Nye Bevan Estate Garages Millfields Road, London, E5 0AQ Data via plota.co.uk

Approved 2025/1437
Date received
week of 14 Jul 2025
Decision date
week of 7 Sept 2026
Postcode
E5 0AQ

Description

Demolition of existing garages and construction of 9 new residential dwellings (Use Class C3) with associated amenity space, cycle parking, refuse stores, hard and soft landscaping, play space, improvements to access and public realm, and other... Data via plota.co.uk

Last checked

Planning committee

Decided by Hackney Planning Sub-Committee on 8 Oct 2025.

Approved

As officers recommended.

  • Officers advised granting permission because housing, regeneration, design and environmental benefits outweighed the identified harm, subject to conditions and obligations.
  • One objection was reported initially, while later representations included one support letter and a further objection raising amenity, safety, flooding and design concerns.
  • The committee granted conditional permission, subject to a satisfactory Road Safety Assessment and completion of the legal agreement.
Read how the committee decided The proposed homes, site context, officer assessment, consultation responses, speakers, committee discussion and decision. Includes the meeting recording

Source: Plota analysis of Hackney's committee minutes of 8 Oct 2025.

Site constraints 7

Flood zone 2, rivers and sea
Medium chance: between a 1 in 100 and 1 in 1,000 annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 to 1 in 1,000 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 ↗
Archaeological priority area: Hackney APA 3.1 Lea Valley -&nbsp
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: Hackney 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.
Opportunity area
Where the London Plan expects significant growth.
Boundaries are indicative and the borough holds the detailed plan.
Also on the record
2 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin; Inside the Hackney built-up area.
Not affected
Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 18 September 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England 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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Hackney
Planning Authority Score
2.4/10
Poor
#256 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Hackney is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #220 out of 296. Hackney is also one of the strictest councils - it refuses more householder applications than almost any other, with only 84% approved vs 90% nationally.

One of the strictest councils
only 84% approved vs 90% nationally
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Hackney decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
82%
Overall approval rate
Below avg (87%) #248 of 296
84%
Householder approved
Below avg (90%) #257 of 296
53%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #220 of 296
46%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #201 of 296
75%
Minor dwellings approved
204 decided (1-9 homes)
100%
Major dwellings approved
4 decided (10+ homes)
50%
Change of use approved
2 decided
1,323
Total decisions
241 refused in the year to March 2026