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Development Site At 5 - 9 Great Newport Street London WC2H 7JA

26/03194/ADVRefused

Refused on 1 July 2026

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Display of non-illuminated 1:1 image of building on scaffold shroud with inset advertising area measuring 10.4 m by 4.6 m for a temporary period.

Submitted
14 May 2026
  1. Received14 May
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided1 Jul

Decided in 48 days

About this application

This is a planning application at Development Site At 5 - 9 Great Newport Street London WC2H 7JA. Westminster has handled 27,108 applications of this type. This one was decided in 48 days. The site is in the Covent Garden conservation area, with 15 listed buildings nearby. There have been 4 other applications at this address. We hold 478 applications in total for the WC2H postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
WC2H 7JA

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Covent Garden
  • Listed building: Grade II: 5, Great Newport Street Wc2On this site · +1 more
  • Article 4 direction: Article 4 Basement Development Permitted Rights Removed+1 more
  • Brownfield land register: 12 Great Newport Street London WC2H 7JARegister site at or near this address
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
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

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