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26/01946/LDCE - Lawful Development Certificate- Existing With Case Officer

Proposal

Lawful Development Certificate (Existing) for the installation of lift tower. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 27 Oct 2026, 05:11

Application progress

✓

Received

21 Oct 2026

Decision

Expected by 16 Dec 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. A decision is expected by 16 Dec 2026.

Documents 5

Site constraints 7

Flood zone 3, rivers and sea

High chance: a 1 in 100 or greater annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.

The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.

Flood map ↗

Tree preservation order

Consent is needed before work on protected trees.

Not every council has published its orders as open data, so no order shown is not proof there is none.

Air quality management area: Sandwell 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 ↗

Also on the record

Nature improvement area: Birmingham and the Black Country; Coalfield, development low risk area; Inside the Oldbury (Sandwell) built-up area; Flood defence 42 m away (engineered high ground, designed for a 1 in 25 year flood).

Not affected

Not green belt · No listed building at the site · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 23 October 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Mining Remediation Authority 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: Bexley
Application type: Lawful Development Certificate- Existing
Received: 21 Oct 2026
Validated: 21 Oct 2026
Ward: ERITH
Target decision: 16 Dec 2026
Decision level: Delegated
Applicant: Show
Agent: Show

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 23 Oct 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference: PP-15296610
Planning Portal ref: PP-15296610
Statutory expiry: 16 Dec 2026
Env. assessment: No

Bexley

Planning Authority Score

8.9/10

Excellent

#5 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Bexley is one of the fastest councils in England for householder decisions, ranking #17 out of 296. Only 20% of applications have the time limit extended, well below the 41% national average - the council usually decides on time. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (95%) than the national average (90%).

Among the fastest councils in England

for householder decisions

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Bexley decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

90%

Overall approval rate

Above avg (87%) #106 of 296

95%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #69 of 296

89%

Decided in 8 weeks

Above avg (63%) #17 of 296

20%

Extended time limit

Below avg (41%) #17 of 296

69%

Minor dwellings approved

124 decided (1-9 homes)

88%

Major dwellings approved

8 decided (10+ homes)

58%

Change of use approved

90 decided

1,324

Total decisions

133 refused in the year to March 2026

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Proposal

Application progress

Documents 5

Decision & officer reports 2

Statements & assessments 1

Application forms 1

Other documents 1

Site constraints 7

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Important details

Public comments

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