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Former LEB Site, 255-279 Cambridge Heath Road, London, E2 0EL

PA/25/01931/NCAll OtherApproved

Approved on 25 November 2025

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Request for Screening Opinion as to whether an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is required in accordance with the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 (as amended) (the 'EIA Regulations') for the demolition of the existing buildings on site and the construction of a single building with stepped massing of up to 11 storeys in height consisting of the following: Provision of up to 550 purpose-built student accommodation units (PBSA); Provision of up to 400m2 employment generating floorspace (likely to come forward as commercial and community floorspace as Use Class E / F1 / F2); Provision of 2 blue badge parking spaces and up to 220 cycle parking spaces; and Associated public realm, amenity space and associated landscaping.

Submitted
4 November 2025
  1. Received4 Nov
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided25 Nov

Decided in 21 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a planning application for demolition at Former LEB Site, 255-279 Cambridge Heath Road, London, E2 0EL. Tower Hamlets has handled 100 applications of this type. This one was decided in 21 days, 5 weeks quicker than Tower Hamlets's typical decision time. The site is in 3 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded 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.

72% of all other 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 0EL
Application type
All Other

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Bethnal Green GardensNext to the site
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage 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.

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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