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Wapping Telephone Exchange, Royal Mint Street, London, E1 8LQ

PA/03/01130Full Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 23 September 2003

Council decision: PermitDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Replace two existing glazed windows at first floor of the west elevation with two louvres in conjunction with provision of air handling units.

Received
1 August 2003
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Whitechapel
  1. Received1 Aug
  2. Validated1 Aug
  3. Consult.6 Aug
  4. Target26 Sep
  5. Decided23 Sep

Decided in 53 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for window replacement at Wapping Telephone Exchange, Royal Mint Street, London, E1 8LQ. Tower Hamlets has handled 1,261 applications of this type. This one was decided in 53 days, 3 days quicker than Tower Hamlets's typical decision time. The site is in the The Tower conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 134 applications across Whitechapel. 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 8LQ
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 August 2003
Consultation expiry
6 August 2003
Consultation start
16 July 2003
Consultation end
6 August 2003
Target decision date
26 September 2003

Applicant and agent

Agent
Miss H. A. Bishop,
Agent address
5th Floor, 19, Stratford Place,, London,, W1C 1BQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: The Tower
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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

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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.

© 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.

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: Tower Hamlets

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