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Lever House 3 St James Road Kingston Upon Thames KT1 2BA

26/01718/NMANon-Material AmendmentApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 2 September 2026

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Proposal

Application for a Non-Material Amendment to Planning Permission ref: 20/02499/OUT (Outline planning application for the demolition of Lever House and the erection of a Residential (C3) building not exceeding 16 storeys comprising of a maximum of 115 units, along with a ground floor cafe/retail pod (Use Class - E (c)) with all matters reserved except for access, layout and scale. This application is accompanied by an Environmental Statement. This application is Phase 2 of a 2 stage development - Phase 1 is covered by application reference 20/02495/FUL. Additional Reconsultation Information: Provision of 20 Social rented units (17.4%) and 16 shared ownership units (13.9%) representing 35.2% of the residential units by habitable room; Public footpath to north of Hogsmill realigned, provision of additional childrens play space. Other matters contained within the planning application have not changed.). Amendment to the wording of Condition 3 to alter the trigger point as to when the Design Code is required to be submitted.

Received
5 August 2026
Ward
Kingston Town
  1. Received5 Aug
  2. Validated5 Aug
  3. Consult.
  4. Target2 Sep
  5. Decided2 Sep

Decided in 28 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Lever House 3 St James Road Kingston Upon Thames KT1 2BA. Kingston has handled 92 applications of this type. This one was decided in 28 days, 4 weeks quicker than Kingston's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 213 applications across Kingston Town. We hold 1,010 applications in total for the KT1 postcode area.

76% of amendment applications at Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
KT1 2BA
Application type
Non-Material Amendment
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
115
Parish
Kingston And North Kingston

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 August 2026
Target decision date
2 September 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Montagu Evans 70 St Mary Axe London EC3A 8BE

Planning decision

Statutory period
28 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-15119467
Documents
3
Constraints
38

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Article 4 direction: Kingston
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, tree preservation orders, 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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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Kingston

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