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5 Plough Way London Southwark SE16 2LS

24/AP/3692Certificate of Lawful Dev. - ProposedApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 5 March 2025

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

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness (proposed) for the change of use of the shop premises to a restaurant Use Class E (b)

Received
16 December 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Ward
Rotherhithe
  1. Received16 Dec
  2. Validated6 Feb
  3. Consult.20 Jan
  4. Target2 Apr
  5. Decided5 Mar

Decided in 27 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 5 Plough Way London Southwark SE16 2LS. Southwark has handled 202 applications of this type. This one was decided in 79 days, 4 weeks longer than Southwark's typical decision time. 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.

94% of outline 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 2LS
Application type
Certificate of Lawful Dev. - Proposed
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bermondsey And Rotherhithe

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 February 2025
Last date for comments
20 January 2025
Target decision date
2 April 2025
Permission expires
5 March 2030

Applicant and agent

Agent
HB planningserivices
Agent address
20 Wharfedale Gardens Croydon CR7 6LA

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Documents
13

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)
  • Article 4 direction: Canada Water Major Town Centre+1 more
  • Brownfield land register: 3,Plough Way,,SE16 2LSRegister site at or near this address · +1 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.

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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