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68-86 Cromwell Road and 40 Queen's Gate Gardens, London, SW7 5BT

LB/26/00846Listed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 5 May 2026

Council decision: Grant Planning Permission/Consent4 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Internal alterations at basement, ground, first, third, and fourth floors to provide upgraded fire?protection measures,?including:?Basement: Installation of a new wall with an opening for a fire door?into the corridor; installation of new fire-rated doors within existing openings. Ground?Floor: Installation of new walls with openings for fire doors into corridors; formation of a new fire?lobby with wall constructed to the underside of the existing ceiling and a new fire door. First?Floor: Installation of new walls with openings for fire doors into corridors; installation of a new fire?door within an existing opening. Third Floor: Installation of new walls with openings for fire doors?into corridors; formation of new fire lobbies with walls constructed to the underside of suspended?ceilings and new fire doors. Fourth Floor: Installation of new walls with openings for fire doors into?corridors.?

Received
5 January 2026
Ward
Queen's Gate
  1. Received5 Jan
  2. Validated22 Jan
  3. Consult.24 Apr
  4. Target19 Mar
  5. Decided5 May

Decided in 103 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a heritage application at 68-86 Cromwell Road and 40 Queen's Gate Gardens, London, SW7 5BT. Kensington has handled 1,418 applications of this type. This one was decided in 120 days, 9 weeks longer than Kensington's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 215 applications across Queen's Gate. We hold 1,522 applications in total for the SW7 postcode area.

93% of heritage 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
SW7 5BT
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
14
District
Queen's Gate

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 January 2026
Consultation expiry
24 April 2026
Consultation end
24 April 2026
Target decision date
19 March 2026

Planning decision

Case officer
Libby Kirkby-Taylor
Statutory period
73 days

Additional information

Documents
28

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

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.

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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Source: Kensington

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