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Leggit House, 2 Varcoe Road, London, Southwark, SE16 3DG

25/AP/0845Approval of details reserved by a condition (discharge)Approved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 19 May 2025

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Proposal

Details of Condition 26 'Promotion of Development as Car Free' as required by planning permission 18/AP/2895, which gave consent for: "Demolition of existing buildings and erection of a new mixed use development comprising a part 7, part 9 storey (maximum height above ground of 29.99m) building of 288sqm commercial floor space (Use Class B1) and 74 residential dwellings (Use Class C3) with associated bin stores, cycle stores, plant rooms and hard and soft landscaping. This application represents a departure from strategic policy 10 'Jobs and Businesses' of the Core Strategy (2011) and Saved Policy 1.2 'Strategic and Local Preferred Industrial Locations' of the Southwark Plan (2007) by virtue of proposing to introduce residential accommodation in a preferred industrial location".

Submitted
25 March 2025
  1. Received25 Mar
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided19 May

Decided in 55 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a planning application for demolition at Leggit House 2 Varcoe Road London Southwark SE16 3DG. Southwark has handled 427 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days, 6 days longer than Southwark's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 29 applications across OLKE. We hold 651 applications in total for the SE16 postcode area.

97% of approval of details reserved by a condition (discharge) 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 3DG
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
  • Article 4 direction: Site allocation NSP68: Sandgate Street and Verney RoadPart of the site · +1 more
  • Brownfield land register: 2 Varcoe Road, London, SE16 3DGRegister 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.

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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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