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Kensington Gardens Serpentine Road London W2 2UH

26/00173/FULLApproved

Approved on 28 May 2026

Council decision: Application Permitted

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Erection of a new permanent single storey building within the Kensington Gardens store yard to provide accommodation for the Landscape Maintenance (LM) Contractor as well as renovate the existing Park office.

Received
13 January 2026
  1. Received13 Jan
  2. Validated13 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided28 May

Decided in 135 days

About this application

This is a planning application at Kensington Gardens Serpentine Road London W2 2UH. Westminster has handled 27,140 applications of this type. This one was decided in 135 days, 12 weeks longer than Westminster's typical decision time. The site is in the Royal Parks conservation area. There have been 3 other applications at this address. We hold 3,427 applications in total for the W2 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
W2 2UH

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 January 2026

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Royal Parks
  • Article 4 direction: Article 4 Basement Development Permitted Rights Removed
  • Registered park and garden: Kensington Gardens
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, tree preservation orders, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, 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. 2026
    25 Sep

    Details of written and photographic schedules, samples and trial panels of the facing materials you will use…

    RefusedApplicationRelated26/06599/ADFULL
  2. 2026
    13 Jan

    Erection of a new permanent single storey building within the Kensington Gardens store yard to provide…

    This applicationApprovedApplication26/00173/FULL

Source: Westminster

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

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