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Bethnal Green.

Bethnal Green sees an approval rate of 84% — 1 points below the Tower Hamlets average across 1,761 substantive planning decisions, with a refusal rate of 15.9%.[1]

Tower Hamlets1,761 applications
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1,761
Applications 1996–d
Decided applications
84%
Approval rate
1pp below borough avg (86%)
15.9%
Refusal rate
10th highest of 22
5.3%
Share of borough
of Tower Hamlets's 33,262 applications
Data from publicly available Tower Hamlets planning records and committee minutes, 1996–d .
Ward overview

Bethnal Green recorded 1,761 substantive planning decisions over 1996–d , approving 84% of them — 1 percentage points below the Tower Hamlets borough average of 86%. Its refusal rate of 15.9% is 10th highest of 22.

Application and refusal breakdown— subscriber data
Residential extension / alteration
New residential
Change of use
Commercial development
Recent planning decisions— subscriber data
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Committee members for this ward

No planning-committee member is recorded for this ward in the register we hold — committee membership is drawn from published committee records, and not every ward has a member on the planning committee.

At a glance[1]
WardBethnal Green
Applications1,761 (1996–d )
Approval rate84%
Refusal rate15.9%
Planning constraints[2]
Conservation areas2
Article 4 directions2
Listed buildings17
TPO trees43
Flood zoneZone 1 (low)
Sources & method
  1. [1]Ward approval and refusal rates, application counts and decision-time figures — London Borough of Tower Hamlets planning register and published decision notices, 1996–d . · methodology
  2. [2]Conservation areas, Article 4 directions and heritage designations — the borough’s adopted Local Plan and conservation-area appraisals.
  3. [3]Committee interventions and councillor records — public planning committee minutes and published decision notices.
  4. [4]Application-type mix and refusal grounds — case-officer reports coded against the adopted Local Plan, London Plan and NPPF.
Methodology is published in full so every number is traceable to its primary source.