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Block 4B, 2 Baltimore Wharf, LONDON E14

PA/25/01877Full Planning PermissionRefused
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Refused on 23 December 2025

Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)2 reasons for refusal

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Proposal

Change of use from Ancillary residential storage to Class E (office)

Received
7 November 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Blackwall and Cubitt Town
  1. Received7 Nov
  2. Validated7 Nov
  3. Consult.2 Dec
  4. Target2 Jan
  5. Decided23 Dec

Decided in 46 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Block 4B, 2 Baltimore Wharf, LONDON E14. Tower Hamlets has handled 1,261 applications of this type. This one was decided in 46 days, 10 days quicker than Tower Hamlets's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 110 applications across Blackwall and Cubitt Town.

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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Why it was refused

  1. - The application has failed to demonstrate that there is a reasonable prospect of the proposed unit being occupied and that rental levels/purchase price of the proposed unit would be appropriate to the location, as such, the application fails to comply with policy D.TC4 of the Tower Hamlets Local Plan 2031: Managing Growth and Sharing Benefits (January 2020). In assessing the proposals against the requirements of policy D.TC4, the applicant has failed to demonstrate that there is a reasonable prospect of the unit being occupied. As such, the proposal fails to comply with policy D.TC4 of the Tower Hamlets Local Plan (2020) .
  2. - The proposals do not include any details of the waste storage or collection and, as such, fails to demonstrate that adequate waste storage and collection provision has been provided to serve the development, contrary to policy D.MW3 of the Tower Hamlets Local Plan 2031: Managing Growth and Sharing Benefits (January 2020)

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 November 2025
Consultation expiry
2 December 2025
Consultation end
2 December 2025
Target decision date
2 January 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
13

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Article 4 direction: CrossharbourPart of the site
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.

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