Bootstrap, Car Park Rear 18 To 26 Ashwin Street, Hackney, London, E8 3DL
Proposal
Installation of 17 shipping containers in single, two and three-storey groups and ancillary timber decking and access stairs for a temporary period of three years. Use of containers would be for office (Use Class B1), retail (Use Class A1) (up to 4 containers); financial and professional services (Use Class A2) (up to two containers); restaurant (Use Class A3) (up to four containers) and drinking establishment (Use Class A4) (up to two containers). Use of courtyard area as event space. Proposed opening hours for visiting members of the public 0800 to 2000 Monday to Wednesday and 0800 to 2300 Thursday to Sunday.
- Received
- 17 April 2015
- Decided
- 25 February 2016 · Grant
- Decision level
- Planning committee
- Council
- London Borough of Hackney
- Ward
- Dalston Ward
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- ReceivedSubmitted17 Apr
- ValidatedValidated23 Apr
- Consult.Consultation27 May
- TargetTarget Date14 Jan
- DecidedDecided25 Feb
Decided in 308 days (council typically 56)
This is a full planning application at Bootstrap, Car Park Rear 18 To 26 Ashwin Street, Hackney, London, E8 3DL. Hackney has handled 2,741 applications of this type and approves 80% of them, typically deciding them in 77 days. This one was decided in 314 days, 34 weeks longer than Hackney's median. The site is in the Dalston Lane (West) conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 135 applications across Dalston Ward. We hold 2,826 applications in total for the E8 postcode area.
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Planning constraints
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- Conservation area: Dalston Lane (West)Part of the site
- Article 4 direction: Dalston+1 more
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
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flood storage areas, 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.
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