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The Mercantile Marine First World War Memorial, Trinity Square Gardens, Trinity Square, London

PA/18/03472/NCListed Building Consent (S8 P&LBC 1990)Approved
Listed building consent

Approved on 14 February 2019

Council decision: PermitDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Historic building fabric repairs to Grade I listed WWI memorial to Sailors of the Merchant Navy, including proposed alternative weathering details to existing stone cladding and proposed ventilation measures to substructure.

Received
10 December 2018
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
St Katharines and Wapping
  1. Received10 Dec
  2. Validated10 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target4 Feb
  5. Decided14 Feb

Decided in 66 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a heritage application at The Mercantile Marine First World War Memorial, Trinity Square Gardens, Trinity Square, London. Tower Hamlets has handled 311 applications of this type. This one was decided in 66 days, 10 days longer than Tower Hamlets's typical decision time. The site is in the The Tower conservation area, with 8 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 127 applications across St Katharines and Wapping.

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

Application type
Listed Building Consent (S8 P&LBC 1990)
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 December 2018
Consultation expiry
27 December 2018
Target decision date
4 February 2019

Applicant and agent

Agent
Purcell
Architect profile
PURCELL ARCHITECTURE LIMITED
Agent address
Fourth Floor, 15 Bermondsey Square, London, SE1 3UN

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
27 December 2018

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
24

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

Also checked, none recorded (22)

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, 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

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© 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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