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Medical School St Thomas' Hospital 249 Westminster Bridge Road London SE1 7EH

26/00955/TCAApproved

Approved on 11 May 2026

Council decision: Raise No Objection

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Western boundary of the St Thomas Hospital estate adjacent to Albert Embankment and the River Thames frontage. Tree works: Tree 621 Platanus hispanica London plane. Remove deadwood. Tree 618 Platanus hispanica London plane. Remove deadwood. Tree 617 Platanus hispanica London plane. Remove deadwood. Tree 619 Platanus hispanica London plane. Crown reduce by up to 2m and remove deadwood. Tree 622 Platanus hispanica London plane. Remove deadwood. Tree 385 Platanus hispanica London plane. Reduce eastern canopy and upper eastern canopy by up to 2m to integrate with the existing pruned canopy. Tree 613 Platanus orientalis Oriental plane. Cut back from building to provide 2m clearance. Council Note: On further examination of Council records the trees are not protected by a Tree Preservation Order. The application has therefore been reclassified and assessed as a section 211 Conservation Area notification. The original application reference retains the TPO suffix for administrative reasons within Uniform. The trees are located within CA57 Albert Embankment Conservation Area. The Council does not object to the notified tree works.

Received
25 March 2026
  1. Received25 Mar
  2. Validated25 Mar
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided11 May

Decided in 47 days

About this application

This is a planning application at Medical School St Thomas' Hospital 249 Westminster Bridge Road London SE1 7EH. Lambeth has handled 15,936 applications of this type. This one was decided in 47 days, 9 days quicker than Lambeth's typical decision time. The site is in the Albert Embankment conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 2,756 applications in total for the SE1 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
SE1 7EH

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 March 2026

Additional information

Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, Article 4 directions, 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

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.

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Source: Lambeth

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