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Railway Arch, 302 Cambridge Heath Road, London, E2 9HA

PA/25/00052/NCFull planning permissionApproved
Full

Approved on 3 April 2025

Proposal

Change of use from a sandwich caf‚, bar, and live entertainment venue (Sui Generis) to flexible retail and caf‚ / restaurant use (Class E(a)/(b)).

Submitted
10 January 2025
  1. Received10 Jan
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided3 Apr

Decided in 83 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at Railway Arch, 302 Cambridge Heath Road, London, E2 9HA. Tower Hamlets has handled 352 applications of this type. This one was decided in 83 days, 4 weeks longer than Tower Hamlets's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 109 applications across Bethnal Green West. We hold 910 applications in total for the E2 postcode area.

78% of full planning permission 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
E2 9HA
Application type
Full planning permission

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Article 4 direction: Cambridge Heath 1
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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

Contains public sector information from the Planning London Datahub, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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