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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
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Land adjacent to and including the former Stone Foundries, 669A Woolwich Road and the VIP Industrial Estate, Charlton, London, SE7 8SL
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Council sourceRequest for an Environmental Impact Assessment Scoping Opinion under Regulation 15 of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 (as amended) comprising a 100,000 sqm Gross External Area (GEA) data centre with ancillary offices, internal plant, and substations, alongside up to 10,000 sqm GEA of mixed-use space including Use Classes E(g)(i-iii), B2, B8, and F2(a-c). The scheme includes varied massing across the site, ranging from the retained Stone Foundry at 17 m AOD and an SME building at 22 m AOD, up to an office building at 32 m AOD, a data centre with a maximum of 45 m AOD.
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View council map| Document | Published | Action |
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| Acknowledgement letterCorrespondence · PDF | 18 Aug 2026 | View |
| Historic desk based assessmentReport · PDF | 18 Aug 2026 | View |
| Eia scoping reportReport · PDF | 13 Aug 2026 | View |
| Preliminary geo-environmental risk assessmentReport · PDF | 13 Aug 2026 | View |
| Uxo reportsReport · PDF | 13 Aug 2026 | View |
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Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand pending consideration, approved, refused and withdrawn planning applications. Compare status labels and find the documents explaining each outcome.
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.