Royal Parks, Greenwich Park, Blackheath Avenue, Greenwich, SE10 8QY Data via plota.co.uk

25/4052/F - Full Planning Permission Approved

Proposal

Construction of a new welfare building and associated landscaping works within Greenwich Park. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
2 Dec 2025
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Validated
15 Dec 2025
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Consultation
13 Jan 2026
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Approved
24 Feb 2026

Approved on 24 Feb 2026 · Delegation · Last checked 7 Oct 2026

Documents 20

Decision & officer reports 2

PDF Officers delegated report Report · 24 Feb 2026 View ↗ PDF Decision notice Decision Notice · 24 Feb 2026 View ↗

Statements & assessments 7

PDF Planning, design and access statement Document · 19 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF Biodiversity net gain assessment Document · 3 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF Arboricultural impact assessment and method statement Document · 3 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF Planning, design and access statement Document · 3 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF Preliminary ecological appraisal Document · 3 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF Statutory bng metric Document · 3 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF Heritage impact assessment Document · 3 Dec 2025 View ↗

Plans & drawings 8

PDF Ground floor plan as proposed Drawing · 3 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF Volunteer mess area block plan as existing Drawing · 3 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF Tree protection plan Document · 3 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF Volunteer mess area block plan as proposed Drawing · 3 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF Site location plan Drawing · 3 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF Volunteer mess area site plan Planning Portal Application · 3 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF Volunteer welfare building sections as proposed Drawing · 3 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF Proposed elevations Drawing · 3 Dec 2025 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF Application form redacted Application Form · 3 Dec 2025 View ↗

Other documents 2

PDF Acknowledgement letter Correspondence · 22 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF Archaeology note Document · 3 Dec 2025 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 12

World heritage site: Maritime Greenwich
Nationally designated heritage. Its significance and setting carry great weight.
Registered parks and gardens, battlefields, world heritage sites and protected wrecks are designated heritage assets: harm needs clear and convincing justification.
Historic England ↗
Blackheath conservation area
Demolition needs planning permission and permitted development is restricted.
The council must give weight to preserving or enhancing the area's character and appearance. Not every council has published its boundaries as open data.
Council document ↗
Priority habitat: Deciduous woodland
A habitat of principal importance. It shapes the ecology work and the biodiversity net gain a scheme has to show.
Agricultural land, grade 3b
Not best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. A site survey can differ.
Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.
Archaeological priority area
An assessment or field evaluation may be asked for before ground works.
The council or Historic England considers archaeology likely here. A desk-based assessment, and sometimes trial trenching, can be asked for with the application.
Air quality management area: Greenwich AQMA
The council has declared the area as failing an air quality objective.
Schemes that add traffic, parking or combustion plant are assessed against the area's action plan and may need an air quality assessment.
Council record ↗
Habitat network: Wood pasture and parkland
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
National infrastructure project 689 m away: Thames Tideway Tunnel
The site is 689 m from the project boundary. Waste water treatment, decided. The project page says whether consent was granted. Also within 2 km: Silvertown Tunnel (decided, 1798 m); London Strategic Heat Main Project (at pre-application, 658 m).
Nationally significant infrastructure projects (power stations, electricity lines, pipelines, major roads and railways, harbours, airports and reservoirs) are consented by a Secretary of State under the Planning Act 2008, after an examination by the Planning Inspectorate, rather than by the council. The boundary is the one the Inspectorate consults on and can change as the scheme does. Projects are shown within 2 km of the site.
Planning Inspectorate project page ↗
Also on the record
Radon affected area, class 2; Scheduled monument 206 m away: Greenwich Observatory; 3 listed buildings within 150 m; Public transport access: PTAL 1a (very poor), TfL 2023, for the 100 m square.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt

Checked on 6 October 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Planning Inspectorate, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI), Transport for London (public transport access levels, Powered by TfL Open Data, OGL v3.0, contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2025) and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Council
Greenwich
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Postcode
SE10 8QY
Received
2 Dec 2025
Validated
15 Dec 2025
Ward
EAST GREENWICH
Parish
Greenwich
Case officer
Show
Target decision
25 Feb 2026
Decision
Approve
Decision date
24 Feb 2026
Decision level
Delegation
Applicant
Show
Agent
LUC

How this decision compares

Decided in 71 days from validation, 15 days slower than Greenwich's median of 56 for full applications. Approved, as 66% of full applications here are.

61%decided within 8 weeks
66%approved
291decided in the last year

Plota live figures for full applications decided by Greenwich in the last twelve months, from validation. Greenwich decision record →

Public comments

2comments received
1 objecting1 neutral

9 neighbours consulted · Last counted 7 Oct 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-14506400
Planning Portal ref
PP-14506400
Consultation
13 Jan 2026
Comments by
28 Jan 2026
Statutory expiry
9 Feb 2026
Env. assessment
No

Historical activity at this location

13 previous applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

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Greenwich
Planning Authority Score
5.4/10
Average
#123 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Greenwich is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #76 out of 296. Only 29% of applications have the time limit extended, well below the 41% national average - the council usually decides on time. Greenwich is also one of the strictest councils - it refuses more householder applications than almost any other, with only 78% approved vs 90% nationally.

One of the strictest councils
only 78% approved vs 90% nationally
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Greenwich decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
77%
Overall approval rate
Below avg (87%) #278 of 296
78%
Householder approved
Below avg (90%) #287 of 296
75%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #76 of 296
29%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #49 of 296
60%
Minor dwellings approved
114 decided (1-9 homes)
100%
Major dwellings approved
13 decided (10+ homes)
66%
Change of use approved
195 decided
1,468
Total decisions
331 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings