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Development At 23, Balfour Road, Ilford

2941/25Cert. Lawfulness ExistingApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 9 December 2025

Council decision: LawfulDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Foundation installation on site to implement planning consent Ref:1161/21 for the erection of 20 residential units including 2 disabled parking spaces and associated bin store and bike store (summary)

Received
14 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Ilford Town
  1. Received14 Oct
  2. Validated15 Oct
  3. Consult.16 Oct
  4. Target9 Dec
  5. Decided9 Dec

Decided in 55 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Development At 23, Balfour Road, Ilford. Redbridge has handled 332 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days, 2 weeks longer than Redbridge's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 71 applications across Ilford Town. We hold 1,217 applications in total for the IG1 postcode area.

75% of amendment applications at London Borough of Redbridge were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 6 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
IG1 4HP
Application type
Cert. Lawfulness Existing
Scale / size
Medium
Number of dwellings
20
District
Neighbourhood CIL Area - South, BC Area 3 South (KP), DM Area - South/East, SANGS Catchment Zone - Roding Valley Park, SANGS Catchment Zone - Fairlop Waters Country Park

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 October 2025
Consultation expiry
16 October 2025
Consultation end
16 October 2025
Target decision date
9 December 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Publicity

First advertised
16 October 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14406430
UPRN
10094819958
Documents
16

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Brownfield land register: 7 Morland Road IlfordRegister 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.

Source: Redbridge

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