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Carriageway and part footway adjacent to 1-5 Northington Street and 57 and 57A Grays Inn Rd London WC1

2009/2003/PFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 29 June 2009

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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Proposal

Installation on carriageway and part footway of a cycle hire docking station including a registration/payment terminal and maximum of 29 docking points for bicycles, in connection with the Transport for London Cycle Hire Scheme.

Received
30 April 2009
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Holborn & Covent Garden
  1. Received30 Apr
  2. Validated13 May
  3. Consult.4 Jun
  4. Target
  5. Decided29 Jun

Decided in 47 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Carriageway and part footway adjacent to 1-5 Northington Street and 57 and 57A Grays Inn Rd London WC1. Camden has handled 2,296 applications of this type. This one was decided in 60 days, 11 days longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 10 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address.

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

Application type
Full Planning Permission
Development type
All Others eg. adverts, aods, telecoms etc.
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 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
29 June 2012

Publicity

Site notice start
14 May 2009

Additional information

Documents
15

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: 20-21 King's Mews London WC1N 2JBRegister site at or near this address
  • 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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Source: Camden

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