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Abbey Garden Great College Street London SW1P 3RX

17/09713/FULLApplication for full Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 21 December 2017

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Reinstatement of an historic lamp iron and a change of paint colour to the doors of the Westminster Abbey Precinct Walls to Great College Street.

Received
1 November 2017
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
St James's
Agent
Ptolemy Dean Architects
  1. Received1 Nov
  2. Validated1 Nov
  3. Consult.
  4. Target27 Dec
  5. Decided21 Dec

Decided in 50 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Abbey Garden Great College Street London SW1P 3RX. Westminster has handled 4,484 applications of this type. This one was decided in 50 days. The site is in the Westminster Abbey and Parliament Square conservation area, with 14 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications 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.

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
SW1P 3RX
Application type
Application for full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 November 2017
Consultation expiry
1 December 2017
Target decision date
27 December 2017

Applicant and agent

Agent
Ptolemy Dean Architects
Architect profile
PTOLEMY DEAN ARCHITECTS LIMITED
Agent address
Calverts Buildings 52 B Borough High Street London SE1 1XN UK

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
10 November 2017
Advertisement expiry
1 December 2017

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-06503525
Comments
0
Documents
13

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, tree preservation orders, green belt, scheduled monuments, 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

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Associated applications

  1. 2017
    1 Nov

    Reinstatement of an historic lamp iron and a change of paint colour to the doors of the Westminster Abbey…

    This applicationApprovedFull17/09713/FULL
  2. 2017
    1 Nov

    Reinstatement of an historic lamp iron and a change of paint colour to the doors of the Westminster Abbey…

    ApprovedListed building consentFiled alongside17/09714/LBC

Source: Westminster

Contains public sector information from the Planning London Datahub, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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