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Free Redbridge 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 Redbridge
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 Redbridge. Confirm the authority for your address if you are close to a boundary or the area has changed council.
- Redbridge official website and planning information
- Search Redbridge planning applications and decision notices
- Redbridge planning authority boundary and source
- Find the planning authority for your postcode
We have not verified every local restriction for every address in Redbridge. Confirm property-specific details against the authority's current records before relying on permitted development.
Our Redbridge archive contains 17,307 classified home project decision records. Explore Redbridge 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 Redbridge
Redbridge's heritage page links individual directions and maps, including the Bungalow Estate, Aldersbrook and Lake House, and particular streets and sites. The borough-wide small-HMO direction addresses a different change of use. Match the proposed works to the wording of the applicable direction.
- Redbridge heritage, conservation areas and Article 4 maps
- Redbridge small-HMO Article 4 direction
- Redbridge validation matrix and local requirements
- Redbridge application submission guidance
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.
19 Lexden Drive: prior approval still tested the extra storey’s appearance
0038/24 · APP/W5780/D/24/3340367 · Appeal dismissed, 5 June 2024
The council and inspector accepted that the additional-storey proposal met the Class AA limitations considered in the appeal. It nevertheless failed the prior-approval assessment of external appearance: the extra height and blank upper front elevation would harm the house and terrace.
What to check: Meeting the initial PD limitations is only part of a prior-approval route. Design the proposal around the matters that still require approval rather than treating eligibility as consent.
Read the appeal decision (PDF)
Related guidance: Prior approval · Permitted development
52 Green Lane: a flat could not borrow a house’s PD comparison
4017/22 · APP/W5780/W/23/3325241 · Appeal dismissed, 9 February 2024
The proposed extension and conversion of the ground-floor flat into two flats would create an overbearing boundary alongside the neighbour. Daylight evidence was acceptable, but outlook was not. The inspector expressly distinguished a nearby house’s prior approval because the appeal property was a flat.
What to check: Establish the property’s lawful use before comparing PD examples. A daylight report does not answer every question about enclosure and outlook.
Read the appeal decision (PDF)
Related guidance: Rear extensions · Changes of use · 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.