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Flat 339 Manhattan Building, Bow Quarter, 60 Fairfield Road, London, E3 2UQ

PA/25/01999/NCCert of Law for prop wrks to Listed BuilRefused
Listed building consent

Refused on 6 January 2026

Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)1 reason for refusal

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Proposal

Application for a Certificate of Lawfulness of Proposed Works to a Listed Building in relation to the removal of the enclosed office space and associated stud walls. Removal of the existing staircase and reinstatement of the 1988 staircase in the original position. Reinstatement of the balustrades to prevent any falls from height. Removal of small sections of stud walls to create a larger wardrobe.

Received
29 November 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bow East
  1. Received29 Nov
  2. Validated29 Nov
  3. Consult.31 Dec
  4. Target10 Jan
  5. Decided6 Jan

Decided in 38 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a heritage application at Flat 339 Manhattan Building, Bow Quarter, 60 Fairfield Road, London, E3 2UQ. Tower Hamlets has handled 311 applications of this type. This one was decided in 38 days, 3 weeks quicker than Tower Hamlets's typical decision time. The site is in the Fairfield Road conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 155 applications across Bow East. We hold 1,078 applications in total for the E3 postcode area.

91% of heritage 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. - On the basis of the insufficient information and the lack of evidence provided, the impact of the proposed works to the listed building cannot be determined as having no impact to the character of the listed building as a building of special architectural or historic interest in accordance with Sections 26H and 26I of The Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act (1990), as amended by Section 61 of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act (2013) and The Planning (Listed Buildings) (Certificates of Lawfulness of Proposed Works) Regulations (2014).

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
E3 2UQ
Application type
Cert of Law for prop wrks to Listed Buil
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 November 2025
Consultation expiry
31 December 2025
Consultation end
31 December 2025
Neighbour consultation start
8 December 2025
Target decision date
10 January 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
9

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.

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Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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Source: Tower Hamlets

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