Mercure London Kensington, 1A Lexham Gardens, LONDON, W8 6JJ

CON/25/05792Approval of details reserved by a condition (discharge)Approved

Discharge / amendments

Approved on 27 April 2026

Approximate site (title boundary)

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Proposal

Details required by condition 13 (revised fire strategy prior to occupation) of planning permission Ref. PP/22/03831 (Change of use from hotel accommodation (Use Class C1) to health care facility (Use Class E(e)) together with associated alterations including replacement glazed entrance doors, removal and replacement of shutters with glazing and replacement cladding, and erection of projecting entrance canopy at ground floor level; replacement roofing and glazing across all levels and installation of entrance and way finding signage (Major).

Submitted: 23 September 2025
Council: Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

ReceivedSubmitted23 Sep
ValidatedValidated
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided27 Apr

Decided in 216 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at Mercure London Kensington, 1A Lexham Gardens, LONDON, W8 6JJ. Kensington has handled 673 applications of this type. This one was decided in 216 days, 23 weeks longer than Kensington's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 6 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 157 applications across Abingdon. We hold 2,954 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 6JJ
Application type: Approval of details reserved by a condition (discharge)

Site constraints

Checking the site

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Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Conservation area: LexhamNext to the site
Article 4 direction: Article 4 - No 100
Tree Preservation OrderNext to the site
Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Also checked, none recorded (21)

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, 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

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© 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.

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.

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Planning history at this site

11 other applications at this property, newest first.

Source: Kensington

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