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Surrey Docks Fitness And Watersports Centre Rope Street London Southwark SE16 7SX

26/AP/0518Certificate of Lawful Dev. - ProposedApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 17 March 2026

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Certificate of lawful development (proposed) for the removal of gas boilers and installation of Water Source Heat Pump in the dock and the installation of PV solar array on existing main building roof

Received
20 February 2026
Ward
Surrey Docks
  1. Received20 Feb
  2. Validated4 Mar
  3. Consult.
  4. Target28 Apr
  5. Decided17 Mar

Decided in 13 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a solar installation at Surrey Docks Fitness And Watersports Centre Rope Street London Southwark SE16 7SX. Southwark has handled 202 applications of this type. This one was decided in 25 days, 3 weeks quicker than Southwark's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded 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.

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
SE16 7SX
Application type
Certificate of Lawful Dev. - Proposed
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bermondsey And Rotherhithe

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 March 2026
Target decision date
28 April 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Architype
Architect profile
ARCHITYPE LIMITED
Agent address
The Sea Building Great Suffolk Yard 127 Great Suffolk St London Greater London SE1 1NP

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
7

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)Part of the 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.

Source: Southwark

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