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26/AP/1761 - Certificate of Lawful Dev. - Proposed Approved
Change of useNew homes

Proposal

Certificate of lawfulness (proposed) for change of use from a single dwellinghouse (Use Class C3) to a house of multiple occupation for up to 6 people (Use Class C4) Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
17 Jun 2026
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Validated
18 Jun 2026
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Approved
11 Sept 2026

Approved on 11 Sept 2026 · Delegated Panel - Simple · Last checked 12 Sept 2026

Documents 11

Decision & officer reports 1

PDF PL-011 PROPOSED FLOOR PLAN Decision - Plans · 17 Jun 2026 View ↗

Statements & assessments 1

PDF PLANNING STATEMENT Planning statement · 17 Jun 2026 View ↗

Plans & drawings 4

PDF PL-001 EXISTING BLOCK PLAN Site - Block plan · 17 Jun 2026 View ↗ PDF PL-002 PROPOSED BLOCK PLAN Site - Block plan · 17 Jun 2026 View ↗ PDF PL-035 PROPOSED FRONT & REAR ELEVATION Plan - Proposed · 17 Jun 2026 View ↗ PDF PL-036 PROPOSED RIGHT ELEVATION Plan - Proposed · 17 Jun 2026 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF APPLICATION FORM - WITHOUT PERSONAL DATA Application - Form (Without Personal data) · 17 Jun 2026 View ↗

Consultation & comments 1

PDF FILE COPY - NEIGHBOUR NOTIFICATION+LIST Neighbour Notification List · 22 Jun 2026 View ↗

Other documents 3

PDF TIME EXTENSION LETTER Time Extension - Request · 10 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF VALID APPLICATION LETTER WITH INVOICE Valid Application Letter · 22 Jun 2026 View ↗ PDF PHOTOGRAPHS AND PHOTOMONTAGES Photographs and photomontages · 18 Jun 2026 View ↗

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Site constraints 9

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
Central Activities Zone · 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 Named permitted development rights are withdrawn here.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.
Opportunity area
Where the London Plan expects significant growth.
Boundaries are indicative and the borough holds the detailed plan.
Also on the record
1 listed building within 150 m; Inside the Southwark built-up area.
Not affected
Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 11 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
Certificate of Lawful Dev. - Proposed
Postcode
SE1 6TL
Received
17 Jun 2026
Validated
18 Jun 2026
Ward
North Walworth
Parish
Borough, Bankside And Walworth
Case officer
Show
Target decision
12 Aug 2026
Decision
Certificate of Lawfulness Prop- GRANTED
Decision date
11 Sept 2026
Decision level
Delegated Panel - Simple
Applicant
Show
Agent
Mass + Strategy

How this decision compares

Decided in 85 days from validation, 34 days slower than Southwark's median of 51 for changes of use. Approved, as 79% of changes of use here are.

67%decided within 8 weeks
79%approved
48decided in the last year

Plota live figures for changes of use decided by Southwark in the last twelve months, from validation. Southwark decision record →

Public comments

No public comments yet.

1 neighbour consulted · Last counted 12 Sept 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Statutory expiry
12 Aug 2026
Env. assessment
No

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Southwark
Planning Authority Score
7/10
Good
#64 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Change of use

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
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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
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings