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78343/APP/2025/2925 Approved

Proposal

Proposed enabling works (site clearance and ground preparation). Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
19 Nov 2025
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Approved
4 Jun 2026

Approved on 4 Jun 2026 · Last checked 8 Oct 2026

Planning committee

Decided by Hillingdon Planning Committee on 4 Jun 2026.

Approved unanimously

As officers recommended.

  • Officers advised approval because the temporary enabling works would support the approved data centre campus and were acceptable subject to conditions.
  • No residents objected, while consultees sought or accepted safeguards for trees, archaeology, air quality and contamination.
  • Members unanimously approved the officers’ recommendation after asking about the site’s power supply and construction mitigation.
Read how the committee decided The proposed works, site context, planning history, officers’ assessment, mitigation, committee questions and decision.

Source: Plota analysis of Hillingdon's committee minutes of 4 Jun 2026.

Site constraints 8

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 ↗
3 Article 4 directions
Residential extensions · Changes of use from commercial, business and service uses to dwellinghouses · Construction of new dwellinghouses in employment areas. Named permitted development rights are withdrawn here.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.
Strategic industrial land
Reserved for industry and logistics.
The London Plan protects strategic industrial locations from other uses; release needs a plan-led process.
Air quality management area: Hillingdon 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
National infrastructure project about 915 m away: Expansion of Heathrow Airport (Third Runway), at pre-application; Inside the Hillingdon built-up area; Public transport access: PTAL 1b (very poor), TfL 2023, for the 100 m square.
Not affected
Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 8 October 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, 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.

Sales history 1

Last sold for £77,500,000 in December 2023. Other property, freehold.

18 December 2023£77,500,000Recorded as a transfer outside a standard sale

Sale prices from HM Land Registry's price paid record, matched to this application by its address.

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Important details

Council
Hillingdon
Postcode
UB4 0RH
Received
19 Nov 2025
Validated
19 Nov 2025
Ward
WOOD END 2022
Case officer
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Target decision
5 Jun 2026
Decision
Approval
Decision date
4 Jun 2026
Agent
Emily Brosnan
Freehold owner
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How this decision compares

Decided in 197 days from validation, 134 days slower than Hillingdon's median of 63 for full applications. Approved, as 88% of full applications here are.

37%decided within 8 weeks
88%approved
1,425decided in the last year

Plota live figures for full applications decided by Hillingdon in the last twelve months, from validation. Hillingdon decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Consultation
5 Dec 2025
Comments by
28 Dec 2025
Hillingdon
Planning Authority Score
3.5/10
Below average
#219 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Hillingdon ranks #194 out of 296 councils for householder decision speed. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (90%) than the national average (90%).

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Hillingdon decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
85%
Overall approval rate
Below avg (87%) #208 of 296
90%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #191 of 296
58%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #194 of 296
45%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #190 of 296
61%
Minor dwellings approved
67 decided (1-9 homes)
65%
Change of use approved
17 decided
1,680
Total decisions
255 refused in the year to March 2026

Sale prices: Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Freehold owner and leaseholders: Information produced by HM Land Registry. © Crown copyright 2026. Source: HM Land Registry, UK and overseas companies that own property in England and Wales, September 2026 release.