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8 - 10 Great George Street London SW1P 3AE

26/00372/NMANon-material amendmentsApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 20 March 2026

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Amendments to planning permission dated 08 November 2019 (RN: 19/02730/FULL) for 'Use of part ground and upper floors as a 134-room hotel (Class C1); use of part lower ground as a leisure suite (Class D2); use of ground floor as restaurant/bar (Class A3/A4), external alterations, including demolition to include the removal of the rooftop plant enclosures and replacement with a single-storey extension, remodelling of the Little Sanctuary elevation and introduction of balconies and lightwells'. Namely, to relocate the UKPN substation to within the front vaults and new gate and staircase into front lightwell.

Received
22 January 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
St James's
Agent
Newmark LLP
  1. Received22 Jan
  2. Validated22 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target19 Feb
  5. Decided20 Mar

Decided in 57 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 8 - 10 Great George Street London SW1P 3AE. Westminster has handled 604 applications of this type. This one was decided in 57 days, 8 days longer than Westminster's typical decision time. The site is in the Westminster Abbey and Parliament Square conservation area, with 10 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 478 applications across St James's. We hold 1,247 applications in total for the SW1P postcode area.

88% of amendment 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
SW1P 3AE
Application type
Non-material amendments
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 January 2026
Target decision date
19 February 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Newmark LLP
Agent address
Newmark LLP One Fitzroy 6 Mortimer Street London W1T 3JJ United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
28 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14634114
Comments
0
Documents
17

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Conservation area: Westminster Abbey And Parliament Square
  • Listed building: Grade II*: 11, Great George Street Sw1On or next to this site
  • Article 4 direction: Article 4 Basement Development Permitted Rights Removed
  • Brownfield land register: 8-10 Great George Street, London, SW1P 3AERegister site at or near this address
Also checked, none recorded (20)

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 and heritage coasts.

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.

Source: Westminster

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

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