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50-52 Buckingham Palace Road London SW1W 0RN

15/11691/TCHApplic. for tables and chairsApproved

Approved on 29 February 2016

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Use of 3 areas of the public highway for the placing of 4 tables and 12 chairs in an area measuring 11.1m x 1.5m on the Buckingham Palace Road frontage and 5 tables and 15 chairs in an area 7.7m x 1.9m and 5 tables and 10 chairs in an area 10m x 0.96m on the Grosvenor Gardens frontage.

Received
15 December 2015
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
St James's
  1. Received15 Dec
  2. Validated15 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target9 Feb
  5. Decided29 Feb

Decided in 76 days

About this application

This is a planning application at 50-52 Buckingham Palace Road London SW1W 0RN. Westminster has handled 27,108 applications of this type. This one was decided in 76 days, 4 weeks longer than Westminster's typical decision time. The site is in the Grosvenor Gardens conservation area, with 7 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 478 applications across St James's. We hold 1,477 applications in total for the SW1W postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
SW1W 0RN
Application type
Applic. for tables and chairs
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 December 2015
Consultation expiry
26 February 2016
Target decision date
9 February 2016
Permission expires
1 April 2017

Applicant and agent

Agent
Bidwells
Agent address
Seacourt Tower West Way Oxford Oxfordshire OX2 2JJ United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
5 February 2016
Advertisement expiry
26 February 2016
Site notice start
26 January 2016
Site notice end
16 February 2016

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-04701128
Comments
0
Documents
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Conservation area: Grosvenor Gardens
  • Listed building: Grade II: 23-47, GROSVENOR GARDENS SW1 (See details for further address information)On this site
  • Article 4 direction: Article 4 Basement Development Permitted Rights Removed
  • Brownfield land register: Grosvenor Gardens House 35-37 Grosvenor Gardens London SW1W 0BSRegister site at or near this address · +1 more
Also checked, none recorded (20)

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 and heritage coasts.

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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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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