Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) Direction Under Article 4(1) to which Schedule 3(1) applies

Whereas the London Borough of Bexley being the appropriate local planning authority within the meaning of article 4(5) of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) ("the Order") is satisfied that it is expedient that development of the description set out in the First Schedule below should not be carried out on the land shown shaded red ("the Land") within the borough's designated town centres edged blue on the attached maps in the Second Schedule unless planning permission is granted on an application made under Part Ill of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended).

Now therefore the said Council in pursuance of the power conferred on it by article 4(1) of the Order hereby directs that the permission granted by article 3 of the Order shall not apply to development on the said land of the description set out in the First Schedule below.

Made under the Common Seal of the

Mayor and Burgesses of the London Borough of Bexley

this 22nd day of October 2024

The Common Seal of the Council was affixed to this Direction in the presence of Jane Richardson

Deputy Director of Housing and Strategic Planning

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Confirmed under the Common Seal of the Mayor and Burgesses of the London Borough of Bexley

this 24 day of November 2025

The Common Seal of the Council was affixed to this Direction

in the presence of Tanusha Waters

Deputy Director for Housing and Strategic planning

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First Schedule

In respect of the Land described in the Second Schedule:

Development consisting of a change of use of a building and any land within its curtilage from Use Class E (commercial, business and service) of the Schedule 2 of the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987 (as amended), to Use Class C3 (dwellinghouses) of Schedule 1 of the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987 (as amended) under Class MA of Part 3, Schedule 2 of the Order.

Second Schedule - maps

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Map of the London Borough of Bexley - Town centres and areas covered by the Article 4 direction

The PDF below, which contains a map of the London Borough of Bexley, outlines the following list of Town centres in Blue and the areas covered by the Article 4 direction in Red:

  • Bexleyheath Town Centre
  • Crayford Town Centre
  • Erith Town Centre
  • Lower Belvedere Town Centre
  • Sidcup Town Centre
  • Welling Town Centre
  • Abbey Wood Village Town Centre
  • Bexley Village Town Centre
  • Bexleyheath Station Town Centre
  • Blackfen Town Centre
  • Northumberland Heath Town Centre
  • Sidcup Station Town Centre
  • Upper Belvedere Town Centre

View a map of the borough and the areas covered by the Article 4 direction (PDF format)

*The above 'Article 4 Direction signed and sealed with maps' in PDF format is not suitable for users of assistive technology. If you would like to understand any details about these maps, please email sp&gteam@bexley.gov.uk