Forest Gate Sub District Office 199 - 201 Earlham Grove Forest Gate London E7 9AA
Approved on 19 October 2026
8 conditions
Proposal
Proposed Change of Use for a temporary period of 7 years from Post Office sorting office (sui generis) to a female only gymnasium (Class E), together with ancillary plant and a new access ramp. (This application is affecting the setting of the Forest Gate Town Centre Conservation Area).
- Received
- 20 February 2026
- Council
- London Borough of Newham
- Ward
- Forest Gate South
- Agent
- Q Square Group Ltd
- ReceivedReceived20 Feb
- ValidatedValidated20 Feb
- Consult.Consultation11 Apr
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided19 Oct
Decided in 241 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an application to amend a permission at Forest Gate Sub District Office 199 - 201 Earlham Grove Forest Gate London E7 9AA. Newham has handled 237 applications of this type. This one was decided in 241 days, 26 weeks longer than Newham's typical decision time. The site is in the Forest Gate Town Centre conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 80 applications across Forest Gate South. We hold 932 applications in total for the E7 postcode area.
85% of amendment applications at London Borough of Newham were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- E7 9AA
- Application type
- Change of Use
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Forest Gate Community Forum
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 20 February 2026
- Last date for comments
- 11 April 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Q Square Group Ltd
- Agent address
- 85 Great Portland St (1st Floor) London W1W 7LT United Kingdom
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Forest Gate Town CentrePart of the site
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.
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
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.
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© 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.
Source: Newham
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