36 Old Queen Street London SW1H 9HP
Approved on 13 November 2017
Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Excavation works to create a basement under the footprint of the house, front lightwell and part of the rear garden with rooflights. Installation of plant machinery to front lightwell.
- Received
- 21 July 2017
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- City of Westminster
- Ward
- St James's
- Agent
- Phillips Planning Services Limited
- ReceivedReceived21 Jul
- ValidatedValidated22 Oct
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date17 Dec
- DecidedDecided13 Nov
Decided in 22 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application at 36 Old Queen Street London SW1H 9HP. Westminster has handled 4,484 applications of this type. This one was decided in 115 days, 9 weeks longer than Westminster's typical decision time. The site is in the Birdcage Walk conservation area, with 15 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 414 applications in total for the SW1H 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
- SW1H 9HP
- Application type
- Application for full Planning Permission
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 22 October 2017
- Consultation expiry
- 1 September 2017
- Target decision date
- 17 December 2017
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Phillips Planning Services Limited
- Agent address
- Kingsbrook House 7 Kingsway Bedford MK42 9BA United Kingdom
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 11 August 2017
- Advertisement expiry
- 1 September 2017
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)
- Conservation area: Birdcage Walk
- Article 4 direction: Article 4 Basement Development Permitted Rights Removed
- Brownfield land register: Queen Anne's Gate Buildings 29-35 Old Queen Street London SW1H 9JARegister 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.
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- Phillips Planning Services Ltd · Agent for this application
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