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257-265 Kensington High Street, and 4-10 and 24 Earl's Court Road, LONDON, W8 6NA

CON/24/02044CON (Conditions)Approved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 20 May 2024

Council decision: Discharge of Conditions - Grant

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Details required by condition 30 (Final Travel Plan) of planning permission 22/07748 (Variation of condition 1 (Approved drawings), 15 (Telecommunication equipment), 24 (Provision of parking) and 26 (Electric Vehicle Charging Points) of planning permission PP/19/05105 ((**Amended description**) Variation of condition 2 (approved drawings) of planning permission PP/14/07276 allowed under appeal ref. APP/K5600/W/15/3010472 (Demolition of the former Post Office delivery office, Whitlock House office building and the cinema building with retention of the cinema faτade to Kensington High Street, and construction of a basement and buildings to provide cinema facilities, 63 residential units (including affordable housing units) and associated residential facilities, retail/class D1 and office accommodation, car parking spaces, cycle parking, plant, hard and soft landscaping, public realm improvements and associated works) to allow for : a redesigned single cinema facility providing circa 887 seats (including 12 wheelchair accessible seats) with six screens accessed from Kensington High Street; flexible retail space (Use Class A1/A2/A3/A4/D1 and D2) in place of a residential entrance at ground floor behind the retained cinema facade and on Earls Court Road; 106 residential units, including 35 on-site affordable units for elderly people; office space (Use Class B1) accessed from Kensington High Street; car parking within an automated 'stacker' system; design revisions to internal layouts and facades; changes and minor increases to massing of the buildings; and associated changes to plant, hard and soft landscaping and related works. Summary of changes: Total number of units increased from 98 to 106 with an increase of affordable housing units from 30 to 35; Additional floors added to Block 2/3 (fronting Kensington High Street and Earl's Court Road), and Block 4 (fronting Earl's Court Road/Pembroke Place); Internal reconfiguration of layouts in Block 4) To allow for: In

Received
22 March 2024
Ward
Abingdon
  1. Received22 Mar
  2. Validated22 Mar
  3. Consult.3 May
  4. Target17 May
  5. Decided20 May

Decided in 59 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to vary a condition at 257-265 Kensington High Street, and 4-10 and 24 Earl's Court Road, LONDON, W8 6NA. Kensington has handled 1,574 applications of this type. This one was decided in 59 days, 3 days longer than Kensington's typical decision time. The site is in the Edwards Square, Scarsdale and Abingdon conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 157 applications across Abingdon. We hold 2,967 applications in total for the W8 postcode area.

95% of conditions applications at Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
W8 6NA
Application type
CON (Conditions)
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
63
Parish
01
District
Edwardes Square/ Scarsdale/ Abingdon

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 March 2024
Consultation expiry
3 May 2024
Consultation end
3 May 2024
Target decision date
17 May 2024

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent address
70 St Mary Axe London EC3A 8BE

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Edwards Square/Scarsdale & Abingdon
  • Article 4 direction: Article 4 - No 100+1 more
  • Tree Preservation OrderCovers the site
  • Brownfield land register: 257-265 (Odeon Cinema) Kensington High StreetRegister site at or near this address · +1 more
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
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, 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 and heritage coasts.

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