318 - 320 Walworth Road London Southwark SE17 2NA Data via plota.co.uk

26/AP/2121 - Minor application Under consideration/assessment
ShopfrontsCommercial premises

Proposal

Reduction in the size of an existing shopfront window and installation of an additional entrance door within the existing shopfront. Data via plota.co.uk

Track application Save this application and get an email when its status or decision changes. Alerts nearby Get email alerts for new planning applications near this address.
View original council record ↗Last checked

Application progress

✓
Received
20 Jul 2026
✓
Validated
27 Jul 2026
Decision
Target date was 23 Oct 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicted a decision around 29 Oct 2026; it is now day 94.

Documents 8

Statements & assessments 3

PDF HERITAGE STATEMENT Heritage statement · 24 Jul 2026 View ↗ PDF FIRE SAFETY STATEMENT Fire Statement · 20 Jul 2026 View ↗ PDF DESIGN AND ACCESS STATEMENT Design and Access statement · 20 Jul 2026 View ↗

Plans & drawings 2

PDF WAL-AA-M1-LL-DR-A-20100 REV C02 PROPOSED FRONT ELEVATION Plan - Proposed · 29 Jul 2026 View ↗ PDF WAL-AA-M1-LL-DR-A-20001 REV C01 PROPOSED GROUND FLOOR PLAN Plan - Proposed · 24 Jul 2026 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF APPLICATION FORM - WITHOUT PERSONAL DATA Application - Form (Without Personal data) · 20 Jul 2026 View ↗

Consultation & comments 1

PDF FILE COPY - NEIGHBOUR NOTIFICATION+LIST Neighbour Notification List · 31 Jul 2026 View ↗

Other documents 1

PDF VALID APPLICATION LETTER WITH INVOICE Valid Application Letter · 31 Jul 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 12

Flood zone 2, rivers and sea
Medium chance: between a 1 in 100 and 1 in 1,000 annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 to 1 in 1,000 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.
The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.
Flood map ↗
Walworth Road 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 ↗
2 Article 4 directions
Elephant and Castle Major Town Centre · Protected shopping frontage SF2: Walworth Road. Named permitted development rights are withdrawn here.
An Article 4 direction withdraws particular permitted development rights, so work that would normally need no application needs one here. Not every council has published its directions.
Heritage at risk: Walworth Road, Walworth
On the register of historic places assessed as at risk.
A designated building, monument, park or conservation area assessed as at risk from neglect, decay or development. Proposals that secure its future are looked on favourably.
Historic England ↗
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 ↗
Town centre: Elephant and Castle/ Walworth Road
A designated centre in the London Plan.
Shops, services and active frontages are protected in centres, and main town centre uses are steered here first.
Opportunity area
Where the London Plan expects significant growth.
Boundaries are indicative and the borough holds the detailed plan.
Also on the record
National infrastructure project 1080 m away: Thames Tideway Tunnel; Radon affected area, class 2; 7 listed buildings within 150 m; Inside the Southwark built-up area; Public transport access: PTAL 4 (good), TfL 2023, for the 100 m square.
Not affected
Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Planning Inspectorate, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI), Transport for London (public transport access levels, Powered by TfL Open Data, OGL v3.0, contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2025) 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.

Sales history 1

Last sold for £650,000 in December 2020. Other property, freehold.

21 December 2020£650,000Recorded as a transfer outside a standard sale

Sale prices from HM Land Registry's price paid record, matched to this application by its address.

Work with planning data?

Every application in Southwark - and every UK council - as a live feed, an API, or a bulk CSV export.

About Plota's data service

Other new applications on this street

2 Oct 2026Pending

296 Walworth Road London Southwark SE17 2TE

Prior approval notification for the change of use of the second floor from Comme...

26/AP/2891
7 Sept 2026Approved

Chatelain House 182-202 Walworth Road London Southwark SE17 1RW

Details submitted to satisfy Clause 5.1.3 (Notification of intention to pay admi...

26/AP/2569
5 Aug 2026Refused

Lime Tree Court 292A Walworth Road London Southwark SE17 2TE

Sycamore (T1) crown reduction by 1 to 2 metres, removal of deadwood and crown li...

26/AP/2321
27 Jul 2026Refused

380 Walworth Road London Southwark SE17 2NG

Change of use from pizza shop (User Class E) to pizza shop and take away shop, s...

26/AP/1871

Nearby new applications

23 Oct 2026Pending

31 Amelia Street London Southwark SE17 3PY

Details of Condition 3 (Construction Environmental Management Plan (CEMP) for fu...

26/AP/3112
20 Oct 2026Pending

13 Sutherland Square London Southwark SE17 3EQ

Remove a pear tree. Tree is located at site of proposed studio to the rear of ga...

26/AP/3097
19 Oct 2026Pending

Play Office 285 Albany Road London Southwark SE5 0AH

Details of Condition 5- Asbestos R&D Report as required by full planning permiss...

26/AP/3068
16 Oct 2026Pending

Ground Floor And First Floor Flat 109 John Ruskin Street London Southwark SE5 0PQ

Replacement timber effect PVCu windows and doors to ground and first floor flat.

26/AP/3062
15 Oct 2026Pending

89 John Ruskin Street London Southwark SE5 0PQ

Ground floor side and rear extension, loft conversion and extension, two rooflig...

26/AP/2924
15 Oct 2026Pending

57 Aylesbury Road London Southwark SE17 2EQ

Replacement windows

26/AP/3045

Important details

Council
Southwark
Application type
Minor application
Postcode
SE17 2NA
Received
20 Jul 2026
Validated
27 Jul 2026
Ward
North Walworth
Parish
Borough, Bankside And Walworth
Case officer
Show
Target decision
23 Oct 2026
Applicant
Show
Agent
Alamar Architects Ltd
Freehold owner
Show

Decision outlook

Day 94, past the statutory target. 83% of commercial premises in Southwark are decided within thirteen weeks; extensions of time are common, and the council need not decide on the day. Last seen undecided on 28 Oct 2026.

Day 9438 days past the 56-day target
63%decided within 8 weeks
93%approved
524decided in the last year

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

Public comments

2comments received
1 objecting1 supporting

9 neighbours consulted · Last counted 28 Oct 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Statutory expiry
20 Sept 2026
Env. assessment
No

Historical activity at this location

26 previous applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

This property

Previous applications at this address

2024 Approved
Installation of new shopfront
24/AP/0523
Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2025 Refused
3 Butterworth Terrace Sutherland Walk London Southwark SE17 3EJ
Construction of a single-storey rear extension (retrospective), including the installatio…
25/AP/2410
2025
Abbey Court Macleod Street London Southwark SE17 3HA
T1 - Silver Birch, fell to stump level and grind the stump/surface lateral roots to below…
25/AP/2979
2025
1 Sutherland Walk London Southwark SE17 3EF
Demolition of existing external timber outbuildings. Enlargement of existing lower ground…
25/AP/2919
2025
13 Sutherland Square London Southwark SE17 3EQ
Outbuilding for use as a garden office located to the end of the rear garden.
25/AP/2032
2025
311 Walworth Road London Southwark SE17 2TG
Removal of existing plant equipment and the installation of new plant equipment.
25/AP/1293
2025
318-320 Walworth Road London Southwark SE17 2NA
Rear extension at first and second floors, reconfiguration of internal layouts, and full…
25/AP/1034
2025
343-345 Walworth Road London Southwark SE17 2AL
Installation of an internal re-circulating extraction system and a fresh air ventilation…
25/AP/0915
2024 Withdrawn
343 - 345 Walworth Road London Southwark SE17 2AL
Installation of plant and machinery (an extraction system ) to the rear elevation on the…
24/AP/3701
2025
311 Walworth Road London Southwark SE17 2TG
Alterations to the shopfront
25/AP/0744
2025
307-319 Walworth Road London Southwark SE17 2TG
Display of 1no. fascia sign and 1 no. projecting sign
25/AP/0583
2024 Approved
20 Fielding Street London Southwark SE17 3HD
Removal of a rear sash window and installation of a timber frame glazed door within the e…
24/AP/2830
2023 Approved
341-345 Walworth Road London Southwark SE17 2AL
Erection of a 3 storey building plus mansard roof containing 2 x ground floor retail unit…
23/AP/3070
2023 Approved
4 Sutherland Square London Southwark SE17 3EQ
5 Day Notification - We need to undertake immediate tree works within the Sutherland Squa…
23/AP/0646
2022 Approved
7 Fielding Street London Southwark SE17 3HE
Single storey rear extension, installation of air source heat pump externally at roof lev…
22/AP/1079
2022 Approved
34 Sutherland Walk London Southwark SE17 3EF
Construction of a single storey ground floor rear extension and the replacement of the ex…
22/AP/1038
2022 Approved
356 Walworth Road London Southwark SE17 2NF
Installation of a new shopfront.
22/AP/1301
2021 Refused
Bt Street Hub Outside 311 Walworth Road London Southwark SE17 2TG
Installation of x1 street hub incorporating a digital 75-inch LCD advert screen, followin…
21/AP/4333
2022
318-320 Walworth Road London Southwark SE17 2NA
New shopfront with separate commercial and residential entrances, rear extension at first…
22/AP/0183
2021
BT Street Hub Outside 311 Walworth Road London Southwark SE17 2TG
Installation of x1 street hub incorporating a digital 75-inch LCD advert screen, followin…
21/AP/4334
2021 Approved
6 Fielding Street London Southwark SE17 3HD
Construction of a roof terrace to provide additional external amenity space.
21/AP/1831
2016 Approved
13 Sutherland Square London SE17 3EQ
Replace existing pebble dash with new stucco; Enlarge existing rear garden light well to…
16/AP/2291
2016 Withdrawn
Flat A 367-369 Walworth Road London SE17 2AL
Subdivision of first floor three bed flat into 2 flats: 1 one bed two person and 1 two be…
16/AP/1708
2016 Approved
13 Sutherland Square London SE17 3EQ
Upgrading of 4 number existing modern windows and 1 number original single glazed sash wi…
16/AP/1722
2016 Approved
Marks & Spencer 307-319 Walworth Road London SE17 2TG
Display of: 2 x halo illuminated 3D lettering signs to fascias on Walworth Road and 1 x n…
16/AP/0442
2016 Approved
302 Walworth Road London SE17 2TE
Variation of Condition 4 of appeal decision 97-AP-1331 for: 'The addition of hot food pre…
16/AP/0268
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

Sale prices: Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Freehold owner: Information produced by HM Land Registry. © Crown copyright 2026. Source: HM Land Registry, UK and overseas companies that own property in England and Wales, September 2026 release.