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Unit 2 Ivory Wharf 4 Elephant Lane London Southwark SE16 4JD

24/AP/3637Certificate of Lawful Dev. - ExistingApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 7 February 2025

Council decision: Certificate of Lawfulness Exist- GRANTEDDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness (Existing) for a change of use from commercial to 1no. self-contained flat (Class C3(a)).

Received
10 December 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Rotherhithe
  1. Received10 Dec
  2. Validated11 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target4 Feb
  5. Decided7 Feb

Decided in 58 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Unit 2 Ivory Wharf 4 Elephant Lane London Southwark SE16 4JD. Southwark has handled 146 applications of this type. This one was decided in 59 days, 10 days longer than Southwark's typical decision time. The site is in the St Mary's Rotherhithe conservation area, with 11 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 64 applications across Rotherhithe. We hold 651 applications in total for the SE16 postcode area.

88% of amendment 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
SE16 4JD
Application type
Certificate of Lawful Dev. - Existing
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bermondsey And Rotherhithe

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 December 2024
Target decision date
4 February 2025
Permission expires
7 February 2030

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
7

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)
  • Conservation area: St Marys Rotherhithe
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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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© 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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