5 St James's Street London SW1A 1EF
Approved on 19 May 2014
Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Installation of retractable awning to rear courtyard (Pickering Place frontage)
- Received
- 21 February 2014
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- City of Westminster
- Ward
- St James's
- Agent
- Design LSM
- ReceivedReceived21 Feb
- ValidatedValidated13 Mar
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date8 May
- DecidedDecided19 May
Decided in 67 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application at 5 St James's Street London SW1A 1EF. Westminster has handled 4,484 applications of this type. This one was decided in 87 days, 5 weeks longer than Westminster's typical decision time. The site is in the St James's conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 475 applications across St James's. We hold 1,268 applications in total for the SW1A 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
- SW1A 1EF
- Application type
- Application for full Planning Permission
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 13 March 2014
- Consultation expiry
- 25 April 2014
- Target decision date
- 8 May 2014
- Committee meeting
- 19 May 2014
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Design LSM
- Architect profile
- DESIGN LSM LIMITED
- Agent address
- The Bath House 58 Livingstone Road Hove Sussex BN3 3WL
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 4 April 2014
- Advertisement expiry
- 25 April 2014
- Site notice start
- 31 March 2014
- Site notice end
- 21 April 2014
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: St James's
- Listed building: Grade II*: 1 and 2 St James's Street, including 64 Pall MallOn or next to this site · +1 more
- 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
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
Source: Westminster
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