park SW20 8BA

25/P1557Full Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 15 July 2025

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

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

REMOVAL OF EXISTING GLAZED SHOP FRONT, INSTALLATION OF NEW CRITTALL STYLE SHOPFRONT TO GROUND FLOOR UNIT, AND INSTALLATION OF SEPARATE FRONT DOOR FOR UPSTAIRS FLAT.

Received
21 May 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Raynes Park
  1. Received21 May
  2. Validated16 Jun
  3. Consult.11 Jul
  4. Target11 Jul
  5. Decided15 Jul

Decided in 29 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at 5 Approach Road Raynes Park SW20 8BA. Merton has handled 1,116 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 145 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 8BA
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Development type
Business
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 June 2025
Consultation expiry
11 July 2025
Consultation end
11 July 2025
Last date for comments
11 July 2025
Target decision date
11 July 2025
Application expires
16 July 2025
Permission expires
15 July 2028

Planning decision

Statutory period
30 days

Additional information

Documents
7

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

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