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Ark John Keats Academy, 52, Bell Lane, Enfield, EN3 5PA

P13-03220PLAFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 27 March 2014

Council decision: Granted With ConditionsPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Use of existing school site and existing school buildings for an all through school (30 place Nursery, 3FE Primary School, 6FE Secondary School and 300 place Sixth Form), involving partial demolition of inner court buildings, D & T block, sixth form centre and toilet block to the west and erection of a two storey extension to the north / west elevation to provide new primary school entrance, nursery and hall, 2-storey extension to the south elevation to provide a link teaching block, a 2-storey teaching block within the existing courtyard, extension to front to provide new entrance, canopy to side, replacement windows throughout, refurbishment of existing facade, reconfiguration of car park at front and associated landscaping works.

Received
1 November 2013
Decision level
Planning committee
  1. Received1 Nov
  2. Validated1 Nov
  3. Consult.
  4. Target31 Jan
  5. Decided27 Mar

Decided in 146 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Ark John Keats Academy, 52, Bell Lane, Enfield, EN3 5PA. Enfield has handled 1,569 applications of this type. This one was decided in 146 days, 14 weeks longer than Enfield's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 2,955 applications in total for the EN3 postcode area.

72% of full applications at London Borough of Enfield were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
EN3 5PA
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 November 2013
Consultation start
20 January 2014
Neighbour consultation start
13 February 2014
Target decision date
31 January 2014
Committee meeting
25 February 2014
Application expires
27 December 2013

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Elizabeth House, 39 York Road London SE1 7NQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-02984463
Comments
0
Documents
44

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Article 4 direction: Borough wide
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

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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Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2023
    13 Dec

    Variation of condition 17 of 20/01021/FUL

    ApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)23/04077/VAR

Source: Enfield

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