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2nd Floor East & West 7 Grays Inn Square London WC1R 5AZ

2007/0254/LListed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 23 April 2007

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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Proposal

Removal of existing half glazed non-load bearing partition as an amendment to listed building consent granted subject to a section 106 legal agreement dated 3rd April 2006 (ref. 2006/0453/L) (for internal alterations in connection with the change of use from use as legal chambers (Class B1) to residential use (Class C3) as one 3-bed flat at second floor level (ref. planning permission granted 2004/3317/P)).

Received
17 January 2007
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Holborn & Covent Garden
  1. Received17 Jan
  2. Validated7 Feb
  3. Consult.6 Mar
  4. Target
  5. Decided23 Apr

Decided in 75 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a heritage application for a change of use at 2nd Floor East & West 7 Grays Inn Square London WC1R 5AZ. Camden has handled 1,652 applications of this type. This one was decided in 96 days, 7 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 10 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 208 applications in total for the WC1R postcode area.

97% of heritage 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
WC1R 5AZ
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Development type
B1a Business - Office
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 February 2007
Consultation expiry
6 March 2007
Consultation start
13 February 2007
Consultation end
6 March 2007
Last date for comments
7 March 2007
Permission expires
23 April 2010

Publicity

Site notice start
14 February 2007

Additional information

Documents
6

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 (19)

flood storage areas, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, 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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Associated applications

  1. 2007
    17 Jan

    Removal of existing half glazed non-load bearing partition as an amendment to listed building consent granted…

    This applicationApprovedListed building consent2007/0254/L
  2. 2004
    29 Jul

    Change of use from Legal Chambers (B1) to one 3 bed flat (C3) at second floor level.

    ApprovedFull Planning PermissionPart of2004/3317/P
  3. 2004
    29 Jul

    Internal works at second floor level in association with a change of use from Legal Chambers (B1) to one 3…

    RefusedListed building consentFiled alongside2004/3318/L

Source: Camden

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