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66, Porchester Road, W2 6ET

25/05404/P3JPAPrior Approval: Change of use from Commercial, Business and Service (Use Class E) to Dwellinghouses (Use Class C3)Refused
Prior approval

Refused on 25 September 2025

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Notification for Prior Approval for the change of use from a use Class E to Class C3 (dwelling houses) to form 32 self-contained residential units under the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) Schedule 2, Part 3, Class MA.

Submitted
1 August 2025
  1. Received1 Aug
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided25 Sep

Decided in 55 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at 66, Porchester Road, W2 6ET. Westminster has handled 23 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days, 6 days longer than Westminster's typical decision time. The site is in the Bayswater conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 52 applications across BWW_22. We hold 3,422 applications in total for the W2 postcode area.

57% of prior approval: change of use from commercial, business and service (use class e) to dwellinghouses (use class c3) 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
W2 6ET
Application type
Prior Approval: Change of use from Commercial, Business and Service (Use Class E) to Dwellinghouses (Use Class C3)

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: BayswaterPart of the site
  • Article 4 direction: Article 4 Basement Development Permitted Rights Removed+1 more
  • Tree Preservation Order: Ref W514Protected tree on or next to this site
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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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© 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.

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