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68 Whitechapel High Street, London, E1 7PL

PA/24/01446/A1Refused

Refused on 19 December 2024

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use class E (Office spaces) to Class C1 (Hotels) uses for short stay family accommodation.

Submitted
24 October 2024
  1. Received24 Oct
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided19 Dec

Decided in 56 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at 68 Whitechapel High Street, London, E1 7PL. Tower Hamlets has handled 7,448 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. The site is in the Whitechapel High Street conservation area, with 6 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 2,489 applications in total for the E1 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
E1 7PL

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage 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, 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.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2023
    31 Oct

    Proposed installation of new signboard on front elevation.

    ApprovedFull Planning PermissionPA/23/01243/NC

Source: Tower Hamlets

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