London Borough of Lewisham

Article 4 direction area

There is a problem

• 78 issue of type invalid category value

Thanet Wharf MEL

• reference: Tha1
• name: Thanet Wharf MEL
• permitted-development-rights:

  undefined

  Class e
• geometry: MULTIPOLYGON (((-0.017785 51.480836,-0.018379 51.480775,-0.018695 51.480724,-0.018115 51.480028,-0.018028 51.480035,-0.017588 51.480128,-0.017560 51.480118,-0.017376 51.480148,-0.017210 51.480229,-0.017084 51.480389,-0.017088 51.480397,-0.017642 51.480733,-0.017785 51.480836)))
• point: POINT (-0.017887 51.480447)
• 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A list of the permitted development rights withdrawn by the article 4 direction.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