Convert a shop into hotel reception, meeting rooms and staff facilities, with internal alterations and removal of signs.
Unit 4, Black Lion House, 45 Whitechapel Road, London, E1 1DU
Trades this could involve
Official description
Change of use of an existing retail unit to provide additional ancillary hotel floorspace, including a new reception area, meeting rooms and back-of-house facilities, together with associated internal alterations and the removal of external signage.
- Council
- Tower Hamlets
- Reference
- PA/26/01324/NC
- Application type
- Full Planning Permission
- Status
- Approved
- Decision
- Approved
- Submitted
- 29 Jul 2026
- Decision date
- 21 Sep 2026
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