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Railway Arch 896 Holyrood Street London Southwark SE1 2EL

25/AP/2623Approval of DetailsApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 18 June 2026

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Details of Condition 3 and 4 - Construction Method Statement as required by planning permission 25/AP/1152 dated 11/07/2025 for Variation of Condition 1 of planning permission ref. 23/AP/0370 dated 15/04/2025 for Change of use of Arches 895, 896, 897, 898 and 899 to Sui Generis (public houses, wine bars, or drinking establishments (and with expanded food provision), use class E(a) Display or retail sale of goods, other than hot food; use class E(b) Sale of food and drink for consumption (mostly) on the premises; use class E(d) Indoor sport, recreation or fitness (not involving motorised vehicles or firearms or use as a swimming pool or skating rink); use class E(g)(i) Offices to carry out any operational or administrative processes (which can be carried out in a residential area without detriment to amenity) and use class E(g)(iii) Industrial processes (which can be carried out in a residential area without detriment to amenity) and external alterations to the front facade treatments and the footway and drop kerbs.' The amendment seeks to make changes to the external façade treatment of the arches.

Received
12 September 2025
Ward
London Bridge & West Bermondsey
  1. Received12 Sep
  2. Validated15 Sep
  3. Consult.
  4. Target9 Nov
  5. Decided18 Jun

Decided in 276 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to vary a condition at Railway Arch 896 Holyrood Street London Southwark SE1 2EL. Southwark has handled 1,341 applications of this type. This one was decided in 279 days, 33 weeks longer than Southwark's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 163 applications across London Bridge & West Bermondsey. We hold 2,756 applications in total for the SE1 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
SE1 2EL
Application type
Approval of Details
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bermondsey And Rotherhithe

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 September 2025
Target decision date
9 November 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Rapleys
Agent address
One Upper James Street London W1F 9DF United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
3

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
  • Conservation area: Borough High StreetPart of the site · +1 more
  • Listed building: Grade II: Bridge Over North End, London Bridge StationOn this site · +3 more
  • Article 4 direction: Central Activities Zone+3 more
  • Brownfield land register: Fielden House, 28-42 London Bridge St And 21-27 St Thomas St SE1Register site at or near this address · +3 more
Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, 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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© 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.

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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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