Foreign & Commonwealth Office King Charles Street London SW1A 2AH

23/05062/LBCListed Building Consent ApplicationApproved

Listed building consent

Approved on 24 August 2023

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

External stone cleaning to remove red paint from the Whitehall facade.

Received: 22 July 2023
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments: 1
Council: City of Westminster
Ward: St James's
Agent: Heritage Surveys Limited

ReceivedReceived22 Jul
ValidatedValidated22 Jul
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date16 Sep
DecidedDecided24 Aug

Decided in 33 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a heritage application at Foreign & Commonwealth Office King Charles Street London SW1A 2AH. Westminster has handled 2,677 applications of this type. This one was decided in 33 days, 2 weeks quicker than Westminster's typical decision time. The site is in the Whitehall conservation area, with 5 listed buildings nearby. There have been 41 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 478 applications across St James's. We hold 1,261 applications in total for the SW1A postcode area.

93% of heritage 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 2AH
Application type: Listed Building Consent Application
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 22 July 2023
Target decision date: 16 September 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent: Heritage Surveys Limited
Agent address: Capital Business Centre, 22 Carlton Road South Croydon CR2 0BS

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-12325047
Documents: 5

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)
Conservation area: Whitehall
Listed building: Foreign & Commonwealth Office King Charles Street London SW1A 2AHOn or next to this site
Article 4 direction: Article 4 Basement Development Permitted Rights Removed

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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© 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.

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

2023
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Details of the position, type and method of installation of all new and relocated services and related…
ApprovedDischarge of conditionsFiled alongside23/05059/ADFULL
2023
22 Jul
External stone cleaning to remove red paint from the Whitehall facade.
This applicationApprovedListed building consent23/05062/LBC
2023
22 Jul
Details of the position, type and method of installation of all new and relocated services and related…
ApprovedListed building consentFiled alongside23/05224/ADLBC

Planning history at this site

20 other applications at this property, newest first.

Source: Westminster

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

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