Piccadilly Street - Planning Application

PUBLIC NOTICE by Westminster City Council

Notice is hereby given that on the 23rd September 2025 Westminster City Council made The City of Westminster (Stopping Up of Highways) (No.4) Order 2025 under sub-section 247 (2A) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (“the 1990 Act”), the general effect of which is to authorise the stopping up of parts of the highways Piccadilly, Piccadilly Place, Vine Street and Swallow Place to enable planned development to be carried out at the premises 33-35 Piccadilly London W1J 0LP, namely the demolition of that building and erecting a new building in its place, having an altered boundary of the ground floor external wall of the building.

The parts of the highway that the order authorises to be stopped up comprise:

(a) 5.07 square metres area of the part of the highway Vine Street that extends eastward by 13.60 metres between 0 metres and 0.74 metres from Swallow Street,

(b) 0.91 square metre area of the part of the highway Swallow Street that extends northward by 27.39metres from the highway Piccadilly, varying in width by approximately 0.06 metres, in a direction that is perpendicular to the middle line of the highway Swallow Street,

(c) 0.16 square metre area of the part of the highway Piccadilly Place that extends by 0.04 metres from the 7.19 metres length of the ground floor external wall of the Building, which part is situated between 11.81 metres and 19 metres from the present Piccadilly and Piccadilly Place corner of the Building,

(d) 1.10 square metre area of the part of the highway Swallow Street that extends by a distance of 0.63 metres from the 2.36 metres length of the Swallow Street and Piccadilly corner of the Building,

(e) 0.06 square metre area of the part of the highway Piccadilly that extends by 0.02 metres from the 5.89 metres length of the ground floor external wall of the Building, which part is situated adjacent to the present Piccadilly and Piccadilly Place corner of the Building, National Grid References of limits of the complete development are:
529357 180583 529371 180590
529357 180583 529373 180552
529371 180590 529388 180558
529388 180558 529373 180552
529357 180583 529371 180590

The order and plan identifying the location of the highway authorised to be stopped up may be inspected free of charge between 11am and 5pm Mondays to Fridays at Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, London, SW1E 6QP, during a period of six weeks from the date of this notice. Please telephone 020 7641 2642 to arrange an appointment. Alternatively, you may e-mail jperkins@westminster.gov.uk for a copy.

Any person aggrieved by the order who desires to question the order’s validity may make an application to the High Court under section 287 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 Act within six weeks of the date this notice is first published.

Westminster City Council granted permission for the development under part three of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 on the date 12 June 2024. Details of the proposed development may be viewed on line at www.westminster.gov.uk then by clicking on “Planning Applications and Decisions” then “search now” then in Simple Search text box enter 23/05723/FULL then click “Search”.

It re-routes to idox.westminster.gov.uk and the page for the proposal. Click on “there are X documents associated with this application”.

This notice is given by Westminster City Council on the date 26 November 2025 pursuant to section 252 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990