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3-6 Steward Street and 50 Gun Street, London E1 6FQ

PA/18/03125/A1Full Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 8 March 2019

Council decision: PermitDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Proposed change of use of vacant basement from gym (Use Class D2) and vacant ground floor from restaurant use (Use Class A3) to Class D2 leisure use with associated restaurant/servery facilities, together with the installation of external plant and associated equipment.

Received
5 November 2018
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
4
Ward
Spitalfields and Banglatown
  1. Received5 Nov
  2. Validated5 Nov
  3. Consult.7 Dec
  4. Target31 Dec
  5. Decided8 Mar

Decided in 123 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 3-6 Steward Street and 50 Gun Street, London E1 6FQ. Tower Hamlets has handled 1,261 applications of this type. This one was decided in 123 days, 10 weeks longer than Tower Hamlets's typical decision time. The site is in the Artillery Passage conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications 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.

83% of full 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 6FQ
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 November 2018
Consultation expiry
7 December 2018
Consultation end
7 December 2018
Neighbour consultation start
9 November 2018
Neighbour consultation end
7 December 2018
Target decision date
31 December 2018

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Bidwells, Seacourt Tower, West Way, Oxford, OX2 2JJ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
15 November 2018
Advertisement expiry
7 December 2018
Site notice start
16 November 2018
Site notice end
7 December 2018

Additional information

Documents
30

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Artillery Passage
  • Listed building: Grade II: Lamp Standard in Front of No 38On or next to this site · +4 more
  • Article 4 direction: Artillery Lane
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, 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.

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Source: Tower Hamlets

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