151 Whitechapel Road, London, E1 1DN
Refused on 20 June 2025
Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Extensions to the existing building at second and third floor levels, Change of Use and internal reconfiguration to upper levels to create 6 x 1 bedroom residential flats (C3)
- Received
- 25 February 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Spitalfields and Banglatown
- Agent
- Genesis Architects Ltd
- ReceivedReceived25 Feb
- ValidatedValidated25 Feb
- Consult.Consultation26 Mar
- TargetTarget Date22 Apr
- DecidedDecided20 Jun
Decided in 115 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at 151 Whitechapel Road, London, E1 1DN. Tower Hamlets has handled 1,261 applications of this type. This one was decided in 115 days, 8 weeks longer than Tower Hamlets's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application 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 1DN
- Application type
- Full Planning Permission
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 25 February 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 26 March 2025
- Consultation end
- 26 March 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 3 March 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 26 March 2025
- Target decision date
- 22 April 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Genesis Architects Ltd
- Architect profile
- GENESIS ARCHITECTS LTD.
- Agent address
- 7 St Margarets Road, Stanstead Abbotts, Ware, SG12 8EP
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Advertisement expiry
- 26 March 2025
- Site notice start
- 4 March 2025
- Site notice end
- 26 March 2025
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (24)
flood storage areas, conservation 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, 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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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: Tower Hamlets
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