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27 Little Russell Street London WC1A 2HN

2011/0635/PFull Planning PermissionApproved
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Approved on 29 July 2011

Council decision: Granted Subject to a Section 106 Legal AgreementPlanning committee

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Proposal

Minor material amendment to Condition 4 (approved plans) pursuant to planning permission granted on 17/01/2011 (ref: 2010/3070/P) (for the change of use from office (Class B1a) and one flat to 4 x two bedroom flats (Class C3)) for the increase in height to accommodate walls and roof construction.

Received
9 February 2011
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Holborn & Covent Garden
  1. Received9 Feb
  2. Validated4 Mar
  3. Consult.4 Apr
  4. Target
  5. Decided29 Jul

Decided in 147 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 27 Little Russell Street London WC1A 2HN. Camden has handled 2,296 applications of this type. This one was decided in 170 days, 17 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 2HN
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Development type
C3 Dwelling House
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 March 2011
Consultation expiry
4 April 2011
Consultation start
9 March 2011
Consultation end
4 April 2011
Last date for comments
21 June 2011
Permission expires
29 July 2014

Publicity

Site notice start
9 March 2011

Additional information

Documents
7

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: 27, Little Russell StreetOn this site · +1 more
  • 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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