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Land Bounded by 50-57 High Holborn, (including Brownlow House High Holborn House & Caroline House) 18-25 Hand Court, 45-51 Bedford Row & Brownlow Street, London WC1V 6RL

2009/0675/PFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 7 July 2009

Council decision: Granted Subject to a Section 106 Legal AgreementPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Mixed use redevelopment of the site involving the demolition of Caroline House, 18-22 Hand Court and parts of High Holborn House, retention of facade and rebuild of part of High Holborn House facing High Holborn and the facade of 23 Hand Court and rear of High Holborn House (49-51 Bedford Row), Brownlow House and 45-48 Bedford Row. The erection of a new eight storey (plus two level basement and roof plant floor) building to accommodate A1 (Retail) floorspace and flexible A3/A4 (Restaurant/Drinking Establishment) at ground floor level together with new B1 (Office) space. Conversion of 46-48 Bedford Row to create 3x single family dwellings, change of use and extension of existing B1 (office) space to form 15x residential units within, 45 Bedford Row and 49-51 Bedford Row; conversion and extension of Brownlow House to provide 10x residential units (affordable housing); Redevelopment of 23 Hand Court to provide 22 student units in place of 6x existing residential units; new servicing access from Brownlow Street, and various public realm works to Brownlow Street, Bedford Row and Hand Court.

Received
12 February 2009
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Holborn & Covent Garden
  1. Received12 Feb
  2. Validated26 Feb
  3. Consult.26 Mar
  4. Target29 Jun
  5. Decided7 Jul

Decided in 131 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Land Bounded by 50-57 High Holborn, (including Brownlow House High Holborn House & Caroline House) 18-25 Hand Court , 45-51 Bedford Row & Brownlow Street, London WC1V 6RL. Camden has handled 2,296 applications of this type. This one was decided in 145 days, 14 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 5 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 269 applications in total for the WC1V 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
WC1V 6RL
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Development type
A1 Shop, B1a Business - Office, C3 Dwelling House, Sui Generis
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
15

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 February 2009
Consultation expiry
26 March 2009
Consultation start
3 March 2009
Consultation end
26 March 2009
Last date for comments
2 April 2009
Target decision date
29 June 2009
Committee meeting
11 April 2003
Permission expires
7 July 2012

Planning decision

Statutory period
123 days

Publicity

Site notice start
3 March 2009

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Bloomsbury
  • Article 4 direction: Basements+1 more
  • Brownfield land register: Land Bounded by 50-57 High Holborn, (including Brownlow House High Holborn House & Caroli…Register site at or near this address · +1 more
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

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 and heritage coasts.

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Associated applications

  1. 2009
    12 Feb

    Mixed use redevelopment of the site involving the demolition of Caroline House, 18-22 Hand Court and parts of…

    This applicationConditionsFull2009/0675/P
  2. 2009
    12 Feb

    Demolition of 19-22 Hand Court and parts of High Holborn House and demolition behind retained facade of 23…

    ApprovedConservation Area ConsentFiled alongside2009/0677/C

Source: Camden

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