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Buckingham Gate London

14/00469/EIAOPEIA Scoping or Screening OpinionApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 5 February 2014

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Request for Screening Opinion pursuant to Regulation 5 of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2011 in connection retention of the basements for car parking, storage, retail and other ancillary uses, 65 flats in the tower building, recladding of the tower and provision of new public space between Buckingham Gate and Palmer Street.

Received
16 January 2014
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
St James's
  1. Received16 Jan
  2. Validated16 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target13 Feb
  5. Decided5 Feb

Decided in 20 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application at Buckingham Gate London. Westminster has handled 218 applications of this type. This one was decided in 20 days, 4 weeks quicker than Westminster's typical decision time. The site is in the Birdcage Walk conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 478 applications across St James's.

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

Application type
EIA Scoping or Screening Opinion
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
65

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 January 2014
Target decision date
13 February 2014
Committee meeting
5 February 2014

Applicant and agent

Agent
Jones Lang Lasalle
Agent address
22 Hanover Square London W1S 1JA

Planning decision

Statutory period
28 days

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: Birdcage Walk
  • Article 4 direction: Article 4 Basement Development Permitted Rights Removed
  • Brownfield land register: Eggington House 25-28 Buckingham Gate London SW1E 6LDRegister site at or near this address
Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage 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 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.

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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.

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© 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: Westminster

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