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25/01324/FULL - Full Planning Permission Approved

Proposal

Installation of two critical cooling units in new plant enclosure at roof level. Data via plota.co.uk

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Received
29 Sept 2025
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Validated
10 Oct 2025
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Consultation
10 Oct 2025
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Approved
21 Nov 2025

Approved on 21 Nov 2025 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 13 Oct 2026

Documents 62

Decision & officer reports 1

PDF PLANNING PERMISSION FOR DEVELOPMENT (CONDITIONAL) Decision · 21 Nov 2025 View ↗

Statements & assessments 14

PDF DAS_PART 7 Report - Design & Access Statement/Report · 10 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF DAS_PART 11 Report - Design & Access Statement/Report · 10 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF 6. DAS_PART1 Report - Design & Access Statement/Report · 29 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF 6. DAS_PART2 Report - Design & Access Statement/Report · 29 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF 6. DAS_PART3 Report - Design & Access Statement/Report · 29 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF 6. DAS_PART4 Report - Design & Access Statement/Report · 29 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF 6. DAS_PART5 Report - Design & Access Statement/Report · 29 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF 6. DAS_PART6 Report - Design & Access Statement/Report · 29 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF 6. DAS_PART8 Report - Design & Access Statement/Report · 29 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF 6. DAS_PART9 Report - Design & Access Statement/Report · 29 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF 6. DAS_PART10 Report - Design & Access Statement/Report · 29 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF 6. DAS_PART12 Report - Design & Access Statement/Report · 29 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF 10. HTVIA STATEMENT OF CONFORMITY Accompanying report · 29 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF 11. NOISE IMPACT ASSESSMENT Report - Acoustic/Noise Report · 29 Sept 2025 View ↗

Plans & drawings 29

PDF SITE PLAN Site Plan · 10 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF LOCATION PLAN Site Plan · 10 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF GENERAL ARRANGEMENT PROPOSED ROOF PLAN Drawing · 10 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF AS BUILT ELEVATIONS EAST & SOUTH CONTEXT Drawing · 10 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF AS BUILT SECTIONS 02A AND 02B Drawing · 10 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF AS BUILT PLANS LEVEL 13 Drawing · 10 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF AS BUILT PLANS ROOF PLAN Drawing · 10 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF AS BUILT ELEVATIONS WEST & NORTH CONTEXT Drawing · 10 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF AS BUILT ELEVATIONS NORTH Drawing · 10 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF AS BUILT ELEVATIONS EAST Drawing · 10 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF AS BUILT ELEVATIONS WEST Drawing · 10 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF ADDITIONAL AS BUILT SECTIONS BUILDING OUTLINES Drawing · 10 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF SCHEDULE OF APPLICATION DRAWINGS (SCHEDULE CC2) Drawings Schedule · 10 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF LOCATION PLAN Superseded drawing · 29 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF THE LOCATION PLAN_INCLUDED_IN_DETAIL DRAWING Site Plan · 29 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF SITE PLAN Superseded drawing · 29 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF PROPOSED NORTH ELEVATION Drawing · 29 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF PROPOSED WEST ELEVATION Drawing · 29 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF PROPOSED EAST ELEVATION Drawing · 29 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF PROPOSED SOUTH ELEVATION Drawing · 29 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF SECTION AA Drawing · 29 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF NORTH WEST ROOF BAY STUDY Drawing · 29 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF PROPOSED PLANS LEVEL 13_REV 05 Drawing · 29 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF PROPOSED_SECTION 02_REV05 Drawing · 29 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF ADDITIONAL PROPOSED SECTIONS BUILDING OUTLINES_REV 02 (1) Drawing · 29 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF PROPOSED PLANS ROOF_REV 06 Drawing · 29 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF 7. SCHEDULE CC02 Drawings Schedule · 29 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF GENERAL ARRANGEMENT PROPOSED LEVEL 13 PLAN Superseded drawing · 29 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF SECTION BB Drawing · 29 Sept 2025 View ↗

Application forms 2

PDF 4. CIL FORM Other · 29 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF APPLICATIONFORMREDACTED Application Form · 29 Sept 2025 View ↗

Consultation & comments 2

PDF COMMENTS - HISTORIC ENGLAND Consultee Comment · 4 Nov 2025 View ↗ PDF COMMENTS - LONDON BOROUGH OF CAMDEN Consultee Comment · 4 Nov 2025 View ↗

Other documents 14

PDF Officers Report Officers Report · 21 Nov 2025 View ↗ PDF 1. SCHEDULE CC01 Other · 29 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF 9. VISUAL IMPACT STUDY_PART7 Accompanying report · 29 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF 9. VISUAL IMPACT STUDY_PART12 Accompanying report · 29 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF 9. VISUAL IMPACT STUDY_PART1 Accompanying report · 29 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF 9. VISUAL IMPACT STUDY_PART2 Accompanying report · 29 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF 9. VISUAL IMPACT STUDY_PART3 Accompanying report · 29 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF 9. VISUAL IMPACT STUDY_PART4 Accompanying report · 29 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF 9. VISUAL IMPACT STUDY_PART8 Accompanying report · 29 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF 9. VISUAL IMPACT STUDY_PART9 Accompanying report · 29 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF 9. VISUAL IMPACT STUDY_PART10 Accompanying report · 29 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF 9. VISUAL IMPACT STUDY_PART11 Accompanying report · 29 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF 9. VISUAL IMPACT STUDY_PART5 Accompanying report · 29 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF 9. VISUAL IMPACT STUDY_PART6 Accompanying report · 29 Sept 2025 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Associated applications 4

Site constraints 10

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: City of London 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 ↗
Scheduled monument 68 m away: The London Greyfriars, site of, Newgate Street, Farringdon
Its setting is a consideration for work nearby.
Nationally important archaeology protected by the Secretary of State. Work that affects the monument or its setting is rarely permitted.
Historic England ↗
National infrastructure project 263 m away: Thames Tideway Tunnel
The site is 263 m from 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, 347 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 ↗
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.
15 listed buildings within 150 m
Nearest: St Martins House, Grade II, 61 m away · 6 Grade I, 3 Grade II*, 6 Grade II
The site itself is not listed. 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 ↗
Also on the record
Wider setting of protected view 1A.2 Alexandra Palace viewing terrace to St Paul's Cathedral; 3A.1 Kenwood viewing gazebo to St Paul's Cathedral; Conservation area 56 m away: Postman's Park; Inside the City and County of the City of London 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

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
City of London
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Postcode
EC1A 7HQ
Received
29 Sept 2025
Validated
10 Oct 2025
Ward
Cheap
Case officer
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Target decision
5 Dec 2025
Decision
Approved
Decision date
21 Nov 2025
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
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Agent
Montagu Evans LLP

How this decision compares

Decided in 42 days from validation, 42 days faster than City of London's median of 84 for full applications. Approved, as 99% of full applications here are.

21%decided within 8 weeks
99%approved
171decided in the last year

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Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 13 Oct 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-14356854
Planning Portal ref
PP-14356854
Neighbours
20 Oct 2025
Consultation
10 Oct 2025
Comments by
17 Nov 2025
Site or press notice
16 Oct 2025
Committee
21 Nov 2025
Statutory expiry
5 Dec 2025
Env. assessment
No

Historical activity at this location

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

This property

Previous applications at this address

2025 Approved
Submission of the Carbon Dioxide Emissions Assessment pursuant to Schedule 3 Paragraph 9…
25/01070/PODC
2025 Approved
Installation of two critical cooling units in new plant enclosure at roof level. (City of…
P2025/2879/OBS
2023 Approved
Part refurbishment and part demolition, excavation and redevelopment involving the erecti…
23/00752/FULMAJ
2023 Approved
Part refurbishment and part demolition, excavation and redevelopment involving the erecti…
23/2388/K
2021 Approved
Submission of the Utility Connections Requirements and draft Programme pursuant to Schedu…
21/01143/PODC
2022 Approved
Installation and display of a non-illuminated ground floor hoarding displayed at heights…
22/00427/ADVT
2021 Approved
Submission of the Local Procurement Strategy pursuant to Schedule 3 Paragraph 2.1 of the…
21/00900/PODC
2021 Approved
Submission of the Local Training Skills and Job Brokerage Strategy (Construction) pursuan…
21/00901/PODC
2021 Approved
Submission of the Highways Schedule of Condition Survey pursuant to Schedule 3 Paragraph…
21/00490/PODC
2020 Approved
Part refurbishment and part demolition, excavation and redevelopment involving the erecti…
20/00311/FULMAJ
2020 Approved
Proposal: 20/00311/FULMAJ: Follow-up request for observations from City of London for: Pa…
20/OB/0023
2020 Approved
Observations to City of London for 'Part refurbishment and part demolition, excavation an…
2020/1941/P
2020 Approved
Part refurbishment and part demolition, excavation and redevelopment involving the erecti…
20/1335/K
2020 Approved
Part refurbishment and part demolition, excavation and redevelopment involving the erecti…
HGY/2020/0907
2020
Request for observations from City of London for: Part refurbishment and part demolition…
20/OB/0015
2019 Approved
Installation and display of: (i) one non-illuminated fascia panel measuring 2.0m in diame…
19/00716/ADVT
2025 Approved
Submission of details of a post-completion Circular Economy Report and post-construction…
25/01267/MDC
2025
Submission of (i) Details of the proposed urban greening; and (ii) Particulars and sample…
25/01700/MDC
2025
Submission of details pursuant to redischarge of condition 42 of planning permission 23/0…
25/01272/MDC
2025 Approved
Details of plant noise pursuant to condition 21 of planning permission 23/00752/FULMAJ da…
25/00898/MDC
2025 Approved
Details of sound insulation to ensure that NR40 is not exceeded in the proposed office pr…
25/00899/MDC
2025
Submission of drawings pursuant to the discharge of condition 13 of planning permission…
25/00669/MDC
2024 Approved
Non-Material Amendment under Section 96A of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 to ame…
24/00753/NMA
2024 Approved
Submission of particulars and samples of the materials to be used on all external faces o…
24/01062/MDC
2024 Approved
Part discharge of condition 40 (c) (d) (g) (h) (i) (j) (k) (l) (m) (n) (o) (p) (q) (t) of…
24/01063/MDC
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Installation of five CCTV cameras: Two on the St Martins le Grand main entrance lobby, an…
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24/00764/LBC
2024
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2024 Approved
St Martins House 16 St Martin's-le-grand London EC1A 4EN
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2024 Approved
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2024 Approved
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Submission of details of the lighting to the main entrance on the St Martin's Le Grand el…
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2024 Approved
St Martins House 16 St Martin's-le-grand London EC1A 4EN
Submission of details of the proposed repair of the scaffolding drill tie holes pursuant…
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2023 Approved
St Martins House 16 St Martin's-le-grand London EC1A 4EN
Submission of details of the proposed domed roofs to the north and south lightwells pursu…
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2023 Approved
St Martins House 16 St Martin's-le-grand London EC1A 4EN
Submission of details of the proposed pass doors to the St. Martins Le Grande elevation p…
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2023 Approved
St Martins House 16 St Martin's-le-grand London EC1A 4EN
Installation and display of: (i) non illuminated hoarding advertisement measuring 2.55m h…
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2023 Approved
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Installation and display of: (i) one internally illuminated fascia sign, measuring 2.4m w…
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18/00537/ADVT
2017
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Retention of non-illuminated 3D lettering to glazing measuring 0.35m in height.
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2017 Approved
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2016 Approved
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City of London
Planning Authority Score
6.7/10
Good
#71 of 296 councils
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City of London decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
97%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #3 of 296
100%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #1 of 296
100%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #1 of 296
84%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #296 of 296
50%
Minor dwellings approved
4 decided (1-9 homes)
91%
Change of use approved
22 decided
460
Total decisions
14 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings