Strand

25/00607/ADVConsent to display an advertisementApproved

Advertisement consent

Approved on 24 March 2025

Proposal

Display of Christmas lights along the length of the Strand consisting 8 x cross street decorations of LED lighting on aluminium frames supported suspended across the street on catenary wires for a temporary period from October 2025 to January 2026.

Submitted: 29 January 2025
Council: City of Westminster

ReceivedSubmitted29 Jan
ValidatedValidated
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided24 Mar

Decided in 54 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a planning application at Strand. Westminster has handled 571 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days, 5 days longer than Westminster's typical decision time. The site is in the Strand conservation area, with 11 listed buildings nearby. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 276 applications across SJW_22.

82% of consent to display an advertisement 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 type: Consent to display an advertisement

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Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

Conservation area: Strand
Article 4 direction: Article 4 Basement Development Permitted Rights Removed+1 more
Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

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.

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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.

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Source: Westminster

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