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Cumberland House, Kensington Road, London, W8 5NX

SNN/26/01318SNN Verification OrderApproved

Approved on 5 May 2026

Council decision: SNN Verify address

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Verification Order required to confirm the renumbering of two units, 1 and 1A Cumberland House, Kensington Road, London, W8 5NX, with a share of the communal access and post point fronting Kensington Road, and linked to Planning application PP/25/02588, as follows:Flat 1F, Cumberland House, Kensington Road, London, W8 5NX (Ground Floor)Flat 1R, Cumberland House, Kensington Road, London, W8 5NX (Ground Floor)The following addresses to be deleted - 1 Cumberland House, Kensington Road, London, W8 5NX1A Cumberland House, Kensington Road, London, W8 5NX

Received
7 April 2026
Ward
Queen's Gate
  1. Received7 Apr
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target6 May
  5. Decided5 May

Decided in 28 days

About this application

This is a planning application at Cumberland House, Kensington Road, London, W8 5NX. Kensington has handled 18,633 applications of this type. This one was decided in 28 days, 4 weeks quicker than Kensington's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 8 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 2,967 applications in total for the W8 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
W8 5NX
Application type
SNN Verification Order
Scale / size
Small
Parish
14
District
Kensington Court

Planning application dates

Validated
7 April 2026
Target decision date
6 May 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
29 days

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Kensington Court
  • Listed building: Grade II: 1, Kensington High Street W8On or next to this site · +1 more
  • Article 4 direction: Article 4 - No 100+1 more
  • Tree Preservation OrderCovers the site
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
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

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© 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.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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.

Associated applications

  1. 2026
    7 Apr

    Verification Order required to confirm the renumbering of two units, 1 and 1A Cumberland House, Kensington…

    This applicationApprovedApplicationSNN/26/01318
  2. 2025
    14 Apr

    Change of use from commercial (Use Class E) to two-bedroom residential flat (Use Class C3)

    PendingPlanning PermissionPart ofPP/25/02588

Source: Kensington

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