Site allocations preferred options
The Building Safety Levy (BSL) will come into effect on 1 October 2026. It is a tax on new dwellings and new bedspaces in purpose‑built student accommodation (PBSA).
Developers must pay the levy on certain building control applications or notices before completion or occupation of the building. The Council will collect the levy.
The Building Safety Levy (England) Regulations 2025 sets out how the levy will operate.
Changes to how some planning applications are decided from 31 October 2026The Government has introduced new national rules about who decides planning applications.
These rules are formally called the national scheme of delegation. From 31 October 2026, they will decide which applications must be decided by planning officers and which may go to Planning Committee.
The rules will apply to cases decided from that date. We have updated Lewisham’s Constitution to reflect the changes.[
Consultation took place in 2007 and the document set out options for key development sites in the borough. Consultation on this document has now ended.
Following advice from the Government Office for London in 2007, priority was given to the production of the Core Strategy (the principal LDF document) and the Site Allocations development plan document was deferred.
As work on the Core Strategy progressed to its final stage, work on the Site Allocations document has resumed. The document has now been separated into two - the Site Allocations DPD and the Development Policies DPD.
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