Gunnersbury Park, Popes Lane, Ealing, W3 8LQ Data via plota.co.uk

P/2025/3274 - All other major Approved

Proposal

Temporary change of use of areas of Gunnersbury Park for the staging of temporary events between 01 January 2027 and 31 December 2031. Up to 19 live event days per calendar year, with a total of 115 days including set-up, inactive, removal and trackway days. Including the erection of associated temporary structures, fencing, ancillary concessions and facilities. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
29 Oct 2025
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Validated
26 Nov 2025
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Approved
14 Oct 2026

Approved on 14 Oct 2026 · Last checked 16 Oct 2026

Planning committee

Decided by Hounslow Planning Committee on 3 Sept 2026.

Approved

As officers recommended.

  • Officers advised approval because the temporary events’ cultural and economic benefits outweighed their mitigated effects on the park, heritage and residents.
  • Residents raised concerns about noise, public access, traffic, ecology, heritage and the loss of regular planning scrutiny.
  • The committee approved the application by 8 votes to 2, with 2 abstentions, subject to conditions and free local resident tickets.
Read how the committee decided The proposal, site history, officers’ assessment, public views, committee debate, vote and conditions.

Source: Plota analysis of Hounslow's committee minutes of 3 Sept 2026.

Documents 48

Decision & officer reports 5

PDF DECTP2 P-Decision Notice · 14 Oct 2026 View ↗ PDF P-Committee Report P-Committee Report · 2 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF P-Committee Report P-Committee Report · 25 Aug 2026 View ↗ PDF P-Committee Report P-Committee Report · 6 Aug 2026 View ↗ PDF P-Committee Report P-Committee Report · 28 Jul 2026 View ↗

Statements & assessments 21

PDF Revised EMP Summary for Planning Rev C August 2026 P-Statement Other · 12 Aug 2026 View ↗ PDF Case for Revised Proposal - August 2026_redacted P-Statement Other · 12 Aug 2026 View ↗ PDF P-Statement Other P-Statement Other · 8 Jun 2026 View ↗ PDF P-Transport Assessment P-Transport Assessment · 15 Jan 2026 View ↗ PDF P-Planning Statement P-Planning Statement · 4 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF SBM Full Area P-Biodiversity credits details · 17 Nov 2025 View ↗ PDF Sound Management Plan - GP 10 year Planning.pdf P-Published Noise Assessment · 3 Nov 2025 View ↗ PDF 553682sb29Sep25FV01_BNGA_opt.pdf P-Biodiversity credits details · 29 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF 553682sb29Sep25FV02_PEA_Part 2 of 3.pdf P-Biodiversity credits details · 29 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF 553682sb29Sep25FV02_PEA_Part 3 of 3.pdf P-Biodiversity credits details · 29 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF 553682sb29Sep25FV02_PEA Part 1 of 3.pdf P-Biodiversity credits details · 29 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF Statutory_Biodiversity_Metric_Condition_Assessments.xlsx P-Biodiversity credits details · 29 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF 3441-5-4-LRS-5400-P2 Landscape Restoration Statement.pdf P-Statement Other · 29 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF Gunnersbury Park Socio Economic Impact Assessment_FINAL VERSION.pdf P-Statement Other · 29 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF 2509-046 CTMP01 - Construction Traffic Management Plan - Compressed.pdf P-Transport Assessment · 29 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF 2509-046 TN01 - TfL Service Impact Note.pdf P-Transport Assessment · 29 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF 2509-046 TN03 - Cycle Parking Note - Compressed.pdf P-Transport Assessment · 29 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF 2509-046 TP01 - Travel Plan Statement.pdf P-Travel plan · 29 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF 2501-046 TA01 - Transport Assessment - Compressed.pdf P-Transport Assessment · 29 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF Gunnersbury Planning Statement - 10 Year Consent.pdf P-Planning Statement · 29 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF Other relevant information_included_in_Fire Statement.pdf P-Statement Other · 29 Oct 2025 View ↗

Plans & drawings 10

PDF P-Rejected Plans P-Rejected Plans · 8 Jun 2026 View ↗ PDF P-Rejected Plans P-Rejected Plans · 8 Jun 2026 View ↗ PDF P-Rejected Plans P-Rejected Plans · 3 Nov 2025 View ↗ PDF DS806-P-01(A1)Rev0 Site Location Plan.pdf P-Location Plan · 29 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF DS806-P-02(A1) Rev0 Site Plan Existing.pdf P-Existing Site · 29 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF P-Rejected Plans P-Rejected Plans · 29 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF P-Rejected Plans P-Rejected Plans · 29 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF P-Rejected Plans P-Rejected Plans · 29 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF 2509-046 TN02 - WMP and DSP.pdf P-Site waste management plan · 29 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF P-Rejected Plans P-Rejected Plans · 29 Oct 2025 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF ApplicationFormRedacted.pdf P-Planning Application Form · 29 Oct 2025 View ↗

Consultation & comments 5

PDF P-Consultation Responses P-Consultation Responses · 8 Jul 2026 View ↗ PDF Garden Trust comment 2_redacted P-Consultation Responses · 25 Jun 2026 View ↗ PDF Consultation Response Consultation Response · 11 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF P-Consultation Responses P-Consultation Responses · 10 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF Garden Trust comment P-Consultation Responses · 10 Dec 2025 View ↗

Other documents 6

PDF Final - Gunnersbury Estate (2026) CIC Community Engagement StrategyV1 P-Supporting Information · 14 Oct 2026 View ↗ PDF Gunnersbury Estate (2026) CIC Community Engagement StrategyV1 P-Supporting Information · 24 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF DS806-P-05(A1) RevA P-Proposed Site · 10 Jul 2026 View ↗ PDF DS806-P-04(A1) RevA P-Proposed Site · 10 Jul 2026 View ↗ PDF DS806-P-06(A1) RevA P-Proposed Site · 10 Jul 2026 View ↗ PDF Revised Proposals - June 2026 P-Supporting Information · 8 Jun 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 9

Metropolitan Open Land
Green belt level protection inside London.
The London Plan gives Metropolitan Open Land the same protection as green belt: inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.
Registered park or garden: Gunnersbury Park
Nationally designated heritage. Its significance and setting carry great weight.
Registered parks and gardens, battlefields, world heritage sites and protected wrecks are designated heritage assets: harm needs clear and convincing justification.
Historic England ↗
Gunnersbury Park conservation area
Also Gunnersbury Park (article 4). Demolition needs planning permission and permitted development is restricted.
The council must give weight to preserving or enhancing the area's character and appearance. Not every council has published its boundaries as open data.
Heritage at risk: Gunnersbury Park
On the register of historic places assessed as at risk.
A designated building, monument, park or conservation area assessed as at risk from neglect, decay or development. Proposals that secure its future are looked on favourably.
Historic England ↗
Agricultural land, grade 2
Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. A site survey can differ.
Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.
Archaeological priority area
An assessment or field evaluation may be asked for before ground works.
The council or Historic England considers archaeology likely here. A desk-based assessment, and sometimes trial trenching, can be asked for with the application.
Air quality management area: Hounslow AQMA
The council has declared the area as failing an air quality objective.
Schemes that add traffic, parking or combustion plant are assessed against the area's action plan and may need an air quality assessment.
Council record ↗
Habitat network: Wood pasture and parkland
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Public transport access: PTAL 1a (very poor), TfL 2023, for the 100 m square.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No listed building at the site

Checked on 2 November 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, Transport for London (public transport access levels, Powered by TfL Open Data, OGL v3.0, contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2025) and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Council
Hounslow
Application type
All other major
Postcode
W3 8LQ
Received
29 Oct 2025
Validated
26 Nov 2025
Ward
Brentford East|Chiswick Gunnersbury
Case officer
Show
Decision
APPROVED
Decision date
14 Oct 2026

How this decision compares

Decided in 322 days from validation, 266 days slower than Hounslow's median of 56 for full applications. Approved, as 68% of full applications here are.

52%decided within 8 weeks
68%approved
403decided in the last year

Plota live figures for full applications decided by Hounslow in the last twelve months, from validation. Hounslow decision record →

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Consultation
27 Nov 2025
Comments by
2 Sept 2026
Site or press notice
26 Jun 2026
Statutory expiry
25 Feb 2026

Historical activity at this location

50 previous applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

This property

Previous applications at this address

2025 Approved
Temporary change of use of areas of Gunnersbury Park for the staging of temporary events…
254490CONS
2025 Approved
Installation of external works to the existing café compromising of external cooler, cond…
P/2025/1064
2025 Approved
Installation of an externally illuminated fascia sign with LED lights strip.
P/2025/1547
2025 Approved
Temporary change of use of area of Gunnersbury Park for the staging of a one-day music ev…
P/2025/0593
2025 Approved
Temporary change of use of area of Gunnersbury Park for the staging of a one-day music ev…
250774CONS
2024 Approved
Temporary change of use of area of Gunnersbury Park for the staging of a three-day music…
242439CONS
2024 Approved
Temporary change of use of area of Gunnersbury Park for the staging of a three-day music…
P/2024/1641
2024 Approved
Installation of a Humanitarian Aid Memorial with a new public footpath and bench
P/2024/0324
2024 Approved
Non material amendment to replace Siberian Larch with European Redwood as the timber used…
P/2024/1586
2024 Approved
Installation of a Humanitarian Aid Memorial with a new public footpath and bench. (Out of…
240614CONS
2023 Approved
Temporary change of use of an area of Gunnersbury Park for the staging of a two day music…
P/2023/1862
2023 Approved
Temporary change of use of an area of Gunnersbury Park for the staging of a two day music…
232420CONS
2023 Approved
Non Material amendments following planning permission for 00885/C/S9 dated 10/06/2021 for…
P/2023/2148
2022 Approved
Temporary change of use of area of Gunnersbury Park for the staging of a one-day music ev…
P/2022/1663
2022 Approved
Details of condition 4 (Delivery and Servicing Management Plan) submited pursuant of plan…
P/2022/1784
2022 Approved
Details of condition 3 (Construction Management Plan) submitted pursuant of planning perm…
P/2022/1458
2022 Approved
Temporary change of use of the park for a series of special event film screenings between…
P/2022/0139
2021 Withdrawn
Temporary change of use of the park for a series of special event film screenings between…
P/2021/0610
2020 Withdrawn
Temporary change of use of the park for a series of special event film screenings between…
P/2020/1745
2020 Approved
Temporary change of use of the park for a series of special event film screenings between…
202184CONS
2019 Withdrawn
Temporary change of use of the park for the staging of a number of musical events between…
192600CONS
2019 Approved
Temporary change of use of the park for a series of special event film screenings between…
P/2019/4631
2019 Approved
Temporary change of use of the park for the staging of a number of musical events between…
P/2019/2006
2018 Approved
Details submitted pursuant to Condition 20 (Construction Logicists Plan) for planning per…
P/2018/0970
2018 Approved
Details of soft landscaping (condition 11), tree planting (12) and cycle parking (18) pur…
P/2018/0513
Within ~100m

Nearby activity

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222183CONS
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LAND AT GUNNERSBURY PARK POPES LANE EALING W3 8LQ
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2021 Withdrawn
BOWLS GREEN AND PAVILION GUNNERSBURY PARK POPES LANE EALING W3 8LQ
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214100CONS
2021 Approved
GUNNERSBURY PARK HOUSE AND GROUNDS POPES LANE, EALING, W5 4NH
Listed building consent for installation of two electric vehicle charge points, car park…
P/2021/1676
2021 Approved
GUNNERSBURY PARK HOUSE AND GROUNDS POPES LANE, EALING, W3 8LQ
Installation of two electric vehicle charge points, car park signage, two Pay & Display m…
P/2021/1630
2021 Approved
THE CAFE GUNNERSBURY PARK POPES LANE, EALING, W3 8LQ
Reconstruction of the Cafe and Carriage Display building following fire damage to match p…
P/2021/0890
2021 Withdrawn
THE EAST STABLES GUNNERSBURY PARK POPES LANE EALING W3 8LQ
Listed building consent for stabilisation works to the East Stables building to include r…
213958CONS
2021 Approved
Gunnersbury Park Popes Lane London W3 8LQ
Temporary change of use of the park for a series of special event film screenings between…
212581CONS
2021 Approved
THE EAST STABLES GUNNERSBURY PARK POPES LANE EALING W3 8LQ
Stabilisation works to the East Stables building to include removal and replacement of th…
211543CONS
2020 Approved
LARGE MANSION GUNNERSBURY PARK POPES LANE, EALING, W5 4NH
Replacement of the failed plaster ceiling to a first floor staff office (room F27) with a…
P/2020/3760
2020 Refused
GUNNERSBURY PARK HOUSE POPES LANE, EALING, W3 8LQ
Listed building consent for the installation of two electric vehicle charge points, car p…
P/2020/2126
2020 Approved
BOWLS GREEN AND PAVILION GUNNERSBURY PARK POPES LANE EALING W3 8LQ
Erection of a part single storey rear extension and a part rear infill extension to the b…
203867CONS
2020 Refused
GUNNERSBURY PARK HOUSE POPES LANE EALING W3 8LQ
Listed building consent for the installation of two electric vehicle charge points, car p…
202916CONS
2020 Approved
Bowls Green And Pavilion Gunnersbury Park Popes Lane Ealing W3 8LQ
Erection of a part single storey rear extension and a part rear infill extension to the b…
200997CONS
2019 Approved
THE STABLEYARD GUNNERSBURY PARK POPES LANE, EALING, W3 8LQ
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P/2019/4545
2017 Approved
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GUNNERSBURY PARK MUSEUM GUNNERSBURY PARK POPES LANE EALING W3 8LQ
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Details of condition 6a (decorative finishes) condition 6d (windows) and condition 6e (re…
P/2017/2326
2016 Approved
THE CAFE GUNNERSBURY PARK POPES LANE EALING W3 8LQ
Details of tree protection measures, hard and soft lanscape works, archaeological excavat…
P/2016/1656
2016 Approved
GUNNERSBURY PARK MUSEUM GUNNERSBURY PARK POPES LANE EALING LONDON W3 8LQ
Repairs to the Grotto and East Arch Wall at Gunnersbury Park.
P/2016/2552
Hounslow
Planning Authority Score
2.1/10
Poor
#268 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Change of use

Hounslow is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #203 out of 296. 47% of applications have the time limit extended, above the 41% national average. Hounslow is also one of the strictest councils - it refuses more householder applications than almost any other, with only 75% approved vs 90% nationally.

One of the strictest councils
only 75% approved vs 90% nationally
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Hounslow decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
71%
Overall approval rate
Below avg (87%) #294 of 296
75%
Householder approved
Below avg (90%) #293 of 296
56%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #203 of 296
47%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #208 of 296
38%
Minor dwellings approved
82 decided (1-9 homes)
93%
Major dwellings approved
14 decided (10+ homes)
29%
Change of use approved
72 decided
1,191
Total decisions
340 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings