Planning application
Apex 1 Apex Development Zone New Covent Garden Market Nine Elms SW8 5BH
Permission granted. Work must normally begin within three years of the decision or the permission lapses.
Proposal
Application under Section 96a of the Town and Country Planning Act for non-material amendments to reserved matters approval 2021/5032 dated 04/03/2022 to facilitate the operation of the Building Management Unit (BMU) involving increasing the size of the CMU to service the entire building and increasing the building AOD to allow BMU compliance. The changes also involve relocating the generator from level 25 to level 26 rooftop.
As published by the council, reference 2025/3771
Application record
- Reference
- 2025/3771
- Type
- Non-Material Amendment
- Status
- FINAL DECISION
- Decision
- Approve with Conditions
- Received
- 21 Oct 2025
- Validated
- 28 Oct 2025
- Decided
- 2 Jun 2026
- Ward
- Nine Elms
- Decision by
- Delegated Standard
- Postcode
- SW8 5BH
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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21 Oct 2025
Received by Wandsworth
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28 Oct 2025
Validated
Checked as complete and ready for consideration.
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2 Jun 2026
Decision issued: Approve with Conditions
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10 Aug 2026
Added to PlanIndex
Documents
Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
21 documents on file for this application
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Permission has been granted, usually subject to conditions listed on the decision notice, some of which must be discharged before work starts. The decision notice on the council portal sets out exactly what was approved.
Work must normally begin within three years of the decision or the permission lapses. Neighbours cannot appeal a grant; challenging one means judicial review of how the decision was made, within tight time limits.
About amendments applications
How this application type works
An amendment application changes a permission that already exists. Non-material amendments cover small adjustments with no wider effect, while minor material amendments, usually made by varying a condition, allow modest design changes without a fresh application. Anything beyond that needs a new permission, so the scope here is deliberately narrow.
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Application under Section 96a of the Town and Country Planning Act for Non-material amendment to amend the wording of condition 1 (approved drawings) of planning permission dated 12/02/2015 (ref. 2014/2810) for the Northern Site New Covent Garden Market. The amendments seek to update and revise the approved drawings to ensure that Condition 1 fully reflects the previous amendments.
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Northern Site New Covent Garden Market Nine Elms Lane SW8 5NX
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Details to discharge Condition 4 (CMP) pursuant to planning permission ref. 2019/2424, which obtained planning permission on 23 August 2019 for: Erection of a temporary three-storey building for use as a marketing suite and events space (sui generis), including associated access, landscaping and parking.
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2026/1469 Granted
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2025/2809 Granted
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