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8 Earl Street, Hackney, London, EC2A 2AL

2014/3571Scoping OpinionApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 11 December 2014

Council decision: ES RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Request for Scoping Opinion regarding the scope of the Environmental Impact Assessment to be undertaken in relation to the mixed use redevelopment of the site.

Received
30 October 2014
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Hoxton East and Shoreditch Ward
  1. Received30 Oct
  2. Validated30 Oct
  3. Consult.25 Nov
  4. Target
  5. Decided11 Dec

Decided in 42 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at 8 Earl Street, Hackney, London, EC2A 2AL. Hackney has handled 98 applications of this type. This one was decided in 42 days, 2 weeks quicker than Hackney's typical decision time. The site is in the Sun Street conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 154 applications across Hoxton East and Shoreditch Ward. We hold 1,205 applications in total for the EC2A postcode area.

72% of outline 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
EC2A 2AL
Application type
Scoping Opinion
Development type
Other - miscellaneous
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 October 2014
Consultation expiry
25 November 2014
Consultation start
4 November 2014
Consultation end
25 November 2014
Application expires
25 December 2014
Permission expires
11 December 2017

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Sun Street
  • Article 4 direction: A4D Non-residential to residential+2 more
  • Heritage at Risk Register: Sun Street, City of London
  • 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.

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Source: Hackney

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