Electrcity Sub Station Hearn Street, Hackney, London, EC2A 3LS
Proposal
Demolition of the sub-station and the construction of a 13-storey B1 office building with shared back of house uses and flexible retail/restaurant/bar use at ground floor to be serviced from other land in the ownership and control of the applicant, including basement and also including associated works. The appearance of the proposed building is reserved. The building provides 15,313sqm of B1 office floorspace; 614sqm of flexible retail/restaurant/bar floorspace (A1 - A4); and 614sqm of share back of house (sui generis).
- Received
- 17 December 2012
- Decided
- 6 January 2016 · Withdrawn Decision
- Decision level
- Withdrawn-Council
- Council
- London Borough of Hackney
- Ward
- Haggerston Ward
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- ReceivedReceived17 Dec
- ValidatedValidated19 Dec
- Consult.Consultation17 Jan
- TargetTarget Date2 Jul
- DecidedDecided6 Jan
Decided in 1113 days (council typically 56)
This is an outline application for demolition at Electrcity Sub Station Hearn Street, Hackney, London, EC2A 3LS. Hackney has handled 98 applications of this type and approves 64% of them, typically deciding them in 56 days. It was submitted on 17 December 2012 and is still awaiting a decision. The site is in 5 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 71 applications across Haggerston Ward. We hold 1,202 applications in total for the EC2A postcode area.
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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Planning constraints
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- Article 4 direction: A4D Non-residential to residential+2 more
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