Crown Court 1 Pocock Street London Southwark SE1 0BT Data via plota.co.uk

25/AP/3153 - Prior approval for demolition Under consideration/assessment

Proposal

Prior approval notification for the demolition of all existing buildings to ground level and partial demolition of the basement Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
30 Oct 2025
✓
Validated
3 Nov 2025
Decision
Target date was 29 Nov 2025

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicted a decision around 28 Oct 2026; it is now day 359.

Documents 21

Statements & assessments 11

PDF GEO-ENVIRONMENTAL INTERPRETATIVE REPORT ? PART 6 Environmental statement · 30 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF GEO-ENVIRONMENTAL INTERPRETATIVE REPORT ? PART 3 Environmental statement · 30 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF GEO-ENVIRONMENTAL INTERPRETATIVE REPORT ? PART 4 Environmental statement · 30 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF GEO-ENVIRONMENTAL INTERPRETATIVE REPORT ? PART 1 Environmental statement · 30 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF GEO-ENVIRONMENTAL INTERPRETATIVE REPORT ? PART 2 Environmental statement · 30 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF GEO-ENVIRONMENTAL INTERPRETATIVE REPORT ? PART 7 Environmental statement · 30 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF GEO-ENVIRONMENTAL INTERPRETATIVE REPORT ? PART 7 Environmental statement · 30 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF GEO-ENVIRONMENTAL INTERPRETATIVE REPORT ? PART 5 Environmental statement · 30 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF ECOLOGICAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT Biodiversity survey / ecology assessment · 30 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF PR124814-03 DEMOLITION TREE PROTECTION PLAN Tree survey or Arboricultural implications · 30 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF ARBORICULTURAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT & METHOD STATEMENT Tree survey or Arboricultural implications · 30 Oct 2025 View ↗

Plans & drawings 2

PDF DEMOLITION ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PLAN Demolition Management Plan · 3 Nov 2025 View ↗ PDF 2591-HWS-ZZ-ZZ-D-A-05006 REV P01 EXISTING SITE PLAN WITH SITE NOTICE LOCATION Site - Block plan · 3 Nov 2025 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF APPLICATION FORM - WITHOUT PERSONAL DATA Application - Form (Without Personal data) · 30 Oct 2025 View ↗

Consultation & comments 1

PDF FILE COPY - NEIGHBOUR NOTIFICATION+LIST Neighbour Notification List · 11 Nov 2025 View ↗

Other documents 6

PDF VALID APPLICATION LETTER WITH INVOICE Valid Application Letter · 11 Nov 2025 View ↗ PDF GEO-ENVIRONMENTAL INTERPRETATIVE REPORT PART 2 !Key Document · 10 Nov 2025 View ↗ PDF WRITTEN SCHEME OF INVESTIGATION FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL MONITORING AND RECORDING Archaeological Details · 30 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF COVERING LETTER Application - Covering letter · 30 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF SITE NOTICE - PHOTOGRAPH Photographs and photomontages · 30 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF SITE NOTICE - PHOTOGRAPH Photographs and photomontages · 30 Oct 2025 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

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 ↗
2 Article 4 directions
Bankside and Borough District Town Centre · Central Activities Zone. 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: Bankside and The Borough
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.
National infrastructure project 445 m away: Thames Tideway Tunnel
The site is 445 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, 225 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 ↗
7 listed buildings within 150 m
Nearest: 55, Great Suffolk Street, Grade II, 26 m away · 7 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.
Show all 7 with distances
Historic England ↗
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.
Opportunity area
Where the London Plan expects significant growth.
Boundaries are indicative and the borough holds the detailed plan.
Also on the record
Conservation area 48 m away: King's Bench; Heritage at risk 35 m away: 55, Great Suffolk Street; 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

Checked on 9 October 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Planning Inspectorate, 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 2

Last sold for £55,200 in December 2024. Other property, freehold.

11 December 2024£55,200Recorded as a transfer outside a standard sale
21 February 2020£64,250,000Recorded as a transfer outside a standard sale

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

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Important details

Council
Southwark
Application type
Prior approval for demolition
Postcode
SE1 0BT
Received
30 Oct 2025
Validated
3 Nov 2025
Ward
Borough & Bankside
Parish
Borough, Bankside And Walworth
Case officer
Show
Target decision
29 Nov 2025
Agent
Turley
Freehold owner
Show

Decision outlook

Day 359, past the statutory target. 100% of prior approvals 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 22 Oct 2026.

Day 359303 days past the 56-day target
88%decided within 8 weeks
74%approved
47decided in the last year

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

Public comments

1comment received
1 objecting

601 neighbours consulted · Last counted 22 Oct 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Statutory expiry
29 Nov 2025
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

2020 Approved
Development of site, involving part demolition, alterations and extensions to the existin…
20/AP/1537
Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2025
Former Blackfriars Crown Court, 1 Pocock Street London SE1 0BT
Redevelopment of the site comprising demolition of the existing building and construction…
25/AP/2203
2024 Approved
32-36 Loman Street London Southwark SE1 0EH
Refurbishments and alterations to existing office block (use class E(g)(i)). Alterations…
24/AP/2199
2023 Approved
32-36 Loman Street London Southwark SE1 0EH
Alterations to the east facade of Waterbridge House comprising the removal of windows and…
23/AP/3380
2022 Approved
15 Risborough Street London Southwark SE1 0HE
Construction of three storey upward extension, creating seven storey mixed use building c…
22/AP/3548
2023 Approved
Rear 47 - 51 Great Suffolk Street London Southwark
Construction of a cantilevered box canopy to facilitate an updated entrance along with as…
23/AP/1681
2023 Withdrawn
Grotto Sports Ground Great Suffolk Street London Southwark
Erection of temporary marquee on an area of hardstanding to provide extended covered dini…
23/AP/1769
2023 Approved
Moonraker Point Pocock Street London Southwark SE1 0FN
Re-cladding and facade remediation works
23/AP/1768
2022 Approved
32-36 Loman Street London Southwark SE1 0EH
Demolition of the existing four storey office building with retention of basement and red…
22/AP/3886
2022 Approved
55 Great Suffolk Street London Southwark SE1 0BB
Change of use of building from Use Class B8 to provide ground and first floor flexible co…
22/AP/1066
2022 Approved
55 Great Suffolk Street London Southwark SE1 0BB
Listed building consent for external and internal works to the building to convert the bu…
22/AP/1067
2022 Withdrawn
17-21 Risborough Street London Southwark SE1 0HG
Redevelopment of the site to construct seven storey office building (Class E(g)) with roo…
22/AP/2087
2021
Africa House 66 Great Suffolk Street London Southwark SE1 0BL
Display of facia sign The sign will read 'THE AFRICA CENTRE' and will be located on the r…
21/AP/4670
2021 Approved
17-21 Risborough Street London Southwark SE1
Redevelopment of the site to construct seven storey office building (Class E(g)) with roo…
21/AP/1207
2021 Approved
55 Great Suffolk Street London Southwark SE1 0BB
Permanent and temporary works including:- Repair and replacement of internal timber work…
21/AP/2632
2019 Approved
32-36 Loman Street London SE1 0EH
Demolition of the existing four storey office building with basement and redevelopment of…
19/AP/1404
2021 Approved
64 Great Suffolk Street London Southwark
Installaton of canopy with built in down lighters, a metal entrance gate, a built in mail…
21/AP/1113
2020 Approved
Gunpowder House 66-68 Great Suffolk Street London Southwark SE1 0BL
Alterations to the external facade, formation of a new plant room, including providing ne…
20/AP/1889
2020 Withdrawn
57 - 59 Great Suffolk Street London Southwark
Installation of replacement plant at first floor level.
20/AP/0934
2020 Approved
57-59 Great Suffolk Street London Southwark SE1 0BB
Replacement of existing external wall system with non-combustible cladding, and associate…
20/AP/2453
2020 Approved
Africa House 66 Great Suffolk Street London Southwark SE1 0BL
Additional Environmental Approval under planning permission ref. no: 17/AP/1793 granted f…
20/AP/3014
2017 Approved
55 Great Suffolk Street London SE1 0BB
Change of use from warehouse use (Use Class B8) to a mixed use scheme comprising office (…
17/AP/4668
2018 Approved
Existing Telecommunications On Public Footpath Opposite 59 Great Suffolk Street London SE1
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18/AP/0157
2017 Withdrawn
55 Great Suffolk Street London SE1 0BB
Follow up pre-app for proposed alterations and change of use to listed building comprisin…
17/EQ/0223
2017 Withdrawn
55 Great Suffolk Street London SE1 0BB
Follow up pre-app for proposed alterations and change of use to listed building comprisin…
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2016 Withdrawn
60 GREAT SUFFOLK STREET, LONDON, SE1 0BL
Demolition of the existing building and erection of a four storey building including base…
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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.