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South Lock Control Office South Dock Marina Plough Way London Southwark SE16 7SZ

25/AP/3406Listed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 26 March 2026

Council decision: Listed Building Consent - GRANTEDDelegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Listed Building Consent for Construction of new fire escape stair case from First floor office to ground floor and new external postal boxes

Received
21 November 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Surrey Docks
Agent
Cottrell and Vermeulen Architecture
  1. Received21 Nov
  2. Validated24 Nov
  3. Consult.8 Jan
  4. Target18 Jan
  5. Decided26 Mar

Decided in 122 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a heritage application at South Lock Control Office South Dock Marina Plough Way London Southwark SE16 7SZ. Southwark has handled 158 applications of this type. This one was decided in 125 days, 11 weeks longer than Southwark's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 48 applications across Surrey Docks. We hold 651 applications in total for the SE16 postcode area.

92% of heritage 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 7SZ
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bermondsey And Rotherhithe

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 November 2025
Last date for comments
8 January 2026
Target decision date
18 January 2026
Permission expires
26 March 2029

Applicant and agent

Agent
Cottrell and Vermeulen Architecture
Architect profile
COTTRELL AND VERMEULEN ARCHITECTURE LIMITED
Agent address
1B Iliffe St London SE17 3L United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
15

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)
  • Listed building: South lock, hydraulic capstans and mooring postsOn this site
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.

Associated applications

  1. 2025
    21 Nov

    Construction of new fire escape stair case from first floor office to ground floor and new external postal…

    ApprovedLocal Authority DevelopmentFiled alongside25/AP/3405
  2. 2025
    21 Nov

    Listed Building Consent for Construction of new fire escape stair case from First floor office to ground…

    This applicationApprovedListed building consent25/AP/3406

Source: Southwark

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