Planning application: 2025/4580  Diprose Lodge The Chapel 750 Garratt Lane SW17 0LY

Tooting History Group is pleased to see Listed Building Consent sought for a ‘limited, conservation-led programme of investigative and enabling works to Diprose Chapel, a Grade II listed building forming part of the former St Clement Danes Holborn Estate Almshouses’.  

The building has been vacant for some years and was sold last year at auction. Details from the agent together with those included in the application indicate some damage including from water ingress. We feel the proposed intervention is well timed.

Our comments:

We fully recognize the necessity for exploratory works to be undertaken in order to assist in the understanding of the historic structure and fabric and to inform future conservation works. We welcome this considered, informed and thorough approach. It is our assumption that any exploratory works would be carried out by a suitably experienced and competent heritage contractor.

Further details, including maps and photographs in the 4 part Heritage Statement, can be found here: Online Standard Details

Libby Lawson, THG Conservation Officer. 25 January 2026.