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Manhattan Building Bow Quarter, 60 Fairfield Road, London, E3

PA/25/00189/NCFull planning & listed building consentApproved
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Approved on 4 April 2025

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Proposal

Proposed change of use of the former madison's bar (sui-generis) to provide a flexible multi-use community space incorporating a caf‚ / restaurant, bar, lecture space and office use (use class e). Internal and external alterations and associated works.

Submitted
4 February 2025
  1. Received4 Feb
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided4 Apr

Decided in 59 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at Manhattan Building Bow Quarter, 60 Fairfield Road, London, E3. Tower Hamlets has handled 74 applications of this type. This one was decided in 59 days, 3 days longer than Tower Hamlets's typical decision time. The site is in the Fairfield Road conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 159 applications across Bow East.

70% of full planning & listed building consent 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
Full planning & listed building consent

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, Article 4 directions, 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2025
    4 Feb

    Proposed change of use of the former madison's bar (sui-generis) to provide a flexible multi-use community…

    ApprovedListed building consentFiled alongsidePA/25/00188/NC
  2. 2025
    4 Feb

    Proposed change of use of the former madison's bar (sui-generis) to provide a flexible multi-use community…

    This applicationApprovedListed building consentPA/25/00189/NC

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