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Listed building consent drawings for listed houses in Southwark

Southwark's council decided 173 listed building consent applications over its most recent four published quarters, and behind each one sat a drawing set that told an officer what is original, what changes and why. Ours do the same for houses in a borough of 53 conservation areas, where the listing is often one control among several.

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    02The brief

    The test in Southwark's policy on listed buildings

    The test the Southwark Plan 2022 sets for development that affects a listed building or its setting reads: conserve or enhance; harm robustly justified. An application therefore needs more than a design. It needs an argument for each element that is touched, and our sheets mark every such element against the existing fabric.

    National policy supplies the other half. Proposals affecting heritage assets need an assessment of significance (including setting) proportionate to the asset's importance. On weight, the framework's line is "Substantial weight to the conservation of designated heritage assets".

    Pencil resting on a dimensioned technical drawing beside a scale rule
    Red-brick mansion blocks and shopfronts on a street corner
    Photograph: Tom McCarten

    03The record

    Local figures for Southwark

    Figures with their unit, period and source
    MeasureValuePeriodSource
    Development affecting listed buildings or settings permitted only if it conserves or enhances significance; any harm must be robustly justifiedconserve or enhance; harm robustly justifiedNo periodservices.southwark.gov.uk, Southwark Plan 2022 (adopted February 2022), Policy P19, p.137
    Local planSouthwark Plan 2022No periodsouthwark.gov.uk
    NPPF Aug 2026, policy HE5(1)Proposals affecting heritage assets need an assessment of significance (including setting) proportionate to the asset's importanceNo periodgov.uk
    NPPF Aug 2026, policy HE6(1)Substantial weight to the conservation of designated heritage assetsNo periodgov.uk
    Concessions: application types with no current fee - Listed Building Consent0 GBPNo periodribblevalley.gov.uk
    Listed building entries919 list entries (Historic England, within the LPA boundary)No periodplanning.data.gov.uk
    Grade I listed entries4 list entriesNo periodplanning.data.gov.uk
    Heritage at Risk entries36 Heritage at Risk Register entries within the LPA boundary (Historic England)No periodplanning.data.gov.uk
    Conservation areas53 named conservation areas published by the councilNo periodplanning.data.gov.uk
    Article 4 directions480 Article 4 directions published by the councilNo periodplanning.data.gov.uk
    Listed building consent decisions (PS2)173 listed building consent decisions (to alter or extend)2025 Q2 to 2026 Q1 (1 Apr 2025 to 31 Mar 2026)assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
    Listed building consents granted (PS2)92.5 % granted2025 Q2 to 2026 Q1 (1 Apr 2025 to 31 Mar 2026)assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
    Households living in a house21.8 % of households living in a house or bungalow (detached, semi-detached or terraced)Census 2021nomisweb.co.uk

    A blank value means the figure has not been published, not that there are none. Check your own address with the council.

    Southwark7 neighbouring councils
    Councils bordering Southwark

    04The streets

    Householder applications by street in Southwark

    Streets in Southwark with the most householder applications, and the share approved
    StreetApplicationsApproved
    Ivydale Road6098%
    Upland Road5192%
    Friern Road4695%
    Underhill Road3293%
    Landells Road2996%
    Crystal Palace Road2587%
    Melbourne Grove2491%
    Dunstans Road2391%
    Burbage Road2291%
    Turney Road22100%
    Hollydale Road21100%
    Court Lane1994%
    Harlescott Road19100%
    Henslowe Road19100%
    Barry Road18100%

    Counts of householder applications by street; no individual applications are shown. Streets with fewer than five applications are left out.

    GLA Planning London Datahub, householder applications

    05The drawing

    The listed building consent routeA, What the council weighs: Proposals affecting heritage assets need an assessment of significance (including setting) proportionate to the asset's importance. B, The weight given to conservation: Substantial weight to the conservation of designated heritage assets. C, Southwark: consents decided: 173 listed building consent decisions (to alter or extend). D, Southwark: consents granted: 92.5 % granted. E, Works without consent: Works without consent: up to 6 months' imprisonment or a fine on summary conviction; up to 2 years or a fine on indictmentSurvey and significanceHeritage statementDrawings and scheduleCouncil decisionABCDE

    The listed building consent route

    How works to a listed building are consented, from the first survey to the decision.

    A What the council weighs
    Proposals affecting heritage assets need an assessment of significance (including setting) proportionate to the asset's importance
    B The weight given to conservation
    Substantial weight to the conservation of designated heritage assets
    C Southwark: consents decided
    173 listed building consent decisions (to alter or extend)
    D Southwark: consents granted
    92.5 % granted
    E Works without consent
    Works without consent: up to 6 months' imprisonment or a fine on summary conviction; up to 2 years or a fine on indictment
    The listed house in its terrace3D
    Scroll the page: the model turns with it.

    06The detail

    Where listing meets a conservation area in Dulwich

    Dulwich shows how the two controls can meet. Dulwich Village Conservation Area was designated on 7 September 1968, one of the first in Southwark, and was extended in September 1971 and on 15 March 2005. In July 1975 the Secretary of State accepted that the Dulwich Village area was of 'outstanding architectural or historic interest'. A listed house there answers to its listing and to the appraisal of the area around it, and the Dulwich neighbourhood guide sets out the Village, the Wood and the Sunray Estate.

    A borough of flats, with a protected minority of houses

    Only 21.8% of Southwark households occupy a house or bungalow, so a listed house is a minority property here. The national list counts 919 Southwark entries, split 4 Grade I, 30 Grade II* and 874 Grade II, and 36 appear on the Heritage at Risk Register.

    Planning data also holds 480 Article 4 direction records for Southwark, so the street is checked as carefully as the house.

    Decisions, cost and the neighbouring applications

    Of those 173 decisions, 92.5% were grants. That is the council's record on past applications, not a forecast for yours. The national table shows £0 for the consent, although a planning application beside it does carry a fee. Starting early is the costly mistake, because the law treats it as a crime. Works without consent: up to 6 months' imprisonment or a fine on summary conviction; up to 2 years or a fine on indictment.

    Consent covers the building only. A roof storey on the same house goes through mansard roof drawings in Southwark, and a lower floor through basement conversion drawings in Southwark.

    Planning sheet for a single-storey rear extension: proposed ground floor plan and rear elevation, with the Property Architecture title block
    Sample drawing. Proposed plan and rear elevation from a planning application set, sheet 03 at 1:50.

    07The papers

    What the drawings rest on

    Upper floors of a large yellow-brick Victorian house in London with chimney potsFlat conversions & change of use
    Photograph: Lorenc Memaga
    Building regulations section through a rear extension, with the roof, floor, wall and foundation build-ups labelled
    Sample drawing. Section A-A with the build-ups building control checks, sheet 07 at 1:50.

    08Correspondence

    Questions

    My Southwark house is in a conservation area but is not listed. Do I need listed building consent?

    No. Consent is tied to the list entry. In one of the 53 conservation areas the planning route applies instead, and Article 4 directions can widen what needs permission. We check the address against both before we quote.

    Does listed building consent cost anything in Southwark?

    Nothing is payable to the council for the consent itself. Our own fee is fixed after a free constraints check, and it moves with the number of rooms and elevations in play.

    Can I build in the garden of a listed house in Southwark?

    Usually only with a planning application. Garden buildings within the curtilage of a listed building are not permitted development, so even a modest studio cannot rely on the permitted-development route. Tell us what you have in mind and we first establish what counts as the curtilage of your house.

    Rows of brick terraced houses and gardens on a residential street

    92.5%

    granted

    Listed building consents granted (PS2), Southwark, 2025 Q2 to 2026 Q1 (1 Apr 2025 to 31 Mar 2026). Source: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk

    Photograph: Altaf Shah

    09Further reading

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