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City Tower And City Place House 40 - 55 Basinghall Street London EC2V

23/00945/NMANon-material AmendmentsApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 30 January 2024

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Non-material amendment under Section 96A of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended) to planning permission dated 29 September 2021 (Reference 21/00116/FULMAJ.) to amend condition 55 (approved drawings and particulars) to allow for (i) design development and adjustment of internal layouts, (ii) adjustment of basement extent, (iii) petal shape refinement, (iv) additional of green wall, (v) adjustment of façade line to improve public realm circulation, (vi) replacement of doors on Aldermanbury Square and 40 Basinghall Street elevations, (vii) adjustment of landscape and public realm design, levels, extent and cycle stands location, (viii) amendments to roof composition and screening (iv) revisions to consented floorspace (increase in GIA and decrease in GEA) and to amend condition 54 in order to reflect the revised floor areas.

Received
29 August 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bassishaw
  1. Received29 Aug
  2. Validated29 Aug
  3. Consult.
  4. Target26 Sep
  5. Decided30 Jan

Decided in 154 days (council typically 77)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at City Tower And City Place House 40 - 55 Basinghall Street London EC2V. City of London has handled 194 applications of this type. This one was decided in 154 days, 11 weeks longer than City of London's typical decision time. The site is in 3 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 47 applications across Bassishaw.

100% of amendment 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

Application type
Non-material Amendments
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 August 2023
Target decision date
26 September 2023
Committee meeting
30 January 2024
Decision issued
31 January 2024
Permission expires
31 January 2029

Planning decision

Statutory period
28 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12406551
Comments
0
Documents
27

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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.

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