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295 Grays Inn Road London WC1X 8QL

2011/2276/PFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 28 June 2011

Council decision: Granted Subject to a Section 106 Legal AgreementDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Change of use from offices (Class B1) to a residential flat at basement level (Class C3) and financial services (Class A2) on the ground floor; retention of front lightwell and stair access to basement.

Received
3 May 2011
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Kings Cross
  1. Received3 May
  2. Validated20 May
  3. Consult.13 Jun
  4. Target
  5. Decided28 Jun

Decided in 39 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 295 Grays Inn Road London WC1X 8QL. 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 King's Cross and St Pancras conservation area, with 6 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 143 applications across Kings Cross. We hold 1,230 applications in total for the WC1X 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
WC1X 8QL
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Development type
A2 Financial and Professional, C2 Residential Institutions
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 May 2011
Consultation expiry
13 June 2011
Consultation start
23 May 2011
Consultation end
13 June 2011
Last date for comments
23 June 2011
Permission expires
28 June 2014

Publicity

Site notice start
25 May 2011

Additional information

Documents
18

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: Kings Cross St Pancras
  • 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 (21)

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, 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Associated applications

  1. 2011
    3 May

    Change of use of 1st, 2nd & 3rd floors from offices (Class B1) and a flat (Class C3) to 2 x self contained…

    ConditionsFull Planning PermissionFiled alongside2011/2261/P
  2. 2011
    3 May

    Change of use from offices (Class B1) to a residential flat at basement level (Class C3) and financial…

    This applicationConditionsFull2011/2276/P

Source: Camden

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