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Rockefeller Building 21 University Street London WC1E 6JJ

2009/1691/LListed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 5 January 2010

Council decision: GrantedPlanning committee

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

Proposal

Alterations to include upgrade and refurbishment of internal common areas including main entrance, corridors, stairs and toilets to provide new reception facilities and internal security gates, relocation of basement toilet to ground floor, removal of internal partitions and installation of external handrails and lighting to main entrance on University Street.

Received
31 March 2009
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Bloomsbury
  1. Received31 Mar
  2. Validated28 Apr
  3. Consult.20 May
  4. Target
  5. Decided5 Jan

Decided in 252 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a heritage application at Rockefeller Building 21 University Street London WC1E 6JJ. Camden has handled 1,652 applications of this type. This one was decided in 280 days, 33 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 6 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 395 applications in total for the WC1E 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
WC1E 6JJ
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Development type
D1 Non-Residential Institution
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 April 2009
Consultation expiry
20 May 2009
Consultation start
29 April 2009
Consultation end
20 May 2009
Last date for comments
21 May 2009
Permission expires
5 January 2013

Publicity

Site notice start
30 April 2009

Additional information

Documents
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Bloomsbury
  • 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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© 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2009
    31 Mar

    Additions and alterations to include refurbishment of main entrance including the installation of external…

    ApprovedFull Planning PermissionFiled alongside2009/1688/P
  2. 2009
    31 Mar

    Alterations to include upgrade and refurbishment of internal common areas including main entrance, corridors…

    This applicationApprovedHeritage2009/1691/L

Source: Camden

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