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1-3 Little Chester Street London SW1X 7AL

15/11617/NMANon-material amendmentsApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 29 December 2015

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Amendments to planning permission dated 29 October 2015 (RN: 14/00555) for: Demolition of existing buildings and replacement with a building comprising newly excavated basement, lower ground, ground and two upper floors with terraces at lower ground, rear first and second floor levels to provide five residential units (Class C3). Off-street car parking accessed via car lift off Chester Mews and mechanical plant located at basement and roof level. Namely, alterations to lightwells at north west elevation to bring them into the site boundary.

Received
30 November 2015
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Knightsbridge And Belgravia
  1. Received30 Nov
  2. Validated3 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target31 Dec
  5. Decided29 Dec

Decided in 26 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 1-3 Little Chester Street London SW1X 7AL. Westminster has handled 604 applications of this type. This one was decided in 29 days, 3 weeks quicker than Westminster's typical decision time. The site is in the Belgravia conservation area, with 7 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 3 applications across Knightsbridge And Belgravia. We hold 1,288 applications in total for the SW1X 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
SW1X 7AL
Application type
Non-material amendments
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 December 2015
Target decision date
31 December 2015

Applicant and agent

Agent
Savills
Agent address
33 Margaret Street London W1G 0JD

Planning decision

Statutory period
28 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-04606393
Comments
0
Documents
14

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Belgravia
  • Article 4 direction: Article 4 Basement Development Permitted Rights Removed
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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