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47 - 49 Gower Street London WC1E 6HH

2008/5359/PCertificate of Lawfulness (Existing)Refused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 6 February 2009

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Use of basement, ground, first to third floor level as a residential institution (Class C2).

Received
10 November 2008
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bloomsbury
  1. Received10 Nov
  2. Validated12 Jan
  3. Consult.12 Dec
  4. Target
  5. Decided6 Feb

Decided in 25 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 47 - 49 Gower Street London WC1E 6HH. Camden has handled 241 applications of this type. This one was decided in 88 days, 6 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 395 applications across Bloomsbury. We hold 395 applications in total for the WC1E postcode area.

100% of amendment 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
WC1E 6HH
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness (Existing)
Development type
C2 Residential Institutions

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 January 2009
Last date for comments
12 December 2008

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Bloomsbury
  • Listed building: (West side) Nos.15A AND 17-49 (Odd) and attached railingsOn 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 (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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© 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.

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Source: Camden

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