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Second Floor West, Goldsmith Building, Inner Temple Lane, London, EC4Y 7BL

25/01329/FULLFull planning & listed building consentApproved
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Approved on 13 March 2026

3 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

Change of use from Office (Use Class E (g) (i)) to residential use (Use Class C3).

Submitted
30 September 2025
  1. Received30 Sep
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided13 Mar

Decided in 164 days (council typically 77)

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at Second Floor West Goldsmith Building Inner Temple Lane London EC4Y 7BL. City of London has handled 60 applications of this type. This one was decided in 164 days, 12 weeks longer than City of London's typical decision time. The site is in the Temples conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 18 applications across FT. We hold 167 applications in total for the EC4Y postcode area.

100% of full planning & listed building consent 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
EC4Y 7BL
Application type
Full planning & listed building consent

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Temples+1 more
  • Listed building: Grade II: Goldsmith BuildingOn this site · +2 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.

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.

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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

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