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Durning Library 167 Kennington Lane London Lambeth SE11 4HF

23/00043/LBListed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 9 March 2023

Council decision: Grant PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Internal alterations to the ground floor, involving the removal of 20th century screen walls, the old water tank and enclosure from the original women's reading room; repair of cornice and ceiling plus decorations in the women's reading room; reconfiguration of office and kitchen, with the replacement of glazed timber screen with translucent glass, new partial wall partition with door and window to create new kitchenette; removal of infill walls on the main corridor from original openings to the current children's library and installation of new glazed partitions and doors, plus two new glazed work pod. Refurbishment and reservicing of the first floor to provide temporary office accommodation, along with other associated works.

Received
6 January 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Ward
Kennington
Agent
Dannatt, Johnson Architects
  1. Received6 Jan
  2. Validated6 Jan
  3. Consult.13 Feb
  4. Target3 Mar
  5. Decided9 Mar

Decided in 62 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a heritage application for window replacement at Durning Library 167 Kennington Lane London Lambeth SE11 4HF. Lambeth has handled 180 applications of this type. This one was decided in 62 days, 6 days longer than Lambeth's typical decision time. The site is in the Kennington conservation area, with 5 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 78 applications across Kennington. We hold 1,220 applications in total for the SE11 postcode area.

78% of heritage applications at London Borough of Lambeth were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
SE11 4HF
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 January 2023
Consultation expiry
17 February 2023
Consultation end
13 February 2023
Neighbour consultation end
13 February 2023
Target decision date
3 March 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent
Dannatt, Johnson Architects
Agent address
Unit 1, The Wireworks 77 Great Suffolk Street London SE1 OBU United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
17 February 2023
Site notice end
17 February 2023

Additional information

Documents
20
Constraints
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Conservation area: Kennington
  • Listed building: Grade II: Durning LibraryOn this site
Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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Source: Lambeth

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