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Little Russell House 22 Little Russell Street London WC1A 2HL

2009/1137/PFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 16 July 2009

Council decision: Granted Subject to a Section 106 Legal AgreementDelegated (officer decision)

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Proposal

Change of use from office accommodation (Class B1) to 4 x bedroom single dwelling house (Class C3).

Received
27 February 2009
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Holborn & Covent Garden
  1. Received27 Feb
  2. Validated8 May
  3. Consult.4 Jun
  4. Target
  5. Decided16 Jul

Decided in 69 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Little Russell House 22 Little Russell Street London WC1A 2HL. Camden has handled 2,296 applications of this type. This one was decided in 139 days, 13 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 15 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application 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 2HL
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Development type
C3 Dwelling House
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 May 2009
Consultation expiry
4 June 2009
Consultation start
12 May 2009
Consultation end
4 June 2009
Last date for comments
4 June 2009
Permission expires
16 July 2012

Publicity

Site notice start
12 May 2009

Additional information

Documents
22

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Bloomsbury
  • Listed building: Grade II: 18-21, Little Russell StreetOn or next to this site
  • 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 (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.

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Associated applications

  1. 2009
    27 Feb

    Change of use from office accommodation (Class B1) to 4 x bedroom single dwelling house (Class C3).

    This applicationConditionsFull2009/1137/P
  2. 2009
    27 Feb

    Internal alterations in association with the change of use from office (Class B1) to single family dwelling…

    WithdrawnListed building consentFiled alongside2009/1141/L

Source: Camden

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