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South-East London, Kent and Surrey.

We work across South-East London, the parts of Kent closest to it, and Surrey. We don’t work north of the Thames. What changes from one council to the next is the planning, so here it is, council by council.

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Council by council

The planning notes that matter.

Each note is a first answer, not the final word: we confirm it for your exact address at the survey.

Bromley

Bromley · Beckenham · Orpington · Chislehurst · Keston

Council: London Borough of Bromley (opens in a new tab)

  • Our registered office is in Orpington, in the borough.
  • London’s largest borough by area, and about half of it is green belt — mostly the south and east, around Keston for example.
  • Much of Chislehurst is conservation area. Keston has two: Keston Village, and Bromley, Hayes and Keston Commons.
  • London Borough of Bromley doesn’t publish its Article 4 directions or protected trees on the national planning data platform, so the address check can’t see them there: we check them with the council at the survey.
1,609householder decisions
66%within 8 weeks
11 wksfor 80% of decisions

Lewisham

Lewisham · Blackheath · Brockley · Forest Hill · Sydenham

Council: London Borough of Lewisham (opens in a new tab)

  • Many conservation areas, and Article 4 directions in a number of them. In some, the direction also covers a building in the garden that can be seen from a public place — a corner plot, for example — so it needs an application where elsewhere it would not.
  • Blackheath sits across Lewisham and Greenwich, and both boroughs have conservation areas there.
  • London Borough of Lewisham doesn’t publish its protected trees on the national planning data platform, so the address check can’t see them there: we check them with the council at the survey.
578householder decisions
68%within 8 weeks
11 wksfor 80% of decisions

Greenwich

Greenwich · Blackheath · Charlton · Eltham

Council: Royal Borough of Greenwich (opens in a new tab)

  • Maritime Greenwich is a World Heritage Site. For a home inside it, the stricter rules for protected land apply: nothing between the side of the house and the boundary, and buildings more than 20 m from the house are limited to 10 m² in total.
  • Around it, a buffer zone reaching south into Blackheath gives the site’s setting extra weight when the council decides an application.
  • Royal Borough of Greenwich doesn’t publish its Article 4 directions or protected trees on the national planning data platform, so the address check can’t see them there: we check them with the council at the survey.
624householder decisions
75%within 8 weeks
10 wksfor 80% of decisions

Dulwich

Dulwich Village · East Dulwich · West Dulwich

Council: London Borough of Southwark (opens in a new tab)

  • Dulwich is mostly in the London Borough of Southwark (part of West Dulwich is in Lambeth).
  • Much of it is on the Dulwich Estate. Its Scheme of Management needs the Estate’s written consent, as well as the council’s, before a new building goes up in the garden or the outside of a property changes. One can say yes while the other says no, so both are part of the programme from the start.
  • Dulwich Village and much of the area around it are conservation areas.
  • London Borough of Southwark publishes its Article 4 directions and protected trees on the national planning data platform, so the address check shows them.
558householder decisions
76%within 8 weeks
9 wksfor 80% of decisions

Bexley

Bexley · Bexleyheath · Sidcup

Council: London Borough of Bexley (opens in a new tab)

  • The borough has a number of conservation areas and some green belt, so an address check matters before we draw.
  • London Borough of Bexley doesn’t publish its Article 4 directions or protected trees on the national planning data platform, so the address check can’t see them there: we check them with the council at the survey.
877householder decisions
86%within 8 weeks
8 wksfor 80% of decisions

Croydon

Croydon · Sanderstead · Selsdon

Council: London Borough of Croydon (opens in a new tab)

  • The south of the borough, around Selsdon, Addington and Sanderstead, includes Metropolitan Green Belt.
  • London Borough of Croydon doesn’t publish its Article 4 directions or protected trees on the national planning data platform, so the address check can’t see them there: we check them with the council at the survey.
786householder decisions
64%within 8 weeks
11 wksfor 80% of decisions

Sevenoaks

Sevenoaks · Westerham · Otford · Kent

Council: Sevenoaks District Council (opens in a new tab)

  • 93% of the district is green belt, on the council’s own figure.
  • Parts of the district, including land around Otford, Westerham and Ide Hill, lie in the Kent Downs National Landscape; the High Weald covers parts of the south. On that land nothing can go between the side of the house and the boundary, and buildings more than 20 m from the house are limited to 10 m² in total.
  • The centres of Westerham and Otford are conservation areas.
  • Sevenoaks District Council doesn’t publish its Article 4 directions or protected trees on the national planning data platform, so the address check can’t see them there: we check them with the council at the survey.
641householder decisions
72%within 8 weeks
10 wksfor 80% of decisions

Tandridge

Oxted · Limpsfield · Hurst Green · Surrey

Council: Tandridge District Council (opens in a new tab)

  • About 94% of the district is green belt, on the council’s figure.
  • The Surrey Hills National Landscape runs along the North Downs in the north of the district, and the High Weald reaches its south-east.
  • Tandridge District Council publishes its Article 4 directions and protected trees on the national planning data platform, so the address check shows them.
424householder decisions
49%within 8 weeks
12 wksfor 80% of decisions

Decision figures: householder applications decided 1 July 2025 - 30 June 2026, from MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2 (opens gov.uk in a new tab) (Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0). Decisions made under an agreed extension of time have no time band in the table; we count them at 8–13 weeks. What each council publishes: planning.data.gov.uk, checked 2026-09-26.

What changes the rules

Six things the address check looks for.

  • Green belt

    It doesn’t remove permitted development for a garden building. Where an application is needed — an annexe, or a taller room — the council judges it against green belt policy, which is stricter.

  • Conservation areas

    Nothing between the side of the house and the boundary without an application, and tree work needs 6 weeks’ notice to the council.

  • National Landscapes

    The Kent Downs, the Surrey Hills and the High Weald: the side-of-house rule, and buildings more than 20 m from the house limited to 10 m² in total.

  • Article 4 directions

    A council can remove some permitted development rights in an area. Some cover buildings in the garden, some don’t; we read each one.

  • Listed buildings

    In the grounds of a listed house, any outbuilding needs planning permission; work to the house itself can need listed building consent.

  • Flood zones and protected trees

    The address check shows both where the data is published; we confirm them at the survey.

How planning works, step by step

Further afield

Somewhere else in Kent or Surrey?

Call Hristiyan on 07934 524074 and ask. We usually survey within 7 days, and one crew builds from start to finish, so we take on what we can reach well.

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