Understanding planning · 13 min read
Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
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Space House 1 Kemble Street and 43-59 Kingsway London WC2B 4TE
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Removal and like for like replacement of windows to the north and south of the Kingsway block, removal of link bridge roof, reconfiguration of the UKPN facade to the Kingsway building and removal of brickwork and replacement with louvres to the Tower UKPN substation. Internal removal of walls and sections of slabs at mezzanine levels to both the Tower and Kingsway buildings and creation of new penetrations through the structural slabs and walls at lower and upper basement, ground, mezzanine, first, third, fifth, eighth and fifteenth floor levels.
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