38 Bedford Place London WC1B 5JH
Approved on 9 March 2007
Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Variation to Listed Building Consent (2006/0001/L) including reconstruction of the roof and new steelwork to support staircase landings.
- Received
- 19 January 2007
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- London Borough of Camden
- Ward
- Bloomsbury
- ReceivedReceived19 Jan
- ValidatedValidated6 Feb
- Consult.Consultation27 Feb
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided9 Mar
Decided in 31 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a heritage application at 38 Bedford Place London WC1B 5JH. Camden has handled 1,652 applications of this type. This one was decided in 49 days. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 14 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 395 applications across Bloomsbury. We hold 640 applications in total for the WC1B 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
- WC1B 5JH
- Application type
- Listed Building Consent
- Development type
- C3 Dwelling House
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 6 February 2007
- Consultation expiry
- 27 February 2007
- Consultation start
- 6 February 2007
- Consultation end
- 27 February 2007
- Last date for comments
- 1 March 2007
- Permission expires
- 9 March 2010
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 8 February 2007
Additional information
- Documents
- 11
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Bloomsbury
- Listed building: Grade II: Numbers 18-22 and Attached Railings and Attached Garden Wall and Railings to Number 22On or next to this site
- Article 4 direction: Basements
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
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.
A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.
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Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
Source: Camden
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