Potters Fields Park Potters Fields London Southwark SE1 2SG Data via plota.co.uk
25/AP/1899 - Minor application
Approved
Proposal
Temporary use of the open space for events with the erection of associated temporary structures (cumulatively no more than 800 sq. metres) for no more than 80 days in any one calendar year, for a period of five years. Data via plota.co.uk
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2 Jul 2025
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Validated
14 Aug 2025
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Approved
11 Dec 2025
Approved on 11 Dec 2025 · Committee - Small Sites · Last checked 16 Oct 2026
Planning committee
Decided by Southwark Planning Committee (Smaller Applications) on 8 Dec 2025.
Approved
As officers recommended.
- Officers advised approval because the temporary events use would preserve open land, limit heritage effects and protect neighbours through conditions.
- Three objections cited excessive event days, noise, antisocial behaviour and loss of open space; Trust representatives addressed the committee.
- The committee carried a motion to grant permission, with an amended music condition allowing rare exceptions subject to a log.
Source: Plota analysis of Southwark's committee minutes of 8 Dec 2025.
Documents 15
Decision & officer reports 2
Statements & assessments 2
Application forms 1
Consultation & comments 4
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FILE COPY - NEIGHBOUR NOTIFICATION+LIST
Neighbour Notification List · 29 Oct 2025
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TIME EXTENSION AGREEMENT
Time Extension - Response · 24 Oct 2025
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07/08/2025 OBJECTION LETTER DATED
Comment - Contributor · 16 Sept 2025
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FILE COPY - NEIGHBOUR NOTIFICATION+LIST
Neighbour Notification List · 18 Aug 2025
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Other documents 6
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COMMITTEE ITEM 6.1
Committee - Report · 20 Jan 2026
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TIME EXTENSION LETTER
Time Extension - Request · 5 Jan 2026
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TIME EXTENSION LETTER
Time Extension - Request · 17 Oct 2025
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SITE NOTICE
Site notice · 28 Aug 2025
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PRESS NOTICE - 21/08/2025
Press Notice · 19 Aug 2025
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VALID APPLICATION LETTER WITH INVOICE
Valid Application Letter · 18 Aug 2025
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Associated applications 4
Site constraints 14
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.
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.
2 Article 4 directions
Central Activities Zone · London Bridge District 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.
Tree preservation order: Potters Fields Park, SE1
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.
Protected view corridor: 6A.1 Blackheath Point to St Paul's Cathedral
Inside the landmark viewing corridor of a protected vista. A building that rises above the corridor's threshold height should be refused. How high that is depends on where along the view the site is. Also in the wider setting of 4A.1 Primrose Hill summit to St Paul's Cathedral.
The London Plan (policy HC4) designates strategic views, and the Mayor's London View Management Framework (March 2012) gives 13 of them a protected vista toward St Paul's Cathedral, the Palace of Westminster or the Tower of London. A vista has a threshold height that rises or falls with the line of sight. In the landmark viewing corridor, a building above it would harm the view and should be refused. In the wider setting consultation area around the corridor, a building above it is referred for consultation and its effect on the view is judged. The threshold changes along each view and is set out in the framework. A revised framework is out for consultation until 4 December 2026 and is not yet in force.
National infrastructure project: Thames Tideway Tunnel
The site is inside 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, 603 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.
Archaeological priority area
An assessment or field evaluation may be asked for before ground works.
The council or Historic England considers archaeology likely here. A desk-based assessment, and sometimes trial trenching, can be asked for with the application.
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.
Town centre: London Bridge
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.
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
6 listed buildings within 150 m; Conservation area 92 m away: Tower Bridge; 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 1 November 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.
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Important details
- Council
- Southwark
- Application type
- Minor application
- Postcode
- SE1 2SG
- Received
- 2 Jul 2025
- Validated
- 14 Aug 2025
- Ward
- London Bridge & West Bermondsey
- Parish
- Bermondsey And Rotherhithe
- Case officer
- Show
- Target decision
- 23 Dec 2025
- Decision
- Minor - GRANTED
- Decision date
- 11 Dec 2025
- Decision level
- Committee - Small Sites
- Applicant
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- Agent
- ECA Architecture & Planning
How this decision compares
Decided in 119 days from validation, 64 days slower than Southwark's median of 55 for full applications. Approved, as 87% of full applications here are.
This one119d
Council55d
UK57d
55%decided within 8 weeks
87%approved
539decided in the last year
Plota live figures for full applications decided by Southwark in the last twelve months, from validation. Southwark decision record →
Public comments
3comments received
3 objecting
100% object · above the UK average of 74%
745 neighbours consulted · Last counted 16 Oct 2026
Consultation & key dates
- Committee
- 8 Dec 2025
- Statutory expiry
- 8 Oct 2025
- Env. assessment
- No
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Southwark
Planning Authority Score
7/10
Good
#64 of 296 councils
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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%).
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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
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