Planning and regenerationSupport our residents

The Royal Borough is an area of enormous architectural significance and interest and our planning team is committed to providing a high quality, transparent and unbiased service.

 

Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) in RBKC

The Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) is a new power which enables a charge to be levied on the net increase in gross internal area floorspace arising from development in order to fund infrastructure that is needed to support development in the area.

The Mayor of London is proposing a CIL for Greater London for which a charge of £50/m2 will be levied in the Royal Borough, although medical/health services and schools/colleges are proposed to have a zero or nil charge (£0/m2) from 1 April 2012.

For further information visit our dedicated CIL webpage.

Redevelopment of the Earl's Court Exhibition Centre Site, Warwick Road, London SW5 9TA

We have now received the planning application for the redevelopment of the Earl’s Court Exhibition Centre. This has been subject to a round of public consultation from 22 August to 30 September 2011. Further information regarding the proposed development can be viewed on the Earl's Court Application page.

To comment, please write to us quoting reference PP/11/01937 or email planning@rbkc.gov.uk also quoting the same reference.

 

About the planning service in the Royal Borough

The Royal Borough handles over 3,000 planning applications each year and is committed to being professional, adaptable and transparent in all its dealings with its customers, providing high quality, unbiased advice at all times.

Privacy

You are advised that the Council scans all comments received about applications and makes them publicly available on the Internet. If you object to this, you should clearly say so at the beginning of your letter.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE COUNCIL ACCEPTS OBJECTIONS AND COMMENTS ON APPLICATIONS IN HARD COPY OR BY EMAIL, OR BY USING OUR ONLINE COMMENTS FORM. WE ARE NOT ABLE TO ACCEPT OBJECTIONS BY FAX.

Help with technical jargon

We are aware that planning is a highly technical area and although we do our best to avoid jargon, throughout our pages you will find several technical phrases. To find out what these mean, see our Planning Glossary [PDF] (file size 74Kb)

Contact numbers

You can always contact us on our planning help line, 020 7361 3012 but for emergency contact out of normal office hours for dangerous buildings or fallen trees, please call 020 7361 3000

 

Planning news and updates

Consultation on revisions to the Planning Application Validation Checklist

The consultation on the proposed revisions to the Planning Application Validation Checlist has now ended. The changes are in relation to the fact that all planning applications are now subject to the Planning Obligations SPD, not just major applications. This is particularly important for those applications which involve a net increase in residential units. More information can be found at the Revisions to the Planning Application Validation Checklist and the Planning Obligations SPD webpages.

 

Adoption of the Core Strategy

The Core Strategy was adopted the Full Council meeting on 8 December 2010. The Core Strategy sets out the vision, objectives and detailed spatial strategy for future development in the Royal Borough up to 2028 along with specific strategic policies and targets, development management policies and site allocations.

Please visit the Core Strategy page for more information.

The Council’s Employment Zone Supplementary Planning Guidance was deleted on 16 March 2010. It is no longer material in the determination in planning applications.

 

Earl's Court and West Kensington Opportunity Area

Have your say on the future of the Earl’s Court and West Kensington

“West London’s New Urban Quarter”

The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC), London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham (LBHF) and Mayor of London (GLA) are producing a planning framework for the Earl’s Court and West Kensington Opportunity Area. The framework will help guide development within the Opportunity Area and will be taken into account in deciding planning applications. It will supplement planning policies in the two boroughs’ Development Plans and in the London Plan.

As a step on the way to producing the framework, we have produced the Earl’s Court and West Kensington Opportunity Area Draft Joint Supplementary Planning Document. It is called a ‘draft’ planning document because it is not finalised – we are asking for people’s views on it first, and there is a lot more work to do before it is completed and adopted.

 

Estate Agents Boards: New Direction under Regulation 7

 

Iranian Embassy Application

To view documents associated with the proposed Iranian Embassy on the corner of Harrington Road and Queens Gate (PP/10/00153) please see the application details. 

If you want to view the planning documents you will need to come into Kensington Town Hall with photo ID.

 

The Royal Borough’s response to the sale of Notting Hill Gate

Metro Shopping Fund has recently announced the sale of their landholdings in the Notting Hill Gate District Centre.

Page last updated: 27/01/2012