53 Commercial Street, London, E1 6BD
Approved on 21 June 2017
Council decision: Prior Approval Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Temporary Change of Use For A Temporary Period of 2 years, from Class A2 To B1 starting from 8/4/17.
- Received
- 4 May 2017
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Spitalfields and Banglatown
- ReceivedReceived4 May
- ValidatedValidated4 May
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date28 Jun
- DecidedDecided21 Jun
Decided in 48 days
About this application
This is a planning application for a change of use at 53 Commercial Street, London, E1 6BD. Tower Hamlets has handled 7,432 applications of this type. This one was decided in 48 days, 8 days 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. We hold 2,489 applications in total for the E1 postcode area.
Application details
- Postcode
- E1 6BD
- Application type
- Temporary Flexible Uses
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 4 May 2017
- Target decision date
- 28 June 2017
- Permission expires
- 10 May 2019
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 55 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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Source: Tower Hamlets
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