Agenda item

Planning Application Numbers:  24/AP/3803 for Planning Permission

  24/AP/3804 for Listed Building Consent

Report: see pages 260 to 303 of the agenda pack and pages 4 to 6 of the addendum report (and pages 11 to 232 of the main agenda pack and pages 3 to 5 of the addendum report of the meeting held on 22 July 2025).

PROPOSAL:

Redevelopment of the site to include:

- Redevelopment of the existing 1980s office building with partial demolition (including demolition of the St Thomas Street entrance building and the King's Head Yard facade); the construction of side extensions and upward extension to add 5 storeys and create a 10-storey office building plus plant, balconies and roof terraces;

- Redevelopment of Keats House (nos. 24-26 St Thomas Street) with retention of the historic frontage and construction of a roof extension to add one storey of office floorspace;

- Restoration and refurbishment of the listed Georgian terrace (nos. 4-16 St Thomas Street) to create level front entrances to the offices, internal alterations and new glazed roof to the rear courtyard (with separate LBC application ref. 24/AP/3804);

- Associated public realm and highway works to St Thomas Street and King's Head Yard, cycle parking and all ancillary works.

And: Listed building consent for the restoration, rebuilding and refurbishment of the listed terraces for office use (nos. 4-16 St Thomas Street) including: Making good of atrium roof, entrance building and link building interface; Internal alterations within the terrace to reinstate the plan form and reconfiguration of circulation space on each floor; Reinstatement of front doors along St Thomas Street. (Related planning application ref. 24/AP/3803.)

The committee heard the officer’s introduction to the report and addendum report. Members put questions to officers.

Representatives of the objectors addressed the committee and answered questions put by members of the committee.

The applicant’s representatives addressed the committee and answered questions put by members of the committee.

There were no supporters living within 100 metres of the development site, or ward councillors, present and wishing to address the committee.

Members discussed the application.

A motion to grant planning permission as on paper was moved, seconded, put to the vote and declared carried.

RESOLVED:

1.  That planning permission be granted for application ref. 24/AP/3803 subject to the conditions set out in the two reports, the completion of a section 106 legal agreement and referral to the Mayor of London; and

2.  That listed building consent be granted for application ref. 24/AP/3804 subject to the conditions set out in the two reports; and

3.  That the director of planning and growth be authorised under delegated authority to make any minor modifications to the proposed conditions arising out of detailed negotiations, which may include the variation and addition of the conditions as drafted; and

4.  That the planning committee in making its decision has due regard to the potential equalities impacts outlined in the officer report to the 22 July 2025 Planning Committee A (Major Applications); and

5.  In the event that the requirements of paragraph 1 above are not met by 31 December 2025, the director of planning and growth be authorised to refuse planning permission, if appropriate, for the reasons set out in paragraph 383 of the July report.