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16 Bury Place London WC1A 2JL

2007/0447/PFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 5 April 2007

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Alterations to shop front courtyard elevation, including removal of existing timber stallriser panels and replacement with louvres to existing bookshop (Class A1).

Received
30 January 2007
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Holborn & Covent Garden
  1. Received30 Jan
  2. Validated15 Feb
  3. Consult.20 Mar
  4. Target
  5. Decided5 Apr

Decided in 49 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at 16 Bury Place London WC1A 2JL. Camden has handled 2,296 applications of this type. This one was decided in 65 days, 2 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 15 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 179 applications in total for the WC1A 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
WC1A 2JL
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Development type
A1 Shop
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 February 2007
Consultation expiry
20 March 2007
Consultation start
27 February 2007
Consultation end
20 March 2007
Last date for comments
21 March 2007
Permission expires
5 April 2010

Publicity

Site notice start
28 February 2007

Additional information

Documents
10

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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