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Retail Unit 2B Tower Place East Tower Place London EC3R 5BT

16/00529/ADVTAdvertisement ConsentWithdrawn

Withdrawn on 9 September 2016

Delegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Installation and display of an internally illuminated advertisement measuring 1.53m(w) by 2.69m(w), displayed at a height of 2.25m above ground floor level.

Received
27 May 2016
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Tower
  1. Received27 May
  2. Validated24 Jun
  3. Consult.22 Jul
  4. Target19 Aug
  5. Decided9 Sep

Decided in 77 days (council typically 77)

About this application

This is an advertising consent application at Retail Unit 2B Tower Place East Tower Place London EC3R 5BT. City of London has handled 531 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 105 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. The site is in 9 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 152 applications across Tower. We hold 471 applications in total for the EC3R postcode area.

93% of advertising 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
EC3R 5BT
Application type
Advertisement Consent
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Tower Place, 4/31

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 June 2016
Consultation expiry
22 July 2016
Consultation start
8 July 2016
Consultation end
22 July 2016
Last date for comments
22 July 2016
Target decision date
19 August 2016
Permission expires
9 September 2021

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • 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 (22)

flood storage areas, conservation 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

Contains public sector information from the Planning London Datahub, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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