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Richmond Court Mare Street, Hackney, London, E8 3NU

2013/2684Full Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 7 October 2013

Council decision: GrantDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Change of Use from B1 (office/light industrial) to A3 (restaurant/cafe) at ground and basement floor level; installation of associated extraction equipment.

Received
12 August 2013
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Queensbridge (O)
  1. Received12 Aug
  2. Validated12 Aug
  3. Consult.11 Sep
  4. Target23 Sep
  5. Decided7 Oct

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Richmond Court Mare Street, Hackney, London, E8 3NU. Hackney has handled 2,737 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. The site is in 3 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. We hold 2,859 applications in total for the E8 postcode area.

85% of full applications at London Borough of Hackney were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
E8 3NU
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Development type
Restaurant/Sale of hot food /Consumption on premises
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 August 2013
Consultation expiry
11 September 2013
Consultation start
21 August 2013
Consultation end
11 September 2013
Target decision date
23 September 2013
Application expires
7 October 2013
Permission expires
7 October 2016

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

First advertised
9 September 2013

Additional information

Documents
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: Mare Street
  • Article 4 direction: A4D Non-residential to residential+2 more
  • Heritage at Risk Register: Mare Street, Hackney Central
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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: Hackney

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