PANELS
PANELS
GREENWICH DESIGN
REVIEW PANEL
The Officers’ House, Royal Arsenal by AHMM © Timothy Soar
The Royal Borough of Greenwich (RBG) has a unique mix of heritage, natural environment, historic and contemporary places and architecture.
It comprises the longest continuous riverfront of all London boroughs, the world-renowned Maritime Greenwich World Heritage site, a compelling green infrastructure of parks and woods and a vibrant set of town, district and local centres, including historic Greenwich, Woolwich, Eltham and Greenwich Peninsula. It is home to five of London’s Opportunity Areas, accommodating substantial new development, new communities and spaces.
The Council is committed to ensuring that high quality design and architecture is achieved for all developments in the royal borough, to assist in preserving and enhancing its unique places and ensuring growth is inclusive and sustainable design, and tailored to local needs. The Greenwich Design Review Panel was established in 2023 to support applicants, Greenwich's planning officers and planning committees to deliver this ambition.
The Greenwich Design Review Panel is chaired by Jay Gort, Founding Director at Gort Scott. Ken Okonkwo, Associate Director at Haworth Tompkins, is the panel's vice chair.
Greenwich University, Heneghan Peng Architects © Hufton Crow
Meeting dates
One Design Review Panel meeting date is provisionally arranged for each month.
Exceptionally, additional meetings may be required to accommodate the number of schemes requiring a review and/or to meet key dates for specific schemes.
The following dates are currently set for Greenwich Design Review Panel meetings during 2025:
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9 January
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13 February
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13 March
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10 April
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15 May
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12 June
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10 July
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14 August
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11 September
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9 October
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13 November
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11 December
The Officers’ House, Royal Arsenal by AHMM © Timothy Soar
Meeting fees
The charges for Greenwich Design Review Panel meetings are benchmarked against comparable panels providing design review services in London, such as design review panels in the London Boroughs of Camden, Newham and Waltham Forest, and the Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation.
Current charges for Greenwich Design Review Panel meetings are:
• Full review £6,200 + VAT
• Intermediate review £4,500 + VAT
• Chair’s review £3,400 + VAT
The cost of venue hire, if required, would be in addition to the charges above.
Where a scheduled review is subsequently cancelled or postponed by the applicant, an administrative charge will be applied:
• 50% of full cost: less than two weeks before
scheduled review
• £800 + VAT: between two and four weeks
before scheduled review
Meridian Gate, Kidbrooke Village © CZWG Architects
