29-30 St James's Street London SW1A 1HB

16/01628/NMANon-material amendmentsWithdrawn

Discharge / amendments

Withdrawn on 6 April 2016

Council decision: Application Withdrawn

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Proposal

Amendments to planning permission dated 15 May 2013 (RN: 12/08888) for: Demolition behind retained facades of 29-30 St James's Street and 25-27 Bury Street and erection of two new seven storey buildings plus roof top plant enclosures behind, comprising retail (Class A1) at part basement and part ground floors with offices (Class B1) and five residential apartments (Class C3) above. Installation of new shopfronts on St James's Street and Bury Street, namely for a modification to the south elevation to cut short the parapet wall and replace with a glazed balustrade between the ventilation riser and the office block.

Received: 23 February 2016
Council: City of Westminster
Ward: St James's
Agent: CBRE Planning

ReceivedReceived23 Feb
ValidatedValidated1 Mar
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date29 Mar
DecidedDecided6 Apr

Decided in 36 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 29-30 St James's Street London SW1A 1HB. Westminster has handled 604 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 43 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. The site is in the St James's conservation area, with 14 listed buildings nearby. There have been 7 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 478 applications across St James's. We hold 1,263 applications in total for the SW1A 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: SW1A 1HB
Application type: Non-material amendments
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 1 March 2016
Target decision date: 29 March 2016

Applicant and agent

Agent: CBRE Planning
Agent address: 7 Castle Street Edinburgh EH2 3AH

Planning decision

Statutory period: 28 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-04809801
Comments: 0
Documents: 9

Site constraints

Checking the site

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Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Conservation area: St James's
Listed building: Grade I: Boodle'S ClubOn or next to this site · +1 more
Article 4 direction: Article 4 Basement Development Permitted Rights Removed+1 more
Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Also checked, none recorded (21)

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, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

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Planning history at this site

8 other applications at this property, newest first.

Source: Westminster

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