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31-33 High Holborn London WC1V 6AX

2009/0926/PApproval of DetailsApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 12 October 2009

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Details of facing brickwork and windows, cycle storage and sound insulation measures pursuant to conditions 2, 3 and 5 of planning permission dated 25/03/2009 (2008/2588/P) for change of use of upper floors from retail/office uses (Class A1 and B1) to residential use (Class C3) to provide 9 units, including extension and refurbishment of the upper floors, retention of ground and mezzanine floors as retail (Class A1), alterations to ground floor entrance, refuse storage and existing spiral stair/escape provision.

Received
10 February 2009
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Holborn & Covent Garden
  1. Received10 Feb
  2. Validated11 May
  3. Consult.4 Jun
  4. Target
  5. Decided12 Oct

Decided in 154 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at 31-33 High Holborn London WC1V 6AX. Camden has handled 713 applications of this type. This one was decided in 244 days, 28 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 9 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. We hold 270 applications in total for the WC1V postcode area.

98% of conditions 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 6AX
Application type
Approval of Details
Development type
A1 Shop, B1a Business - Office, C3 Dwelling House
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 May 2009
Consultation expiry
4 June 2009
Consultation start
14 May 2009
Consultation end
4 June 2009
Last date for comments
4 June 2009
Permission expires
12 October 2012

Additional information

Documents
8

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
  • 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.

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© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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