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278 - 280 Balham High Road SW17 7AL

2026/1693Prior Approval Commercial Business & Service (Class E) to Resi (Pt 3 Class MA)Approved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 5 August 2026

Council decision: Prior Approval Given CIL Liable

Approximate site (title boundary)
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This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

Change of use of existing commercial floorspace (Use Class E) to 8 residential flats (Use Class C3)

Received
5 May 2026
  1. Received5 May
  2. Validated21 May
  3. Consult.
  4. Target5 Aug
  5. Decided5 Aug

Decided in 76 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 278 - 280 Balham High Road SW17 7AL. Wandsworth has handled 528 applications of this type. This one was decided in 92 days, 5 weeks longer than Wandsworth's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,578 applications in total for the SW17 postcode area.

86% of outline 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
SW17 7AL
Application type
Prior Approval Commercial Business & Service (Class E) to Resi (Pt 3 Class MA)
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 May 2026
Target decision date
5 August 2026
Application expires
26 June 2026

Planning decision

Case officer
Ramasankaran Rajendran
Statutory period
52 days

Additional information

Documents
30

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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

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