Planning application
Metropolitan Building, Lots Road Power Station, Lots Road, London, SW10 0QH
Permission granted. Work must normally begin within three years of the decision or the permission lapses.
Proposal
Variation of condition 2 (approved drawings) of planning permission 25/03794 to introduce a means of escape door and the relocation of the approved louvres from the northern to the eastern elevation
As published by the council, reference PP/25/05625
Application record
- Reference
- PP/25/05625
- Type
- Planning Permission
- Status
- Decided
- Decision
- Grant Planning Permission/Consent
- Received
- 15 Sep 2025
- Decided
- 10 Nov 2025
- Ward
- Chelsea Riverside
- Parish
- 04
- Postcode
- SW10 0QH
Site history
Applications at this address on the Kensington and Chelsea register
This site has had 2 applications since 2022: 2 approved, 0 refused.
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CON/22/01275 Granted
Metropolitan Building, Lots Road Power Station, Lots Road, London, SW10 0QH
Details required by Condition 32 (Travel Plan - details reserved) of planning permission PP/13/04082 (Variation of condition 2 (including the redistribution of non residential uses, revised mix of residential units and various internal & external works including reduction in parking spaces to 384) of planning permission PP/02/01324 as approved under appeal in January 2006 (Demolition of parts of the former Lots Road Power Station; the provision of 420 residential units by means of conversion of the former power station building to include residential units, retail business and community, a doctor's surgery and restaurants, the erection of a residential tower with a ground floor gymnasium and the erection of two other residential buildings (one to incorporate a nursery and business uses); car parking spaces, cycle parking, servicing, landscaping and works to Chelsea Creek and Chelsea Basin including the construction of three pedestrian bridges across the creek)(Major Application))
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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15 Sep 2025
Received by Kensington and Chelsea
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10 Nov 2025
Decision issued: Grant Planning Permission/Consent
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20 Jul 2026
Added to PlanIndex
Documents
Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
22 documents on file for this application
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Kensington and Chelsea granted permission on 10 November 2025, subject to any conditions on the decision notice. Work must normally begin within three years or the permission lapses. More in our guide to what happens after a planning decision.
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