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Oval House Kennington Oval London SE11 5SW

24/00910/DETApproval of DetailsApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 4 June 2024

Council decision: Grant PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Approval of details pursuant to condition 40 (national calculation method) attached to planning ref: 18/04183/FUL (Application for Full Planning Permission and Listed Building Consent for the demolition of the existing Oval House Theatre and the construction of a part five part six storey hotel building (Use Class C1), comprising 95 bedrooms, ancillary bar and restaurant and associated landscaping, servicing, on-site parking and new boundary treatment; and refurbishment of the Grade II listed White House building consisting of the replacement of a modern single storey rear extension, the removal of modern internal partitions, change of use of lower floors of the White House from ancillary theatre office (sui generis) to office (Use Class B1a) and the change of use of the second floor from office (Use Class B1a) to temporary residential accommodation (Sui Generis).) Granted on 20.06.2019.

Received
20 March 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Oval
Agent
Rolfe Judd Planning
  1. Received20 Mar
  2. Validated20 Mar
  3. Consult.
  4. Target15 May
  5. Decided4 Jun

Decided in 76 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Oval House Kennington Oval London SE11 5SW. Lambeth has handled 658 applications of this type. This one was decided in 76 days, 3 weeks longer than Lambeth's typical decision time. The site is in 9 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 78 applications across Oval. We hold 1,220 applications in total for the SE11 postcode area.

87% of conditions 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 5SW
Application type
Approval of Details
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 March 2024
Target decision date
15 May 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent
Rolfe Judd Planning
Architect profile
ROLFE JUDD PLANNING LIMITED
Agent address
Old Church Court Claylands Road Oval London SW8 1NZ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
7
Constraints
9

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: St MarksPart of the site
  • Listed building: Grade II: 38, Hanover Gardens Se11On or next to this site · +1 more
  • Article 4 direction: St Marks/Hanover GardensNext to the site
  • Tree Preservation Order: Ref 73Protected tree on or next to this site
Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, 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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© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© 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: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Lambeth

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