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305 Grays Inn Road London WC1X 8QF

2006/5484/PFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 16 March 2007

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Refurbishment of existing office building (Class B1) to include a new facade at ground floor level, an extension at basement level formed by roofing over the existing front lightwell, provision of replacement rooflights and new ventilation plant at rear first floor level, provision of new ventilation plant at second floor roof level with external access ladder from first floor level.

Received
29 November 2006
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Kings Cross
  1. Received29 Nov
  2. Validated26 Jan
  3. Consult.23 Feb
  4. Target
  5. Decided16 Mar

Decided in 49 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for an extension at 305 Grays Inn Road London WC1X 8QF. Camden has handled 2,296 applications of this type. This one was decided in 107 days, 8 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the King's Cross and St Pancras conservation area, with 6 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 143 applications across Kings Cross. We hold 1,230 applications in total for the WC1X 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
WC1X 8QF
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Development type
B1a Business - Office
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 January 2007
Consultation expiry
23 February 2007
Consultation start
2 February 2007
Consultation end
23 February 2007
Last date for comments
26 February 2007
Permission expires
16 March 2012

Publicity

Site notice start
5 February 2007

Additional information

Documents
16

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, 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.

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