68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL
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
- ReceivedReceived3 May
- ValidatedValidated3 May
- Consult.Consultation22 Jun
- TargetTarget Date28 Jun
- DecidedDecided16 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
Site constraints
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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Planning history at this site
3 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 20264 Sep
Prior Approval for the change of use from Use Class E (Commercial, Business and Service) to Use C...
RefusedApplicationPA/26/01548/A1 - 201112 Jan
Display of signage (to replace existing signage), integrated into new cladding at ground floor level, one…
ApprovedAdvertisement consentPA/10/02832/NC - 201112 Jan
Refurbishments works consisting of internal and external alterations to improve the entrance and forecourt of…
ApprovedFull Planning PermissionPA/10/02831/NC
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