168 Defoe House Barbican London EC2Y 8ND
Approved on 18 April 2013
Delegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Refurbishment of flat including removal of partition walls, and installation of kitchen and bathroom furniture.
- Received
- 22 February 2013
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 2
- Council
- City of London Corporation
- Ward
- Aldersgate
- ReceivedReceived22 Feb
- ValidatedValidated22 Mar
- Consult.Consultation22 Apr
- TargetTarget Date17 May
- DecidedDecided18 Apr
Decided in 27 days (council typically 77)
About this application
This is a heritage application at 168 Defoe House Barbican London EC2Y 8ND. City of London has handled 859 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days, 3 weeks quicker than City of London's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 32 applications across Aldersgate. We hold 387 applications in total for the EC2Y postcode area.
100% of heritage 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
- EC2Y 8ND
- Application type
- Listed Building Consent
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Barbican
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 22 March 2013
- Consultation expiry
- 23 April 2013
- Consultation start
- 25 March 2013
- Consultation end
- 22 April 2013
- Last date for comments
- 23 April 2013
- Target decision date
- 17 May 2013
- Committee meeting
- 18 April 2013
- Permission expires
- 18 April 2016
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Attn: Mr. Luke Thomson Hornbeam House Wood End Near Ardeley Hertfordshire SG2 7BD
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 2 April 2013
- Advertisement expiry
- 23 April 2013
- Site notice start
- 25 March 2013
- Site notice end
- 15 April 2013
Additional information
- Documents
- 20
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Barbican and Golden Lane
- Listed building: BarbicanOn or next to this site
- 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 (20)
flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, 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.
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