City Of London Cemetery Aldersbrook Road Manor Park London E12 5DS Data via plota.co.uk

25/02756/LBC - Listed Building Consent Approved

Proposal

Proposed alterations and repairs to the catacombs including alterations to ventilation openings with cast-iron grilles, removal of redundant gas services and flue, repairing stone work with matching materials. Proposed alterations to the office and staff building including replacement of external AC condenser and new internal AC units, internal and external repairs, including roof repairs and refurbishment of staircase and new mansafe system to the flat roof (Application site has Grade II listed buildings). Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 10 Oct 2026, 06:42

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Application progress

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Received

around 3 Dec 2025

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Approved

16 Feb 2026

Approved on 16 Feb 2026 · Delegated decision · Last checked 3 Oct 2026

Documents 10

Associated applications 2

Listed buildingApproved16 Feb 202625/02756/LBCThis application
Proposed alterations and repairs to the catacombs including alterations to ventilation openings with cast-iron grilles, removal…
Conditions 3 awaiting decision
- ConditionsApproval of details pursuant to Condition 3 (Exterior Cleaning).13 Oct 202626/02180/AOD

Site constraints 10

Grade II listed: Main Entrance Screen and Lodges City of London Cemetery

List entry 1080984 · 2 m away · 1 more listed building within 150 m (1 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.

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67 mMausoleum to Lieutenant Colonel W Haywood, City of London CemeteryGrade II

Historic England ↗

Green belt: London

Inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.

Green belt policy allows a short list of exceptions, such as limited extensions and replacement buildings. Anything else needs very special circumstances that clearly outweigh the harm. Some green belt land can count as grey belt, where it does not strongly serve the green belt's purposes. The council decides this in its green belt assessment or on each application, so we do not mark it here.

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Registered park or garden: City of London Cemetery

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 ↗

Agricultural land, grade 3a

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: Newham 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.

Also on the record

Conservation area 92 m away: Aldersbrook; Public transport access: PTAL 3 (moderate), TfL 2023, for the 100 m square; Priority habitat 31 m away: Deciduous woodland.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 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: Newham
Application type: Listed Building Consent
Postcode: E12 5DS
Received: around 3 Dec 2025
Validated: 3 Dec 2025
Ward: LIttle Ilford
Parish: Manor Park Community Forum
Case officer: Show
Decision: Approve
Decision date: 16 Feb 2026
Decision level: Delegated decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: MAP Architecture

How this decision compares

Decided in 75 days from validation, 19 days slower than Newham's median of 56 for listed building works. Approved, as 75% of listed building works here are.

This one75d

Council56d

UK56d

58%decided within 8 weeks

75%approved

47decided in the last year

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

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 3 Oct 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Env. assessment: No

Historical activity at this location

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

This property

Previous applications at this address

2025 Approved

Proposed alterations and repairs to the catacombs including alterations to ventilation op…

25/02759/FUL 16 Feb 2026

2025 Approved

Repair and renewal of masonry, roof and rainwater goods as well as cleaning and remedial/…

25/02512/LBC 28 Jan 2026

Newham

Planning Authority Score

3.7/10

Below average

#211 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Other decisions

Newham ranks #191 out of 296 councils for householder decision speed. Householder applications are slightly less likely to be approved here (87%) than the national average (90%).

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance

Newham decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

83%

Overall approval rate

Below avg (87%) #239 of 296

87%

Householder approved

Below avg (90%) #233 of 296

59%

Decided in 8 weeks

Below avg (63%) #191 of 296

39%

Extended time limit

Below avg (41%) #140 of 296

51%

Minor dwellings approved

67 decided (1-9 homes)

100%

Major dwellings approved

2 decided (10+ homes)

59%

Change of use approved

51 decided

989

Total decisions

170 refused in the year to March 2026