21 Bloomsbury Square London WC1A 2NS
Approved on 13 April 2011
Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Installation of an external condenser unit within the rear basement lightwell to the offices (Class B1).
- Received
- 16 February 2011
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- London Borough of Camden
- Ward
- Bloomsbury
- ReceivedReceived16 Feb
- ValidatedValidated22 Feb
- Consult.Consultation21 Mar
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided13 Apr
Decided in 50 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application at 21 Bloomsbury Square London WC1A 2NS. Camden has handled 2,296 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days, 7 days longer than Camden's typical decision time. The site is in the Bloomsbury conservation area, with 12 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 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 2NS
- Application type
- Full Planning Permission
- Development type
- B1 Business
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 22 February 2011
- Consultation expiry
- 21 March 2011
- Consultation start
- 25 February 2011
- Consultation end
- 21 March 2011
- Last date for comments
- 21 March 2011
- Permission expires
- 13 April 2014
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 25 February 2011
Additional information
- Documents
- 32
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Bloomsbury
- Listed building: Grade II: Iron Gates Between Numbers 20 and 21 Leading to Rear GardenOn this site · +6 more
- Article 4 direction: Basements
- 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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Associated applications
- 201116 Feb
Installation of an external condenser unit within the rear basement lightwell to the offices (Class B1).
This applicationApprovedFull2011/0841/P - 201116 Feb
Installation of an external condenser unit within the rear basement lightwell and internal alterations…
ApprovedListed building consentFiled alongside2011/0843/L
Source: Camden
Contains public sector information from the Planning London Datahub, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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