Trevor Bailey Sports Ground Dulwich Common London Southwark SE21 7HA Data via plota.co.uk

26/AP/2757 - Minor application Under consideration/assessment
Commercial & major worksSchools, care & communityCommercial premises

Proposal

Proposed development comprising the construction of five outdoor padel tennis courts, with ancillary café/shop and changing facilities, associated car and cycle parking, and other associated works. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
17 Sept 2026
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Validated
24 Sept 2026
Decision
Expected by 18 Nov 2026

This application is under consideration - no decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision between 16 Nov 2026 and 10 Dec 2026, from Southwark's recent commercial and major works.

Documents 18

Statements & assessments 5

PDF Fire Statement Fire Statement · 24 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF 17121A-30-R02-01-F02 - BNG. BIODIVERSITY NET GAIN ASSESSMENT Biodiversity survey / ecology assessment · 24 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF DESIGN AND ACCESS STATEMENT Design and Access statement · 17 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF ARBORICULTURAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT Tree survey or Arboricultural implications · 17 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF TRANSPORT ASSESSMENT Transport assessment · 17 Sept 2026 View ↗

Plans & drawings 9

PDF 006 REV C PROPOSED SITE ELEVATIONS Plan - Proposed · 17 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF 003 REV B PROPOSED SITE PLAN Site - Block plan · 17 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF 005 REV A PROPOSED ROOF PLAN Plan - Proposed · 17 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF 002 REV A EXISTING SITE PLAN Site - Block plan · 17 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF 007 REV B PROPOSED ACCOMMODATION ELEVATIONS Plan - Proposed · 17 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF 004 REV A PROPOSED ACCOMMODATION PLAN Plan - Proposed · 17 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF 010 REVA PROPOSED SURFACE MATERIAL PLAN Plan - Proposed · 17 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF 009 REV C PROPOSED FENCING PLAN Plan - Proposed · 17 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF 008 REV A PROPOSED PADEL COURT SIZE Plan - Proposed · 17 Sept 2026 View ↗

Application forms 2

PDF APPLICATION FORM - WITHOUT PERSONAL DATA Application - Form (Without Personal data) · 17 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURE LEVY - COMPLETED FORM CIL - GIA Form · 17 Sept 2026 View ↗

Other documents 2

PDF PADEL TENNIS COURT - STATUTORY METRIC !Key Document · 24 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF COVERING LETTER Application - Covering letter · 17 Sept 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 7

Metropolitan Open Land
Green belt level protection inside London.
The London Plan gives Metropolitan Open Land the same protection as green belt: inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.
Dulwich Wood conservation area
Demolition needs planning permission and permitted development is restricted.
The council must give weight to preserving or enhancing the area's character and appearance. Not every council has published its boundaries as open data.
Council document ↗
Tree preservation order: Dulwich Common, Old Alleynian's Club
Consent is needed before work on protected trees.
Not every council has published its orders as open data, so no order shown is not proof there is none.
Agricultural land, grade 3b
Not best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. A site survey can differ.
Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.
Air quality management area: Southwark AQMA
The council has declared the area as failing an air quality objective.
Schemes that add traffic, parking or combustion plant are assessed against the area's action plan and may need an air quality assessment.
Council record ↗
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 2
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Registered park or garden 245 m away: Dulwich Park.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No listed building at the site

Checked on 25 September 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Council
Southwark
Application type
Minor application
Postcode
SE21 7HA
Received
17 Sept 2026
Validated
24 Sept 2026
Ward
Dulwich Wood
Parish
Dulwich
Case officer
Show
Target decision
18 Nov 2026
Agent
Union4 Planning

Decision outlook

Day 11 of the 56-day target. Southwark usually decides commercial and major works by day 61.

Day 1150 days to the predicted decision (day 61)
46%decided within 8 weeks
92%approved
8%go to committee

Plota live figures for commercial and major works decided by Southwark in the last twelve months, from validation. Southwark decision record →

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 24 Sept 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Statutory expiry
18 Nov 2026
Env. assessment
No

Historical activity at this location

5 nearby applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

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24/AP/0186
2024 Approved
Old Alleynians Sports Ground Dulwich Common London Southwark SE21 7HA
Details of Condition 4 'Tree Planting' as required by planning permission ref. 22/AP/3392…
24/AP/0183
2024 Approved
Old Alleynians Sports Ground Dulwich Common London Southwark SE21 7HA
Details of Condition 3 ' Foundation Design and all Ground Works' as required by planning…
24/AP/0177
2024 Approved
Old Alleynians Sports Ground Dulwich Common London Southwark SE21 7HA
Details of Condition 5 'Cycle Storage Detials' as required by planning permission ref. 22…
24/AP/0184
2022 Approved
Old Alleynians Sports Ground Dulwich Common London Southwark SE21 7HA
Construction of a timber framed pavillion to be used as a utility store and changing faci…
22/AP/3392
Southwark
Planning Authority Score
7/10
Good
#64 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Southwark is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #54 out of 296. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (95%) than the national average (90%).

Faster than most councils
for householder decisions
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Southwark decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
92%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #93 of 296
95%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #92 of 296
78%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #54 of 296
37%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #122 of 296
92%
Minor dwellings approved
259 decided (1-9 homes)
86%
Major dwellings approved
14 decided (10+ homes)
82%
Change of use approved
38 decided
1,622
Total decisions
132 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings