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208 Borough High Street Southwark SE1 1JX

25/AP/3188Certificate of Lawful Dev. - ExistingApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 27 November 2025

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Certificate of lawful development (existing) for the continued use of the premises under Class E for the sale and on-site consumption of hot food, with a minor ancillary takeaway element.

Received
3 November 2025
Ward
Borough & Bankside
  1. Received3 Nov
  2. Validated4 Nov
  3. Consult.
  4. Target29 Dec
  5. Decided27 Nov

Decided in 23 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 208 Borough High Street Southwark SE1 1JX. Southwark has handled 146 applications of this type. This one was decided in 24 days, 4 weeks quicker than Southwark's typical decision time. The site is in the Liberty of the Mint conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 182 applications across Borough & Bankside. We hold 2,758 applications in total for the SE1 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
SE1 1JX
Application type
Certificate of Lawful Dev. - Existing
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Borough, Bankside And Walworth

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 November 2025
Target decision date
29 December 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
21

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: Liberty of the Mint
  • Article 4 direction: Bankside and Borough District Town Centre+2 more
  • Brownfield land register: 5,Vine Yard,,SE1 1QLRegister site at or near this address · +1 more
Also checked, none recorded (21)

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 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

Contains public sector information from the Planning London Datahub, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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