Article 4 directions

You must apply for planning permission if you want to change the use of a commercial, business and leisure (class E) building to residential (class C3) in:

• central activities zone
• railway arches
• town centres
• new Southwark Plan site allocations
• strategic protected industrial land
• shopping frontages

Download the Class E to residential Article 4 direction. 

Read more about:

• planning committee report
• schedule of the updated site allocation references in the Southwark Plan 2022
• consultation report
• equalities impact assessment
• Greater London Authority strategic evidence to support article 4 direction