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5 College Gardens London Southwark SE21 7BE

25/AP/3795Certificate of Lawful Dev. - ExistingApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 6 March 2026

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Certificate of lawful development (existing) for the use of part of the lower ground floor as habitable accommodation, a replacement rear door, installation of one additional rear window.

Received
24 December 2025
Ward
Dulwich Village
Agent
The Gentleman Architect Ltd
  1. Received24 Dec
  2. Validated29 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target22 Feb
  5. Decided6 Mar

Decided in 67 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 5 College Gardens London Southwark SE21 7BE. Southwark has handled 146 applications of this type. This one was decided in 72 days, 3 weeks longer than Southwark's typical decision time. The site is in the Dulwich Village conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 227 applications across Dulwich Village. We hold 1,063 applications in total for the SE21 postcode area.

88% of amendment 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
SE21 7BE
Application type
Certificate of Lawful Dev. - Existing
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Dulwich

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 December 2025
Target decision date
22 February 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
The Gentleman Architect Ltd
Architect profile
THE GENTLEMAN ARCHITECT LTD
Agent address
69C Goodrich Road London SE22 0EQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Dulwich Village
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage 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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