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Free Bexley permitted development checker
Could your home project use permitted development? Start with your full address and tell us what you want to build.
You do not need to know the planning route before you start. The check uses available public records and your project details to provide guidance, not a council decision.
About the planning data
Checked against 20.6 million UK planning applications on file across 420 planning authorities. Approval rates from 2,343,419 decisions we classified across 181 councils in England.
What are you checking?
Whether your proposed work may qualify for permitted development, needs a prior approval process or requires a planning application. The property and the complete proposal matter, including earlier additions and conditions on previous permissions.
Read how prior approval works and how planning timescales differ by route.
A postcode locates an area; it cannot establish rights for a particular house. Use your full property address in the checker.
Find guidance for your project
- Rear extensions and larger home extensions
- Side and wraparound extensions
- Loft conversions and dormers
- Garden rooms and outbuildings
- Garage conversions
- Porches
- Two-storey extensions
- Basements
For development beyond a home improvement, read our new build and change of use guides. Those projects have different eligibility tests and need a project-specific assessment.
Local checks in Bexley
Check the wording, map and effective date of any Article 4 direction, the property's planning conditions and whether designated land affects the relevant right. A restriction on one type of work does not automatically prohibit every alteration.
Use these resources for Bexley. Confirm the authority for your address if you are close to a boundary or the area has changed council.
- Bexley official website and planning information
- Search Bexley planning applications and decision notices
- Bexley planning authority boundary and source
- Find the planning authority for your postcode
We have not verified every local restriction for every address in Bexley. Confirm property-specific details against the authority's current records before relying on permitted development.
Our Bexley archive contains 11,414 classified home project decision records. Explore Bexley decisions by project type. These records mix application routes: an approval rate is not a permitted development eligibility score. See the coverage and methodology.
Permitted development restrictions in Bexley
Bexley publishes separate directions for small HMOs, named conservation areas and Class E to residential conversions in mapped town-centre and industrial locations. The commercial conversion directions identify selected buildings, so use the maps rather than assuming a whole town centre has identical controls.
- Bexley Article 4 directions and mapped buildings
- Bexley conservation and heritage guidance
- Bexley planning application guidance
- Bexley development plan
Sources reviewed . Check the source maps, wording and effective dates against your property and proposed work.
What reviewed local decisions show
These examples use official planning records. Each identifies the decision date and links to the evidence reviewed. They are not Planning Approvals projects or a prediction for another property.
81 Holly Hill Road: an HMO proposal supported by specific evidence
25/01044/FUL · APP/D5120/W/25/3372834 · Appeal allowed with conditions, 23 December 2025
The appeal concerned roof and rear extensions alongside conversion to a six-person HMO. A parking survey, local transport evidence and enclosed bin storage helped address the council’s concerns about cumulative effects. A fire-safety strategy also resolved a separate objection. Conditions secured bin and cycle storage.
What to check: For an HMO conversion, explain parking, waste and the proposed use as well as the building work. This was a full planning permission, not a certificate that the extensions or use were PD.
Read the appeal decision (PDF)
Related guidance: Changes of use · Loft conversions and PD
Check the planning register for the issued notice, exact conditions and any later appeal or revised application. A committee resolution is not a substitute for those documents.
Certificate records to investigate
Selected archive records, not a representative sample or a prediction for your address. The descriptions below are archive excerpts and may be shortened; read the original decision and plans before relying on them.
- 25/02389/LDCP · Recorded refused (2026)
Lawful Development Certificate (Proposed) for erection of a single storey rear extension.
Search the council register for 25/02389/LDCP - 25/02446/LDCP · Recorded refused (2026)
Lawful Development Certificate (Proposed) for the erection of a single storey rear extension and front porch extension and replacement roof tiles.
Search the council register for 25/02446/LDCP
A certificate concerns the lawfulness of the scheme described. Another property's certificate does not establish your permitted development rights. Read the archive's coverage and limitations.
Do you need a permitted development certificate?
A proposed lawful development certificate gives formal confirmation that the development described is lawful. It is optional and is different from prior approval or a planning application. Read our lawful development certificate guide.
The free check does not grant permission or replace a certificate. Check official certificate guidance and the government's explanation of planning routes.