140 Olney Road London Southwark SE17 3HR
Approved on 9 April 2026
Council decision: Householder - GRANTEDDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Conversion of existing single storey attached front garage to bedroom/home office with identical massing.
- Received
- 23 February 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- London Borough of Southwark
- Ward
- Newington
- ReceivedReceived23 Feb
- ValidatedValidated24 Feb
- Consult.Consultation18 Mar
- TargetTarget Date20 Apr
- DecidedDecided9 Apr
Decided in 44 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a garage at 140 Olney Road London Southwark SE17 3HR. Southwark has handled 1,045 applications of this type. This one was decided in 45 days, 4 days quicker 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 29 applications across Newington. We hold 400 applications in total for the SE17 postcode area.
93% of full 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 3HR
- Application type
- Householder Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Borough, Bankside And Walworth
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 24 February 2026
- Last date for comments
- 18 March 2026
- Target decision date
- 20 April 2026
- Permission expires
- 9 April 2029
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 55 days
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)
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.
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Source: Southwark
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