5 7, Bessant Drive, Richmond, TW9 4AD
Approved on 26 January 2026
Council decision: Granted PermissionPlanning committee
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Proposal
Use of Units 5-7 of Kew Retail Park for comparison and convenience goods sales (Class E(a) use), including increasing the provision of convenience goods sales floorspace.
- Received
- 26 May 2025
- Decision level
- Planning committee
- Ward
- Kew Ward [KWW]
- ReceivedReceived26 May
- ValidatedValidated26 May
- Consult.Consultation17 Jul
- TargetTarget Date18 Aug
- DecidedDecided26 Jan
Decided in 245 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application at 5 7, Bessant Drive, Richmond, TW9 4AD. Richmond has handled 4,063 applications of this type. This one was decided in 245 days, 28 weeks longer than Richmond's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 190 applications across Kew Ward [KWW]. We hold 1,465 applications in total for the TW9 postcode area.
83% of full applications at London Borough of Richmond upon Thames were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- TW9 4AD
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Medium
- District
- DC Strategic Team
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 26 May 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 17 July 2025
- Consultation end
- 17 July 2025
- Target decision date
- 18 August 2025
- Application expires
- 2 September 2025
- Permission expires
- 25 January 2029
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 99 days
Publicity
- First advertised
- 27 June 2025
- Site notice start
- 27 June 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14025750
- UPRN
- 10024345815
- Documents
- 39
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)
Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.
Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.
Also checked, none recorded (22)
flood storage areas, conservation 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.
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Source: Richmond
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