7 Shaftesbury Road Forest Gate London E7 8PF
Refused on 14 August 2025
Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Application for a lawful development certificate (proposed) for change of use to C3(b) Children's Care Home for up to six children.
- Received
- 11 July 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- London Borough of Newham
- Ward
- Green Street East
- ReceivedReceived11 Jul
- ValidatedValidated11 Jul
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided14 Aug
Decided in 34 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application for a change of use at 7 Shaftesbury Road Forest Gate London E7 8PF. Newham has handled 694 applications of this type. This one was decided in 34 days, 3 weeks quicker than Newham's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 34 applications across Green Street East. We hold 934 applications in total for the E7 postcode area.
81% of outline applications at London Borough of Newham were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- E7 8PF
- Application type
- Certificate of Lawfulness Proposed Use
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Green Street Community Forum
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 11 July 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- 109 Lady Margaret Road Southall UB1 2PP United Kingdom
Site constraints
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.
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Planning history at this site
4 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 20268 May
Regularisation and minor changes to a retrospective single-storey ground floor rear/infill extension…
RefusedHouseholder25/02298/HH - 20254 Apr
Erection of a ground floor rear and rear infill extension and first floor rear extension.
ApprovedHouseholder25/00660/HH - 202526 Mar
Application for lawful development certificate (proposed) for rear dormer roof extension and front rooflights…
ApprovedLawful development: Proposed use25/00641/CLP - 202526 Mar
Prior notification application for the construction of a single-storey ground floor rear extension. The…
ApprovedHouseholder25/00640/PREHH
Source: Newham
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