London Borough of Lewisham

Article 4 direction area

There is a problem

• 78 issue of type invalid category value

Downham District Centre

• reference: Dow1
• name: Downham District Centre
• permitted-development-rights:

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  Class e
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• point: POINT (-0.004104 51.424609)
• entry-date: 2026-02-25

How to fix this issue

Your data is missing a permitted-development-rights.

The Article 4 direction area guidance explains how to fix the issue:

permitted-development-rights

A list of the permitted development rights withdrawn by the article 4 direction.

Separate the rights in the list using semicolons.

Only use rights from our permitted development right dataset. If the area withdraws a permitted development right that is not in our dataset, email digitalland@communities.gov.uk.

Example: 3D;3M;11B

How to improve London Borough of Lewisham’s data

1. Fix the errors indicated
2. Use the check service to make sure the data meets the standard
3. Publish the updated data on the endpoint URL