27 July 2025
Millwall recently installed a 2 storey pre-fabricated building (red-outline below) at its training ground in Calmont Road without authorisation from Lewisham. However, a retrospective planning application has now been submitted, reference DC/25/140833 which indicates that the proposal is for temporary permission pending a permanent structure being built in 2-4 years’ time.
A concern is that application DC/21/121283 gave temporary permission to another similar-looking building (green-outline below) on site which should have been removed in May 2025 but it is still there. This is what Lewisham said in 2021: -
The temporary structure hereby permitted shall be removed and the land restored on or before 27 May 2025 […].
Reason: The type of building is not such as the local planning authority is prepared to approve, other than for a limited period, in view of its appearance in the interest of the visual amenity of the area […]
Thus, Millwall have built without permission a building in a style they know Lewisham does not like and have not removed an existing building by the stated date.
