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Media House 3 Palmerston Road Wimbledon SW19 1PG

25/P2645PA - Retail to ResidentialApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 6 November 2025

Council decision: Prior Approval GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

APPLICATION FOR PRIOR APPROVAL OF A PROPOSED CHANGE OF USE OF USE FROM 'OFFICE' (CLASS E) TO 15 'RESIDENTIAL' UNITS (CLASS C3).

Received
12 July 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Abbey
  1. Received12 Jul
  2. Validated17 Sep
  3. Consult.10 Oct
  4. Target
  5. Decided6 Nov

Decided in 50 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Media House 3 Palmerston Road Wimbledon SW19 1PG. Merton has handled 637 applications of this type. This one was decided in 117 days, 9 weeks longer than Merton's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 91 applications across Abbey. 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 1PG
Application type
PA - Retail to Residential
Development type
Dwellinghouses
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 September 2025
Consultation expiry
10 October 2025
Consultation start
17 September 2025
Consultation end
10 October 2025
Last date for comments
10 October 2025
Application expires
6 November 2025
Permission expires
6 November 2028

Planning decision

Statutory period
50 days

Additional information

Documents
13

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Brownfield land register: Ashville House, 131 - 139 1st & 2nd Floors The Broadway SW19 1QJRegister site at or near this address
  • 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 (21)

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 and heritage coasts.

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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© 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2026
    17 Aug

    APPLICATION FOR DISCHARGE OF CONDITION 5 (CONSTRUCTION VEHICLES) ATTACHED TO LBM PLANNING PERMISSION 25/P2645

    PendingDischarge of conditions26/DOC/1810
  2. 2025
    12 Jul

    APPLICATION FOR PRIOR APPROVAL OF A PROPOSED CHANGE OF USE OF USE FROM 'OFFICE' (CLASS E) TO 15 'RESIDENTIAL'…

    This applicationApprovedOutline25/P2645

Source: Merton

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