Elephant And Castle Railway Station Elephant Road London Southwark SE17 1LB
Approved on 21 January 2026
Council decision: Prior Approval Required and ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Prior approval under Part 18 (Class A) of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 for the construction of a new access building to allow for the reopening of the Western access at Elephant and Castle Railway Station and associated works.
- Received
- 2 December 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- London Borough of Southwark
- Ward
- North Walworth
- ReceivedReceived2 Dec
- ValidatedValidated2 Dec
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date21 Jan
- DecidedDecided21 Jan
Decided in 50 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an outline application at Elephant And Castle Railway Station Elephant Road London Southwark SE17 1LB. Southwark has handled 202 applications of this type. This one was decided in 50 days. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 94 applications across North Walworth. We hold 400 applications in total for the SE17 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
- SE17 1LB
- Application type
- All other prior approval applications
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Borough, Bankside And Walworth
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 2 December 2025
- Target decision date
- 21 January 2026
- Permission expires
- 21 January 2031
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 50 days
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)
- Article 4 direction: Central Activities Zone+3 more
- Brownfield land register: Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre and London College of CommunicationsRegister site at or near this address
Also checked, none recorded (22)
flood storage areas, conservation 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.
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Source: Southwark
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