20 Buckingham Street London WC2N 6EF
Refused on 14 November 2025
Proposal
Change of use of house into a 1-bedroom flat at lower ground floor level and a 9-bed, 9-person HMO at ground, first, second and third floor level. (Linked to 25/06819/LBC)
- Received
- 17 September 2025
- Council
- City of Westminster
- Ward
- St James's
- Agent
- henry planning ltd
- ReceivedReceived17 Sep
- ValidatedValidated23 Sep
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date18 Nov
- DecidedDecided14 Nov
Decided in 52 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at 20 Buckingham Street London WC2N 6EF. Westminster has handled 4,484 applications of this type. This one was decided in 58 days, 9 days longer than Westminster's typical decision time. The site is in the Adelphi conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 478 applications across St James's. We hold 300 applications in total for the WC2N postcode area.
86% of full 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
- WC2N 6EF
- Application type
- Full Planning Permission Application
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 23 September 2025
- Target decision date
- 18 November 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- henry planning ltd
- Agent address
- 163 Church Hill Road East Barnet BARNET EN4 8PQ
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Adelphi
- Article 4 direction: Article 4 Basement Development Permitted Rights Removed+1 more
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (21)
flood storage areas, 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
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.
© 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.
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
- 202523 Sep
Change of use of house into a 1-bedroom flat at lower ground floor level and a 9-bed, 9-person HMO at ground…
RefusedListed building consentPart of25/06819/LBC - 202517 Sep
Change of use of house into a 1-bedroom flat at lower ground floor level and a 9-bed, 9-person HMO at ground…
This applicationRefusedFull25/06652/FULL
Planning history at this site
3 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202523 Jun
Installation of metal staircase to front lightwell (Retrospective) (Linked 25/04282/FULL
ApprovedListed building consent25/04283/LBC - 202523 Jun
Installation of metal staircase to front lightwell. (Retrospective)
ApprovedListed building consent25/04282/FULL - 202523 Jun
Internal alterations including the addition of two en-suites to the layout approved under ref: 23/07836/LBC
RefusedListed building consent25/04279/LBC
Source: Westminster
Contains public sector information from the Planning London Datahub, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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