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BUILDING BESIDE BRIXTON’S VIADUCTS: NETWORK RAIL’S SAY OVER YOUR FOUNDATIONS
There’s a question we’d ask about any Brixton site before almost anything else: how far is the track?
Not because the trains are noisy, though they are. Because if the answer is under ten metres, your project has an extra participant in it, and their name is Network Rail.
Where the ten metres comes from
It’s buried in procedure, not policy, which is probably why so few people know it. Schedule 4 of the Development Management Procedure Order obliges the council to consult the railway operator on any application for development wholly or partly within 10 metres of relevant railway land. Any application. A rear extension counts.
So does a loft with a small dig for underpinning, or one new house squeezed onto a backland plot off Coldharbour Lane.
Lambeth sends the consultation, Network Rail sends back their standard asset protection response, and chunks of that response usually reappear as conditions on your permission. Foundation details to be agreed. Limits on how deep you can excavate near their boundary.
Requirements about fencing and drainage during the build. None of it is unreasonable, exactly. A Victorian viaduct spreads its weight through brick piers into ground nobody surveyed properly at the time, and digging next to it is the sort of thing that keeps their engineers up at night.
The bit that isn’t planning at all
Getting permission is stage one. If the work is close enough to their structures, you’ll also be pulled into Network Rail’s own asset protection process, typically through what they call a Basic Asset Protection Agreement.
Their engineers review the proposals. You pay for the review. Sometimes they want monitoring on the viaduct while excavation happens. If a crane needs to swing over the railway, that’s a further agreement again.
This all runs on Network Rail’s timetable, not the council’s, and it can take months. We’d start that conversation before consent rather than after, every time.
One more thing. The Party Wall etc. Act 1996 doesn’t stop applying just because the neighbour is a railway. Excavate within three metres of a neighbouring structure (six in some cases) and below its foundations, and notice has to be served. When the structure next door is a viaduct, the adjoining owner receiving your notice is Network Rail, and their surveyors have done this many, many times before you.
Our thoughts on this
Measure early. Ten metres from railway land reaches further into Brixton’s streets than people expect, and discovering at validation that yours is a “railway proximity” application costs you weeks you didn’t plan for. If the site is inside the zone, design foundations cautiously from the outset — shallow near the boundary, piled where depth is needed — because that goes through review far more smoothly than a deep dig defended afterwards. And put the asset protection fees in the budget now. The railway got there first. Everything else follows from that.
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Our Brixton architects assess your property’s surroundings. This way, the project fits with the site conditions. We handle local zoning laws and regulations, especially for conservation areas.
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THE BRIXTON GARDEN YOU SHARE: APPLYING FOR PERMISSION ON LAND THE LEASE SPLITS
There’s a fact about the planning system that surprises almost everyone the first time they meet it: you don’t need to own land to apply for planning permission on it.
What you do need is to be honest about who owns what — and in a converted Brixton house where the garden is split between flats, that honesty requirement is where shared-garden extension applications quietly go wrong.
Certificates: the part of the form that actually matters
Every planning application submitted under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 must include an ownership certificate. Certificate A says you’re the sole owner of all the application land.
Certificate B says someone else owns some or all of it — the freeholder, or the neighbour whose demise the extension touches — and that you’ve formally served notice on them.
In a converted house, almost nobody extending a ground-floor flat can truthfully sign Certificate A. Your lease is almost certainly shorter than the ownership test the certificates use, the freeholder holds an interest in everything, and if the garden is split, part of the site may sit in the upstairs flat’s demise. The correct route is Certificate B with notice served — a straightforward form, but signing Certificate A wrongly is an offence, and an incorrect certificate can put the whole permission at legal risk. Lambeth’s planning application pages and the Planning Portal’s guidance on completing applications both walk through the requirement.
The notice itself changes the dynamics. Your freeholder — or the neighbour who co-owns your freehold company — learns about the application formally, and can comment on it like anyone else. Our observation is that this is where undisclosed extension plans surface, and why the conversation across the garden fence is better had before the council’s letter forces it.
No permitted development safety net
Owners of houses can fall back on permitted development rights when a planning application looks difficult.
Flats can’t — Part 1 of the GPDO applies to dwellinghouses only, and a flat in a converted Brixton terrace has no PD rights for extensions at all. Every shared-garden extension therefore needs a full householder or full planning application, judged on its merits: impact on the neighbouring flats’ outlook and light, the proportion of garden lost, and Lambeth’s design guidance for rear extensions, all sharpened where a conservation area applies.
One more distinction worth holding onto: permission attaches to the land, not to you. A consent obtained for a shared garden benefits whoever can lawfully implement it — which loops back to the property-law question of whether you can.
Our Thoughts On This
On split-demise land, the planning application is the public half of a two-track process, and it runs best when the private half is already settled. Serve the notices properly, certificate honestly, and treat the freeholder’s formal awareness as a feature: a permission granted with everyone on record is a permission nobody can later claim they never knew about.
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