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Leonard Court Cobden Walk London Southwark SE15 2BP

25/AP/3518Certificate of Lawful Dev. - ProposedApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 22 December 2025

Council decision: Certificate of Lawfulness Prop- GRANTEDDelegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Lawful Development Certificate (Proposed Use) for the change of use of existing ground-floor retail units at Block A, Peckham Place, Leonard Court, Cobden Walk, London SE15 2BP from Use Class E(a/b/c) (retail, professional services, or food & drink uses previously under A1/A2/A3) to a nursery (Use Class E(f)) Hours of the proposed use: 8am - 6pm

Received
3 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Nunhead & Queens Road
  1. Received3 Dec
  2. Validated4 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target28 Jan
  5. Decided22 Dec

Decided in 18 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Leonard Court Cobden Walk London Southwark SE15 2BP. Southwark has handled 202 applications of this type. This one was decided in 19 days, 4 weeks quicker than Southwark's typical decision time. The site is in 3 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 54 applications across Nunhead & Queens Road. We hold 1,344 applications in total for the SE15 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
SE15 2BP
Application type
Certificate of Lawful Dev. - Proposed
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Peckham And Nunhead

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 December 2025
Target decision date
28 January 2026
Permission expires
22 December 2030

Applicant and agent

Agent
AA Drafting Solutions
Architect profile
AA DRAFTING SOLUTIONS LTD
Agent address
3-7 Sunnyhill Road London SW16 2UG

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.

  • Brownfield land register: Wood Dene, Queens Road, Meeting House Lane & Carlton Grove, Se15Register site at or near this address
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

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 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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