St James's Palace Marlborough Road London SW1A 1BG

05/00664/1884Crown Proposal (Circular 1884 Procedure)Approved

Approved on 10 March 2005

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Security works.

Received: 28 January 2005
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: City of Westminster
Ward: St James's

ReceivedReceived28 Jan
ValidatedValidated28 Jan
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date24 Mar
DecidedDecided10 Mar

Decided in 41 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a planning application at St James's Palace Marlborough Road London SW1A 1BG. Westminster has handled 84 applications of this type. This one was decided in 41 days, 8 days quicker than Westminster's typical decision time. The site is in the St James's conservation area, with 17 listed buildings nearby. There have been 10 other applications 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.

88% of all 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 1BG
Application type: Crown Proposal (Circular 1884 Procedure)
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 28 January 2005
Target decision date: 24 March 2005
Committee meeting: 10 March 2005

Applicant and agent

Agent address: Buckingham Palace London SW1A 1AA

Planning decision

Statutory period: 55 days

Additional information

Comments: 0
Documents: 1

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

Conservation area: St James's
Listed building: Grade II: 6 Lamp StandardsOn or next to this site
Article 4 direction: Article 4 Basement Development Permitted Rights Removed+1 more
Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

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.

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Planning history at this site

10 other applications at this property, newest first.

Source: Westminster

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