57-59 Whitechapel Road & 85 Whitechapel Road (comprising Magenta House, adjoining car park and the existing external staircase and vacant land to the south of Magenta House fronting Whitechapel Road.

PA/12/01860/NCNon-material amendment (TCPA S96a)Approved

Discharge / amendments

Approved on 7 August 2012

Council decision: Permit

Approximate site (title boundary)

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Proposal

Application under Section 96a of the Town and Country Planning Act for a non material amendments to application reference PA/10/1466 for the demolition of the existing buildings at Magenta House and 57-59 Whitechapel road to provide 187 rooms of student accommodation with ancillary facilities to separate blocks ranging in heights from 5 to 6 storeys; erection of 2 x four storey buildings to the existing building fronting Whitechapel Road to provide A1 (retail) use on ground floor & B1 (office) uses on 1st-3rd floors; provision of two disabled car parking spaces & hard and soft landscaping.Non material amendmentAmendment to condition 12 to enable the final certificate confirming the developments BREEAM rating can be submitted to the Council within 4 months of occupation.Amendment to conditions 25 & 26 to enable off site highways works to be completed after the occupation of the development.

Received: 27 June 2012
Council: London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Ward: Spitalfields and Banglatown
Agent: Watkin Jones Group

ReceivedReceived27 Jun
ValidatedValidated27 Jun
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date25 Jul
DecidedDecided7 Aug

Decided in 41 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 57-59 Whitechapel Road & 85 Whitechapel Road (comprising Magenta House, adjoining car park and the existing external staircase and vacant land to the south of Magenta House fronting Whitechapel Road.. Tower Hamlets has handled 301 applications of this type. This one was decided in 41 days, 2 weeks quicker than Tower Hamlets's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There have been 10 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 117 applications across Spitalfields and Banglatown.

97% of amendment 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

Application type: Non-material amendment (TCPA S96a)
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 27 June 2012
Consultation start: 27 June 2012
Target decision date: 25 July 2012

Applicant and agent

Agent: Watkin Jones Group
Agent address: Units 2, Wellfield Business Park, Preston Brook, Runcorn, Cheshire, WA7 3FR

Planning decision

Case officer: Selwyn Atkinson
Statutory period: 28 days

Additional information

Comments: 0
Documents: 5

Site constraints

Checking the site

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Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Article 4 direction: Whitechapel 3Part of the site
Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation 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.

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Source: Tower Hamlets

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