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Free Greenwich 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 Greenwich
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 Greenwich. Confirm the authority for your address if you are close to a boundary or the area has changed council.
- Greenwich official website and planning information
- Search Greenwich planning applications and decision notices
- Greenwich planning authority boundary and source
- Find the planning authority for your postcode
We have not verified every local restriction for every address in Greenwich. Confirm property-specific details against the authority's current records before relying on permitted development.
Our Greenwich archive contains 252 classified home project decision records; recent coverage is unavailable. Explore Greenwich 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 Greenwich
Greenwich's Article 4 page provides different guidance for Ashburnham Triangle, Progress Estate, Rectory Field and Shrewsbury Park. It also retains historical and cancelled Ashburnham documents, so check the applicable direction and confirmation notice rather than relying on an older map alone.
- Greenwich Article 4 directions and area guidance
- Greenwich conservation appraisals and management strategies
- Greenwich application process and information requirements
- Greenwich adopted Local Plan and policies map
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.
53 Southend Crescent: acceptable light did not settle outlook
23/2014/HD · APP/E5330/D/23/3329981 · Appeal dismissed, 1 March 2024
The rear extension was judged too tall and bulky for the house and its unextended neighbour. Although the inspector did not find significant harm to light, the long boundary elevation would dominate the neighbour’s outlook. No applicable PD fallback had been demonstrated for this scheme.
What to check: Assess height and enclosure as well as daylight. General references to PD rights or other rear extensions do not establish that the submitted design is acceptable.
Read the appeal decision (PDF)
Related guidance: Rear extensions · Permitted development
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
We do not have a suitable certificate excerpt to display here. Use the council register to look up your address and comparable projects.
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.