Walworth Town Hall And Newington Library 153-155 Walworth Road London Southwark SE17 1RS
Proposal
Details of Condition 5- External Materials as required by planning permission 20/AP/1649 dated 01/07/2021 for refurbishment of the existing Grade II Listed Walworth Town Hall and Newington Library buildings to provide a Community Centre (Class D1), flexible employment/education space (Class B1/D1), and a café/lobby (Class A1/A3/D1); and including a third floor within the reconfigured roof space of the Town Hall building and a first floor mezzanine level to accommodate additional employment/education space (Class B1/D1), a heritage roof, new outdoor amenity spaces at ground floor and first floor levels, a building entrance off Walworth Square, with associated servicing, cycle parking, signage, lighting and associated landscaping.
- Received
- 9 June 2023
- Decided
- 1 August 2023 · AOD - Granted
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- London Borough of Southwark
- Ward
- North Walworth
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- ReceivedSubmitted9 Jun
- ValidatedValidated9 Jun
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date3 Aug
- DecidedDecided1 Aug
Decided in 53 days (council typically 49)
This is an application to discharge conditions at Walworth Town Hall And Newington Library 153-155 Walworth Road London Southwark SE17 1RS. Southwark has handled 1,341 applications of this type and approves nearly all of them, typically deciding them in 49 days. This one was decided in 53 days, 4 days longer than Southwark's median. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 97 applications across North Walworth. We hold 389 applications in total for the SE17 postcode area.
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Planning constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
- Article 4 direction: Central Activities Zone+3 more
- Brownfield land register: Capital House, 40-46 Weston Street SE1 3QDRegister site at or near this address · +3 more
Also checked, none recorded (22)
flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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 and heritage coasts.
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Consultants on this application
- Rolfe Judd Planning · Agent for this application
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