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Site at corner of Buxton Street and Spital Street London E1

PA/25/00291/NCCert. of Law. Existing Dev. (TCPA S191)Approved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 26 March 2025

Council decision: PermitDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Application for certificate of Lawfulness in respect of works undertaken to comprise material operations (within the meaning of section 56(4) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990) which have been commenced lawfully in accordance with planning permission ref: PA/16/01832, to satisfy condition 1 (time limit) of the permission

Received
19 February 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Spitalfields and Banglatown
  1. Received19 Feb
  2. Validated19 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target16 Apr
  5. Decided26 Mar

Decided in 35 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Site at corner of Buxton Street and Spital Street London E1. Tower Hamlets has handled 301 applications of this type. This one was decided in 35 days, 3 weeks quicker than Tower Hamlets's typical decision time. The site is in the Brick Lane and Fournier Street conservation area, with 6 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 117 applications across Spitalfields and Banglatown.

97% of amendment 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
Cert. of Law. Existing Dev. (TCPA S191)
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 February 2025
Target decision date
16 April 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
DP9
Agent address
100 Pall Mall, London, SW1Y5NQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
13

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Fournier Street
  • Article 4 direction: Brick Lane
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage 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

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