Old Admiralty Building Spring Gardens London SW1A 2AH

15/09097/FULLApplication for full Planning PermissionApproved

Full

Approved on 24 November 2015

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Variation to Condition 1 of planning permission dated 31 July 2015 (RN:15/05513/FULL) for the installation of plant at roof level and two chillers within internal courtyard at basement level. Namely; for minor amendments to the ventilation strategy and change to location of substation.

Received: 29 September 2015
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: City of Westminster
Ward: St James's

ReceivedReceived29 Sep
ValidatedValidated29 Sep
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date24 Nov
DecidedDecided24 Nov

Decided in 56 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Old Admiralty Building Spring Gardens London SW1A 2AH. Westminster has handled 4,484 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days, 7 days longer than Westminster's typical decision time. The site is in the Whitehall conservation area, with 5 listed buildings nearby. There have been 15 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 September 2015
Consultation expiry: 13 November 2015
Target decision date: 24 November 2015

Applicant and agent

Agent address: BDP 16 Brewhouse Yard Clerkenwell London EC1V 4LJ United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Publicity

Last advertised: 23 October 2015
Advertisement expiry: 13 November 2015
Site notice start: 19 October 2015
Site notice end: 9 November 2015

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-04523922
Comments: 0
Documents: 9

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
Listed building: Foreign & Commonwealth Office King Charles Street London SW1A 2AHOn or next to this site
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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© 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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Associated applications

2015
29 Sep
Variation to Condition 1 of planning permission dated 31 July 2015 (RN:15/05513/FULL
This applicationApprovedFull15/09097/FULL
2015
29 Sep
Variation to Condition 1 of listed building consent dated 31 July 2015 (RN:15/05514/LBC
ApprovedListed building consentFiled alongside15/09098/LBC

Planning history at this site

14 other applications at this property, newest first.

Source: Westminster

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