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City of London Corporation Planning Applications

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243Applications (90 days)
6Major applications
99%Approval rate
34 daysMedian decision time
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26/01071/NMACommercial

81 Newgate Street London EC1A 7HQ

Non-Material Amendment under Section 96a of the Town and Country Planning Act (1990) (as amended) to planning permission Ref. 23/00752/FULMAJ (as amended) dated 12 September 2023 to amend condition 57

Pending
26/01219/MDCCommercial

Tower 42 International Financial Centre 25 Old Broad Street London EC2N 1HQ

Submission of details pursuant to discharge of condition 2(a) of planning permission 24/01203/FULL dated 02.06.2025.

Pending
26/01218/MDCOther

Albert Buildings 49 Queen Victoria Street London EC4N 4SA

Submission of Archaeological Written Statement of Investigation pursuant to discharge of Condition 2 of planning permission 25/00346/FULL dated 24.06.2026.

Pending
26/01213/MDCOther

140 Leadenhall Street London EC3V 4QT

Submission of Noise Impact Assessment pursuant to conditions 4 & 5 of planning permission 25/00955/FULL dated 05.12.2025.

Pending
26/01216/MDCCommercial

115 - 123 Houndsditch London EC3A 7BU

Submission of Pre-Commencement Whole-Life Cycle Carbon Assessment (WLCA) Note pursuant to discharge of condition 9 of planning permission 25/00276/FULEIA dated 19.08.2025.

Pending
26/01214/MDCOther

140 Leadenhall Street London EC3V 4QT

Submission of Noise Impact Assessment pursuant to conditions 5 & 6 of planning permission 26/00314/FULL dated 18.05.2026.

Pending
26/01157/ADVTOther

81 Newgate Street London EC1A 7AJ

Installation and display of 5no. signs, comprising (i) 1no. internally illuminated logo and lettering sign measuring 800mm (h) x 2,960mm (w) x 105mm (d) displayed at a height of 13,128mm above ground

Pending
26/01210/MDCOther

99 Gresham Street London EC2V 7NG

Submission of Rubber Support Feet Technical Details pursuant to condtion 4 of planning permission 26/00435/FULL dated 07.07.2026.

Pending
26/01209/MDCOther

99 Gresham Street London EC2V 7NG

Submission of Acoustic Technical Note pursuant to condtion 3 of planning permission 26/00435/FULL dated 07.07.2026.

Pending
26/01204/MDCOther

Finsbury House 23 Finsbury Circus London EC2M 7EA

Submission of Lighting Strategy and Technical Lighting Reports, Lighting and Luminaire Schedules, technical datasheets and lighting drawings pursuant to discharge of condition 5 of planning permission

Pending
26/01205/LDCInstitutional

Finsbury House 23 Finsbury Circus London EC2M 7EA

Submission of Lighting Strategy and Technical Lighting Reports, Lighting and Luminaire Schedules, technical datasheets and lighting drawings pursuant to discharge of condition 3 (Part g) of planning p

Pending
26/01206/LDCInstitutional

13 Bishopsgate London EC2N 3BA

Submission of masonry report and drawings pursuant to discharge of condtion 3(b), 5 & 6 of planning permission 24/00812/LBC dated 04.12.2024.

Pending
26/01162/ADVTOther

4 Frederick's Place London EC2R 8AB

Installation and display of 1no. non-illuminated brass plaque measuring 310mm x 450mm at a height of 2.1m on the southern facade.

Pending
26/00985/FULLCommercial£50k–100k

Aldgate House 33 Aldgate High Street London EC3N 1AH

Installation of 1no. fire escape door to eastern elevation and associated external alterations including the installation of (i) 1no. gate within existing external fence line, (ii) 10no. lighting boll

Pending
26/01104/FULLCommercial£50k–100k

30 - 34 Moorgate London EC2R 6DA

Refurbishment and alterations comprising, (i) alterations to plant equipment at roof level, (ii) installation of CCTV cameras, (iii) alterations to ground floor entrances, and (iv) removal of 2no. gro

Pending

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Planning appeals in City of London Corporation

When City of London Corporation refuses an application, or does not decide it in time, the applicant can appeal to the Planning Inspectorate. An appeal that is allowed is one the council lost. Raw rates are not comparable between councils, because some kinds of appeal are allowed far more often than others, so the Inspectorate's national rate for each kind is applied to this council's own caseload to give the rate its mix predicts.

City of London Corporation, raw rate

23%

of judged appeals were allowed, so the council's decision did not stand

Expected for this mix of appeals

31.1%

what the national rate for each kind of appeal predicts for this council's caseload

8.1 percentage points below expected. City of London Corporation's decisions are overturned less often than the national record for the same kinds of appeal predicts for its caseload.

152 appeals counted, 152 judged either way (35 allowed, 117 dismissed), 0 judged neither way. These are appeals decided 2016-12 to 2026-01.

By kind of appeal

Each kind of appeal against the national rate for the same kind. This is the comparison the headline is built from.

City of London Corporation appeal outcomes by appeal type, with the national rate for each type
Appeal typeCasesJudgedAllowedThis councilNational
Planning Appeal71711115.5%28.8%
Commercial Appeal Service (CAS)48481327.1%33.3%
Advertisement Appeal2626726.9%36%
Listed Building Consent & Conservation Area Consent Appeal441Too few judged25%
Enforcement Notice222Too few judged13.5%
Community Infrastructure Levy Appeal111Too few judged25.2%

“Judged” counts appeals allowed or dismissed. The rest were withdrawn, invalid, split or unrecorded, and are counted but never treated as appeals the council won. A percentage is published only where at least 5 appeals were judged either way. Where it is not, the counts still are: a rate over one or two cases would claim a precision the sample cannot carry.

Source: the Planning Inspectorate's Casework Database, published quarterly on GOV.UK. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. These figures are the Inspectorate's appeal record, not the council's own planning register.

Money behind development in City of London Corporation

Developer contributions at City of London Corporation

City of London Corporation collects contributions from developers under planning obligations, but we do not yet hold its register in a form we can publish figures from. Only a minority of authorities publish one we can read, and this is not one of them, so we show nothing rather than a figure we cannot stand behind.

About City of London Corporation

City of London Corporation is a local planning authority responsible for processing planning applications within its area. Applications are submitted through the council's planning portal and cover a wide range of development types, from householder extensions and change of use to large-scale residential and commercial schemes.

SiteLens tracks the City of London Corporation planning register daily and enriches every new application automatically. Each is AI-classified by category and trade, given an estimated value band and a plain-English project brief, mapped, and checked against constraint flags like flood zones, conservation areas and green belt. Where an application names an agent, SiteLens shows the firm and matches companies to Companies House. Pro adds the applicant's name, the directors and company health behind each match, and the agent's direct email and phone where the council or firm publishes them, so you know who to speak to about the scheme.

You can also browse the council's own planning register on the official City of London Corporation planning portal.

City of London Corporation approval rates by application type

Share of decided applications approved in the last 12 months. A guide, not a guarantee.

  • commercial100% (90 decided)
  • other99% (79 decided)
  • householder100% (12 decided)

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