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153 To 159 Borough High Street Southwark SE1 1HR

25/AP/3295Advertisement ConsentApproved

Approved on 30 December 2025

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Temporary display (for a period of 15 months) of a static externally illuminated shroud advertisement.

Received
11 November 2025
Ward
Chaucer
Agent
Armstrong Planning
  1. Received11 Nov
  2. Validated11 Nov
  3. Consult.
  4. Target5 Jan
  5. Decided30 Dec

Decided in 49 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an advertising consent application at 153 To 159 Borough High Street Southwark SE1 1HR. Southwark has handled 101 applications of this type. This one was decided in 49 days. The site is in the Borough High Street conservation area, with 6 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 58 applications across Chaucer. We hold 2,758 applications in total for the SE1 postcode area.

86% of advertising 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 1HR
Application type
Advertisement Consent
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Borough, Bankside And Walworth

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 November 2025
Target decision date
5 January 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Armstrong Planning
Agent address
Fenland House 15B Hostmoor Avenue March Cambridgeshire PE15 0AX United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
12

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)
  • Conservation area: Borough High Street
  • Listed building: Grade II: 151, Borough High StreetOn or next to this site · +1 more
  • Article 4 direction: Central Activities Zone+2 more
  • Brownfield land register: 71,Newcomen Street,,SE1 1YTRegister site at or near this address · +1 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.

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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