Policy information sourced from the Southwark Local Plan 2022
P46 Leisure, arts and culture
- Development must:
- Retain or re-provide existing leisure, arts and cultural uses. Reprovision should be of the same, or be better than, the quantity and quality of existing uses; or
- In exceptional circumstances leisure, arts and cultural facilities can be replaced by another use where there are currently more facilities than needed. This must be demonstrated by a marketing exercise for two years, immediately prior to any planning application. This should be for both its existing condition and as an opportunity for an improved leisure, arts or cultural facility at market rates; and
- An Equalities Impact Assessment will be required for any proposed loss of community facilities in predominant use by protected characteristic communities as defined by the Equality Act 2010; and
- The registration or nomination of leisure, art and cultural uses as an Asset of Community Value will be treated as a significant material consideration.
- Development will be permitted where:
- New leisure, arts and cultural uses are provided; and
- It delivers or supports the delivery of public art projects, independent museums and theatres; and
- New arts and cultural venues of strategic significance are proposed within the South Bank Cultural Quarter, Elephant and Castle Cultural Quarter, Old Kent Road and Canada Water Opportunity Area Cores and Peckham and Camberwell Creative Enterprise Zone.
For more information please see the Southwark Local Plan 2022