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5 - 10 Bury Street London EC3A 5AT

12/00698/FULLFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 6 September 2012

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Change of use of the lower ground floor and part of the ground floor from class B1 (office) to class A1/A2 (shops/financial and professional services).

Received
17 July 2012
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Aldgate
Agent
Signet Planning Ltd
  1. Received17 Jul
  2. Validated18 Jul
  3. Consult.1 Aug
  4. Target12 Sep
  5. Decided6 Sep

Decided in 50 days (council typically 77)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 5 - 10 Bury Street London EC3A 5AT. City of London has handled 1,140 applications of this type. This one was decided in 51 days, 4 weeks quicker than City of London's typical decision time. The site is in 4 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 49 applications across Aldgate. We hold 292 applications in total for the EC3A postcode area.

98% of full applications at City of London Corporation were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 11 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
EC3A 5AT
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bury Street, 5/10

Planning application dates

Date validated
18 July 2012
Consultation expiry
21 August 2012
Consultation start
18 July 2012
Consultation end
1 August 2012
Last date for comments
21 August 2012
Target decision date
12 September 2012
Committee meeting
6 September 2012
Permission expires
6 September 2015

Applicant and agent

Agent
Signet Planning Ltd
Agent address
Attn: Mrs Beth Mullan 56 Queen Anne Street London W1G 8LA

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
31 July 2012
Advertisement expiry
21 August 2012
Site notice start
24 July 2012
Site notice end
14 August 2012

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-01993587
Documents
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: Creechurch
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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: City of London

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