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28 Blandford Street London W1U 4BZ

25/07648/TCHApplic. for tables and chairsRefused

Refused on 28 July 2026

1 reason for refusal

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Use of an area of the public highway measuring 700 x 2000 for the placing of 4 tables and 8 chairs, 3 benches, 8 stools and 4 small coffee tables in connection with the existing ground floor use.

Received
22 October 2025
Ward
Marylebone
  1. Received22 Oct
  2. Validated7 Nov
  3. Consult.
  4. Target2 Jan
  5. Decided28 Jul

Decided in 263 days

About this application

This is a planning application at 28 Blandford Street London W1U 4BZ. Westminster has handled 27,108 applications of this type. This one was decided in 279 days, 33 weeks longer than Westminster's typical decision time. The site is in the Portman Estate conservation area, with 13 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 171 applications across Marylebone. We hold 1,070 applications in total for the W1U postcode area.

Why it was refused

  1. The tables and chairs would block the flow of pedestrians along the footpath and so could be unsafe. This would also make it difficult to clean the footpath. This would not meet Policies 29 and 48(D) of the City Plan 2019 - 2040 (January 2026).

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
W1U 4BZ
Application type
Applic. for tables and chairs
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 November 2025
Target decision date
2 January 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
DP9
Agent address
100 Pall Mall London SW1Y 5NQ United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14295013
Comments
0
Documents
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Portman Estate
  • Article 4 direction: Article 4 Basement Development Permitted Rights Removed
  • 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.

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

  1. 2025
    22 Oct

    Use of an area of the public highway measuring 700 x 2000 for the placing of 4 tables and 8 chairs, 3…

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  2. 2025
    21 Oct

    Display of one internally illuminated projecting sign measuring 0.16m x 0.6m and three non illuminated other…

    ApprovedAdvertisement consentFiled alongside25/07264/ADV

Source: Westminster

Contains public sector information from the Planning London Datahub, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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