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4 Wilkes Street, London, E1 6QF

PA/02/01537Full Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 3 November 2005

Council decision: No further Action

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Retrospective consent for the change of use of the ground floor as a specialised retail shop and upper floors to a residential maisonette, including the retention of timber decking at rear second floor level, an opening in the eastern parapet wall and gra

Submitted
7 April 2003
Ward
Spitalfields and Banglatown
  1. Received7 Apr
  2. Validated7 Apr
  3. Consult.28 Apr
  4. Target
  5. Decided3 Nov

Decided in 941 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 4 Wilkes Street, London, E1 6QF. Tower Hamlets has handled 1,261 applications of this type. The site is in the Brick Lane and Fournier Street conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 117 applications across Spitalfields and Banglatown. We hold 2,489 applications in total for the E1 postcode area.

83% of full applications at London Borough of Tower Hamlets were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
E1 6QF
Application type
Full Planning Permission

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 April 2003
Consultation expiry
28 April 2003
Consultation start
7 April 2003
Consultation end
28 April 2003

Applicant and agent

Agent address
2 Southwood Road Tankerton Kent CT5 2PN

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

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.

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© 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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