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

CON/25/00776Approval of details reserved by a condition (discharge)Approved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 17 April 2025

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Proposal

Details required by conditions 24 (Provision of parking), 34 (compliance with energy strategy for building B1 only), 39 (Combustion Plant), 40 (Combustion Plant (Pre-installation)), 43 a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h (Submission of details - external spaces) 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 fa‡ade 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; andassociated 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: Incorporation of new entrance canopy/port-cochere (Block 1); Enlarging roof terrace facing Kensington High Street by setting massing of building further back from the street (Block 2 level 5);Addition of 3 balconies within the internal courtyard (Block 2); Infill massing at level 6 (Block 2/3); Creation of additional office space at basement level below reinstated fa‡ade; Excluding the satellite dishes on the roof that are indicated on the drawings from the prohibition in current condition 15; andAmendment to the wording of conditions 24 and 26. (Major Application)(Amended description))

Submitted
5 February 2025
  1. Received5 Feb
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided17 Apr

Decided in 71 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a planning application for demolition at 257-265 Kensington High Street, and 4-10 and 24 Earl's Court Road, LONDON, W8 6NA. Kensington has handled 673 applications of this type. This one was decided in 71 days, 2 weeks longer than Kensington's typical decision time. The site is in a 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.

98% of approval of details reserved by a condition (discharge) 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
Approval of details reserved by a condition (discharge)

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.

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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