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outside 18 Woburn Place London WC1H 0LN

2009/1767/PGPDO Prior Approval DeterminationRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 22 May 2009

Council decision: Prior Approval Required - Approval RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

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Proposal

Installation of a telephone kiosk on the public highway.

Received
1 April 2009
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bloomsbury
  1. Received1 Apr
  2. Validated23 Apr
  3. Consult.18 May
  4. Target
  5. Decided22 May

Decided in 29 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application at outside 18 Woburn Place London WC1H 0LN. Camden has handled 178 applications of this type. This one was decided in 51 days. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 395 applications across Bloomsbury. We hold 814 applications in total for the WC1H postcode area.

97% of outline 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
WC1H 0LN
Application type
GPDO Prior Approval Determination
Development type
All Others eg. adverts, aods, telecoms etc.
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 April 2009
Consultation expiry
18 May 2009
Consultation start
27 April 2009
Consultation end
18 May 2009
Last date for comments
19 May 2009
Permission expires
22 May 2012

Publicity

Site notice start
28 April 2009

Appeal

Appeal date
17 September 2009
Appeal result
Dismissed 04-05-2010

Additional information

Documents
11

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
  • 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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Source: Camden

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