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Railway Arches 895 And 896 Holyrood Street London Southwark SE1 2EL

25/AP/2775Approved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 25 November 2025

Council decision: AOD - Granted

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Details of Condition 4 (Construction Access Arrangements) 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 facade treatment of the arches'.

Received
25 September 2025
  1. Received25 Sep
  2. Validated25 Sep
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided25 Nov

Decided in 61 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at Railway Arches 895 And 896 Holyrood Street London Southwark SE1 2EL. Southwark has handled 7,761 applications of this type. This one was decided in 61 days, 12 days longer than Southwark's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 2,756 applications in total for the SE1 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
SE1 2EL

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 September 2025

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: Tooley StreetPart of the site
  • Article 4 direction: Central Activities Zone+2 more
Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage 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, 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

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© 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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