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47 Sansom Street London Southwark SE5 7RD

25/AP/3388Certificate of Lawful Dev. - ProposedApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 5 January 2026

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Certificate of Lawful Development ( Proposed) for Single-storey infill extension to the existing rear outrigger and side return to enlarge the ground floor living/kitchen area, adding approximately 6 sq m of floor space, together with the erection of a single-storey timber-framed home office/studio building in the rear garden.

Received
19 November 2025
Ward
St Giles
  1. Received19 Nov
  2. Validated24 Nov
  3. Consult.
  4. Target18 Jan
  5. Decided5 Jan

Decided in 42 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for an extension at 47 Sansom Street London Southwark SE5 7RD. Southwark has handled 202 applications of this type. This one was decided in 47 days. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 97 applications across St Giles. We hold 1,312 applications in total for the SE5 postcode area.

94% of outline 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
SE5 7RD
Application type
Certificate of Lawful Dev. - Proposed
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 November 2025
Target decision date
18 January 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
SOAK
Agent address
7-2-17 Vanguard Court R/O 36-38 Peckham Road London SE5 8QT United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
19

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)
Also checked, none recorded (24)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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

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

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