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Caxton Apartments, 172 Cable Street, London E1 0EY

PA/25/02207/NCCert. of Law. Proposed Dev. (TCPA S192)Approved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 16 March 2026

Council decision: PermitDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for certificate of lawfulness in relation to a proposal consisting of remediation works to the façade of St. Georges Estate, Site 7 - Caxton Apartments. Proposed works include removal of areas of present combustible materials in the building elevations and replace with non-combustible alternatives with minimal visual impact to the existing development.

Received
19 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Whitechapel
  1. Received19 Dec
  2. Validated19 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target13 Feb
  5. Decided16 Mar

Decided in 87 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Caxton Apartments, 172 Cable Street, London E1 0EY. Tower Hamlets has handled 118 applications of this type. This one was decided in 87 days, 4 weeks longer than Tower Hamlets's typical decision time. The site is in 4 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 134 applications across Whitechapel. We hold 2,489 applications in total for the E1 postcode area.

88% of outline 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
E1 0EY
Application type
Cert. of Law. Proposed Dev. (TCPA S192)
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 December 2025
Target decision date
13 February 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Holmes Miller
Agent address
5-7 London Road, St Albans, HERTFORDSHIRE, AL1 1LA

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
20

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (24)

flood storage areas, conservation 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.

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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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