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2 Mountbatten Court 153A Rotherhithe Street London Southwark SE16 5QL

26/AP/0470Change of UseRefused
Discharge / amendments

Refused on 1 May 2026

Council decision: Change of Use - REFUSEDDelegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Change of use of an existing C3 residential flat to allow use as short-term visitor accommodation (sui generis), comprising whole-unit short-term letting exceeding 90 nights per calendar year. No external alterations or physical works are proposed.

Received
17 February 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
4
Ward
Rotherhithe
  1. Received17 Feb
  2. Validated9 Mar
  3. Consult.18 Apr
  4. Target3 May
  5. Decided1 May

Decided in 53 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 2 Mountbatten Court 153A Rotherhithe Street London Southwark SE16 5QL. Southwark has handled 146 applications of this type. This one was decided in 73 days, 3 weeks longer than Southwark's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 64 applications across Rotherhithe. We hold 651 applications in total for the SE16 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
SE16 5QL
Application type
Change of Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bermondsey And Rotherhithe

Planning application dates

Date validated
9 March 2026
Last date for comments
18 April 2026
Target decision date
3 May 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Documents
11

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)
  • Tree Preservation Order: Ref 539Part of the site · +1 more
Also checked, none recorded (23)

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