Trafalgar Buildings 1 - 3 Whitehall London SW1A 2DD Data via plota.co.uk

25/09255/LBC - Listed Building Consent Application Approved
Listed buildings

Proposal

Conversion of part basement, part ground and the upper floors of the existing buildings, and erection of a rear infill extension and external alterations to front facades and roof level, for use as a hotel and reprovision of retail units at ground level. [Linked to 25/09254/FULL] Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
22 Dec 2025
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Approved
15 Jun 2026

Approved on 15 Jun 2026 · Sub-Committee · Last checked 4 Oct 2026

Documents 51

Decision & officer reports 2

PDF DECISION NOTICE - CONDITIONAL LISTED BUILDING CONSENT Decision Notice · 15 Jun 2026 View ↗ PDF SUB COMMITTEE REPORT Report · 21 Apr 2026 View ↗

Statements & assessments 20

PDF ARBORICULTURAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT Tree Survey · 22 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF ARCHAEOLOGY ASSESSMENT Background Papers · 22 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF CIRCULAR ECONOMY STATEMENT Economic statement · 22 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF DAYLIGHT AND SUNLIGHT REPORT Daylight and Sunlight assessment · 22 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF DESIGN AND ACCESS STATEMENT_PART1 Design and Access Statement · 22 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF DESIGN AND ACCESS STATEMENT_PART2 Design and Access Statement · 22 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF DESIGN AND ACCESS STATEMENT_PART3 Design and Access Statement · 22 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF DESIGN AND ACCESS STATEMENT_PART4 Design and Access Statement · 22 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF ENERGY STATEMENT Energy Assessment · 22 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF FIRE STATEMENT Background Papers · 22 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF FLOOD RISK ASSESSMENT AND DRAINAGE STRATEGY Flood risk assessment · 22 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF HEALTHY STREETS TRANSPORT ASSESSMENT Transport assessment · 22 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF HERITAGE STATEMENT Heritage Statement · 22 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF NOISE ASSESSMENT Noise impact assessment · 22 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF OVERHEATING ASSESSMENT Background Papers · 22 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF PLANNING STATEMENT Planning Statement · 22 Dec 2025 View ↗
PDF Commenter’s name hidden Show Statement of Community Involvement · 22 Dec 2025 View ↗
PDF SUSTAINABILITY STATEMENT Sustainability appraisal · 22 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF WHOLE LIFECYCLE CARBON ASSESSMENT Environmental Statement · 22 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF AIR QUALITY ASSESSMENT Air quality assessment · 22 Dec 2025 View ↗

Plans & drawings 10

PDF SECTION 106 LEGAL AGREEMENT Legal Agreement · 15 Jun 2026 View ↗ PDF DEMOLITION DRAWINGS Drawing · 22 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF EXISTING DRAWINGS Drawing · 22 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF GREEN ROOF DETAILS Drawing · 22 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT PLAN Background Papers · 22 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF OUTLINE CONSTRUCTION LOGISTICS PLAN Construction Management Plan · 22 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF PROPOSED DRAWINGS_PART1 Drawing · 22 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF PROPOSED DRAWINGS_PART2 Drawing · 22 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF SITE LOCATION PLAN Location Plan · 22 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF TRAVEL PLAN Travel Plan · 22 Dec 2025 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF APPLICATION FORM REDACTED Application Form · 22 Dec 2025 View ↗

Consultation & comments 4

PDF HISTORIC ENGLAND COMMENT Consultee Comment · 18 Feb 2026 View ↗ PDF HISTORIC ENGLAND COMMENT Consultee Comment · 18 Feb 2026 View ↗ PDF CNSLT-CONSULTEE CLOUD STD Background Papers · 11 Feb 2026 View ↗ PDF ECNSLT-STD EXT CONSULTEES Background Papers · 11 Feb 2026 View ↗

Other documents 14

PDF DRAFT LEGAL AGREEMENT Background Papers · 27 Apr 2026 View ↗ PDF ACK-GENERAL LETTER (G/P/C) Background Papers · 11 Feb 2026 View ↗ PDF SITE NOTICE 21 OR 28 DAYS IF T&C APPL. Background Papers · 11 Feb 2026 View ↗ PDF APPLICATION SUMMARY SHEET Background Papers · 10 Feb 2026 View ↗ PDF ATTACHMENTSUMMARY Background Papers · 22 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF MONMOUTH DEAN INTEREST SCHEDULE - JUNE 2025 Background Papers · 22 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF MONMOUTH DEAN MARKETING BROCHURE Background Papers · 22 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF MONMOUTH DEAN MARKETING REPORT Background Papers · 22 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF MONTAGU EVANS INTEREST SCHEDULE - DECEMBER 2025 Background Papers · 22 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF MONTAGU EVANS INTEREST SCHEDULE - MAY 2025 Background Papers · 22 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF MONTAGU EVANS MARKETING BROCHURE Background Papers · 22 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF MONTAGU EVANS MARKETING REPORT Background Papers · 22 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF ACCOMMODATION SCHEDULE Background Papers · 22 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF COVER LETTER Background Papers · 22 Dec 2025 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Associated applications 3

Site constraints 14

Grade II listed: 3, Whitehall Sw1
List entry 1224053 · The pin is inside its outline · 31 more listed buildings within 150 m (4 Grade I, 5 Grade II*, 21 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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Historic England ↗
Trafalgar Square 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 ↗
2 Article 4 directions
Article 4 Basement Development Permitted Rights Removed · Article 4 Direction Class E To C3 In Central Activities Zone. 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.
In flood zones plus climate change
Inside the extent flood zones 2 and 3 could reach with climate change: the Central allowance for the 2080s on rivers, the Upper End allowance for sea level rise to 2125. From the sea. Defences are not counted.
The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Councils use it to decide when a flood risk assessment and the sequential test are needed. It is indicative and does not show whether a particular property will flood.
Flood map ↗
Protected view corridor: 2B.1 Parliament Hill oak tree 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.
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, 14 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 ↗
Town centre: West End
A designated centre in the London Plan.
Shops, services and active frontages are protected in centres, and main town centre uses are steered here first.
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: Trafalgar Square
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
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 2 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 2DD
Received
22 Dec 2025
Validated
22 Dec 2025
Ward
St James's
Case officer
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Target decision
16 Jun 2026
Decision
Application Permitted
Decision date
15 Jun 2026
Decision level
Sub-Committee
Applicant
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Agent
Centro Planning Consultancy

How this decision compares

Decided in 175 days from validation, 118 days slower than Westminster's median of 57 for listed building works. Approved, as 90% of listed building works here are.

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 →

Public comments

4comments received
3 objecting1 supporting

75% object · above the UK average of 74%

4 neighbours consulted · Last counted 4 Oct 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-14541879
Planning Portal ref
PP-14541879
Comments by
11 Mar 2026
Site or press notice
18 Feb 2026
Committee
21 Apr 2026
Env. assessment
No

Historical activity at this location

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Westminster
Planning Authority Score
3.5/10
Below average
#221 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Other 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