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25/04683/LBC - Listed Building Consent Application Approved

Proposal

Replacement flooring within rooms at first floor level. Data via plota.co.uk

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Received

8 Jul 2025

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Approved

8 Sept 2025

Approved on 8 Sept 2025 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 27 Oct 2026

Documents 6

Decision & officer reports 1

PDF GRANT OF LISTED BUILDING CONSENT [PE] Decision Notice · 8 Sept 2025 View ↗

Consultation & comments 2

PDF ECNSLT-STD EXT CONSULTEES Background Papers · 18 Jul 2025 View ↗ PDF CNSLT-CONSULTEE CLOUD STD Background Papers · 18 Jul 2025 View ↗

Site constraints 13

Grade I listed: Foreign and Commonwealth Office With Home Office the Foreign Office the Foreign Office (Foreign and Commonwealth Office With Home Office)

List entry 1066102 · The pin is inside its outline · 13 more listed buildings within 150 m (4 Grade I, 2 Grade II*, 7 Grade II)

Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.

Show the other 13 with distances

32 mNew Government Offices (HM Treasury) and archway link with Foreign Office at east end of King Charles StreetGrade II*
82 mStatue of Clive on Steps at West EndGrade II
85 mSteps and Parapets With Lamps at West EndGrade II
89 m9 Lampstandards Numbered 1 to 9 and 1 on Treasury Green Treasury Green LampstandardGrade II
97 m12, Downing Street Sw1Grade II
100 m11, Downing Street Sw1Grade I
101 m10, Downing Street Sw1Grade I
112 mTreasury Buildings Treasury Buildings (Cabinet Office and Privy Council Office)Grade I
114 mLampstandard Opposite West End of Downing StreetGrade II
136 mThe CenotaphGrade I
148 mDuck Island Cottage (Royal Ornithological Society)Grade II
148 m11, Great George Street Sw1Grade II*
149 mRoyal Institution of Chartered Surveyors the Royal Institution of Chartered SurveyorsGrade II

Historic England ↗

Flood zone 3, rivers and sea

High chance: a 1 in 100 or greater annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.

The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.

Flood map ↗

Whitehall conservation area

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.

Council document ↗

Article 4 direction

Article 4 Basement Development Permitted Rights Removed. Named permitted development rights are withdrawn here.

An Article 4 direction withdraws particular permitted development rights, so work that would normally need no application needs one here. Not every council has published its directions.

Protected view corridor: 2A.2 Parliament Hill summit to the Palace of Westminster

Inside the landmark viewing corridor of a protected vista. A building that rises above the corridor's threshold height should be refused. How high that is depends on where along the view the site is. Also in the corridor of 4A.2 Primrose Hill summit to the Palace of Westminster.

The London Plan (policy HC4) designates strategic views, and the Mayor's London View Management Framework (March 2012) gives 13 of them a protected vista toward St Paul's Cathedral, the Palace of Westminster or the Tower of London. A vista has a threshold height that rises or falls with the line of sight. In the landmark viewing corridor, a building above it would harm the view and should be refused. In the wider setting consultation area around the corridor, a building above it is referred for consultation and its effect on the view is judged. The threshold changes along each view and is set out in the framework. A revised framework is out for consultation until 4 December 2026 and is not yet in force.

London View Management Framework ↗

National infrastructure project: Thames Tideway Tunnel

The site is inside the project boundary. Waste water treatment, decided. The project page says whether consent was granted. Also within 2 km: London Strategic Heat Main Project (at pre-application, 511 m).

Nationally significant infrastructure projects (power stations, electricity lines, pipelines, major roads and railways, harbours, airports and reservoirs) are consented by a Secretary of State under the Planning Act 2008, after an examination by the Planning Inspectorate, rather than by the council. The boundary is the one the Inspectorate consults on and can change as the scheme does. Projects are shown within 2 km of the site.

Planning Inspectorate project page ↗

Archaeological priority area: City of Westminster APA 1.1

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: Westminster 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: Network Enhancement Zone 2

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Central activities zone

The core of central London in the London Plan.

Offices, culture and the other strategic functions of the centre take priority over new housing here.

Registered park or garden 72 m away: St James's Park

Its setting is a consideration for work nearby.

Registered parks and gardens, battlefields, world heritage sites and protected wrecks are designated heritage assets: harm needs clear and convincing justification.

Historic England ↗

Also on the record

Inside the City of Westminster built-up area; Public transport access: PTAL 6b (excellent), TfL 2023, for the 100 m square.

Not affected

Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 1 November 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Planning Inspectorate, 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: Westminster
Application type: Listed Building Consent Application
Postcode: SW1A 2AH
Received: 8 Jul 2025
Validated: 8 Jul 2025
Ward: St James's
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 2 Sept 2025
Decision: Application Permitted
Decision date: 8 Sept 2025
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: Heritage Surveys Limited

How this decision compares

Decided in 62 days from validation, 5 days slower than Westminster's median of 57 for listed building works. Approved, as 90% of listed building works here are.

This one62d

Council57d

UK57d

49%decided within 8 weeks

90%approved

2,227decided in the last year

Plota live figures for listed building works decided by Westminster in the last twelve months, from validation. Westminster decision record →