11 - 13 Gilbert Place London WC1A 2JD
Approved on 13 August 2009
Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Conversion of the property from live/work (Sui Generis) to a single dwelling house (Class C3).
- Received
- 19 May 2009
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- London Borough of Camden
- Ward
- Holborn & Covent Garden
- ReceivedReceived19 May
- ValidatedValidated9 Jul
- Consult.Consultation31 Jul
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided13 Aug
Decided in 35 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application at 11 - 13 Gilbert Place London WC1A 2JD. Camden has handled 2,296 applications of this type. This one was decided in 86 days, 5 weeks longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 14 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded 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 2JD
- Application type
- Full Planning Permission
- Development type
- C3 Dwelling House
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 9 July 2009
- Consultation expiry
- 31 July 2009
- Consultation start
- 10 July 2009
- Consultation end
- 31 July 2009
- Last date for comments
- 4 August 2009
- Permission expires
- 13 August 2012
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 14 July 2009
Additional information
- Documents
- 9
Site constraints
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 (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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Source: Camden
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