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196 East Ferry Road, London, E14 3AY

PA/25/02037/NCPrior Approval: Larger Home ExtensionRefused
Prior approval

Refused on 5 January 2026

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for Prior Approval under Schedule 2, Part 1, Class A of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development Order) 2015 for ground floor single storey rear extension 6m beyond the rear of the house, with height of 3.35m and eaves height of 3.30m. Demolition of 2no. existing sheds and soft landscaping to the front and rear garden to improve private outdoor amenity space.

Submitted
25 November 2025
  1. Received25 Nov
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided5 Jan

Decided in 41 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a planning application for demolition at 196 East Ferry Road, London, E14 3AY. Tower Hamlets has handled 17 applications of this type. This one was decided in 41 days, 2 weeks quicker than Tower Hamlets's typical decision time. The site is in the Chapel House conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 70 applications across Island Gardens. We hold 1,276 applications in total for the E14 postcode area.

69% of prior approval: larger home extension 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
E14 3AY
Application type
Prior Approval: Larger Home Extension

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
  • Conservation area: Chapel House
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.

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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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Source: Tower Hamlets

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