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76 Swaffield Road SW18 3TJ

2024/4241Council's Own Application (Reg 3)Approved

Approved on 22 May 2025

Council decision: Approve with ConditionsPlanning committee

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Demolition of a redundant nursery building and creation of a new pocket park. Boundary walls to be reduced in height and installation of new railings 1.5-1.75m high above street level over a low wall with brick piers. New play equipment, park furniture and lighting. New footpaths, safety surfacing and planting.

Received
23 November 2024
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Wandle
  1. Received23 Nov
  2. Validated7 Jan
  3. Consult.26 Mar
  4. Target
  5. Decided22 May

Decided in 135 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a planning application for demolition at 76 Swaffield Road SW18 3TJ. Wandsworth has handled 43 applications of this type. This one was decided in 180 days, 18 weeks longer than Wandsworth's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 2,266 applications in total for the SW18 postcode area.

91% of all applications at London Borough of Wandsworth were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
SW18 3TJ
Application type
Council's Own Application (Reg 3)
Development type
F.2 - Local Community Uses
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 January 2025
Consultation expiry
26 March 2025
Consultation start
7 January 2025
Consultation end
26 March 2025
Last date for comments
26 March 2025
Committee meeting
20 May 2025
Application expires
3 February 2025
Permission expires
22 May 2028

Planning decision

Statutory period
27 days

Additional information

Documents
21

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

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 (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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© 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: Wandsworth

Contains public sector information from the Planning London Datahub, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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