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Bloomsbury House 74 - 77 Great Russell Street London WC1B 3DA

2008/5530/LListed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 29 January 2009

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Installation of an antenna at roof level in connection with the existing offices (Class B1).

Received
4 November 2008
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bloomsbury
  1. Received4 Nov
  2. Validated1 Dec
  3. Consult.4 Nov
  4. Target
  5. Decided29 Jan

Decided in 59 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a heritage application at Bloomsbury House 74 - 77 Great Russell Street London WC1B 3DA. Camden has handled 1,652 applications of this type. This one was decided in 86 days, 5 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 12 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application 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 3DA
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Development type
C1 Hotel
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 December 2008
Last date for comments
4 November 2008
Permission expires
29 January 2012

Additional information

Documents
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

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.

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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