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Pavement Outside 139 to 149 Whitechapel Road, London, E1 1BJ

PA/17/01146/NCTelecoms Determination (GPDO 2015 Pt 16)Approved

Approved on 16 June 2017

Council decision: PermitDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Replacement of existing Telephone Kiosk with 1no. Link UK Unit providing wifi, payphone, android tablet, advertising space and other features.

Received
8 May 2017
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Spitalfields and Banglatown
Agent
Primesight Ltd
  1. Received8 May
  2. Validated8 May
  3. Consult.29 May
  4. Target3 Jul
  5. Decided16 Jun

Decided in 39 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a telecoms application at Pavement Outside 139 to 149 Whitechapel Road, London, E1 1BJ. Tower Hamlets has handled 28 applications of this type. This one was decided in 39 days, 2 weeks quicker than Tower Hamlets's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded 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.

88% of all 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 1BJ
Application type
Telecoms Determination (GPDO 2015 Pt 16)
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 May 2017
Consultation expiry
29 May 2017
Consultation end
29 May 2017
Neighbour consultation start
8 May 2017
Target decision date
3 July 2017

Applicant and agent

Agent
Primesight Ltd
Agent address
The MET Building, 22 Percy Street, London, W1T 2BU

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
18 May 2017

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (24)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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.

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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