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Walworth Town Hall And Newington Library 151-155 Walworth Road London Southwark SE17 1RS

24/AP/1201Approval of DetailsApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 17 June 2024

Council decision: AOD - GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Details of condition 9a (BREEAM report) pursuant to planning permission ref. no. 20/AP/1649: 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
26 April 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
North Walworth
Agent
Rolfe Judd Planning Ltd
  1. Received26 Apr
  2. Validated26 Apr
  3. Consult.
  4. Target20 Jun
  5. Decided17 Jun

Decided in 52 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Walworth Town Hall And Newington Library 151-155 Walworth Road London Southwark SE17 1RS. Southwark has handled 1,341 applications of this type. This one was decided in 52 days, 3 days longer than Southwark's typical decision time. The site is in the Walworth Road conservation area, with 5 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 94 applications across North Walworth. We hold 400 applications in total for the SE17 postcode area.

97% of conditions applications at London Borough of Southwark were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
SE17 1RS
Application type
Approval of Details
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Borough, Bankside And Walworth

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 April 2024
Target decision date
20 June 2024
Permission expires
17 June 2029

Applicant and agent

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

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
22

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Conservation area: Walworth Road+1 more
  • Listed building: Grade II: Southwark Central Library and Cuming MuseumOn this site · +2 more
  • Article 4 direction: Central Activities Zone+1 more
  • Heritage at Risk Register: Walworth Road, Walworth
  • Brownfield land register: 2-16 Amelia Street SE17 3PYRegister site at or near this address
Also checked, none recorded (19)

flood storage areas, tree preservation orders, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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.

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: Southwark

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