Commercial House, 43B Commercial Street, London
Approved on 30 July 2012
Council decision: Permit
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Proposal
Use as nine 1 bedroomed self-contained flats.
- Received
- 21 June 2012
- Ward
- Spitalfields and Banglatown
- Agent
- S P Planning
- ReceivedReceived21 Jun
- ValidatedValidated21 Jun
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date16 Aug
- DecidedDecided30 Jul
Decided in 39 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an application to amend a permission at Commercial House, 43B Commercial Street, London. Tower Hamlets has handled 301 applications of this type. This one was decided in 39 days, 2 weeks quicker than Tower Hamlets's typical decision time. The site is in the Wentworth Street conservation area, with 2 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.
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
- Cert. of Law. Existing Dev. (TCPA S191)
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 21 June 2012
- Consultation start
- 21 June 2012
- Target decision date
- 16 August 2012
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- S P Planning
- Agent address
- 74 Clerkenwell Road, London, EC1M 5QA
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Wentworth Street
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (21)
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, 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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