Former Imperial College Medical School, Praed Street, W2 1NY

What is being proposed

Demolition of the existing buildings and redevelopment of the site to create a Sui Generis Clinical Life Sciences medical discovery hub including provision for clinical trials, plus retail/restaurant/café/gym uses (Class E(a), (b), (d) and (g)), a multifunctional community and learning space (Class F2), basement plant, landscaping, cycle parking facilities and installation of roof top plant and all other works incidental to the proposals.(For consultation purposes: the application is an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) development and is accompanied by an Environmental Statement (ES), which may be viewed with the planning application documents).

Description as published by Westminster.

What this could mean for you

These are the effects a proposal like this most often raises. Each one is a material planning consideration, so each can form the basis of a comment.

• Noise and disturbance
• Parking pressure
• Trees and landscaping

Derived automatically from the proposal wording. Read the full application before relying on it.

Timeline

1. Received

   19 Nov 2025 · Submitted to the council

2. Validated

   19 Nov 2025 · Checked and published

3. Comments close

   16 Sept 2026 · Last day to have your say

4. Decision due

   18 Feb 2026 · Target date, often slips

5. Decided

   Not yet · Outcome published

Key facts

Reference

25/08486/FULL

Authority

Westminster

Address

Former Imperial College Medical School, Praed Street, W2 1NY

Postcode

W2 1NY

Type

Commercial

Scale

Medium

Applicant

Not published

Agent

Not published

Received

19 Nov 2025

Decision due

18 Feb 2026

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