Grays Inn Library 5 - 7 South Square London WC1R 5ET
Approved on 12 April 2011
Council decision: No Objection to Emergency Works (CA)Delegated (officer decision)
Proposal
DDD - WITHIN SOUTH SQUARE: 1 x Cherry - Remove - DDD.
- Received
- 1 March 2011
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- London Borough of Camden
- Ward
- Holborn & Covent Garden
- ReceivedReceived1 Mar
- ValidatedValidated1 Mar
- Consult.Consultation1 Mar
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided12 Apr
Decided in 42 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a tree application at Grays Inn Library 5 - 7 South Square London WC1R 5ET. Camden has handled 669 applications of this type. This one was decided in 42 days, 7 days quicker 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. We hold 208 applications in total for the WC1R postcode area.
98% of trees 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
- WC1R 5ET
- Application type
- (CA) Notification of Emergency Works to Dead/Dangerous Tree(s)
- Development type
- Tree
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 1 March 2011
- Last date for comments
- 1 March 2011
- Permission expires
- 12 April 2014
Additional information
- Documents
- 1
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- 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 (19)
flood storage areas, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, 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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