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12 Great George Street London SW1P 3AD

07/01101/LBCListed Building Consent ApplicationApproved
Listed building consent

Approved on 17 April 2007

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Excavation to create new underground electrical transformer chamber beneath existing car park area involving the partial demolition of retaining wall to rear basement lightwell.

Received
2 February 2007
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
St James's
  1. Received2 Feb
  2. Validated21 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target17 Apr
  5. Decided17 Apr

Decided in 55 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a heritage application for demolition at 12 Great George Street London SW1P 3AD. Westminster has handled 2,677 applications of this type. This one was decided in 74 days, 4 weeks longer than Westminster's typical decision time. The site is in the Westminster Abbey and Parliament Square conservation area, with 12 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 478 applications across St James's. We hold 1,247 applications in total for the SW1P postcode area.

93% of heritage 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 3AD
Application type
Listed Building Consent Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 February 2007
Consultation expiry
6 April 2007
Target decision date
17 April 2007
Committee meeting
17 April 2007

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Kinsley House Wimpole Street London W1G 0RE

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Publicity

Last advertised
16 March 2007
Advertisement expiry
6 April 2007

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
2

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)
  • Conservation area: Westminster Abbey And Parliament Square
  • Listed building: Grade II*: 11, Great George Street Sw1On or next to this site · +1 more
  • Article 4 direction: Article 4 Basement Development Permitted Rights Removed
  • Brownfield land register: 8-10 Great George Street, London, SW1P 3AERegister site at or near this address
Also checked, none recorded (20)

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 and heritage coasts.

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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