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Tower Of London, Tower Hill, London, EC3N 4AB

PA/17/00902/NCListed Building Consent (S8 P&LBC 1990)Awaiting decision
Listed building consent
Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Fixing permanent resin anchors into the outer face brickwork facade of the Victorian Pumphouse building to enable scaffold to be tied to the superstructure for stability and minimised footprint area.

Submitted
31 March 2017
Ward
St Katharines and Wapping
  1. Received31 Mar
  2. Validated31 Mar
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided

About this application

This is a heritage application at Tower Of London, Tower Hill, London, EC3N 4AB. Tower Hamlets has handled 311 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 31 March 2017 and is still awaiting a decision. The site is in the The Tower conservation area, with 7 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 127 applications across St Katharines and Wapping. We hold 461 applications in total for the EC3N postcode area.

91% of heritage 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
EC3N 4AB
Application type
Listed Building Consent (S8 P&LBC 1990)

Planning application dates

Date validated
31 March 2017
Consultation expiry
20 April 2017
Neighbour consultation start
12 April 2017

Applicant and agent

Agent
Historic Royal Palaces
Agent address
Maintenance Department, 2nd floor, Waterloo Barracks Tower of London, Tower Hill, LONDON, EC3N 4AB

Publicity

Last advertised
20 April 2017

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
  • Listed building: Chapel of St Peter Ad VinculaOn or next to this site · +11 more
  • Scheduled monument: Tower of London
  • World Heritage Site: Tower of London
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, green belt, 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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