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Elephant And Castle Underground Station, Elephant And Castle, London, Southwark, SE1 6LW

25/AP/1846Approval of details reserved by a condition (discharge)Approved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 27 October 2025

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Details of condition 5 (Construction method statement) pursuant to planning permission 20/AP/0681 (Construction of tunnelled connections to the existing Northern Line platforms from a new station box for the Elephant and Castle London Underground Northern Line Station)

Submitted
26 June 2025
  1. Received26 Jun
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided27 Oct

Decided in 123 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a planning application at Elephant And Castle Underground Station Elephant And Castle London Southwark SE1 6LW. Southwark has handled 427 applications of this type. This one was decided in 123 days, 11 weeks longer than Southwark's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 11 applications across NWAL. We hold 2,758 applications in total for the SE1 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
SE1 6LW
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: Central Activities Zone+3 more
  • Brownfield land register: Shopping Centre SiteElephant And Castle,New Kent Road, Arches Six And Seven Elephant Road…Register site at or near this address
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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© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© 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.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Southwark

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