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Kennington Oval, SE11 5SW

25/01689/DETApproval of details reserved by a condition (discharge)Approved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 1 July 2025

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Approval of details pursuant to condition 38 (BREEAM final code certificate) of planning permission 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 21.06.2019.

Submitted
22 May 2025
  1. Received22 May
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided1 Jul

Decided in 40 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a planning application for demolition at Kennington Oval, SE11 5SW. Lambeth has handled 352 applications of this type. This one was decided in 40 days, 2 weeks quicker than Lambeth's typical decision time. The site is in 9 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 25 applications across OVALWA. We hold 1,220 applications in total for the SE11 postcode area.

89% of approval of details reserved by a condition (discharge) 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 reserved by a condition (discharge)

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 MarksNext to the site
  • Listed building: Grade II: Oval HouseOn this site · +2 more
  • Article 4 direction: St Marks/Hanover GardensNext to the site
  • Tree Preservation Order: Ref 73Protected tree on or next to this site · +3 more
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

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© 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.

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

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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