GLA Opts Not to Intervene in Burlington Lane Scheme
Blow for campaigners as Deputy Mayor rubber stamps council approval
A visualisation from planning documents of how the building would look behind St. Nicholas Church
November 6, 2025
Dashing the hopes of local campaigners, the Greater London Authority has told Hounslow Council it will not call in the planning application for the ten-storey building at 1 Burlington Lane.
In a letter to the council dated this Monday (3 November) , Deputy Mayor Jules Pipe confirmed the GLA had considered the case (GLA ref: 2024/0508/S2) and the environmental information submitted so far, and was “content to allow the local planning authority to determine the case itself, subject to any action that the Secretary of State may take.” The letter follows the council’s notification on 23 October that it was minded to approve the application.
The GLA’s non-intervention removes the prospect of an immediate London-level hold or redesign requirement, but it does not prevent further challenges. The Secretary of State retains the statutory power to call in the application on planning-policy grounds although it is currently thought unlikely this will happen.
Hounslow Council’s planning committee approved the controversial project that looks sets to replace the existing vacant office building with a residential-led mixed -use scheme. The approved plans propose the demolition of the current structure and the construction of a part -six, part -ten -storey building delivering 132 self -contained flats alongside a terrace of three -storey houses, with flexible commercial floorspace at ground level and associated parking, amenity space and landscaping.
The applicant has presented the scheme as a local regeneration project intended to provide new housing and to refresh the building’s frontage to the Hogarth Roundabout.
Opponents, including the Old Chiswick Protection Society, were galvanised by what they believed was the unacceptably low level of affordable housing in the scheme and the impact the taller building would have on historic vistas across the oldest part of Chiswick. Council planners determined that this represented less than substantial harm which was outweighed by the new housing.
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