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Emanuel House And Car Park 8 - 36 Rochester Row London SW1P 1JU

05/00566/COFULFull Application for Council's Own Dev.Approved
Full

Approved on 19 May 2005

Council decision: Application PermittedPlanning committee

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

Proposal

Redevelopment of office block, multi-storey car park and petrol filling station to provide a nine storey building plus basement comprising retail and office uses (Class A1, A2 and B1) at ground floor level with 56 residential units on the upper floors and 40 car parking spaces at basement level. (Council's Own Development)

Received
26 January 2005
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Vincent Square
  1. Received26 Jan
  2. Validated3 Mar
  3. Consult.
  4. Target27 Apr
  5. Decided19 May

Decided in 77 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Emanuel House And Car Park 8 - 36 Rochester Row London SW1P 1JU. Westminster has handled 4,484 applications of this type. This one was decided in 113 days, 9 weeks longer than Westminster's typical decision time. The site is in 4 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 92 applications across Vincent Square. We hold 1,247 applications in total for the SW1P postcode area.

86% of full 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
SW1P 1JU
Application type
Full Application for Council's Own Dev.
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
56

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 March 2005
Consultation expiry
4 March 2005
Target decision date
27 April 2005
Committee meeting
19 May 2005
Decision issued
28 December 2005

Applicant and agent

Agent address
20 Grosvenor Hill London W1K 3HQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Publicity

Last advertised
11 February 2005
Advertisement expiry
4 March 2005
Site notice start
7 February 2005
Site notice end
28 February 2005

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
13

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)
  • Article 4 direction: Article 4 Basement Development Permitted Rights Removed
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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

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© 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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