Former Elephant And Castle Shopping Centre 2 Kerning Street London Southwark SE1 6GP Data via plota.co.uk

26/AP/2130 - Advertisement Consent Approved

Proposal

Advertisement consent for the display of internally illuminated halo-lit fret-cut foamex lettering mounted internally behind the glazed frontage adjacent to the main entrance. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received

20 Jul 2026

✓

Validated

10 Aug 2026

✓

Approved

2 Oct 2026

Approved on 2 Oct 2026 · Delegated Panel - Simple · Last checked 2 Oct 2026

Documents 6

Site constraints 12

Flood zone 3, rivers and sea

High chance: a 1 in 100 or greater annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 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 ↗

3 Article 4 directions

Central Activities Zone · Site allocation NSP48: Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre and London College of Communication · Elephant and Castle Major Town Centre. Named permitted development rights are withdrawn here.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.

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.

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 2

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Central activities zone

The core of central London in the London Plan.

Offices, culture and the other strategic functions of the centre take priority over new housing here.

3 listed buildings within 150 m

Nearest: Michael Faraday Memorial, Grade II, 45 m away · 3 Grade II

The site itself is not listed. Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.

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Historic England ↗

Opportunity area

Where the London Plan expects significant growth.

Boundaries are indicative and the borough holds the detailed plan.

National infrastructure project 1041 m away: Thames Tideway Tunnel

The site is 1041 m from the project boundary. Waste water treatment, decided. The project page says whether consent was granted. Also within 2 km: London Strategic Heat Main Project (at pre-application, 434 m).

Nationally significant infrastructure projects (power stations, electricity lines, pipelines, major roads and railways, harbours, airports and reservoirs) are consented by a Secretary of State under the Planning Act 2008, after an examination by the Planning Inspectorate, rather than by the council. The boundary is the one the Inspectorate consults on and can change as the scheme does. Projects are shown within 2 km of the site.

Planning Inspectorate project page ↗

Also on the record

Wider setting of protected view 23A.1 Centre of Bridge over the Serpentine to the Palace of Westminster; Inside the Southwark built-up area; Public transport access: PTAL 6b (excellent), TfL 2023, for the 100 m square.

Not affected

Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

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Important details

Council: Southwark
Application type: Advertisement Consent
Postcode: SE1 6GP
Received: 20 Jul 2026
Validated: 10 Aug 2026
Ward: North Walworth
Parish: Borough, Bankside And Walworth
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 4 Oct 2026
Decision: Advertisement Consent-GRANTED
Decision date: 2 Oct 2026
Decision level: Delegated Panel - Simple
Applicant: Show
Agent: Time Architects

How this decision compares

Decided in 53 days from validation, about the council's usual 54 days. Approved, as 85% of signs and adverts here are.

This one53d

Council54d

UK55d

61%decided within 8 weeks

85%approved

117decided in the last year

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

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 2 Oct 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Statutory expiry: 4 Oct 2026
Env. assessment: No

Southwark

Planning Authority Score

7/10

Good

#64 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Other 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