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Ministry Of Agriculture Fisheries & Food 10 Whitehall Place London SW1A 2HH

04/08245/EIAOPEIA Scoping or Screening OpinionApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 8 November 2004

Council decision: Not requiredDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Request for screening opinion under Regulation 5 of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (England and Wales) Regulations 1999 (Metropole Building, Northumberland Avenue and 10 Whitehall Place).

Received
18 October 2004
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
St James's
  1. Received18 Oct
  2. Validated18 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target12 Dec
  5. Decided8 Nov

Decided in 21 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application at Ministry Of Agriculture Fisheries & Food 10 Whitehall Place London SW1A 2HH. Westminster has handled 218 applications of this type. This one was decided in 21 days, 4 weeks quicker than Westminster's typical decision time. The site is in the Whitehall conservation area, with 12 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 478 applications across St James's. We hold 1,263 applications in total for the SW1A postcode area.

82% of outline applications at City of Westminster were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
SW1A 2HH
Application type
EIA Scoping or Screening Opinion
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
18 October 2004
Target decision date
12 December 2004
Committee meeting
8 November 2004

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Cassini House 57-59 St James's Street London SW1A 1LD

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, 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: Westminster

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