87 Nightingale Lane SW12 8NX
Refused on 1 October 2025
Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Excavation of basement and creation of a lightwell together with associated alterations to create a one-bedroom house to building at rear of garden.
- Received
- 16 April 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- London Borough of Wandsworth
- Ward
- Balham
- ReceivedReceived16 Apr
- ValidatedValidated22 May
- Consult.Consultation19 Aug
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided1 Oct
Decided in 132 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application at 87 Nightingale Lane SW12 8NX. Wandsworth has handled 3,005 applications of this type. This one was decided in 168 days, 16 weeks longer than Wandsworth's typical decision time. The site is in the Nightingale Lane conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 146 applications across Balham. We hold 1,196 applications in total for the SW12 postcode area.
91% of full 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
- SW12 8NX
- Application type
- Application for Full Permission
- Development type
- C3 - Dwellings
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 22 May 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 19 August 2025
- Consultation start
- 22 May 2025
- Consultation end
- 19 August 2025
- Last date for comments
- 19 August 2025
- Application expires
- 11 June 2025
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 20 days
Publicity
- First advertised
- 5 June 2025
- Site notice start
- 28 May 2025
Appeal history
Additional information
- Documents
- 16
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Nightingale Lane
- 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 (20)
flood storage areas, 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.
- 202631 Mar
Excavation of basement and creation of a lightwell together with associated alterations to create a…
RefusedListed building consent2026/1398 - 202631 Mar
Excavation of basement and creation of a lightwell together with associated alterations to create a…
RefusedListed building consent2026/1250 - 202516 Apr
Excavation of basement and creation of a lightwell together with associated alterations to create a…
RefusedListed building consent2025/1503 - 202416 Sep
Non-material amendment to planning permsission dated 13/05/2024 ref 2024/0702
ApprovedNon-material amendment2024/3154
Source: Wandsworth
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