City Tower And City Place House, 40 - 55 Basinghall Street, London, EC2V
Approved on 16 May 2025
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Proposal
Submission of Design Pack pursuant to discharge of condition 29 of planning permission 21/00116/FULMAJ dated 29.09.2021.
- Submitted
- 7 March 2025
- Council
- City of London Corporation
- ReceivedSubmitted7 Mar
- ValidatedValidated
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided16 May
Decided in 70 days (council typically 77)
About this application
This is a planning application at City Tower And City Place House 40 - 55 Basinghall Street London EC2V. City of London has handled 396 applications of this type. This one was decided in 70 days, 7 days quicker than City of London's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 6 applications across BS.
100% of approval of details reserved by a condition (discharge) 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
- Approval of details reserved by a condition (discharge)
Site constraints
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.
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