Palace Of Westminster St Margaret Street London SW1P 3JX

24/00800/CLLBCert of Law - Prposed works to LBApproved

Approved on 22 March 2024

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Ceiling and floor void surveys.

Received: 1 February 2024
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: City of Westminster
Ward: St James's

ReceivedReceived1 Feb
ValidatedValidated1 Feb
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date14 Mar
DecidedDecided22 Mar

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About this application

This is a planning application at Palace Of Westminster St Margaret Street London SW1P 3JX. Westminster has handled 27,078 applications of this type. This one was decided in 50 days. The site is in the Westminster Abbey and Parliament Square conservation area, with 8 listed buildings nearby. There have been 37 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.

Application details

Postcode: SW1P 3JX
Application type: Cert of Law - Prposed works to LB
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 1 February 2024
Target decision date: 14 March 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent: BDP
Agent address: 16 Brewhouse Yard Clerkenwell London EC1V 4LJ

Planning decision

Statutory period: 42 days

Additional information

Comments: 0
Documents: 8

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: Westminster Abbey And Parliament Square
Listed building: Grade I: Victoria Tower Lodge and Gates to Black Rod GardenOn or next to this site
Article 4 direction: Article 4 Basement Development Permitted Rights Removed
World Heritage Site: Palace of Westminster, Westminster Abbey and St. Margaret's Church

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.

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.

Planning history at this site

20 other applications at this property, newest first.

Source: Westminster

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