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Flat 5 235 Lower Road London Southwark SE16 2LW

25/AP/3103Certificate of Lawful Dev. - ExistingRefused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 23 December 2025

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Certificate of lawfulness (existing) for use of the property as 4no. self-contained flats (Use Class C3) for 4+ years. (The top floor flat approved under ref. 20/AP/0436 in 2020 is not included in this application, as it already benefits from express planning permission).

Received
27 October 2025
Ward
Rotherhithe
  1. Received27 Oct
  2. Validated6 Nov
  3. Consult.
  4. Target31 Dec
  5. Decided23 Dec

Decided in 47 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Flat 5 235 Lower Road London Southwark SE16 2LW. Southwark has handled 146 applications of this type. This one was decided in 57 days, 8 days 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.

88% of amendment 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 2LW
Application type
Certificate of Lawful Dev. - Existing
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bermondsey And Rotherhithe

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 November 2025
Target decision date
31 December 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
8

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: 229-237 Lower Road SE16 2LWRegister 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

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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