St Helen's Bishopsgate, Great St Helen's, Undershaft, London EC3A 6AT
Approved on 6 June 2017
Delegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Temporary installation of a sculpture, 'Apple Tree Boy Apple Tree Girl' by Paul McCarthy, for a temporary period of up to one year to be taken down on or before 01 June 2018.
- Received
- 12 April 2017
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 1
- Council
- City of London Corporation
- Ward
- Lime Street
- ReceivedReceived12 Apr
- ValidatedValidated12 Apr
- Consult.Consultation12 Jul
- TargetTarget Date7 Jun
- DecidedDecided6 Jun
Decided in 55 days (council typically 77)
About this application
This is a full planning application at St Helen's Bishopsgate, Great St Helen's, Undershaft, London EC3A 6AT. City of London has handled 1,140 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days, 3 weeks quicker than City of London's typical decision time. The site is in 3 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 30 applications across Lime Street. 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 6AT
- Application type
- Full - Corporation's Own Application R3
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Great St Helen's, St Helen's Church
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 12 April 2017
- Consultation expiry
- 12 July 2017
- Consultation start
- 14 June 2017
- Consultation end
- 12 July 2017
- Last date for comments
- 12 July 2017
- Target decision date
- 7 June 2017
- Committee meeting
- 6 June 2017
- Permission expires
- 6 June 2020
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 2 May 2017
- Advertisement expiry
- 23 May 2017
- Site notice start
- 26 April 2017
- Site notice end
- 17 May 2017
Additional information
- Documents
- 10
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: St Helen's PlacePart of the site
- Listed building: Grade II: Iron Gates and Railings to Entrance of Church of St Andrew UndershaftOn or next to this site · +1 more
- 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, 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.
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