Foreign & Commonwealth Office King Charles Street London SW1A 2AH

14/05096/FULLApplication for full Planning PermissionApproved

Full

Approved on 22 June 2015

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Variation of Condition 1 of planning permission dated 13 December 2013 (RN: 13/08833) for erection of temporary office accommodation within the existing courtyard for a period of up to 30 months, namely to allow minor amendments including minor adjustment to its position within the courtyard, alterations to its foundations, and omission of plant area and its replacement with 18 x wall mounted A/C units.

Received: 29 May 2014
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: City of Westminster
Ward: St James's

ReceivedReceived29 May
ValidatedValidated29 May
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date24 Jul
DecidedDecided22 Jun

Decided in 389 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Foreign & Commonwealth Office King Charles Street London SW1A 2AH. Westminster has handled 4,484 applications of this type. This one was decided in 389 days, 49 weeks longer than Westminster's typical decision time. The site is in the Whitehall conservation area, with 8 listed buildings nearby. There have been 41 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 478 applications across St James's. We hold 1,261 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 2AH
Application type: Application for full Planning Permission
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 29 May 2014
Consultation expiry: 11 July 2014
Target decision date: 24 July 2014
Committee meeting: 22 June 2015

Applicant and agent

Agent: Capita Property and Infrastructure
Agent address: 75 Wells Street London W1T 3QH

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Publicity

Last advertised: 20 June 2014
Advertisement expiry: 11 July 2014
Site notice start: 16 June 2014
Site notice end: 7 July 2014

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-03368047
Comments: 0
Documents: 16

Site constraints

Checking the site

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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: Whitehall
Article 4 direction: Article 4 Basement Development Permitted Rights Removed

Also checked, none recorded (22)

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, 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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ApprovedListed building consentFiled alongside14/05213/LBC
2014
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Variation of Condition 1 of planning permission dated 13 December 2013 (RN: 13/08833
This applicationApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)14/05096/FULL
2014
29 May
Variation of Condition 1 of listed building consent dated 13 December 2013 (RN: 13/08834
ApprovedListed building consentFiled alongside14/05203/LBC

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20 other applications at this property, newest first.

Source: Westminster

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