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

26/00047/ADVTAdvertisement ConsentApproved

Approved on 23 April 2026

Delegated (officer decision)6 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Express consent is sought for the installation and display of: (i) one internally illuminated sign measuring 2173mm x 627mm at a height of 4.9m on the eastern elevation, (ii) one internally illuminated sign measuring 2173mm x 627mm at a height of 4.2m on the northeastern elevation, (iii) one internally illuminated sign measuring 2975mm x 4772mm at a height of 2.7m on the northeastern elevation.

Received
14 January 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Tower
  1. Received14 Jan
  2. Validated29 Jan
  3. Consult.13 Feb
  4. Target26 Mar
  5. Decided23 Apr

Decided in 84 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. This one was decided in 99 days, 3 weeks longer than City of London's typical decision time. 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

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 January 2026
Consultation expiry
3 March 2026
Consultation start
30 January 2026
Consultation end
13 February 2026
Last date for comments
13 February 2026
Target decision date
26 March 2026
Committee meeting
23 April 2026
Permission expires
23 April 2031

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent address
Attn: Natalie Edwards Hille Business Centre 132 St Albans Road Watford WD24 4AE

Planning decision

Case officer
Ryan Pinkett
Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
10 February 2026
Advertisement expiry
3 March 2026

Additional information

Documents
16

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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 (19)

flood storage areas, green belt, 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

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