Planning application
Swan House 51 High Street Kingston Upon Thames KT1 1LQ
Works: Demolition
Refused. Only the applicant can appeal, within the statutory time limit, and a revised scheme can be submitted instead.
Proposal
Details required for Condition 21 (Piling Method Statement) of planning permission 23/01865/FUL (Demolition of existing buildings and redevelopment to erect a part three, part four, part five storey building with a lower ground level to provide 758sqm of commercial floor space (Use Class E), 34 residential units (Class C3) and associated and associated communal and open space in addition to associated highways works and landscaping.)
As published by the council, reference 25/03120/CLC
Application record
- Reference
- 25/03120/CLC
- Type
- Details Reserved by Condition
- Status
- Refused
- Decision
- Refuse
- Received
- 3 Dec 2025
- Validated
- 16 Jan 2026
- Decided
- 5 Mar 2026
- Ward
- Kingston Town
- Parish
- Kingston And North Kingston
- Decision by
- Delegated Decision
- Postcode
- KT1 1LQ
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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3 Dec 2025
Received by Kingston upon Thames
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16 Jan 2026
Validated
Checked as complete and ready for consideration.
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5 Mar 2026
Decision issued: Refuse
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12 Aug 2026
Added to PlanIndex
Documents
Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
2 documents on file for this application
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The process from here
The council refused this application for the reasons set out on the decision notice, which the council portal holds in full. Only the applicant can appeal a refusal; the time limit runs from the decision date and is shorter for householder schemes.
Refusal does not prevent a fresh attempt. Applicants often address the reasons for refusal and resubmit, so a refused scheme is not necessarily the end of proposals for the site.
About conditions applications
How this application type works
This type of application deals with conditions attached to an existing permission, either by supplying the details a condition requires, called discharging it, or by asking to vary or remove one. It does not reopen the principle of the permission itself. Building often cannot lawfully start, or continue past a set stage, until the named conditions are discharged.
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