Essendene Lodge School, Essendene Road, Caterham, Surrey, CR3 5PB
Approved on 2 April 2025
Council decision: Planning permission is not required
Proposal
Erection of an enclosed front porch. (Certificate of lawfulness for proposed use or development)
- Submitted
- 24 January 2025
- Council
- Tandridge District Council
- Ward
- Portley and Queens Park
- ReceivedSubmitted24 Jan
- ValidatedValidated24 Jan
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date27 Feb
- DecidedDecided2 Apr
Decided in 68 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an application to amend a permission at Essendene Lodge School, Essendene Road, Caterham, Surrey, CR3 5PB. Tandridge has handled 444 applications of this type. This one was decided in 68 days, 12 days longer than Tandridge's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 363 applications in total for the CR3 postcode area.
91% of amendment applications at Tandridge District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- CR3 5PB
- Application type
- Lawful Development Certificate (LDC)
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Caterham-on-the-Hill
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 24 January 2025
- Target decision date
- 27 February 2025
- Application expires
- 21 March 2025
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 7
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (24)
flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, 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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© 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.
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