Regent Street
Proposal
Display of Christmas Decorations at: Regent Street - 25 x crossings comprising 4 x Gateway decorations with LED screens and animation and 16 x cross street decorations with 3D nets; Regent Street St James' - 5 x cross street decorations; Jermyn Street - 10 x cross street decorations; St James' Market - 6 x cross street decorations, 1x floor mounted decoration, living wall decorations and additional lighting; Waterloo Place - 1 x 10m tree; Glasshouse Street - 16 x projectors on catenary wires, projecting white starry bursts onto the pavement and building facades, 7 x displays around existing tree planters with gold cladding of the planters and spiral frame with white LED illuminated wings and text and 3x cross-street displays suspended on catenary wires; Swallow Street - 1x cross-street display suspended from existing fixings; Swallow Street - 2x projectors on existing fixings, projecting white starry bursts onto the pavement; all for a temporary period.
- Received
- 17 July 2025
- Decided
- 29 August 2025
- Council
- City of Westminster
- ReceivedSubmitted17 Jul
- ValidatedValidated
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided29 Aug
Decided in 43 days (council typically 49)
This is a planning application at Regent Street. Westminster has handled 1,469 applications of this type and approves 92% of them, typically deciding them in 38 days. This one was decided in 43 days, 5 days longer than Westminster's median. The site is in the Regent Street conservation area, with 9 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 369 applications across WEW_22.
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Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 20264 Sep
Display of non-illuminated flags measuring 4.0m x 2.0m suspended over Regent Street by catenary wires at 19…
ApprovedAdvertisement consent26/05324/ADV - 202627 Jul
Display of strings of LED lights suspended on catenary wires on 25 crossings on Regent Street for temporary…
PendingAdvertisement consent26/05014/ADV
Planning constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Regent Street
- 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)
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