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First Avenue House 42-49 High Holborn London WC1V 6NP

2004/1567/AAdvertisement ConsentApproved

Approved on 6 May 2004

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Display of non-illuminated projecting sign.

Received
8 April 2004
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Holborn & Covent Garden
  1. Received8 Apr
  2. Validated19 Apr
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided6 May

Decided in 17 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an advertising consent application at First Avenue House 42-49 High Holborn London WC1V 6NP. Camden has handled 499 applications of this type. This one was decided in 28 days, 3 weeks quicker than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 6 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 269 applications in total for the WC1V postcode area.

81% of advertising applications at London Borough of Camden were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
WC1V 6NP
Application type
Advertisement Consent
Development type
Sui Generis
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 April 2004
Permission expires
6 May 2009

Additional information

Documents
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: Bloomsbury
  • Article 4 direction: Basements
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Camden

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