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26/1540/CP - Cert. of Lawful Use/Dev - PROPOSED Approved
Utility infrastructure

Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness (Proposed) is sought for the construction of two ponds on the floodplain of River Wogebourne. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
18 May 2026
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Approved
7 Jul 2026

Approved on 7 Jul 2026 · Last checked 2 Aug 2026

Documents 17

Decision & officer reports 1

PDF Decision notice Decision Notice · 7 Jul 2026 View ↗

Statements & assessments 8

PDF Management plan for flood risk activity permit (frap) Document · 20 May 2026 View ↗ PDF Designers risk assessment Document · 20 May 2026 View ↗ PDF Utility survey Drawing · 20 May 2026 View ↗ PDF Topographic survey Drawing · 20 May 2026 View ↗ PDF Water framework directive (wfd) statement Document · 20 May 2026 View ↗ PDF Flood modelling report Document · 20 May 2026 View ↗ PDF Badger, reptile and amphibian preliminary working method statement Document · 20 May 2026 View ↗ PDF Preliminary ecological appraisal report (pear) Document · 20 May 2026 View ↗

Plans & drawings 1

PDF Engineering drawings Drawing · 20 May 2026 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF Application form Application Form · 20 May 2026 View ↗

Other documents 6

PDF Reports Report · 7 Jul 2026 View ↗ PDF Acknowledgement letter Correspondence · 9 Jun 2026 View ↗ PDF Method of work-revision history Document · 20 May 2026 View ↗ PDF Geotechnical interpretive report Document · 20 May 2026 View ↗ PDF Detailed design report Document · 20 May 2026 View ↗ PDF C2 searches Document · 20 May 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

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 ↗
Metropolitan Open Land
Green belt level protection inside London.
The London Plan gives Metropolitan Open Land the same protection as green belt: inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.
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 ↗
Agricultural land, grade 2
Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Predicted from the national soil map. 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.
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 2
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Priority habitat 19 m away: Deciduous woodland.
Not affected
Not green belt · No listed building at the site · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 11 September 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England 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
Cert. of Lawful Use/Dev - PROPOSED
Postcode
SE2 0PE
Received
18 May 2026
Validated
18 May 2026
Ward
PLUMSTEAD COMMON
Case officer
Show
Decision
Approve
Decision date
7 Jul 2026
Applicant
Show

How this decision compares

Decided in 50 days from validation, 20 days faster than Greenwich's median of 70 for utility and infrastructure works. Approved, as 92% of utility and infrastructure works here are.

42%decided within 8 weeks
92%approved
26decided in the last year

Plota live figures for utility and infrastructure works decided by Greenwich in the last twelve months, from validation. Greenwich decision record →

Public comments

1comment received
1 objecting

1 neighbour consulted · Last counted 2 Aug 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Env. assessment
No

Historical activity at this location

25 nearby applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2025 Approved
40 WOODBROOK ROAD, PLUMSTEAD, LONDON, SE2 0PF
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2025 Approved
12 WOODBROOK ROAD, PLUMSTEAD, LONDON, SE2 0PF
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25/2199/HD
2024 Approved
7 LITTLEDALE, ABBEY WOOD, LONDON, SE2 0NU
Replacement of the existing first floor side dormer with a new first floor side extension…
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2023 Approved
25 WOODBROOK ROAD, PLUMSTEAD, LONDON, SE2 0PE
Demolition of a conservatory and construction of a single storey rear extension with the…
23/3409/HD
2023 Approved
5 WOODBROOK ROAD, PLUMSTEAD, LONDON, SE2 0PE
Construction of a single story rear extension.
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2021 Approved
61 WOODBROOK ROAD, PLUMSTEAD, LONDON, SE2 0PE
Demolition of garage for the construction of a single storey side extension with garage.
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2021 Approved
71 WOODBROOK ROAD, PLUMSTEAD, LONDON, SE2 0PE
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21/0981/F
2021 Approved
5 LITTLEDALE, ABBEY WOOD, LONDON, SE2 0NU
Construction of a part 1/part 2 storey rear extension, first floor side extension with ro…
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2020 Approved
14 WOODBROOK ROAD, PLUMSTEAD, LONDON, SE2 0PF
Construction of a rear pergola protruding from the existing rear extension and other asso…
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2019 Approved
1 LITTLEDALE, ABBEY WOOD, LONDON, SE2 0NU
Demolition of the existing garage and erection of a single storey side extension and a si…
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2019 Refused
1 LITTLEDALE, ABBEY WOOD, LONDON, SE2 0NU
Lawful Development Certificate (proposed) for the construction of a single storey side ex…
19/1331/CP
2018 Refused
23 WOODBROOK ROAD, PLUMSTEAD, LONDON, SE2 0PE
Conversion of outbuilding into a 1-bed self contained flat. (Retrospective).
18/1654/F
2018 Refused
5 Littledale, Abbey Wood, London, SE2 0NU
Construction of a two storey side and two storey rear extension.
18/1290/HD
2018 Refused
1 WOODBROOK ROAD, PLUMSTEAD, LONDON, SE2 0PE
Creation of a self-contained detached residential one-bedroom unit. (Retropective)
18/0637/F
2017 Refused
1 WOODBROOK ROAD, PLUMSTEAD, LONDON, SE2 0PE
The single storey detached annexe to the front of the existing residential family propert…
17/3132/CE
2025 Refused
40 WOODBROOK ROAD, PLUMSTEAD, LONDON, SE2 0PF
Prior Approval for the construction of a single storey rear extension which will extend b…
25/4226/PN1
2025 Approved
40 WOODBROOK ROAD, PLUMSTEAD, LONDON, SE2 0PF
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2025 Refused
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Certificate of Lawfulness is sought for new roof dormer with hip to gable extension and 3…
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2025 Refused
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Prior Approval for the construction of an increase to the single storey rear extension wh…
25/2834/PN1
2025 Approved
10 WOODBROOK ROAD, PLUMSTEAD, LONDON, SE2 0PF
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2025 Approved
10 WOODBROOK ROAD, PLUMSTEAD, LONDON, SE2 0PF
Prior Approval for the construction of a single storey rear extension which will extend b…
25/0025/PN1
2024 Approved
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2023 Approved
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23/0744/CP
2023 Approved
7 WOODBROOK ROAD, PLUMSTEAD, LONDON, SE2 0PE
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2023 Approved
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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