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Bishops Square, Market Street and Lamb Street, London E1 6AD

PA/18/03254/A1Full Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 30 October 2020

Council decision: PermitPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Physical alterations including extensions and new shopfronts to retail units on Market Street along with the change of use of part of ground floor from Class B1 to Class A1; change of use of part of ground floor from Class B1 to Class A1 / A3 on Lamb Street and new shopfront; construction of a new two storey building over the existing vehicle ramp on Lamb Street for flexible Class A1 / Class D2 uses; and other associated works including removal of canopy on Market Street and new hard and soft landscaping.

Received
13 November 2018
Decision level
Planning committee
Public comments
1
Ward
Spitalfields and Banglatown
  1. Received13 Nov
  2. Validated13 Nov
  3. Consult.20 Dec
  4. Target12 Feb
  5. Decided30 Oct

Decided in 717 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Bishops Square, Market Street and Lamb Street, London E1 6AD. Tower Hamlets has handled 1,261 applications of this type. This one was decided in 717 days, 94 weeks longer than Tower Hamlets's typical decision time. The site is in 2 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 6AD
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 November 2018
Consultation expiry
20 December 2018
Consultation end
20 December 2018
Neighbour consultation start
20 November 2018
Target decision date
12 February 2019
Committee meeting
30 July 2019

Applicant and agent

Agent
DP9
Agent address
100, Pall Mall, SW1Y 5NQ

Planning decision

Case officer
John Miller
Statutory period
91 days

Publicity

Last advertised
29 November 2018

Additional information

Documents
58

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Also checked, none recorded (19)

flood storage areas, tree preservation orders, green belt, 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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Associated applications

  1. 2018
    13 Nov

    Physical alterations including extensions and new shopfronts to retail units on Market Street along with the…

    This applicationApprovedFullPA/18/03254/A1
  2. 2018
    13 Nov

    Listed Building Consent for: Physical alterations including extensions and new shopfronts to retail units on…

    ApprovedListed building consentFiled alongsidePA/18/03255/NC

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