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157 - 159 High Street Sutton SM1 1JH

DM2025/01331PA Class E to DwellingApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 22 May 2026

4 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Prior Approval for change of use of first and second floors from Use Class E to residential use providing 2 self contained units.

Received
23 October 2025
Public comments
3
Ward
Sutton Central
  1. Received23 Oct
  2. Validated23 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target18 Dec
  5. Decided22 May

Decided in 211 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 157 - 159 High Street Sutton SM1 1JH. Sutton has handled 404 applications of this type. This one was decided in 211 days, 22 weeks longer than Sutton's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 119 applications across Sutton Central. We hold 845 applications in total for the SM1 postcode area.

82% of outline applications at London Borough of Sutton were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
SM1 1JH
Application type
PA Class E to Dwelling
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 October 2025
Consultation expiry
2 December 2025
Target decision date
18 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
CREATE
Agent address
Wigglesworth House 69 Southwark Bridge Rd London SE1 9HH United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice end
2 December 2025

Additional information

Documents
24
Constraints
30

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

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, 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

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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: Sutton

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