Skip to content

Royal Horseguards Hotel 2 Whitehall Court London SW1A 2EL

25/07719/FULLPermitted

Proposal

External alterations to ground floor entrance, including the replacement of stair floor tiles and installation of planters to railings.

Received
24 October 2025
Decided
19 February 2026 · Application Permitted
Site boundary (council red line)
  1. Received24 Oct
  2. Validated24 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided19 Feb

Decided in 118 days

This is a planning application at Royal Horseguards Hotel 2 Whitehall Court London SW1A 2EL. Westminster has handled 26,489 applications of this type and approves 88% of them, typically deciding them in 54 days. This one was decided in 118 days, 9 weeks longer than Westminster's median. The site is in the Whitehall conservation area, with 5 listed buildings nearby. There have been 5 other applications at this address. We hold 1,240 applications in total for the SW1A postcode area.

Application Details

Reference
25/07719/FULL
Address
Royal Horseguards Hotel 2 Whitehall Court London SW1A 2EL
Postcode
SW1A 2EL
Local Authority
Westminster
Decision Status
Permitted
Current Status
Decided

Applicant & Agent

Planning Application Dates

Date Received
24 October 2025
Date Decided
19 February 2026
Date Validated
24 October 2025
Date Submitted
24 October 2025

Planning Decision

Decision
Application Permitted

Publicity

Appeal

Additional Information

Coordinates
51.505817, -0.124262
Enriching application data
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Source: Westminster

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

Track this application

Get email alerts when there is a planning decision or status change.

Get email alerts near SW1A

New planning applications delivered to your inbox weekly.

Associated applications

  1. 2025
    24 Oct

    External alterations to ground floor entrance, including the replacement of stair floor tiles and…

    This applicationApprovedApplication25/07719/FULL
  2. 2025
    24 Oct

    External and internal alterations, including the replacement of ground floor entrance stair floor tiles…

    ApprovedListed building consentFiled alongside25/07720/LBC

Planning constraints

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Conservation area: Whitehall
  • Listed building: Grade II*: Whitehall CourtOn or next to this site
  • Article 4 direction: Article 4 Basement Development Permitted Rights Removed
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 2026-10-09. 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.

What's been approved on your street?

See what the council approved and refused near this address for the project you have in mind, and the rules that apply here.

Get The Signal Report