Hyde Park Serpentine Road London W2 2UH Data via plota.co.uk

Pending 26/06612/ADFULL
Admin / procedural
Council
Westminster 3.5/10
Date received
28 Sept 2026
Date validated
28 Sept 2026
Postcode
W2 2UH

Description

Details of an Arboricultural Assessment; Pursuant to condition 8 of planning permission dated 4th June 2026 (25/09350/FULL) Data via plota.co.uk

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Site constraints 11

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: Hyde 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 ↗
Royal Parks 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 Named permitted development rights are withdrawn here.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.
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: City of Westminster APA 2.3
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: Wood pasture and parkland
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.
Also on the record
National infrastructure project 513 m away: London Strategic Heat Main Project, at pre-application; Public transport access: PTAL 5 (very good), 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 8 October 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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Previous applications at this address

2025 Approved
Amendments to planning permission dated 02 September 2024 (RN: 24/03126/FULL) for the: Us…
25/02699/NMA
2024
Use of an area of Hyde Park for the Christmas Winter Wonderland event including an outdoo…
24/03126/FULL
2023 Approved
Erection of a jetty extension to the Eastern Boathouse located on the north eastern edge…
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Use of an area of Hyde Park for the Christmas event 'Winter Wonderland' including an outd…
23/04310/FULL
2022
Use of an area of Hyde Park for the Christmas event 'Winter Wonderland' including an outd…
22/04521/FULL
2022 Approved
Temporary tipi bar, food preparation and pass area, demountable pergola and further outdo…
22/00955/CLOPUD
2021 Approved
Use of an area of Hyde Park for the Christmas event 'Winter Wonderland' including an outd…
21/03622/FULL
2020 Approved
Use of an area of Hyde Park for the Christmas event 'Winter Wonderland' including an outd…
20/03815/FULL
2019 Approved
Use of an area of Hyde Park for the Christmas event 'Winter Wonderland' including an outd…
19/05088/FULL
2019 Approved
1 x London plane (id 09V7): Dismantle to 8 metre monolith
19/00351/TCA
2018 Approved
Details of storage for residual waste, food waste and recyclable materials pursuant to co…
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2018 Approved
Details of cedar timber cladding sample pursuant to condition 3 Part (c) of planning perm…
18/09530/ADFULL
2018 Approved
Variation of condition 1 of planning permission dated 28 July 2016 (RN 16/04971/FULL) for…
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2018 Approved
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Details of typical bay studies, windows and doors pursuant to condition 4 of planning per…
18/02677/ADFULL
2018 Approved
Details of facing materials pursuant to condition 3 of planning permission date 19 Januar…
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2017 Approved
Erection of single storey building to accommodate the catering facilities, including stor…
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Westminster
Planning Authority Score
3.5/10
Below average
#221 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Westminster is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #258 out of 296. Only 28% of applications have the time limit extended, well below the 41% national average - the council usually decides on time. Westminster is also one of the strictest councils - it refuses more householder applications than almost any other, with only 81% approved vs 90% nationally.

One of the strictest councils
only 81% approved vs 90% nationally
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Westminster decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
86%
Overall approval rate
Below avg (87%) #201 of 296
81%
Householder approved
Below avg (90%) #277 of 296
44%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #258 of 296
28%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #46 of 296
83%
Minor dwellings approved
12 decided (1-9 homes)
67%
Major dwellings approved
3 decided (10+ homes)
81%
Change of use approved
133 decided
4,602
Total decisions
648 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings