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62 Great Russell Street London WC1B 3BG

2004/2366/PFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 20 October 2004

Council decision: GrantedPlanning committee

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

Proposal

Retention of existing cafe use at ground floor and basement level (Class A3).

Received
2 June 2004
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Holborn & Covent Garden
  1. Received2 Jun
  2. Validated9 Jun
  3. Consult.30 Jun
  4. Target21 Oct
  5. Decided20 Oct

Decided in 133 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at 62 Great Russell Street London WC1B 3BG. Camden has handled 2,296 applications of this type. This one was decided in 140 days, 13 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 17 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 640 applications in total for the WC1B postcode area.

90% of full 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
WC1B 3BG
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Development type
A3 Food and Drink
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
9 June 2004
Consultation expiry
30 June 2004
Consultation start
9 June 2004
Consultation end
30 June 2004
Target decision date
21 October 2004
Committee meeting
30 September 2004
Permission expires
20 October 2009

Planning decision

Statutory period
134 days

Publicity

Site notice start
18 June 2004

Additional information

Documents
7

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+1 more
  • 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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