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68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL

PA/12/00947/NCVariation / Removal Condition (TCPA S73)Approved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 16 July 2012

Council decision: Permit

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Proposal

Change of use of Ground Floor unit from Use Class B8 warehouse to Use Class B1 Office use together with internal and external alterations, including the removal of existing storage mezzanine and replacement with a new flexible office mezzanine, the removal of brick wall and obscured glazing onto Hanbury Street, Princelet Street, and side yard, and replacement with new full height glazing and ventilating panels with doors onto each street, the widening of main entrance to building from Hanbury Street, with associated wheelchair stairlift, together with the formation of new entrances to Ground Floor unit with the primary entrance with stair from Hanbury Street and secondary entrance from Princelet Street. Variation of condition 2 (approved plans) of Planning Permission dated 27 January 2012, Ref: PA/11/02301, for minor material amendments to the approved scheme comprising alterations to the Princelet Street entrance and facade.

Received
3 May 2012
Ward
Spitalfields and Banglatown
Agent
CarverHaggard Architects
  1. Received3 May
  2. Validated3 May
  3. Consult.22 Jun
  4. Target28 Jun
  5. Decided16 Jul

Decided in 74 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to vary a condition at 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL. Tower Hamlets has handled 929 applications of this type. This one was decided in 74 days, 3 weeks longer than Tower Hamlets's typical decision time. The site is in the Brick Lane and Fournier Street conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There have been 3 other applications 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.

96% of conditions 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 5JL
Application type
Variation / Removal Condition (TCPA S73)
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 May 2012
Consultation expiry
22 June 2012
Consultation start
1 June 2012
Consultation end
22 June 2012
Neighbour consultation start
1 June 2012
Target decision date
28 June 2012

Applicant and agent

Agent
CarverHaggard Architects
Agent address
Unit 407, 241-251 Ferndale Road, London, Greater London, SW9 8BJ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
4 June 2012
Site notice start
7 June 2012

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
21

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Fournier Street
  • Article 4 direction: Brick LaneNext to the site
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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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