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8-10 Great George Street London SW1P 3AE

15/11351/CLEUDCertificate of Lawfulness (existing)Approved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 11 January 2016

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Implementation of planning permission dated 8 September 2014 (13/10511/FULL) for use of part ground floor and upper floors as 21 residential flats (Class C3), use of part lower ground floor and part ground floor as restaurant (Class A3) and use of part basement and part lower ground floor for residential parking. External alterations including the removal of rooftop plant enclosures and replacement with a single storey extension, remodelling of the Little Sanctuary elevation and introduction of balconies to lightwells.

Received
4 December 2015
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
St James's
  1. Received4 Dec
  2. Validated4 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target29 Jan
  5. Decided11 Jan

Decided in 38 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 8-10 Great George Street London SW1P 3AE. Westminster has handled 604 applications of this type. This one was decided in 38 days, 11 days quicker than Westminster's typical decision time. The site is in the Whitehall conservation area, with 7 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application 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.

88% of amendment 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 3AE
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness (existing)
Scale / size
Medium
Number of dwellings
21

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 December 2015
Target decision date
29 January 2016

Applicant and agent

Agent
Turley
Agent address
The Charlotte Building 17 Gresse Street London London W1T 1QL

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-04678082
Comments
0
Documents
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Also checked, none recorded (19)

flood storage areas, tree preservation orders, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, 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.

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Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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Source: Westminster

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