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PermittedPA/17/02825Basement

The Former Royal London Hospital Whitechapel Road Tower Hamlets E1 1BB

Partial demolition, including removal of the remaining west wing and the grocer's wing (behind retained facade), alteration and refurbishment of the former Royal London Hospital and erection of a part four-storey and part seven-storey extension (including partial basement) to provide a new Tower Hamlets Council Civic Centre, comprising; office space (Use Class B1) on upper floors; a library and other customer facing functions (Use Class D1),council chamber, conference, exhibition and/or function space (Sui Generis) and an ancillary café on the ground floor; bicycle-parking spaces, refuse store and associated facilities within the basement; blue badge car-parking spaces, a new sub-station, landscaping and associated works

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Progress

Submitted
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— completed
Validated
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— completed
Consultation
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— completed
Target date
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— completed
Decided
8 May 2018
— completed

Application details

Reference
PA/17/02825
Local authority
Tower Hamlets
Postcode
E1 1BB
Ward
BETHNAL GREEN SOUTH
Application type
All Other
Property type
Commercial

Key dates

Decided
8 May 2018

Estimated project value

£135k–£340k

Typical UK cost for this job type, at inner London rates (2026). Estimated from the proposal description — planning applications do not state build cost. Source: trade estimate.

Recently sold nearby

New owners, recently moved in. First work on a house usually follows within months of completing. 8 recent sales are listed below.

Homes here go for about £635,000 — the median of the last 6 market sales in E1 (the wider postcode district), £336,000 to £775,000.

Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Sales are matched by postcode, not by property, so a sale listed here may be a neighbouring address. England and Wales only.

Planning constraints

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